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by gms 14y ago
For predicting structure (which takes you to 'tough luck' in the chart as it's not implemented in scikit-learn), you can use structured SVM's through either SVM-Struct ( http://www.cs.cornell.edu/people/tj/svm_light/svm_struct.htm... ) or J
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by gms 14y ago
As of August, they think they are on their way to a solution: http://www.quora.com/Facebook-Engineering/Has-Facebook-solve...
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by gms 14y ago
Who decides what 'true meaning' is? This term is ill-defined. The 'meaning' of what you work on is often susceptible to change over time.
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by gms 14y ago
Except wind energy has no practical future promise.
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The Future of Apps Turned Out Different(ghalib.me)
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by gms 14y ago
How was it life-changing?
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by gms 14y ago
Take equity if you think they are a promising startup. If you don't think they are promising, then you're effectively doing charity work.
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by gms 14y ago
I wish I was this competent at that age.
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by gms 14y ago
I stand corrected; thanks.
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by gms 14y ago
Nexus 7 devices are being sold at a loss, so I suppose in one sense yes, the price there is too good to be true.
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by gms 14y ago
Founder-types don't tend to be 'good' employees at established companies. I think it's unlikely HR did anything wrong in the Lotus example.
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by gms 14y ago
Have the two most important questions to you changed over time?
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by gms 14y ago
I'm not a parent, but your comment is an informed and thoughtful one.
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by gms 14y ago
Assuming that these people are voting for Obama with economic growth potential as their metric (perhaps not a true assumption), can anyone explain why? Am wondering what Obama policies are pro-growth vs Romney's.
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by gms 14y ago
A large hand can still comfortably use a small phone. A small hand cannot use a large phone.
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by gms 14y ago
I don't think many (any?) engineers from Google or Facebook would jump to Microsoft for higher pay. If money was the one motivating factor then surely said engineers would be working in finance rather than at Google or Facebook.
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by gms 14y ago
Do you think there are many Americans who would turn down jobs at MS and Google due to low pay?
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by gms 14y ago
Have you ever heard the phrase 'optimise for the common case'?
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by gms 14y ago
Being on a visa allows you to switch jobs. The new company has to pay a small fee to do it, but any medium-to-large company will do it.
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by gms 14y ago
What would that achieve? Are Microsoft's wages low, in your opinion? How much higher should they go?
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by gms 14y ago
Right. They tell them the policy and make sure it is understood, then they trust them because they cannot police every single image.
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by gms 14y ago
What do you expect them to do? Somehow do an image-similarity search throughout the web for every image used in papers by their employees?
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by gms 14y ago
It's one guy who happens to work for Google, rather than the whole company.
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by gms 14y ago
Why do people consider it a right to have constant access to a Twitter API? Twitter is a private, for-profit company, not a charity, no?
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by gms 14y ago
What does this mean in practice? Can you receive calls while downloading data (e.g. browsing Facebook)?
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by gms 14y ago
What do you prefer about Android?
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by gms 14y ago
Ok, how about Facebook, Dropbox, AirBnB...?
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by gms 14y ago
Regarding the downmod, did I say something false?
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by gms 14y ago
Yeah, it's of no interest except to nerds, who are always a minority.
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by gms 14y ago
This will never work for normal people. For everyone else, there are programs like LastPass and 1Password that make this easy.

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