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by jchonphoenix 17y ago
You would be highly incorrect. Most employers have a border of a 3.5 GPA or higher as a cutoff. Beyond that, they really care little. If you have a 4.0, you might get some extra "points" in their eyes. And for those of you who don't believe
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by jchonphoenix 17y ago
Caldera isn't really that large of a milestone. And this article is definitely missing Gentoo. In today's world, the power users swing towards Gentoo and the rest towards Ubuntu (or fedora). Everyone else just falls somewhere in the other d
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by jchonphoenix 17y ago
Its ridiculous that so many sites do this. Especially since it takes all of 2 seconds to activate a salting + hashing function in current web frameworks of today...and if you're not on a framework, it takes all of 30 seconds to write your o
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by jchonphoenix 17y ago
I don't understand what's so interesting about MIT's linear algebra course... It seems pretty standard. Penn State and Pitt's cover the exact same course material. And theirs is pretty equivalent to CMU's Matrix Algebra (which covers a bit
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by jchonphoenix 17y ago
The major problem with facebook is that they really don't care much about their users. I know enough friends that work there to know that they believe users will just "deal" and eventually get used to the new way of doing things.
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by jchonphoenix 17y ago
Ok as, (I would say dude but TAs have names)
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by jchonphoenix 17y ago
Yea it was meant to be a joke.
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by jchonphoenix 17y ago
Haha, seems like someone's getting a little worked up. I do research for the guy. Obviously I support what he does. After all, aren't you supposed to learn from the best professors at your university? However, Von Ahn doesn't get to pick an
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by jchonphoenix 17y ago
In addition, this is the year 2009. SQL INJECTION by a company this big? Thats rather sad. My final project in class gets and instant 0/100 (40% of the grade) if SQL injection was possible...
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How to be a Great Lecturer (and Professor)(cs.cmu.edu)
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Tis the season for Grad School Advice(vonahn.blogspot.com)
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by jchonphoenix 17y ago
As far as I can tell, its going to be permanent. The setup would require that a speaker system be ripped out of a wall for it to be taken down (a little drastic for a class experiment).
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by jchonphoenix 17y ago
I'm pretty sure the school knows about it. After all, I'm not the only undergraduate around who's noticed these things and some professors have commented on them too.
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Ethics of Subliminal Messaging: Carnegie Mellon's Gates Center
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Luis Von Ahn's Blog (Wait for his comments on reCaptcha)(vonahn.blogspot.com)
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by jchonphoenix 17y ago
So reCaptcha uses a statistical accuracy and machine learning algorithms to compare the user input for the same word over hundreds of users. Thus by doing this they minimize the probability that a human who incorrectly deciphers a word skew
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by jchonphoenix 17y ago
So reCaptcha's basis is a new field known as Human Computation that Luis invented himself. The term was coined in his Ph.D thesis. Google, however, has been the only company to really embrace Human Computation so it's not really a huge surp
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by jchonphoenix 17y ago
I'm currently doing research for Luis as part of Gwap, and as far as I can say, he's going to remain on the faculty at CMU but also work for Google out of the Google PGH offices. He's no longer teaching 251, however, which is what he's famo