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by jamesk2 17y ago
Tonight there's another ACM Data Mining lecture in Mountain View. The subject is "Large Matrices beyond Singular Value Decomposition" given by Andrea Montanari, Stanford Professor in Electrical Engineering and Statistics. http://www.sfbaya
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by jamesk2 17y ago
Organization could have been better but this was a fantastic event. I could pretty much listen to Dr. Dunning all day long.
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by jamesk2 17y ago
While these lectures are not for total programming newbies, they are very gentle if you know some other languages. He'll often contrast Python with Java, C++ and Javascript to highlight the differences.
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ACM Data Mining Camp, this Saturday.(sfbayacm.org)
1 points by jamesk2 17y ago|0 comments
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Google's Python Class (Video, Notes & Exercises)(code.google.com)
161 points by jamesk2 17y ago|17 comments
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by jamesk2 17y ago
Ha. It is but I think the point is that even before GPU assistance, Flash works better in Windows than on the Mac. It makes sense for Steve Jobs to pressure Adobe into improving the Mac version. HTML5 is turning out to be the hammer that fo
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by jamesk2 17y ago
Steve Jobs hates flash for a lot of reasons but it is mostly because flash runs faster/better on Windows than on Mac OS. This article quantifies what people who use Mac, Windows and Linux know already: Flash is a hog outside of Windows.
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by jamesk2 17y ago
Flash and Acrobat: more reasons to just go to open source.
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by jamesk2 17y ago
Barbie used to think that "Math is hard," now she's a master of recursion and lambdas.
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by jamesk2 17y ago
Lots of designers and programmers have invested a lot of time mastering Flash so it would really suck for them if it died.
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by jamesk2 17y ago
Another consideration is what kind of startup are you? What companies are similar? Where are they located? For example, google, linkedin and facebook are "Palo Alto (and South). Your startup would benefit from relationships with other compa
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Mac Virtualization: Performance testing Parallels, Fusion and VirtualBox(macworld.com)
16 points by jamesk2 17y ago|6 comments
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Tapulous Making $1 Million a Month in App Store(theiphoneblog.com)
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by jamesk2 17y ago
One designer not mentioned on this list is Jason Fried of 37 Signals. Basecamp is very useful. Web App designers don't get the attention of flashy visual designers but after repeated usage of an application, you really get a sense of how we
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by jamesk2 17y ago
I'm getting very different results when I run these tests. At prime time 7 pm to 9 pm pacific time on weekdays is different than sundays at noon.
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by jamesk2 17y ago
For housing: http://sfbay.craigslist.org/ - for shared rooms and sublets. For tech companies: http://www.wayfaring.com/maps/show/4358 - this is a map of many of the tech companies in the area. For activities, check out http://meetup.co
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by jamesk2 17y ago
Yeah, making the product is hard but there are many newsletters that cost way more than $25 month. Here's a list of investing newsletters that cost more than $25/month. http://www.marketwatch.com/news/newsletters/newsletters.asp?... There
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by jamesk2 17y ago
For those who don't know who he is: He designed the IBM and the Next Computer logos as well as many other well known logos.
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Inside the Google News algorithm(blogs.computerworld.com)
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by jamesk2 17y ago
Woz left Apple a long time ago, so did Allen and Filo (Yahoo Co-Founder). It's a bit of survivor bias and interest in the limelight that the more famous names persist.
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by jamesk2 17y ago
> So it seems the best mix of founders is to have one lunatic visionary dominate and regular people cofound. Woz and Paul Allen were pretty visionary themselves. I think working at the same company after they've made it doesn't appeal t
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Android ROM Modder gets Cease and Desist from Google(maximumpc.com)
30 points by jamesk2 17y ago|18 comments
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The well-deserved success of Mint, and what other businesses can learn from it.(slate.com)
36 points by jamesk2 17y ago|14 comments
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by jamesk2 17y ago
"Some simple algorithms can be developed that allow remote cores (other nodes) or even heterogeneous cores (different types of nodes) to be used by the program." Does this mean blocks and GCD would allow easier cluster and cloud computing t
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by jamesk2 17y ago
Their first games were called "Frequency" & "Amplitude" - a bit hard to market! And yes, they did not sell well.
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by jamesk2 17y ago
I'm not getting one until there's an apple branded version of it.
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by jamesk2 17y ago
Yeah but a free adwords model would be wickedly popular. Maybe Google Augment or gAugment
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by jamesk2 17y ago
Hey, if Dr. Tattoff can remove tattos with a laser somebody will make rewritable lasers like DVD-RW! Maybe not infinite rewrites but it's possible. Anyone see Blade Runner? There was a chinese guy who is the eyeball making specialist. Recen
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by jamesk2 17y ago
How about skipping the contact lens altogether and using Lasik to etch a conductive surface like circuits onto the cornea itself. It's bio circuitry via laser lithography. Always on augmented reality.
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by jamesk2 17y ago
With 65k apps in the apple app store, it's going to be pretty hard to get any attention for your iphone app. Launching a cool app on Android first will get you a lot of press. There's just less competition there. There are tons of well read

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