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by jackfoxy 15y ago
Producing art is far more fulfilling than consuming art.
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by jackfoxy 15y ago
I intentionally didn't do a write-up of Bayes' Theorem or this particular problem because there is so much literature about it on the web, but you did inspire me to add this comment: The following source statement illustrates the essence o
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F# Bayesian Monte Carlo of Let's Make a Deal(fssnip.net)
24 points by jackfoxy 15y ago|5 comments
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by jackfoxy 15y ago
Lately these are contract positions, and being in a corporate environment here I'm dealing with an agency that deals with other agencies. I still do some direct (usually by Craigslist ad) recruiting. I only submit the screening task to peop
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by jackfoxy 15y ago
It's not 85-93% not responding, but 85-93% responding with crap that took some effort to produce. Also if you're actually interested in the position, you're going to be doing more than an hours work (if that's what you want to call it) in
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by jackfoxy 15y ago
Before I look at a resume I send every applicant a coding problem with simple instructions. It looks very simple at first, but actually requires some thought. It is fairly real-world, but unusual. I even provide a sample test case, and the
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NASA Lands $75,000 in Patent Auction(wired.com)
3 points by jackfoxy 15y ago|0 comments
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by jackfoxy 15y ago
I've been strictly in management for a few years now, but I like to lead from the front, i.e. know the technology. It would be painful to trade in C# for Java and VS for Eclipse. Today I took a quick look at Scala and Clojure. I think F# fo
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by jackfoxy 15y ago
While that volume belongs on the 150 books for the well-read hacker, I wouldn't put it on the list for the well-read gentleman. We live in such a world of specialization, appreciation of true general education has suffered. In the age of Ro
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by jackfoxy 15y ago
Being as how the poster was commissioned on the eve of WWII, that means before Churchill became PM, it is plausible, but if some bureaucrat was thinking that, he dare not speak it or leave any written record. That's a meme that will proba
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by jackfoxy 15y ago
Great suggestion, only in my case the contrast of the signatures to the backgrounds is not good, and this would be a problem with many works saved by Google as well. But it does give me the thought implementing this idea might be technicall
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by jackfoxy 15y ago
Another art-related idea I would like to see: take a picture of the signature on a piece of art to look up the artist. I have 3 original pieces I really like. The artists are probably complete unknowns. If such a DB could grow to world-wide
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by jackfoxy 15y ago
Well-done interface and great promo for their core product, which I am going to take a deeper look at, because maybe we can use it. Back to the converter: what I need to convert most often is between UTC and local time. Suggest also making
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Copyright Treaty Requires Congressional Support, Senator Says(wired.com)
2 points by jackfoxy 15y ago|0 comments
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by jackfoxy 15y ago
I like it. It's a much more polished version of something I tried to do with http://www.facster.com back in 2005. I was writing blog style stories to go with queries of statistical abstract data. The stories are gone now, but you can stil
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by jackfoxy 15y ago
I don't claim any expertise or insider knowledge, but I do recall during the crisis getting the distinct impression from publications like FT, WSJ, and NYT that BofA was strong-armed by The Fed and/or Treasury to acquire Countrywide and M
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Executive Order -- National Defense Resources Preparedness(whitehouse.gov)
11 points by jackfoxy 15y ago|7 comments
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What the “skeptics” of climate catastrophe are skeptical of(motls.blogspot.com)
2 points by jackfoxy 15y ago|0 comments
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How to Fix Science(lesswrong.com)
6 points by jackfoxy 15y ago|1 comments
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by jackfoxy 15y ago
>I hope she wins. I hope to see the day when every headline [subject] sues [government entity] over [grievance] parses to something other than [subject] sues taxpayers over [grievance]
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by jackfoxy 15y ago
I don't want to ding a politician for doing the right thing, but Issa is also a sponsor of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research_Works_Act , (co-sponsored with a Democrat, btw) so this looks more like an act of political grand-standing th
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by jackfoxy 15y ago
Treaties are ratified by the Senate. Not the House. Congress refers to both houses, or sometimes just the House of Representatives, but never to the Senate alone. Anyway Issa is a Congressman, not a Senator.
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Selling your soul for a narrative: understanding the Gleick fraud(motls.blogspot.com)
2 points by jackfoxy 15y ago|0 comments
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by jackfoxy 15y ago
two coders at one keyboard... Pair programming without dual keyboards and mice deserves castigation.
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by jackfoxy 15y ago
Zed, Do you have a timeline in mind for filling out the rest of the exercises in the alpha release? Do you call it a beta at that point? I think you're doing great work, btw. Thanks.
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F# research extension for concurrent, parallel and asynchronous programming(tryjoinads.org)
1 points by jackfoxy 15y ago|0 comments
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by jackfoxy 15y ago
I'm not an expert on this, but I believe the deviation in Mercury's orbit was easily observed and calculated, and thus became in a sense a binary call-out of Newtonian physics. Until highly precise measurements of relativistic velocities is
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by jackfoxy 15y ago
The best pessimistic response I read to this experiment when it first came out stated that overturning well-established theorems in physics should be left to experiments where the result is clearly and simply binary, not where the result
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There Are Only Three True Job Interview Questions(forbes.com)
2 points by jackfoxy 15y ago|0 comments
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How America made its children crazy(atimes.com)
10 points by jackfoxy 15y ago|7 comments

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