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by jey 12y ago
Think of it in terms of resource utilization. In the old model, there's tons cars that need to be parked somewhere within SF while completely unused. In the Uber/Lyft model, these cars usually enter the city while they're act
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by jey 12y ago
Then just work enough to pay rent and eat. I bet you earn more than you strictly need.
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by jey 12y ago
http://www.structuredprocrastination.com/
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by jey 12y ago
> Maybe Spark doesn't like 100x growth in the size of an RDD using flatMap? I'd be interested to hear more about your use case and the problems you encountered. It's possible that you need to do some kind of .coalesce() op
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by jey 12y ago
Possible interpretation: Germans engineer, but Americans invent. I imagine the most successful German companies are more like GE and IBM and not like Google, Apple, or Uber.
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by jey 12y ago
Do I absolutely need to get a degree in this area to participate in this kind of research? Nope, but you do need credible and convincing signals . (Google "signalling theory".) Do they need software development ex
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by jey 12y ago
Awesome, but why a genetic algorithm? I wonder if it could be formulated as a tractable optimization problem instead.
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by jey 12y ago
The linked site seems to be down. Google cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?authuser=0&outp... Scribd link to document: http://www.scribd.com/doc/224332847/NYT-Innovation-Repor
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by jey 12y ago
Julia has a sophisticated and performant mechanism for calling C libraries. It ships with common packages like SuiteSparse already built into the standard library's sparse matrix types. I do agree that Julia isn't ready for prime
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by jey 12y ago
Julia is definitely going to be the winner. I've been using it for a few weeks and it is just so natural for scientific/technical computing and effectively covers a wide range of use cases. The type system and syntax allow for c
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by jey 12y ago
I'm not sure that I'd call something with an infinite number of non-zero Fourier coefficients an "everyday" Fourier series. :)
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by jey 12y ago
I meant that the incremental cost of paying a human driver would be gone. The fixed cost of inventing and developing the self-driving technology would be minimal because it is amortized across all self-driving cars.
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by jey 12y ago
Costs would at least be lower, which at least opens the possibility of it becoming cheaper. Sure, it's possible to conceive of a dystopic scenario where GooUber has such a monopoly that they can just keep prices arbitrarily high and di
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by jey 12y ago
Probably this: http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/~matloff/probstatbook.html
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by jey 12y ago
Matloff has a blog? Awesome.
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by jey 12y ago
Huh, what upside does Java have? Julia is specifically designed to be a great high-performance high-level language for scientific computing. See http://julialang.org/blog/2012/02/why-we-created-julia/
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by jey 13y ago
How often do results like this turn out to be reliably reproducible? IIRC, much of the "priming effect" literature isn't reproducible. If you're wondering how that could be true: there are systematic biases in scientific
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by jey 13y ago
> We're in the golden age of critical thinking Source/citation/justification? Seems just as easy to make the opposing argument, that mass media technologies are being perfected to the point where it'll soon be possibl
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by jey 13y ago
> Maybe it has to do with the fact that Google X has been somewhat notorious for upsetting shareholders. Evidence or sources?
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by jey 13y ago
What are some problems where Deep Learning shines? Does it outperform other algorithms on those problems? Is there an understanding of why? Context: I have some background in statistical sorts of machine learning algorithms and am genuinely
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by jey 13y ago
Direct link to 2013 report: http://www.iab.net/media/file/IAB_Internet_Advertising_Reven...
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by jey 13y ago
Only six months since 4.8 was released. Is GCC moving to a more regular release schedule?
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by jey 13y ago
How did these guys get distribution on an official Mozilla blog despite being a third-party project?
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by jey 13y ago
according to an analysis of patents Ergo that chart is bullshit. I stopped reading there.
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by jey 13y ago
A "suburban carpet cleaner" that picks up rugs and cleans them can employ over 80 people, run 60 trucks, and does $12MM in revenue? Are there really that many frequently soiled fancy rugs in a single suburban area?
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by jey 13y ago
When is it a good idea to use @property? It's tempting to apply to almost every 0-ary method, even if it computes something expensive that isn't not worth memoizing and tying to self's lifetime.
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by jey 13y ago
Yep, and Apple has already done dynamic binary translation once before, during the PPC to x86 switch.
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by jey 13y ago
`tex --version` may be a better choice.
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by jey 13y ago
The key difference is internal vs external motivation. Those highly productive long hours are unsustainable on external motivation.
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by jey 13y ago
The verbosity of your suggested syntax is very off putting. Why not build on the Make paradigm and syntax but fix the bugs? The autodeps problem is the only real flaw IMHO. The pattern syntax doesn't bother me too much.

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