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by gajomi 11y ago
An interesting and relatively thorough account of telegraph type technologies can be found in the early portions of James Gleick' "The Information", which I highly recommend. Spolier Alert: While the semaphore/flag teleg
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by gajomi 11y ago
> The article describes how authors like to, and are able to, coin new compound words in German and readers can understand them without the need for explanation I guess to some extent the comparison is going to be subjective (and my Germ
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by gajomi 11y ago
Update: I was able to find an arxiv version of the paper: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1406.5955v1.pdf It seems that I wasn't wrong about the context (indeed they focus on solving the full partition function, as opposed t
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by gajomi 11y ago
Alas, the article is behind a paywall, so its hard to find out what the full context is, but there is at least one thing I can say. Usually when a statistical physicist says that they have "solved" a model, it means that they have
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by gajomi 11y ago
I would be very curious to see if Gian Carlo Rota had anything to say about Stephen Strogatz's view on this. Strogatz's text (which was written three years before this article, right before he left MIT), is much beloved by many sc
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by gajomi 11y ago
>By adding 100 more people to your study, have you increased or decreased the likelihood that your results were due to statistical chance? Counter-intuitively, the answer is that you have increased the odds that the result was due to cha
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by gajomi 11y ago
I didn't see anything along these lines in the article, but I remember thinking during my undergraduate studies that it would be cool to be able to opt-in to a program that gives a list of people who had checked out the same books (or
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by gajomi 11y ago
Thanks for the tip! Its A good idea and actually also part of my plan. There is one extra barrier that makes me a bit uneasy about this, however, which is that I am in every case at least hundreds, if not thousands of miles away from these
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by gajomi 11y ago
Indeed. Part of what I was imagining in this scenario, was that the primary point of contact would be someone outside of HR (within product development, business intelligence, IT), since they would be the ones reviewing any pull requests. S
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by gajomi 11y ago
As promised, I wanted to give some details about my specific situation without polluting the main post. I am currently looking for a permanent position in the data science / data analysis area. I have specific expertise in time series
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Ask HN: How to get interviews/introductions through work on GitHub
9 points by gajomi 11y ago|7 comments
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by gajomi 11y ago
I agree with the basic claim of this response: economic inequality itself it not a problem. I don't really think I would care too much about an extravagant billionare class if the lower classes had 100K household incomes in a robust de
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by gajomi 11y ago
The pinyin given by op has a one to one mapping to the pronunciation, and it seems a bit inconsistent that they fully Romanized their names while leaving Ngô Bảo Châu in the Vietnamese alphabet. But even if they did (and I believe this was
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by gajomi 11y ago
I don't really disagree, but that would make for a rather perverse unit, given that inverse temperatures are already on a logarithm scale relative to the probabilities of microscopic states.
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by gajomi 11y ago
It is not successful because it is not lossless (unless you have a "Colt McAnlis in exactly the right state with that initial condition" oracle).
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by gajomi 11y ago
While I agree with your general comments about the attitude we should have in evaluating/commenting on blog post I have to disagree with the specific critique of the above comment. The favorable interpretation of the article is that th
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by gajomi 11y ago
>I'm a data scientist here, and the question we work on is a fundamentally interesting one: Which users on the internet are human? This is indeed interesting as a fundamental question. It might also be interesting to see how far one
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by gajomi 11y ago
There is indeed a kind of overlap between the approach in the article and phage therapy, which is to clone the lytic enzymes present in the phages and use the purified products directly on bacteria (I worked on characterizing these things d
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Poor feedback from readers(nayuki.io)
1 points by gajomi 11y ago|0 comments
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Wikipedia user Watchduck's mathematical figures(commons.wikimedia.org)
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by gajomi 11y ago
Yeah a look into the Federation society could be interesting. One thing that always bothered me was why people weren't basically just spending their time hanging around the food replicators and fornicating in the hologram machine. I ca
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by gajomi 11y ago
I am only somewhat familiar with Star Trek (mostly by way of TNG), but I think it would be cool to see a conflict with a re-imagined version of the Ferengi. I never heard any exposition on the details, but the Federation is supposedly an es
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by gajomi 11y ago
This is, of course, exactly correct and gets at the essence of what always bothered me about the trolley problem. The problem is usually presented with the idea that it offers some insight into how typical human behavior is seemingly at odd
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Energy Efficiency and Economic Inequality in Chicago Neighborhoods(gajomi.blogspot.com)
4 points by gajomi 11y ago|0 comments
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by gajomi 11y ago
"So when the Republicans take control over the executive branch... are we going to keep hearing such great boosterism?" WHy are you asking him? I don't think anyone knows the answer to this. Obviously the major factor would b
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by gajomi 11y ago
soup kitchens and bednet distribution programs are trying to solve two different sets of problems, so I am not sure what you mean when you say that one is 'orders of magnitude less effective' than the other
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by gajomi 11y ago
I feel compelled to point out, as a native English speaker familiar with this sort of mathematics, that the phrasing to "go infinitely" doesn't make much sense. Or, if it makes sense, it is at least ambiguous (with plenty of
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by gajomi 12y ago
This is really great. I was pleasantly surprised to see that there was information available about household income at the "tract" level. I had searched some months ago for a data set that exposed high resolution income/pover
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by gajomi 12y ago
I don't really take any issues with your comments about the outlook of the political situation in Turkey in relation to the EU, but the hypothesis that this is related the influence of rural populations can't be right. The percent
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by gajomi 12y ago
Canadians lynch people?

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