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by jpeterson 12y ago
For a really nice introductory book, try "Machine Learning" by Tom Mitchell.
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by jpeterson 12y ago
Does it bother anyone else that services like bitly add a single point of failure to URLs? Also, it's kind of amusing that they've spent so much engineering effort to distribute a protocol that's already massively distributed
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by jpeterson 12y ago
First of all, amazing article! However, I believe that the bit about light being a "continuous" signal in the first paragraph invites conflicting thoughts of wave / particle duality, which distracts from and is not at all rel
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by jpeterson 13y ago
I had the same thought. For any combined system, i.e. a situation where you've combined two systems such as the hot cup of coffee and the cool room, the number of "dispersed" states is far greater than the number of non-dispe
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by jpeterson 13y ago
Causation relies on a particular direction of time, not the other way around. For example, suppose you have two billiard balls, A and B. In our world, A travels from left to right, strikes B, and then B flies off to the right. We would say
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by jpeterson 13y ago
Relax, it's a joke.
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by jpeterson 13y ago
you can easily tell within ten minutes if someone can not pass muster Nope, you cannot. I think it's highly likely that there are some rather large biases in your process. This goes for pg too.
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by jpeterson 13y ago
Agreed, but you will also agree that you've gone well beyond the level of first approximation here, right?
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by jpeterson 13y ago
Can someone explain what's wrong with the spinning ball analogy? From my understanding, it's a pretty good first approximation of the physical interpretation of particle spin.
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by jpeterson 13y ago
However, it's also had more impact on the utility of the web for most users than almost any other product, save for perhaps Google. If by "had more impact" you mean "changed it into a medium for idle entertainment&quot
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by jpeterson 13y ago
Sounds vaguely plausible, but do you have any evidence that substantiates this? In particular, "taking shelter in a rainstorm" seems like a pretty far-fetched survival trait.
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by jpeterson 13y ago
Roger Horn is one of the best linear algebra and matrix guys around, and I was, by wide margins, the star student in his class, effortlessly. That's good, because you clearly wouldn't have been the star student in English class.
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by jpeterson 13y ago
Yes, this article seems to live within the silicon valley echo chamber.
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by jpeterson 13y ago
What are you talking about?
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by jpeterson 13y ago
This man is an inspiration.
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by jpeterson 14y ago
It could still be useful for finding tendencies, though.
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by jpeterson 14y ago
To me this sounds like you haven't really taken the time to understand how any sport works. Usually there's a lot more going on than "kicking a ball around", and these subtleties of planning and strategy are really what make them fun.
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by jpeterson 14y ago
Music and architecture bring joy to people who like them. So do sports. Sports seems to be zero-sum; people don't appreciate a good game, they appreciate one arbitrarily-labelled team beating another. This couldn't be more wrong. Sports
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by jpeterson 14y ago
Strunk And White is a horrible book to learn how to actually write English well. It's full of contradictions, has some bad grammar in it, doesn't follow its own advice Can you give some examples?
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by jpeterson 14y ago
What in the world are you talking about?
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by jpeterson 14y ago
I've tried stuff like this. The problem is that my brain gives me wrong/negative interpretations of the other person's emotions most of the time, and I leave almost every social interaction feeling like a failure. This naturally feeds back
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by jpeterson 14y ago
Higher user count => more $$$
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by jpeterson 14y ago
Your explanation doesn't address where the zero came from in the second step. In other words, you're presupposing that we already know what "factoring" is, which is what this article is meant to explain.
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by jpeterson 14y ago
No, the IBM JVM has been around for ages.
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by jpeterson 14y ago
Yea. At the end of the day, it's still a git repo that you're dealing with. This post is a lot of hot air.
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by jpeterson 14y ago
If many years from now someone asks, "why did the retail software industry die?", please refer back to this post.
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by jpeterson 14y ago
You keep saying this, but what does it mean? What is social note-taking, exactly?
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by jpeterson 14y ago
I think the difference here is that everything they've done before now has been more or less bounded by my own actions. If they screw my privacy, it's my own damned fault for posting sensitive stuff to their site. Hell, even if they track m
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by jpeterson 14y ago
Where is the poor (business) design? You'll see this when people start recognizing Facebook as the crap it really is, and stop using it.
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by jpeterson 14y ago
Why do you want to use your mouse while coding?

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