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by jey 15y ago
I wish this was a greasemonkey script.
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Facebook Agrees to F.T.C. Settlement on Privacy(nytimes.com)
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by jey 15y ago
No, these algorithms are impractical, but their utility is in shedding more light on the matrix multiplication problem. So it enables further study, which could lead to more practical advances.
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by jey 15y ago
If someone mistaken it as trash and throw it away when cleaning up the gallery, then it is not art. Would a random person from the 1500s who did not grow up with Jackson Pollock as part of acquired culture know that they shouldn't
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by jey 15y ago
Simply calling something "art" doesn't make a difference in the actual content of the piece, so we might as well consider every entity as already having that label. Therefore everything/anything is already "art", and the question becomes wh
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by jey 15y ago
False dichotomy; technique and artistic quality are orthogonal concepts. You can have a technically perfect shot that is perfectly bland, and you can have a shot that would've been beautiful if only you knew how to set your shutter speed. I
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by jey 15y ago
Seems to me that the biological reality is that bacteria rule the Earth. They always have and always will, before we were here and after we're gone. "Past performance is not an indicator of future results."
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by jey 15y ago
Yes, "graphical models" are a formalism for representing and reasoning about probability distributions using graphs.
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by jey 15y ago
This is a five year old post. These days Python is probably the way to go with NumPy, SciPy, Theano, IPython, matplotlib, Cython, etc. I'm also really looking forward to PyPy's NumPy support -- should allow you to write in pure Python code
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by jey 15y ago
It's a non-sequitur to claim that free software "wouldn't exist" unless they charged for it. Programmers can (and often do) contribute to open source software without getting paid for it.
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by jey 15y ago
Without changing to this paid Growl model, Growl would have died off and would no longer be around to use at all. Growl is however still Open Source Wonderful non-sequitur.
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by jey 15y ago
But then why do you call it "Earth" instead of "Planet"?
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by jey 15y ago
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by jey 15y ago
This article could have been written to not push people's buttons so much, but you've got to admit: there's a significant difference between "weeder" classes and later classes that actually focus on understanding. Calculus courses are the w
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by jey 15y ago
Yes, it enters you into the National Marrow Donor Registry. Posting individual stories works better than statistics because it motivates people much more (yet another quirk of our psychology).
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by jey 15y ago
Why didn't Apple just have their front-end emit GNU C with #line directives?
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by jey 15y ago
What's wrong with job requirements? Also, often "requirements" aren't truly "required". They're just trying to give a sketch of the person they're looking for. So if an ad requires "7 years of Javascript experience" but you have less, you a
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by jey 15y ago
> America is burning about 18 million barrels per day (mbpd), down from about 21 mbpd in 2005-2006 Interesting. What accounts for the decline?
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by jey 15y ago
What Google "wants" as an entity is different from what the individual component humans want. (i.e. the agent 'Google' is distinct from the agents that it is composed of)
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by jey 15y ago
$382MM? Why did the investors consent to that? That's a lot more than is needed to stop worrying about the founders selling the company to keep paying their bills.
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by jey 15y ago
The post title should really expand the acronym "CLV" since the title makes no sense unless you already know what CLV is.
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by jey 15y ago
> If I dare say the blind 'this tribe hates that tribe' seems like a very modern concept. No, that must be one of the oldest tools of demagoguery ever. It was probably useful in the prehistoric "environment of evolutionary adaptedness"
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by jey 15y ago
I mis-spoke when I wrote "expect 'addictives' to be CEOs just as often as non-addictives". I meant to write "expect to find 'addictives' amongst the population of CEOs at the same rate at which they occur in the general popluation" or somet
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by jey 15y ago
Looks like I should explain myself: If there was no association between having an "addictive personality" and being a successful CEO, we would expect "addictives" to be CEOs just as often as non-addictives. If being an addictive helps with
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by jey 15y ago
> What about all the big companies run by non-addicts (the majority) Sure, but the real question is whether "addicts" are over-represented amongst successful CEOs more than the general population.
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by jey 15y ago
They're trying to be nicer to the humans. (Though IMO, any human who wanted to be kind to himself would just not use PHP to begin wtih.)
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by jey 15y ago
Hopefully projects like HLVM will be able to fix that by proving a very good target for dynamic language implementations. It's a very ambitious project that's in relatively early stages, but seems promising.
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by jey 15y ago
That's kinda weird. Google's source tree is notoriously huge and SCons is notoriously slow at computing dependencies in large projects. I wonder how they make it work.
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by jey 15y ago
Shannon's original paper is still a surprisingly good read: http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/ms/what/shannonday/shannon1948.pd...
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by jey 15y ago
Why will it take two months to randomly select entries from a list?

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