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Best Paper Awards in Computer Science since 1996(jeffhuang.com)
354 points by lazyjeff 8y ago|46 comments
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by lazyjeff 8y ago
I think the same arguments can be said about P2P during the file sharing era. File sharing was often used for sketchy purposes most of the time, like cryptocurrencies, and people argued the underlying technology (P2P) was the key breakthrou
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by lazyjeff 8y ago
Thanks! For this project, we had a lot of ideas how to improve the build that we learned while doing it. We'll try to make those changes. But more exciting for us, is we've used some of the techniques here to build an augmented re
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by lazyjeff 8y ago
Great question, we tested how people interpreted the motions on both, and the hardware version was a bit easier to understand (but nothing statistically significant). The paper has a figure with the comparison results.
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by lazyjeff 8y ago
Yes, please do.
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by lazyjeff 8y ago
Hi tobr, thanks for your thoughtful comment and for not writing a sarcastic reply. This platform is for remote usability testing [ https://www.usability.gov/how-to-and-tools/methods/remote-te... ], so all parties ar
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Show HN: DIY robot to physically replay the mobile motions of users(remotion.cs.brown.edu)
76 points by lazyjeff 8y ago|13 comments
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Taking a photo of something impairs your memory of it(digest.bps.org.uk)
2 points by lazyjeff 8y ago|1 comments
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Sharing Your Location and ETA in Google Maps Is Much Better Now(droid-life.com)
1 points by lazyjeff 8y ago|0 comments
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by lazyjeff 8y ago
I had the same experience as the grandparent, and averaged 70K a year. I had a lot of great opportunities during my Ph.D so I was really fortunate, but I felt that many students I met during internships were serial interns and got fellowshi
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by lazyjeff 8y ago
I agree with you, and I think it depends a lot on the department you are in. Too many people just apply for the top N schools for the field they want to go into. There's a huge difference in culture and feels of each school, and how th
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by lazyjeff 8y ago
Hi Max, interesting concept. I ran across Sleep Coach because we've had a sleep app called SleepCoacher for a while. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=edu.brown.slee... Your daily updates are actu
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by lazyjeff 8y ago
Light can impact sleep to a smaller or greater extent depending on the person. My research group studies this and has developed an app (Android-only for now) to let people test what affects their sleep the most, since sleep outcomes are so
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The Collapse of a $40M Nutrition Science Crusade(wired.com)
4 points by lazyjeff 8y ago|0 comments
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by lazyjeff 9y ago
Providence, RI
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Show HN: Easypz.js automatically makes visualizations interactive via pan and zoom(easypz.io)
36 points by lazyjeff 9y ago|7 comments
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by lazyjeff 9y ago
I didn't use the word "stealing", but they take a cut from the grant money allocated to the PI. Maybe here is another perspective. NSF "Smalls" in my program are 500K, and Army "YIPs" are 360K. If I get a
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by lazyjeff 9y ago
It's kind of a mix. Many agencies and calls say that the maximum amount you can budget is say, $500K over 3 years including indirect costs. So you'll say the project costs $350K and allocate $150K to indirects. If indirects were l
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by lazyjeff 9y ago
I wrote the "hacking the hello sense" article someone below mentioned, http://jeffhuang.com/extracting_my_data_from_the_hello_sense... I think it wouldn't be too difficult to diassemble/modify the Hello
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by lazyjeff 9y ago
Likewise, this article seems to have no basis in reality. Besides Princeton and Stanford, it's also the most popular major at Brown University, a school typically known for its humanities and social sciences. Everywhere I go, computer
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by lazyjeff 9y ago
You're right, I've fuzzed those out but anyone can still pull it out of the app. Seems like a bad idea to have those hardcoded client-side, so I'm not sure why Google requires developers to do this. Edit: actually I think the
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Extracting my data from the Hello Sense sleep tracker(jeffhuang.com)
55 points by lazyjeff 9y ago|19 comments
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Comparing 10 different sleep trackers simultaneously across 9 nights(sleep.cs.brown.edu)
2 points by lazyjeff 9y ago|0 comments
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by lazyjeff 10y ago
My research group has been trying to address this problem by using user interactions with a website to create this "ground truth". One assumption is that you have to look where you click. But there are more subtle user interaction
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by lazyjeff 10y ago
Exactly. Like which research areas have universities been hiring for recently, is the male/female ratio of hiring improving for some universities, etc.
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by lazyjeff 10y ago
We use a java grid library for the table. The part we've built is logging and computing interests based on user interactions, and then prompting the best matching items for visitors to fix. We'll be open sourcing it when we publis
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by lazyjeff 10y ago
Sorry, was out all day and so was the graduate student working on this. It's back up and might be more scalable now... The dataset could be interesting for anyone who wants to analyze it for things like hiring trends, or for someone wh
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Show HN: Crowdsourcing academic profiles for 3,600 computer science professors(drafty.cs.brown.edu)
46 points by lazyjeff 10y ago|13 comments
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by lazyjeff 10y ago
Hi, one of the authors here. It was probably not very clear on our part, but it's meant to train the eye tracking model as naturally you use the website. So it takes advantage of your interactions over time, like if you're using G
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by lazyjeff 11y ago
Seems like an extension of work by Judea Pearl (the graphical models in the blog's first figure is a dead giveaway), which requires knowing certain assumptions about the data. Not sure I'd call it "revolutionary" as ther

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