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by lkozma 17y ago
Imagine someone interested in data mining and such but not in working at Google, for reasons that are outlined in PGs essays (inability to get things one, large corporation, conformism, politics, etc.). YC were even running these ads in the
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by lkozma 17y ago
I find these lists of "RFSs" and the earlier list of ideas rather disappointing... I don't think that formulating a problem in such general terms is really useful and I don't think it works at all to create such a "framework" for an idea wh
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by lkozma 17y ago
I made something like this a few years ago, although much simpler and with public links. Batch opening of links sounds like a good idea. http://www.lkozma.net/links
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A crazy idea to overcome fear of heights(lkozma.net)
5 points by lkozma 17y ago|3 comments
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by lkozma 17y ago
Udvarhely/Odorhei
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by lkozma 17y ago
About 45 kms from there (at the moment) :)
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Review my app coded in the past two days: BookBox
32 points by lkozma 17y ago|4 comments
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by lkozma 17y ago
Thanks for the suggestions. I am planning to add a feature of allowing users to add their own referrer ID or to disable the redirects to amazon altogether, I'm thinking how to present that not to confuse those who don't know or care about r
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Review my app coded in the past two days: BookBox
3 points by lkozma 17y ago|2 comments
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by lkozma 17y ago
You could read Gilbert Strang's Linear Algebra books, there are also video lectures available... Gelman's Bayesian Data Analysis is a good statistical intro with a Bayesian bend, maybe Freedman's Statistical models, read some general machin
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by lkozma 17y ago
You must be referring to the MIR series of textbooks. Demidovich's Calculus was another classic.
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by lkozma 17y ago
Yes, but I think this is what is called quadratic convergence if the exponent is 2, as it is here. See for ex. http://sepwww.stanford.edu/public/docs/sep97/paul1/paper_htm...
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by lkozma 17y ago
I believe after the first formula in the text: In the vicinity of the correct root, the method converges exponentially, meaning that it gives twice as many digits of accuracy at each step should instead be converges quadratically
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by lkozma 18y ago
Logo and Turtle-graphics might still be the best way to get started: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logo_(programming_language) The advantage is that the kid can see immediate visual effect of the code, it is easy to understand and it can i
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by lkozma 18y ago
Same with me, learned this in 8th grade (although I forgot most of the details since). 1996, Romania.
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by lkozma 18y ago
Ok, this makes sense. However, one also needs to factor in the pollution/ energy-usage in manufacturing a new car to the total product lifetime cost.
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by lkozma 18y ago
Could you elaborate on how moving from (motor)bikes into cars would improve quality of life (if air quality is a component of that) ? Don't cars emit more exhaust gas?
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by lkozma 18y ago
Crawling should respect the excluded pages in robots.txt and rel="nofollow" directives.
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Chimpanzee short-term memory better than human (annoying commentary but still interesting)(youtube.com)
1 points by lkozma 18y ago|0 comments
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by lkozma 18y ago
I don't know about buzz-worthy, but here are a few buzzword-y ones : semantic web, ubiquitous computing, context-awareness, study of social networks, feel free to add more...
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by lkozma 18y ago
or as Keynes said, "on the long term we're all dead"
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by lkozma 18y ago
While it might be true that people just want stuff for free, I guess it is more because of the close-to-zero marginal costs. Knowing that it costs almost nothing to make a new copy of a software or music album it is easier to rationalize an
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by lkozma 18y ago
Usually these type of inverse problems are severely ill-defined. There can be many 3D configurations that give the 2D images, and you need to use some knowledge of the world (or some regularization) to select which one is the most plausible
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by lkozma 18y ago
The most efficient way invented so far: 1) claim to be searching laptop for illegal data 2) watch the face of owner for suspicious reactions
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by lkozma 18y ago
From the title, for a moment I thought the article was about some new result in machine learning that would make Vapnik-Chervonenkis theory obsolete... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vapnik-Chervonenkis_theory
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by lkozma 18y ago
Frequentist statistics interprets probabilities as frequency of a certain outcome among a large number of trials. (Actually the limit as the number of trials tend to infinity). A Bayesian interpretation of probability is "degree of belief".
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by lkozma 18y ago
It's called salmiak (salmiakki in Finland).
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Paul Krugman: Incidents from my Career(princeton.edu)
10 points by lkozma 18y ago|0 comments
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by lkozma 18y ago
But these have to be embedded by the webmasters, why doesn't someone make a rich text editor plugin for firefox, which would transform a regular textbox on any website to a decent editor (emacs, vim, etc.)
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by lkozma 18y ago
The main difference is the four days in between that has allowed insiders to buy up quality stock that was free-falling and that will presumably recover now.

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