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by khawkins 12y ago
The fact that Soylent tastes terrible should hardly be a surprise considering that none of the team behind this product has education/experience in food technology ( http://www.rosalabs.com/team/ ). Shouldn't t
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by khawkins 13y ago
Like its artificial neural net cousins, I feel like black-box approaches are generally weak for studying intelligence. Programming a complex model is relatively simple, given decades of neurobiological research. But running this brain, abs
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by khawkins 13y ago
CMU is a top tier school. Why should you deny a hot-shot programmer admission for someone who has a passing fancy? Judging "potential" instead of a candidate's past work and experience reeks of affirmative action.
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by khawkins 13y ago
It would be redundant to include error bars. Each path should be representing a random draw from the space of possible futures.
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by khawkins 13y ago
Maintaining data integrity is probably fairly important to them. By allowing a separate service which is used by a significant portion of the students, the system is open to serious exploitation. Professors can get black-balled by disgrun
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by khawkins 13y ago
My point is that it shows up everywhere, just in different forms. Sparse coding has a penalty for large basises. Gaussian process regression tunes the density of its representation using Bayesian model Selection. SVMs have a slack parameter
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by khawkins 13y ago
I would say, to be succinct, that the main trick in ML is Occam's Razor ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam%27s_razor ). It has been found that, for most problems, a simple model which well represents previous expe
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by khawkins 13y ago
I'm actually surprised how hostile HN is in these comments, considering that I thought the popular sentiment was similar. Every other day a new "learn how to code" post hits the front page, despite, I'm sure, most people
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by khawkins 13y ago
This doesn't make me significantly worry about my privacy using Google services. Google knows that it needs to maintain trust with its users and that's why it's only tackling a crime which has little controversy with respect
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by khawkins 13y ago
jdoliner's comment is interesting, because it's almost true. At the time, hardly anyone could find faith in the currency. But what he failed to understand that if "someone" could find faith in the currency, then others
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by khawkins 13y ago
Almost every brand mentioned here has a generic equivalent. People don't rely on these corporations exclusively for these types of products.
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by khawkins 13y ago
Having just completed an MS CS here, I can tell you that the most important part of my experience was not the course work, but rather the research opportunities. I spent far more time working on research projects with professors and they d
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by khawkins 13y ago
I don't exactly see the value in this visualization. Clustering measures and feature analysis would provide far more insight into what's going on here. In fact, it's not even clear how large the dominant clusters are or wha
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by khawkins 13y ago
It's downright deceitful, in my opinion. The entire page is trying to exaggerate the significance of the shutdown.
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by khawkins 13y ago
Your stubborn stance on the issue sounds like the type of response a religious fundamentalist would give when questioned about their beliefs. The "experts in the field" have been shown to make excessive predictions in recent year
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by khawkins 13y ago
This sort of search doesn't bother me all that much. There are only a rare set of circumstances where being close to a particular cell tower is incriminating. Furthermore, since moving from cell tower to cell tower requires moving in
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by khawkins 13y ago
Some people are claiming Balmer deserves some credit for keeping Microsoft profitable/status quo, but it seems like they're forgetting the stranglehold Gates had on computing when he left. It's not hard to keep the gravy trai
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by khawkins 13y ago
As the article states, the number of DMCA requests has increased almost 1500% over the past year.
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by khawkins 13y ago
Why don't we just charge a meagre tax, perhaps $0.10, per DMCA request? This would reduce spamming significantly, while any genuine requests would be more than worth that sum.
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by khawkins 13y ago
There's an issue in convincing people that harm is completely continuous. If there is a perception that there is some culpability in performing some action, regardless of how small, then it is easy to exaggerate it to a significant qu
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by khawkins 13y ago
>“And that’s what’s been eroding over the last 20, 30 years, well before the financial crisis,” he added. Is he still blaming Bush for what are unarguably, by this point, his problems? >The economy is “far stronger” than four years ag
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by khawkins 13y ago
One large claim made here is that while Dark Patterns may increase subscription rates, they hurt brand image. Are there any scientific studies measuring the magnitude of such damage? Perhaps the occasional irritation is worth 5 others &qu
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by khawkins 13y ago
Whenever I see new 3D printers released or promoted, the main thing you see them model are functionally useless figurines and toys. I don't see a lot of people talking about practical applications. Although I can see its uses in rap
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by khawkins 13y ago
I believe the interpretation is wrong here. The hard data: Employee Wages F M Has firstborn sons: +0.8% -0.5% Has firstborn daughters: +1.1% +0.6% The story here is tha
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by khawkins 13y ago
I was actually unfamiliar with ATLAS, but I am familiar with Eigen, which I use whenever implementing matrix operations in C++: http://eigen.tuxfamily.org With so many available options, you should never really be implementing y
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by khawkins 13y ago
I had a similar experience. As an undergrad I actually competed in the ACM competition but we had barely enough interest for a 3-person team. Furthermore, I only found out about the competition the year I graduated; advertising was very li
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by khawkins 13y ago
It seems to me that it is even more simple. Economics 101: scarcity of a highly demanded product drives up costs. There's just no room for significant expansion, the bay area is surrounded on 3 sides by water. Furthermore, a good maj
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by khawkins 13y ago
All he's saying here is that you should test/push boundaries, not to continue once they've rejected the advances. But, he notes, that even if they reject, it achieves a desired effect which may eventually pay off.
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by khawkins 13y ago
This article is somewhat misleading. This is not a "Texas vs. Tesla" issue, this is a "car dealerships want a monopoly" problem. This issue has been around long before Tesla came on the scene. http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2009/02/w
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by khawkins 13y ago
I believe the general consensus is that there is no statistical increase in temperature over the past decade. However, that source isn't exactly reliable considering the existence of global warming is, in a large part, key to his business m

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