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by equark 16y ago
The 50% statistic is related to what matters to Google: changes in real search results. It is pretty irrelevant for anybody else. The speed of adding a single page to the index and updating is, of course, much, much faster (~1000x). I can
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by equark 16y ago
Your profile pic and basic info is always public via facebook graph. There is no way to change this as far as I know. Welcome to the social web.
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by equark 16y ago
It's pretty unlikely this will remain highly talked about after Kepler releases its findings in a few months. Preliminary results show huge numbers of small earth-like planets. I believe they expect to find dozens or hundreds in the habitab
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by equark 16y ago
A/B testing is a Bayesian decision problem. Hypothesis testing is really the wrong way to frame this problem. Dynamically it is a bandit problem and statically it's just about maximizing expected utility, where the expectation is taken wi
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by equark 16y ago
Can somebody post the PDF? You need to be registered at conference: http://www.usenix.org/events/osdi10/tech/full_papers/Peng.pd...
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by equark 16y ago
Google has AdSense / Doubclick network. This is a huge number of eyeballs with many banner types. And Google knows my basic browsing history via cookies and my entire search history. At least for me, Google knows exactly what I'm interes
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by equark 16y ago
You underestimate researchers. Recent research on charter schools uses randomized assignment, induced by oversubscribed schools. They often find large positive effects: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1517008 http://p
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by equark 16y ago
It doesn't seem absurd to me that a few college friends want to hack together a project to fix a problem they see. I think it's great, regardless of whether they succeed. Nobody is forcing you to join them.
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by equark 16y ago
I don't think this is that big of a deal. Pretty much every developer I know has learned about security through this exact process. Either a senior developer or user exposes the flaw and smart, but new, developers quickly realize the didn'
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by equark 16y ago
Will it have airplay support?
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by equark 16y ago
Relatedly, are there any examples of real world applications, beyond the demos?
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by equark 16y ago
What does a NA value become when you extract it to a float? i.e. What is the behavior of X[0]? It is somewhat confusing that python base types and numpy differ in behavior, for instance when dealing with inf or divide by zero exceptions. I
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by equark 16y ago
The problem is a huge number of R packages use compiled code that won't be portable to this new VM.
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by equark 16y ago
How important is the distinction between NaN versus NA? I agree this is a subtle issue.
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by equark 16y ago
This article is not particularly clear. It doesn't have a clear discussion of Bayesian versus frequentist interpretations of probability or inferential statements that are conditioned on the unobserved true parameter versus the observed da
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by equark 16y ago
I can't be yet, unfortunately. But there are definitely several different groups of very talented people working on this problem (think MIT and Harvard PhDs). I suspect some very interesting work will come out in the next year or two. Whe
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by equark 16y ago
Building a next generation of statistical computing.
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by equark 16y ago
Fear not, some of us are working on this very hard.
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by equark 16y ago
Windows phone 7 seems super smooth and has a gc. But Microsoft has modified to gc behavior to limit interruptions. There is no reason the gc needs to be firing during ui scrolls. Google should be able to do the same. From http://blogs.msd
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by equark 16y ago
True, but I suspect there is a lot that could be done by baking something like the feedsync protocol together with knockout.js style view binding, node.js and a websocket connection.
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by equark 16y ago
While node.js has some appealing characteristics it doesn't seem to solve the main problem with realtime web apps -- coordination between the multiple client side view states and the server side state. It's easy enough to hack together co
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by equark 16y ago
You boot up an ec2 instance and want to give a domain name to a friend that isn't 100 characters long. How much effort does it take you setup your bind solution? Particularly if you've never setup dns before. Can I do this given that I'm
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by equark 16y ago
My understanding is that Silverlight is being used pretty heavily by some organizations to build basic internal web apps. They aren't using features that HTML doesn't have, instead they just want the data-binding features of silverlight an
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by equark 16y ago
It means there is a likelihood function.
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by equark 16y ago
True, but that isn't really that hard to do now. I can basically keep up to date by subscribing to top journals in my field.
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by equark 16y ago
This needs to be done well, I agree. Everybody I know in academia has had this idea, so there is demand. However, journals are far too late. In many disciplines everything is shared a year in advance via working papers. These are often po
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by equark 16y ago
Is anybody here doing a startup of this ilk? Or is it web apps all the time?
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by equark 16y ago
Have you considered that some of us might like to cure diseases, build intelligent systems, or transform our energy mix? Not everybody is interested in trying to build websites.
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by equark 16y ago
How did the process work for you? I'm in exactly the same place. I'm struggling between applying for an academic job now or delaying to pursue a start-up idea for my last year and year after graduation. The academic path is safe and has a
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by equark 16y ago
It didn't get expedited, they announced both changes last week: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-08-20/digg-s-founder-kevi...

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