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by joyofdata 12y ago
#humblebrag
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by joyofdata 12y ago
well thanks for the info - but then I shift my critique to that I find it unnecessary to distort ML and biological concepts just to simplify the subject, when an accurate depiction wouldn't be much more difficult. Especially to not dif
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by joyofdata 12y ago
just curious - can you give an example for a big breaktrhough he co-authored? nonetheless - some of his remarks are very specific and I don't see how informal style applies here to excuse them.
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by joyofdata 12y ago
> therefore follows that a large neural network with 10 layers can do anything a human can in 0.1 seconds. very funny ... as if ANNs are sufficiently comparable to actual neural activity. also I think it is naive to assess the "powe
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by joyofdata 12y ago
thanks for the hint - no more blackhats and vitaly shown in the sources - seems to work
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by joyofdata 12y ago
To consider "something" as just _in the mind_ v/s being physically rooted is similar too considering software bugs trivial b/c software can easily be changed compared to hardware that is broken. To extend the analogy -
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by joyofdata 12y ago
Let's say you are sitting in your office for 8 hours. In one case you could leave but probably won't - in the other case your boss puts a lock on your door for those 8 hours. Would that make a difference to you?
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by joyofdata 12y ago
There is Ulam's Sprial for example. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulam_spiral
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by joyofdata 12y ago
In other words, organizations which design systems ... are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations —M. Conway ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law )
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by joyofdata 12y ago
> The more you learn about the R language, the worse it will feel. The opposite is true in my experience. > R makes me want to kick things almost every time I use it. Maybe R is not your biggest problem. > The documentation is inan
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by joyofdata 12y ago
Actually having lots of people complain about a programming language is a good indicator for that language doing well: - JavaScript - PHP - C++ - ... On that note, Hadley, R IS awesome and a large reason for that is your contribution to it!
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by joyofdata 12y ago
I do second that - http://www.joyofdata.de/blog/hierarchical-clustering-with-r/ :)
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Royal Australian Navy personnel open up about seeing asylum seekers die at sea(abc.net.au)
1 points by joyofdata 12y ago|0 comments
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by joyofdata 12y ago
Location: Munich, Germany Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: R, JavaScript, Haskell, Linux, Pentaho, Git, Machine Learning, Math, Statistics Résumé/CV: http://www.joyofdata.de/blog/about-me/ E
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by joyofdata 12y ago
I pay less than €800 for my 45m² 3 subway stops away from the central station. And I found it by talking to people within 3 months ... :) Paying more than €800 for a small room means even by Munich standards just that you are getting ripped
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Interactive Heatmaps with Google Maps API v3(joyofdata.de)
3 points by joyofdata 12y ago|0 comments
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by joyofdata 12y ago
President Obama is recognized either as ... ... a mountain-bike / all-terrain-bike ( http://cdn2.spiegel.de/images/image-730849-galleryV9-vuuv.jp... ) ... or a rugby ball ( http://cdn2.spiegel.de/imag
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A StackOverflow for Business Intelligence – or What BI Can Learn from PHP(joyofdata.de)
1 points by joyofdata 12y ago|0 comments
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by joyofdata 12y ago
Exactly! http://www.joyofdata.de/blog/a-stackoverflow-but-for-busines...
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by joyofdata 12y ago
I would love to have a more high-speed Q&A-site for BI and all those related topics - same quality- and fun-level as stackoverflow!
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A StackExchange Site for Business Intelligence Professionals(area51.stackexchange.com)
1 points by joyofdata 12y ago|3 comments
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Impact of Dimensionality on Data in Pictures(joyofdata.de)
1 points by joyofdata 12y ago|0 comments
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by joyofdata 12y ago
flagged - the title is bullshit anyway and the problem is not so much that somebody fakes linkbaity titles - the problem is that HN audience is apparently interested in it
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by joyofdata 12y ago
“It is remarkable that mind enters into our awareness of nature on two separate levels. At the highest level, the level of human consciousness, our minds are somehow directly aware of the complicated flow of electrical and chemical patterns
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Relation of Word Order and Compression Ratio and Degree of Structure(joyofdata.de)
1 points by joyofdata 12y ago|0 comments
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by joyofdata 12y ago
If I'd get one Bitcoin for every cryptocurrency that is promoted on HN, ...
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Segmenting a Text Document using the Idea of a Cellular Automata(joyofdata.de)
2 points by joyofdata 12y ago|0 comments
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by joyofdata 12y ago
I am wondering about this: Why not paying out expected clicks according to a forecast based on click data prior to the alleged fraud? That should be a fair compromise IMO
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by joyofdata 12y ago
I found this before Stanford found it ... during my math studies I was all the time walking up and down between the shelves of the library :) In addition to walking around I highly recommend talking to yourself and gesticulating! Looks weir
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by joyofdata 12y ago
What I find most hideous about every single wrong conviction is that it could not just have prevented most of the time and that it was contrived by overeager prosecutors - for every one wrongfully convicted the real culprit is walking freel

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