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by kurtosis 18y ago
I think he took the quote of a netflix guy saying that they can make "some" movies perform like they were doing $1M at the box office to mean that they can make all 70,000 movies earn $100,000 in rentals. I find this hard to believe. This
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by kurtosis 18y ago
Let me guess (or pray) - they've fixed the STL compiler error message headache - if true I know many ppl who would line up to pay for such a product. Even with the intel compiler and STLport the error messages are the biggest PITA.
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by kurtosis 18y ago
I'm surprised to see the turks up there. Anyone here from Turkey care to offer an explanation?
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by kurtosis 18y ago
I've always thought of Noam Chomsky's "language acquisition device" as a kind of prior on the space of languages that's hardwired into the brain. The process of learning a language consists of fitting the parameters of this model to the se
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by kurtosis 18y ago
I respectfully disagree: Bayesian methods do not necessarily make fewer assumptions. They just allow you to make your assumptions explicit and to evaluate how sensitive your conclusions were to those assumptions. Conventional statistical m
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by kurtosis 18y ago
Has anyone combined the ideas behind the theremin with the touch screen? - This way you wouldn't have to ever touch the screen and there would be an extra degree of freedom in the distance from the screen.
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by kurtosis 18y ago
Here's a contrary view: There is a very famous tradition in biology of deriving the form and function of organisms by a mathematical optimization (see D'arcy Thompson). It shouldn't be surprising that the nervous system would converge on B
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by kurtosis 18y ago
The all time classic at the level your looking for is William Feller's two volume set "Introduction to probability theory and its applications"- if you can find a copy. A good university library should have a copy. On wikipedia, it claims t
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by kurtosis 18y ago
This article is very interesting, thank you for posting it. I haven't read it yet, but it seems possible that this review suffers from a kind of selection bias, in that the only SPR's which have appeared in the literature are those which we
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by kurtosis 18y ago
It's possible to think of the process that airline safety regulators have gone through where they have observed crashes and guessed about the cause and then suggested fixes as a type of learning problem. For goog's case it would be fun to t
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by kurtosis 18y ago
I used to do web-apps for a hosting company to earn money to help pay for school. (I think earning a degree was worth every cent BTW) None of the coders there had a degree and they were all very good at making everything work. This was a te
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by kurtosis 18y ago
A great strategy that I've learned a lot from is to use a database like citeseer or ISI to find the author's of the most cited papers for a topic and then find their lectures on videolectures.net Other's already mentioned Jordan, Bishop and
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by kurtosis 18y ago
Definately one of my all time favorites. Mackay's book also contains a brilliant solution to the weighing problem due to Conway, where you label the 12 spheres and the sequence of weighings is always the same (meaning that the spheres you c
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by kurtosis 18y ago
I've found enthought's Traits to be very helpful. It's a MVC framework that can save you from sinking lots of time into writing tedious boilerplate. For anything it doesn't handle automatically, you can write using wxPython. It's a little
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Ask YC: Getting started with smartphone hacking
1 points by kurtosis 18y ago|1 comments
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by kurtosis 19y ago
Graphene is an amazing material but I think it suffers from the same problems as nanotube electronics - it's very hard to get the nanotubes to be positioned where you want them and connected in the topology that you wish. Geim's group has
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by kurtosis 19y ago
I had to work really late last night because I spent the whole afternoon watching videos from this page! I loved the old videos of sidney coleman from the 70's lecturing about physics. Thank you so much for this resource.
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by kurtosis 19y ago
The pyramid representation is possibly misleading - at first glance I took it to mean that DH6 arguments stand on a foundation of ad hominem and name calling :)
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by kurtosis 19y ago
Someone else mentioned this but I want to give another boost for the lab manual for the horowitz and hill's art of electronics - it's a little dated but still a great resource. For example I remember doing the project where you build a sim
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by kurtosis 19y ago
haven't read the paper but it reminds me of the work that's been done on single-pixel cameras and compressed sensing
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by kurtosis 19y ago
These problems are a lot of fun and in most cases there are interesting general lessons in their solutions, but the way the interview system seems to work is that every year there's a new book or sheet of puzzles that everyone memorizes and
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by kurtosis 19y ago
I just read an article about the guys who won the spock challenge http://www.spock.com/do/pages/pr_spock_challenge_winner
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by kurtosis 19y ago
how about an online "hot-or-not" type of game for docs where you are given the same diagnostic information that would be given to a cardiologist and you can see if you can beat the decision tree? I think someone made something like this not
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by kurtosis 19y ago
many thanks, these are good ideas and your examples are awesome
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Ask YC: Real World Applications of Machine Learning?
17 points by kurtosis 19y ago|15 comments
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by kurtosis 19y ago
Do you have a link to a study showing that IQ isn't normally distributed?
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Jump Green: A number puzzle game for two players(dao.mit.edu)
1 points by kurtosis 19y ago|0 comments
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by kurtosis 19y ago
Does anyone have a link to more detailed information about the "signal" that was detected? I'm very ignorant of SETI and radio astronomy - what does it mean to "decode" such a signal? What is the evidence that this signal is produced by a
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by kurtosis 19y ago
I agree wholeheartedly with the "what's wrong with the pub" sentiment. I think that this critique falls far short of what doctorow had to say on the topic. My eyes quickly glazed over when the action cut to theil playing the role of neocon
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by kurtosis 19y ago
Nice - the proof that almost all Brownian motion paths have this property is much uglier

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