got2surf

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by got2surf 10y ago
Interesting point, but why fight an uphill battle? Wouldn't it be easier to avoid the term "hacker" because of the negative connotation? The importance of "hacker culture" (experimentation, clever solutions, etc) go
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by got2surf 10y ago
True, but in the article, both Partovi and Ruffin cite examples of clients who "claim they own a house, or that a relative will show up any day now", despite being injured/homeless/exposed. To me at least, it seems logic
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by got2surf 10y ago
It sounds like they don't do too much maintenance on the bikes, so that cost is probably fairly low. And I wonder if bikes would need to be rebalanced manually? Presumably with enough bikes in the system, the bikes would be distributed
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by got2surf 10y ago
You're right, he didn't explain why it happens. But like I said, he explained "a couple interesting things", showing readers that these interesting patterns exist. To people outside of mathematics like me, it's cool
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by got2surf 10y ago
I don't have any advanced math experience, but this is one of the coolest things I've read in a long time - kudos to the author for explaining a couple interesting things about a complex topic in a simple way.
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by got2surf 10y ago
I think there may be a disconnect between individual "farmers", who are perceived as rugged individualists, and well-connected farm companies with deeper pockets and lobbyists. It seems like John Deere's restrictions are more
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by got2surf 10y ago
Anecdotally, I've had bad experiences with T-Mobile (similar issues with customer service reps messing up a plan transfer, and being unable to fix it), but I've found Verizon reps to be more able/willing to fix things.
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by got2surf 10y ago
Exactly - at the end of the day, the majority of Kaggle users are potential Google customers. Majority of them would probably buy Google API access outright (for things like NLP, for example). A minority is probably more interested in build
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by got2surf 10y ago
Kaggle makes it easier to "enter" AI (by reading about competitions, looking at successful approaches, and eventually implementing your own approaches). You mentioned that Kaggle competitions can be solved "without requiring
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by got2surf 10y ago
Definitely possible, but like the parent poster mentioned, unlikely. Far more people have intentionally built their way to $9B than have intentionally reduced their fortune to $9B.
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by got2surf 10y ago
You're right, very clever, but morally dubious, especially around something as important as cancer screening. Soon-Shiong would probably argue that he was able to get valuable results for the university while also supporting a cancer d
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by got2surf 10y ago
Great point. I know it's not the best comparison feature-wise, but look at the public reaction to Google Glass vs Snap Spectacles. Snap understands how to make the product sexy, not just tech-sexy. Snap understands how to make their in
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by got2surf 10y ago
Will definitely let you know next time I'm around the Bay Area. I'm also interested in ML and education (my startup analyzes feedback comments, and we've been working with student surveys in education recently), so looking fo
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by got2surf 10y ago
I wonder if after training, these paralyzed users would develop a sort of language of brain primitives (almost a "thought alphabet") which are easily recognizable by the software and easy signals for the human brain to create. It
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by got2surf 10y ago
Agreed - warm recommendations from people reaching out to their professional networks have by far the highest conversion for us.
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by got2surf 10y ago
Malcolm Gladwell's book David and Goliath talks about that example (among others). It's a pretty interesting read.
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by got2surf 10y ago
Also, doesn't Ticketmaster benefit from the scalping through more transaction fees anyway? Between TicketsNow and the increased transaction volume from scalpers/flippers, seems like TicketMaster can't really lose.
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by got2surf 10y ago
I'm looking at low cost/fee index funds as well (I strongly agree with you that I don't want an active trading strategy for my retirement account). Have you looked at things like Motif Investing? I'm torn on whether I wa
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by got2surf 10y ago
Yes! Completely agreed. The fact that it's a negative sum game is really hard to explain to people who've had some moderate success trading (and there are plenty of those anecdotal examples out there). But that's a great poin
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by got2surf 10y ago
Great point. And even if you are "with the crowd" more often than you are not, your timing/sizing on each trade you make as a day trader or mom-and-pop investor is very likely to be worse than an institutional trading firm. S
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by got2surf 10y ago
It's easy for people (especially people who like tech) to forget this. "Innovation" in the sense of better algorithms or improved computations are great, but they don't solve problems - applications do. That's why
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by got2surf 10y ago
I'm also from Florida, and I agree with the parent poster. Spent a lot of time on the East Coast (Cocoa Beach, and Miami area mainly), and there is plenty of free parking. Even close to downtown Miami (Virginia Key, for example) has so
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by got2surf 10y ago
I agree with @akhilcacharya and had the same reasoning (ended up not doing the AA in high school for the same reason). More restrictive set of courses for the AA means you're taking classes you don't enjoy for a requirement you do
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by got2surf 10y ago
College courses are a great option too (my school district allowed "dual enrollment" where you could take anywhere from one to all of your classes at one of the local community or state colleges). There are definitely some cases w
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by got2surf 10y ago
Sorry, using "real" in quotes wasn't too descriptive. A few machine learning-based classifiers (we've used Bayesian and SVM approaches). Word embeddings and topic modeling (similar to word2vec) which are based on shallow
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by got2surf 10y ago
My company builds software to analyze customer feedback. We use "real" ML for sentiment classification, as well as some of our natural language processing and opinion mining tools. However, most of the value comes from simple stat
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by got2surf 10y ago
In the discussion on Jalopnik (a fairly large auto-enthusiast site), someone mentioned that Alex Roy had a good experience riding in a comma one-equipped car ( https://twitter.com/AlexRoy144/status/79199685511469465
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by got2surf 10y ago
That's a fair point, and we shouldn't over-weight one journalist's experience. However, I think that in this case, the author of the tweet has a lot of credibility ( https://twitter.com/AlexRoy144/status&#
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by got2surf 10y ago
I'd agree with this. The journalist in question (Alex Roy, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Roy ) is an auto enthusiast and race driver, and is well respected even in auto enthusiast circles, which are notoriousl
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by got2surf 10y ago
Awesome build - was that a DeLorean in the garage in http://i.imgur.com/wqXRJVp.jpg ? Great taste in cars!

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