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by kulkarnic 13y ago
Not a physicist, but writing one good paper every four years sounds like a very good thing. Would you rather read 40 papers, each of which is a lowest-publishable-unit, or 10 which noticeably move science ahead? Because of his fame, Higgs h
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by kulkarnic 13y ago
Maybe that is to ensure that the results remain stable after people start trying out those searches for themselves (and so Google doesn't endorse another company's services). Wikipedia for results is definitely not the norm for Go
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by kulkarnic 13y ago
This is bunk. You're paid to do work which can be done in 40 hours/wk or you're being exploited (and so are a lot of other people). When you're 60 would you rather have memories with your kids, or have the satisfaction o
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by kulkarnic 13y ago
It's neither, I think. It's basically a way to get training data. The novel part is splitting sentences into phrases and asking about the sentiment of each part, which provides the algorithm richer data to train off.
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by kulkarnic 13y ago
Looks like standard 80-character wrapping to me. I don't see linebreaks on this file, for instance: view-source: http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/Helping.html
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by kulkarnic 13y ago
I think the most interesting page is, of course, http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/Bugs.html There's technology to enable for most webapps (form processing), and search engines right there. And of course, &qu
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by kulkarnic 13y ago
And it also doesn't seem to stem words. [flower] and [flowers] give different results (actually flowers gives no results). But I am impressed by the number of classes they have: who labels pineapples in an image corpus?
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by kulkarnic 14y ago
Even better idea: work at a library. These are buildings designed to be quiet, meditative places, and they want you to be there all day. In addition, several libraries now allow coffee, and most have great Wifi. Where do you find a librar
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by kulkarnic 14y ago
Yes, they may complain about society/"industry" not caring enough, and that's mostly because it is true. Let me offer an analogy: when veterans are badly treated, everyone's angry because society isn't valuing their contribution enough. If
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by kulkarnic 14y ago
Ok, so what were the predictors of failure? IMO, if you can talk about these features/predictors, they are true predictors. Otherwise, if people can game the system if they knew these features, I'd think they're more artifacts about your
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by kulkarnic 14y ago
I wish Gabriel had inserted a map of where the screenshots were taken. My hunch, which could be wrong, is that magic keywords are geographic too. In a state like NH which leans strongly, maybe the algorithm automatically identified Obama as
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by kulkarnic 14y ago
I'd like to know why it works. Does "10x superior onboarding emails" mean 10x better retention/conversion numbers? Backstory: I've been trying to improve retention in a complex system with ~10^5 users, and email doesn't seem to add too mu
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by kulkarnic 14y ago
I'm still not sure how it catches all unhandled exceptions. I looked at the source code ( http://rescuejs.com/rescue.beta.js ) and it only seems to wrap setTimeout, setInterval, jQuery.fn.ready, and jQuery.event.add. What about exceptions i
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by kulkarnic 14y ago
Honour codes do work-- see Ariely's book on honesty: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0062183591?ie=UTF8&camp... (quote from blurb: Ariely argues, and then demonstrates, that it's actually the irrational forces that we don't take into
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by kulkarnic 14y ago
This is not entirely so. When I visited Japan, my browser prompted "We've detected you've moved to Japan, would you like to change..." That to me seems wrong. No one learns a language in 7 hours.
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by kulkarnic 14y ago
The title is unnecessarily provocative-- Square wouldn't magically eradicate downtime after a starbucks deal. And the website being down is different from the service not working. [Edit: the payment app doesn't work on my iPhone either. I g
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by kulkarnic 14y ago
Life is about living. And everything else is ways to optimize that. Sure, self-help that distracts from living could make people miserable. Good self-help OTOH is meant to be heuristics for this optimization. Personally, I've found wake-up-
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by kulkarnic 14y ago
I am simply amazed that there are 2 million software developers creating projects that they can host on Github. For some reason, I still think of open software development as a rather indie movement. So much has changed just in the last few
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by kulkarnic 14y ago
The appearance of fairness is often as important as fairness itself. With randomness, you completely destroy that appearance. I'll even bet that a lot of people will make up their own theories about how the tokens are given out ("Oh, that o
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by kulkarnic 14y ago
Having been on the dev side of the conversation with many (mostly MBA students), I can agree with you here. However, this is only one suits v. nerds issue. Often, I can see that the idea will be large-impact, but the job itself is boring .
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by kulkarnic 14y ago
I'll buy it. Unlike a lot of tech/nerd folk, I actually don't think privacy/data ownership makes people jump platforms. If pictures+captions is the thin end of the wedge, that's great :)
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by kulkarnic 14y ago
Not really. "Framing" is an important consideration-- ask any photographer. I wish the author had gone into other kinds of framing (not just rounded corners), but it's a start. "For the interested reader", see different kinds of framing in
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by kulkarnic 14y ago
If you're one of the founders, all I can say is stop doing stupid shit. I don't mean to offend-- finding pictures and clever captioning them is surprisingly addictive, but this really is a step away from social-games' Skinnerian condition
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by kulkarnic 14y ago
Don't do this. Pick good defaults. Options are for nerds, simplicity is for real people.
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by kulkarnic 14y ago
As a tl;dr person, I just don't get the message: "We’re rethinking publishing and building a new platform from scratch. This is a preview." is about as buzzword saturated as possible. Plus their homepage says "Your text here". I feel every
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by kulkarnic 14y ago
As Herb Simon wrote (in 1971!) "a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention". The problem you describe is that "smart" address books are actually quite dumb-- they don't understand the context. When you're just trying to call Ted
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by kulkarnic 14y ago
Interesting. I've seen a few other apps do this too and always wondered. Well, I think shading the UI might be a better hint, but this is definitely not something I'd thought of before. Thank you.
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by kulkarnic 14y ago
Robby, congrats on the new launch-- it looks great! Zero-click search is really impressive when it works [edit: actually, this is zero-search search: you get results without searching, simply based on context]. I think greplin can make it w
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by kulkarnic 14y ago
Good point, since most pixels are taller than wide (it'd suck even more if they can't sub-pixel render in portrait mode, as it seems the more natural reading position).
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by kulkarnic 14y ago
Yeah, so what? If you read HCI papers from the 90s (it's what I do for a job-- I'm a PhD student in HCI), you'll see that a lot of very respected researchers claimed that speech technology is not useful (their claim is well-founded: it is s

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