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by kurtosis 18y ago
Yeah, no doubt cheaper cycles are a good thing. So help me out here - do you know of supercomputing (MPI or hadoop) apps where the bottleneck was finding time on a computer. I think development cost is still the bottleneck In bio and geo
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by kurtosis 18y ago
In my experience the biggest barrier to dealing with huge data volumes isn't the cost of supercomputer time. - it's the time it takes to (a) curate and prepare the data (b) develop a model to analyze it, adapt the model to whatever platform
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by kurtosis 18y ago
When I've heard programmers criticised for the "ugly american" behavior it is not about the use of english as a technical lingua franca. The ugly american programmer is one who embeds english chauvinism into the user experience of their sof
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by kurtosis 18y ago
awesome - many thanks both lists are great
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Ask HN: Good coffee shop near CMU?
3 points by kurtosis 18y ago|5 comments
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by kurtosis 18y ago
I just finished vol. 1 of Niall Ferguson's history of the rothschild banking family last night - and reading this makes me wonder how much great historical research we're missing out on because the economics of the historian profession is s
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by kurtosis 18y ago
Ah this is truly a business opportunity - a nice supplement to your FICO score forget mechanical turk: Step (1): Get access to frontal photographs of a large random sample of borrowers along with their financial history and records of any d
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by kurtosis 18y ago
Okay, what he says sounds plausible - I guess consulting is an example of a business with linear "resource efficiency". But he doesn't explain the faster than linear resource efficiency case very well. The obvious answer is a case where
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by kurtosis 18y ago
The fact that is has been approximately constant over such a long period of time is what I find most surprising. I would naively expect many of the improving factors that you mentioned would lead to an increase in free throw percentages as
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by kurtosis 18y ago
Why don't they just use the granny shot? The cross section of the basket is much higher from the typical granny-shot trajectory is it not?
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by kurtosis 18y ago
The cash rewards always really turned me off from DJB - it sounded like borderline crackpot behavior. The fact that he actually paid it out instantly puts all doubts to rest about his seriousness. I'm of course a long time fan of qmail an
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Markets are Anti-Inductive(overcomingbias.com)
5 points by kurtosis 18y ago|0 comments
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by kurtosis 18y ago
Someone wise once said: "Reality is what doesn't go away when you stop believing in it."
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by kurtosis 18y ago
I prefer a ranked list, one tag per row. Also draw bar graph next to each item to visually show the difference in magnitude between the ranks.
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by kurtosis 18y ago
socat is better IMHO http://www.dest-unreach.org/socat/
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by kurtosis 18y ago
amen brother, shalizi explains this problem well: Complexity, Entropy and the Physics of gzip: http://www.cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/notebooks/cep-gzip.html I think one of the limitations of the traditional formulation of information theor
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by kurtosis 18y ago
Wow! Thanks for posting this - I smiled nonstop while reading. Methods like this, or coalescent trees have a lot of potential for NLP and other fields. I wouldn't be surprised at all if some clever person invents a procedure to construct
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by kurtosis 18y ago
Moralizing over food preparation nothing new - I have a hard time believing that it is a substitute for moralizing over sexual behavior. Doesn't anyone remember the four food groups? Three square meals? (even though they were marketing plo
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MALLET: Machine Learning for Language Toolkit(mallet.cs.umass.edu)
2 points by kurtosis 18y ago|0 comments
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Matlab Topic Modeling Toolbox(psiexp.ss.uci.edu)
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Bonuses, Power and Inequality(stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com)
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by kurtosis 18y ago
Thanks for the interesting reply. Perhaps I'm guilty of not reading Taleb as carefully as I should have! I definately respect the guy's technical chops - he was mandelbrot's student. I'll think a more critically the next time I see a strai
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by kurtosis 18y ago
Statistical natural language processing is a very prominent example of a field which has developed effective methods for coping with "black swans" or the occurance of improbable events that have never been seen before. If you take any large
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by kurtosis 18y ago
Wow this sounds very intriguing but I have no idea where to start learning about this. I tried reading some of the papers and was quickly overwhelmed. Anyone have any suggestions for how to start experimenting with this? Are there any VHD
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by kurtosis 18y ago
Yeah I like Sethna a lot but he is a theorist - the experiment was done for Na clusters by a guy named Haberland. It was published in Science a few years ago. [edit] Sorry I mean nature: M. Schmidt, R. Kusche, B. v. Issendorff und H. Haber
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by kurtosis 18y ago
This is one of my favorite topics! - as they say "small is different" - This was known for quantum systems for about ~100 years but the laws of thermodynamics also defy macroscopic intuition when applied to nanoscale objects. This article g
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by kurtosis 18y ago
I have very strong opinions about the invasion of iraq, public education, taxes, church&state, 2nd amendment etc.. , but I've never got into an argument with anyone about those them because I felt that they had a material impact on my l
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by kurtosis 18y ago
I think we can also observe that the topics people weakly identify with are common topics for small talk e.g. weather, movies, pets etc.
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by kurtosis 18y ago
the 2000 US table includes NY city clerk with an income of 35k (close to the US median) and a multiple of 3. an MD's take was a multiple of 157. I agree with you that it's misleading because it doesn't include the relative size of these cl
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by kurtosis 18y ago
After high school, I got a job doing construction work - I was treated badly and I felt a lot stupider afterwards :) Seriously, there have been a lot of studies which have shown a modest (temporary?) increase of IQ for people living in an "

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