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by jamessb 7y ago
There's Recoll: https://www.lesbonscomptes.com/recoll/ I haven't used it, so I'm not sure how fast it is, but I've seen it recommended several times.
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Last year they acuired Empirical Systems, "an eight-person artificial intelligence startup based in Cambridge, Mass" [1]. However, 'Tableau Research' [2] has existed for years and its researchers regularly publish at maj
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"A scientist builds in order to learn; an engineer learns in order to build." - Fred Brooks
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> None of the author's specific examples - control theory, optimization, linear programming, econometrics, or Black-Scholes - were pioneered by generalist engineers with a strong grounding in mathematics. They were just applied math
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by jamessb 7y ago
I would check with a lawyer in your jurisdiction before assuming that non-payment voids the contract. See, for example, the judgement in this UK case: > Finally, although the First Assignment records both that Mr Dichand and Dr Spaziante
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by jamessb 8y ago
I'm not sure exactly what you are suggesting, but it seems conceptually similar to Bayesian Optimization, which fits a Bayesian Process to previous evaluations of the objective function, and uses this to estimate the best point at whic
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by jamessb 8y ago
Here is a plot of the number of signatories over time: http://splasho.com/petitions/index.php?petition=241584
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by jamessb 8y ago
Working link to a copy of the paper on one of the author's websites: https://people.csail.mit.edu/rinard/paper/popl19.pdf
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by jamessb 8y ago
It seems like the repository type in GitHub already handles several of these cases. A user's list of repositories can already be filtered by "type", and this handles several of his cases: > aicioara-forks — Projects I con
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The English name is "gas syringe".
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by jamessb 8y ago
A personal project might be something that is useful in your day to day life (e.g., a notes app, todo list, or calendar), or something that you want to be able to show to fiends/family when you see them in person (e.g. a photo album, o
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by jamessb 8y ago
The Guardian style is: > Use all capitals if an abbreviation is pronounced as the individual letters (an initialism): BBC, CEO, US, VAT, etc; if it is an acronym (pronounced as a word) spell out with initial capital, eg Nasa, Nato, Unice
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by jamessb 8y ago
Similar data (but for a wider range of problems - not just object classification) was tabulated by the EFF's AI Progress Measurement project [1]; I made an alternative interface to visualise it [2]. [1]: https://www.eff.org&
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by jamessb 8y ago
This uses D3.js [1], and waud [2] for audio. The Pudding have their own library for scrollytelling (Scrollama.js [3]), but I don't think it's used in this project. [1]: https://d3js.org/ [2]: http://www
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by jamessb 8y ago
Sometimes the resason that you don't get redirected to the wifi network's captive portal is that your browser is trying to access a page using HTTPS. Trying to connect to a HTTP-only site (like http://neverssl.com/
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by jamessb 8y ago
According to the OED [1], "evacuate" can apply either to the thing that is being emptied, or to the things being removed. Meaning 2: "To clear (a place) of inmates, etc., (a country) of inhabitants, troops, wild beasts."
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The closest alternative would probably have been to immobilise the children by strapping them to a spinal board stretcher, and putting a full face SCUBA mask on them [and it seems that the other alternative of letting them swim/walk th
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by jamessb 8y ago
I agree. Many textbooks also include a depencency graph that suggests different orders in which the chapters could be read and understood.
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by jamessb 8y ago
> Given the number of people who hate unauthorized autoplaying video (including silent video), it’s sort of amazing that Chrome’s product management team hasn’t added a way to prevent it I wouldn't hold much hope for them doing this
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by jamessb 8y ago
Labels on products have limtied available space: if the ingredients were formatted as a list with a newline between each item, then the text would have to be smaller, which would probably make it harder to read overall.
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by jamessb 8y ago
> that drug trial in London a few years ago that had got through all pre-human trials without a problem I asusme you mean the TGN1412 trial [1,2]. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theralizumab [2]: https:/&#
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by jamessb 8y ago
I think hackhands is what you are describing: https://hackhands.com/how-it-works/
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> They both want some form of external moderation. its what happens for Postgraduate degrees after all. Undergraduate university examinations in the UK already have external examiners [1]. For the national guidance, see Chapter B7 of the
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Here's the conference paper [1], 30s preview video [2] and ACM Digital Library entry [3]. There's also a project homepage with a FAQ [4]. [1]: http://delivery.acm.org/10.1145/3190000/3188403/alt10.pd
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If you are seeking the Ph.D. Degree under the normal regulations, you are required to have "kept three terms at least by residence" (i.e. have lived within three miles of Great St. Mary's Church for a year) [1]. There is also
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You could give up on trying to represent the sets with overlapping circles, and use a different approach, such as UpSet: http://caleydo.org/tools/upset/
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by jamessb 9y ago
The coloring isn't intended to convey meaning, but simply to subdivide that dendrogram: the viewer doesn't need to recognise the colors or match them to a scale, just see that they're different, and the colors used are dis
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by jamessb 9y ago
There's a whole field studying machine learning interpretability. This recent Distill article is a good introduction [1]. The lime [2] package, based on this paper [3], is also notable. [1]: https://distill.pub/2018&#x2
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by jamessb 9y ago
It's a connected scatterplot. There's quite common in certain contexts (e.g. the Phillips curve in Economics). The lines indicate the joined points represent successive measurements. There's a nice paper describing the histor
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It seems to be missing all of the ACS journals (a big chunk of chemistry) and IEEE (a big chunk of electrical engineering and computer science). Also, I find the idea of merely 'renting' a paper objectionable. Deepdyve charges ind

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