kurtosis

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Everyone should get an A(inference.phy.cam.ac.uk)
4 points by kurtosis 18y ago|2 comments
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by kurtosis 18y ago
well there are certainly traits like low IQ which can become imprinted on a person by working in a "low-status" job or having "low-status" ancestors. These traits are discriminated against by admissions officers and hiring managers. This is
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by kurtosis 18y ago
I'm definately buying this one - here's the money quote "Parallels between the ants and ourselves are striking for the light they shed on the nature of everyday human experiences. Some ants get forced into low-status jobs and are prevented
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The Superior Civilization: E.O. Wilson's latest book on ants (nybooks.com)
19 points by kurtosis 18y ago|9 comments
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Aaronson Reviews Princeton Companion to Mathematics(scottaaronson.com)
40 points by kurtosis 18y ago|3 comments
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Amazing colored fluid photography(pbase.com)
4 points by kurtosis 18y ago|0 comments
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by kurtosis 18y ago
is this really easier than face recognition? Or that retinal identification thing? I guess it's pretty hard to fake your eyes too. Perhaps brain pattern recognition would help keep out robert downey jr. in tropic thunder..
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Madame Defarge Watch: Pay Disparity in US Exceeds France Under Its Last King(nakedcapitalism.com)
3 points by kurtosis 18y ago|4 comments
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by kurtosis 18y ago
for the pythonistas * UNTESTED SPOILERS import wave import struct import pylab f = wave.open('Spectrogram.wav') t = f.readframes(f.getnframes()) v = array([unpack('h',t[i:i+2]) for i in xrange(0,len(t),2)],dtype='float').flatten() py
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by kurtosis 18y ago
Oy man, I'm not used to people getting this fired up over a back of the envelope calculation! I'm sorry if my post sounded arrogant - I'm just trying to have some fun here. I don't think I can really comprehend what any of your objections
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by kurtosis 18y ago
Hey this is from the abstract of: Sequence optimization and designability of enzyme active sites - PNAS v. 102 (2005) Full text is here: http://www.pnas.org/content/102/34/12035.full """ Since it was first observed that all known natura
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by kurtosis 18y ago
For what it's worth I attended a seminar by this guy http://www.princeton.edu/~rajchak/ the other day and he was talking about using optimal control theory to optimize protein sequences for specific enzyme activity. He had a very sophist
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by kurtosis 18y ago
So the human brain has about 10^11 neurons and about 10^4 synapses per neuron. Naively representing the state of each synapse with one byte requires 10^15 bytes that's about 500,000 PCs. But neurons aren't necessarily the optimal substrate
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by kurtosis 18y ago
I saw an article in IEEE magazine about the singularity and it seemed more about people talking about the implications of technology rather than actually working to build technology. The singularians seem to be a group of very capable tech
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by kurtosis 18y ago
public exposure / abandonment Break out the back of the envelope and calculate how much it would cost you to break all contacts with anuses. Is it worth it? Make sure people find out how you were treated. A guy I respect much for his techn
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by kurtosis 18y ago
"When you're young, you feel like you should ignore it, because it seems so arbitrary." Of course different people will ignore this intuitive feeling for different reasons, but I suspect that people rarely do so because it feels arbitrary.
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by kurtosis 18y ago
As a counterpoint, I seems to me that the ML field is too heavy on theory. A lot of the theoretical papers are proposed with weak or no experimental tests. There are very few people doing thorough experimental work. What I have in mind is
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by kurtosis 18y ago
I at least try to follow the rule that you should never criticise people in front of others. I've met people who seem to be able to criticise others without humiliating them and there seem to be at least two principles (1) do it in private
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by kurtosis 18y ago
Okay maybe we mean different things - when I talk to people who complain that a boss or coworker is treating them like an asshole, when I ask for more details I find that by "asshole behavior" they just mean that they are being direct and e
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by kurtosis 18y ago
There are a lot of people who do great work who are complete assholes in person. They didn't get to be great at what they do by being polite or tolerant of crappy work. If they think that you are mediocre or are doing low-quality work they
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by kurtosis 18y ago
if interested in integer partitions this python should do the job def intpart(n): if n == 0: yield [] for k in range(1,n+1): for p in intpart(n-k): yield [k] + p i believe that this isn't truly
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by kurtosis 18y ago
I recall somewhere seeing very similar types of very general questions on an exam to enter the chinese civil service.
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by kurtosis 18y ago
Total pricktease. This paper was published in 2005. It is indeed an interesting paper, but this blog post is lame. This is not news. Although, you could have guessed from the overhyped language.
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by kurtosis 18y ago
my advisor is charged a significant ~50% overhead on my stipend and a significant percentage overhead on all equipment (e.g. 100k laser systems). This is paid out of NSF grants and it is supposed to cover costs of building maintenance and u
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First U.S. Face Transplant Described(nytimes.com)
1 points by kurtosis 18y ago|0 comments
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by kurtosis 18y ago
One explanation for extremely large pay packages is that they are the result of a bidding war. If programmers don't get the oversized pay they feel they deserve it's because they haven't manipulated the job market properly or they don't re
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by kurtosis 18y ago
this is interesting - couldn't a bayesian get many of the same guarantees by computing the posterior distribution and choosing a range that contains X% of the mass?
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by kurtosis 18y ago
"Like Robert Oppenheimer and his team of nuclear physicists in the 1940s, Brickell and his JPMorgan colleagues didn't realize they were creating a monster." Comparing a JPM MD to oppy? huh? This is why I don't read newsweek. argh!
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by kurtosis 18y ago
How can I apply for a job working on this project?
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by kurtosis 18y ago
I never understood what the reason was for the recent spike in food prices. Does anyone here know of a good study that explains this?

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