gabestein

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   by gabestein 8y ago

   Adding to the list of great options here: I'm part of a team based out of MIT that has been building an open-source, hosted journal publishing platform called PubPub: https://pubpub.org We're part of a group trying to
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   Termite arcologies could provide a model for energy-free HVAC(massivesci.com)

   1 points by gabestein 9y ago|0 comments
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   How machine learning is helping us better understand the brain(massivesci.com)

   1 points by gabestein 9y ago|0 comments
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   by gabestein 9y ago

   I wrote this. I don't know if it would actually work technically, and the politics of media coordination would be the hardest part. But I'd be interested in what y'all think.
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   A prototype for stemming the flood of misinformation during breaking news events(medium.com)

   2 points by gabestein 9y ago|1 comments
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   by gabestein 9y ago

   What I liked most about this one: getting so absorbed in code that you forget to eat or sleep spans generations of computer scientists.
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   Learning assembly language helped her understand her grandfather, early engineer(massivesci.com)

   5 points by gabestein 9y ago|1 comments
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   by gabestein 13y ago

   I think Pete is right on. Content marketing as a by-product of engineering, especially open-source engineering, is only going to become a bigger part of recruiting. Just look at GitHub. Super engineer-driven company, incredible content mark
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   by gabestein 13y ago

   Oh, they definitely do both, I'm not disputing that.
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    by gabestein 13y ago

    "As part of K.D.D., an algorithm was applied to the broader data set in efforts to detect patterns of behavior fitting models that had been previously established as being indicative of the activities of a terrorist cell." http:&
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    by gabestein 13y ago

    Thanks to your help, I found a huge, obvious problem that was keeping the accuracy low and remarkable stable no matter what size of training data I tried. Here's the update: http://www.fastcolabs.com/3012908/tracki
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    by gabestein 13y ago

    I know, but I still want to take it seriously, and thank you for your criticism.
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    by gabestein 13y ago

    Thanks. I solemnly swear to not abuse statistics, so I'll play around and update the piece. The goal is to use this as a hook to get the public interested, then take them for the ride as I learn. That's why I tried to be really ca
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    by gabestein 13y ago

    Thanks for the feedback. As I'm fairly new to all of this, I'd love to hear how I can turn this into a more viable experiment. Also, to defend myself a little: I think I'm at least being responsible by in no way claiming that
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    by gabestein 13y ago

    Author here. Beating everyone here to the punch: yes, I know this is pretty basic. I'm new to data-mining. I will happily take suggestions about what else to look for and how to improve it. Also, if anyone wants to donate their own Goo
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    by gabestein 13y ago

    You're quite welcome. Here's another one I found while thinking about your question: http://blog.bitinstant.com/blog/2012/11/12/bitcoin-and-taxes... Good luck, and thanks in advance for keeping in touch. EDIT: Actually, that's not the one
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    by gabestein 13y ago

    I've been writing about Bitcoin for a while, so I'd definitely be interested to know where you end up on this. Please get in touch with me if you end up accepting payment in Bitcoin. As for advice: consult your lawyer and accountant. The tr
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    by gabestein 14y ago

    What about when we start needing fewer people to tell the computers what to do? This is already happening with automated testing and QA, self-reproducing code, etc. Someone mused in response to the XKCD StackSort comic that you could probab