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   by imurray 12y ago

   This PDF presenting package seems neat. I sometimes print a contact sheet of slides to help me see where I'm going, but having the next slide on screen would be nice. At the moment I use "impressive" [1], which has proved roc
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   by imurray 12y ago

   Somewhat related: I'm currently enjoying Scott Aaronson's "Quantum computing since Democritus". A snippet: Not every branch of science was scouted out ahead of time by philosophy, but some were. And in recent history, I
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   by imurray 12y ago

   Singapore has a quota system for vehicles. The cost of a 10-year vehicle license under their auction system can exceed the value of the vehicle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certificate_of_Entitlement The situation is
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   by imurray 12y ago

   When I'm forced to put things into wikis or content management systems, I usually edit text in my favourite text editor (via the "It's all Text" extension or similar). Unfortunately the javascript-based editor in this wi
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   by imurray 12y ago

   The main course website is here: http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/teaching/courses/iaml/ There are more notes and so on there. It isn't an online course though, so don't expect too much.
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   by imurray 13y ago

   The discussion from a hundred days ago has some useful information: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6971127
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   How certificate revocation (doesn’t) work in practice(news.netcraft.com)

   4 points by imurray 13y ago|1 comments
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   by imurray 13y ago

   the referendum seems strongly probable to fail To quantify: Betfair's current probability is ~17.5% of a "Yes" vote, although that's not based on enormous volumes: http://uk.sportsiteexweb.betfair.com/
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   by imurray 13y ago

   "Good Thing" is often capitalized, or as above italicized, for emphasis in hacker circles. The idea is that it's established jargon [1] suggesting more specific meaning than a casual goodness remark (whether that's true
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    by imurray 13y ago

    Users that find this "good practice" annoying can override it with a bookmarklet or extension: http://kb.mozillazine.org/User_name_and_password_not_remembe...
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    by imurray 13y ago

    I used X11 forwarding over SSH to run a browser on my VPS Running a browser remotely in that way can be quite painful. Running Firefox locally you can tell it to use a socks proxy on localhost:1080 after connecting to your VPS with "
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    by imurray 13y ago

    I closed my paypal account last week due to receiving "transaction summary alerts" when I had no transactions. It seemed the only way to unsubscribe was to not be alerted of any real transactions. Spammy behaviour -> lost custo
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    by imurray 13y ago

    Another one from Google, 1000 scanned books for OCR and other scanned document processing research: http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/books/icdar2007/READ...
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    by imurray 13y ago

    As a researcher with MCMC interests, I agree with the grandparent post. Used as technical jargon "probabilistic programming" tends to mean: specify a model using a programming language, a compiler then works out how to do inferenc
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    by imurray 13y ago

    Did you know that “bookkeeping” is the only word in the English language containing three consecutive letter pairs? You’re welcome. Huh. Seems that's pretty much true. Occasionally people don't hyphenate sweettoothed . gr
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    by imurray 13y ago

    I've just had a look at the |STAT source, and it computes the variance with double M = Sum/N; /* mean */ double var = (s2 - M*Sum)/(N-1); /* variance */ wh
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    by imurray 13y ago

    For casual purposes st may be convenient, but it doesn't have state of the art numerical stability: my $variance = $count > 1 ? ($sum_square - ($sum**2/$count)) / ($count-1) : undef; Taking the difference between
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    by imurray 13y ago

    Here's my, yet another, alternative to the many nice shell hacks out there: a bash/zsh "up" command that does "cd ..", or "up <n>" does "cd .." n times. function up () { if tes
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    by imurray 13y ago

    As a sibling comment says, I didn't actually make any privacy statements. However, startpage's help pages claim not to pass on IP addresses, useragents, cookies, or other identifying information. This claimed-independent report sa
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    by imurray 13y ago

    https://startpage.com/ gives you Google search results minus personalization.
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    by imurray 13y ago

    Quick link into the introductory documentation: http://code.google.com/p/textfsm/wiki/TextFSMHowto — one specifies a state machine in a text template file that can include regexes and has a simple "->
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    by imurray 13y ago

    An alternative approach, arguably with too much magic: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/coroutines.html
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    by imurray 13y ago

    Even if they look safe: http://thejh.net/misc/website-terminal-copy-paste
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    by imurray 13y ago

    Still, deep learning has done nothing more than classification right now. What about predictive distributions, regression of complicated outputs... http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/imurray2/pub/12deepai/ has predictive distributions from d
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    by imurray 14y ago

    I'm not a Windows user, but I'd probably suggest trying https://www.enthought.com/products/canopy/ (formerly the enthought python distribution EPD) for a relatively hassle-free setup with numpy and other scientific packages. It also works
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    The underhanded C contest is back(underhanded.xcott.com)

    1 points by imurray 14y ago|0 comments
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    by imurray 14y ago

    I agree, but gave up trying to convince people. I now use a userscript to rewrite all arxiv pdf links (outside arxiv itself) to point to the corresponding abstract page: http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/imurray2/code/user_scripts/arx...
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    by imurray 14y ago

    I'm too risk averse for eye surgery (read the other comments, it's not perfect for everyone, doesn't always last, and you only have one pair of eyes to play with). I used to wear glasses, because I found contact lenses to be too much hassle
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    by imurray 14y ago

    A UK version (~1 year old, and in use): http://bookadopter.com/ I notice that bookadopter makes it easier to quickly see which books are available for your school/department. And by easier, I mean I can actually find some books to buy. It
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    by imurray 14y ago

    Those counts look fairly typical from a uniform distribution to me. There are fancy tests you could do, but to get a feel for it, I suggest simulation and eyeballing. Add up the counts after drawing 135 characters from a uniform character d