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by gajomi 13y ago
I believe many people (including Obama himself) were surprised by his winning the prize. I don't think race was the primary reason (official or otherwise) behind his being awarded the prize. Among the main reasons for his nomination we
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by gajomi 13y ago
It's a grade school ritual that usually takes place once a week or so at the start of the day. Some teachers found this to be silly and were eager to make sure kinds knew it was voluntary or would come up with a better way to spend the
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by gajomi 13y ago
It doesn't seem to be. Well perhaps it is intended to be, but there are bugs. Notably, the associations are not associative! If you take the example from the docs and run (e= :two-door :vehicle) it evaluates to false. The implementation see
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by gajomi 13y ago
Thanks for the tip. Got it working now.
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by gajomi 13y ago
Can you elaborate on the "hoops"? I am trying to get a similar thing working.
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by gajomi 13y ago
@ibdknox- I wonder if you could comment on the the IPython frontend we see in this demo. I am very interested in the idea of inline javascript based plotting and am wondering if this was possible.
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by gajomi 13y ago
>Bluntly, I don't know why Clojure was created as a new language instead of an advanced library over Common Lisp I think you basically answered your own question :) >JVM interop is compelling
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by gajomi 14y ago
I also would be very interested in seeing what could be done with IPython + Light Table. I currently do most of my exploratory work (which is in turn most of my total work) in the IPython Notebook and it will be interesting to see what Ligh
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by gajomi 14y ago
I would add the fun fact that the applied physics work that Crick was doing was experimental work in fluid mechanics when a bomb fell through the roof of his laboratory and destroyed his experiment! This was certainly a factor in prompting
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by gajomi 14y ago
I'm sure it depends on your optimality criterion. I have looked into the research behind this two-sleep phenomena, and it seems like a highly plausible theory for human before before the last couple hundred years. One might expect this to b
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by gajomi 14y ago
pfisch's comment refers to "most" sciences. Here you have listed "medical science, exercise physiology, psychology" as examples of fields for which knowledge of basic statistics is sufficient for publishing work. Of course, you have exclude
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by gajomi 14y ago
To the extent that they don't have that kind of credibility (I think I agree with your assessment) whatever the eventual result of Hinton joining the team should say something very strong about whether or not they will. If he finds that he
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by gajomi 14y ago
> What you're saying is merely postulation, it's not "demonstrably" true I don't think the parent disagrees with you. The question of whether or not something is _computable_ in the technical sense of the word does not need any sort of
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by gajomi 14y ago
I would say that Perl is still dominant in computational genomics. About a year ago I wrote some code to do some basic comparative analysis at the genome level alongside some more gene focused phylogeny efforts. Since the whole thing was qu
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by gajomi 14y ago
Thanks for the tips!
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by gajomi 14y ago
Thanks for the explanation (it would seem that I was replying to you while you were writing this). I do have one question though about concentration objects. I think I have an idea of what you mean by this. I wonder if you have any advise a
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by gajomi 14y ago
I would like to join in stephth's inquiry. I have no experience with anything intense like vipassana, but I used to meditate regularly, and eventually made some progress in the way of walking meditation and the like. When I write code howev
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by gajomi 14y ago
I had interpreted the last part of the blog post as evidence for the possibility that the anonymous blogger was Rob Crossley.
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by gajomi 14y ago
It might be interesting to estimate if or when a (parallel) implementation of Strassen's algorithm tuned to the Titan architecture might exceed the performance of some comparable (parallel) direct method for matrix multiplication. It is not
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by gajomi 14y ago
I would advise checking out the problems at http://www.4clojure.com/ over the koans. You will definitely find some challenging problems. The nice thing about these is that you can look at how other users all solving the problems, which he
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by gajomi 14y ago
For the record, I also did not think whatever you were saying was obvious, but if your point is that understanding programs by "separating out code that can be reasoned about in a mathematical fashion" is no longer a viable strategy, I must
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by gajomi 14y ago
I agree in with this analysis. The cartoon is, of course, a caricature but highlights the nature of the essential problem you point out, which is that unraveling the line of reasoning carved out by a frequentist is not a straightforward mat
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by gajomi 14y ago
This is definitely a use case I am interested in. I have been playing around with computer algebra in Clojure for awhile where it is critical to keep track of these dependencies (I have a hacky implementation which relies on metadata so tha
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by gajomi 14y ago
>"It will be the equivalent of dangling a steel string the width of a human hair in the deep end of a swimming pool and inserting it into a thimble 1/10 mm wide on the bottom, and then drilling a few meters into the foundations," says T
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by gajomi 14y ago
>"Google Maps offers bells and whistles that OpenStreetMap doesn't, such as street level data [and] more updates to imagery," wrote Caitlin Dempsey, the editor of GISLounge.com, in an e-mail sent to Ars. This sounds like a serious under
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by gajomi 14y ago
This looks cool. I am a big fan of the sympy's lightweight/modular approach to computer algebra, and so its great to see work on a nice front end. I have one random question. What was the rationale behind having "Apply" overwrite the head o
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by gajomi 14y ago
An enjoyable and stimulating read. The original essay, by virtue of a few semantic ambiguities (what is "simple" anyway?) is apt to invite this sort of commentary.If I have read this correctly, the author eventually agrees that worse really
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“Why Do We Have to Learn This Stuff?”—A New Genetics for 21st Century Students(plosbiology.org)
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by gajomi 14y ago
> Erlang claiming n-times faster on n-cores is snake oil. First of all, not all problems have n-times parallelism in them! I keep reading this claim in Erlang articles, and I wonder why it continues to be made. Its obviously false for t
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by gajomi 14y ago
>Yes as long as you profile and make sure that the bottleneck is a blas / atlas call I agree. Where Python really shines, I think, is where you have these sorts of bottlenecks + something extra that MATLAB performs terribly at, either a

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