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by lkozma 18y ago
I agree, but I wanted to try out just one idea, it can still be combined with all the existing stuff.
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Reverse autocomplete: a small tweak on the familiar feature(lkozma.net)
46 points by lkozma 18y ago|9 comments
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by lkozma 18y ago
Simple answer 2: many people don't know or care what's a browser. For them using the internet is clicking the blue e icon that is there by default.
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by lkozma 18y ago
talk of anecdotal evidence
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by lkozma 18y ago
but he didn't say that all spirits that have found violent opposition were great.
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Business idea: internet radio search engine(lkozma.net)
1 points by lkozma 18y ago|0 comments
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by lkozma 18y ago
A more modest real-time visualization I made some time ago: http://www.lkozma.net/wpv
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Three wikipedia visualization ideas(lkozma.net)
2 points by lkozma 18y ago|0 comments
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by lkozma 19y ago
I guess it's hard to sell a new brand of chocolate these days, so one has to come up with some innovative marketing, like making up some story about "using satellites to help cocoa farmers" and similar. Sorry for being cynical but I call bu
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by lkozma 19y ago
As someone explained earlier on News.yc (can't find the link), Paul Erdos (and possibly other mathematicians) got it "wrong" because they weren't told the correct problem. If you don't mention that: (1) the game host knows where the car is
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by lkozma 19y ago
Summary: one shouldn't assume uniform prior distributions in psychological experiments. Bayes-rule is your friend.
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by lkozma 19y ago
A wearable camera for blind people, that is hooked up to a computer that tells aloud what's there to be seen in the scene (for example reading street signs). Some more ideas: http://www.lkozma.net/ideas
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by lkozma 19y ago
What about the WTFPL license? "Do What The Fuck You Want To Public License" It's actually not a joke: http://sam.zoy.org/wtfpl/
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by lkozma 19y ago
Probably it would be helpful just to limit every user not to say anything twice.
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by lkozma 19y ago
I guess the purpose of marketing is to set your message apart from the rest, when every startup uses the same "tools", it's not really marketing anymore, is it?
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by lkozma 19y ago
One of the best writings from Yegge and it makes perfect sense. One of the reasons I always admired SQLite for example is that it has a self-imposed limit on size and thus complexity, and the author keeps adding new features, but still mana
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by lkozma 19y ago
Ignoring existing work in AI is as if you would try building a flying machine, ignoring existing knowledge in aerodynamics. You'd be right back where Leonardo was. People are doing that, nevertheless, but if you do that in AI, chances are y
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by lkozma 19y ago
I was a bit disappointed that he didn't mention Kohonen's self-organizing maps, another interesting unsupervised method, or independent component analysis, which was also used successfully for image feature extraction. Som was also used for
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by lkozma 19y ago
Maybe he lives in Tokyo.
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Just another random idea: blogging with visited links(lkozma.net)
1 points by lkozma 19y ago|0 comments
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Public Transport in Helsinki(transport.wspgroup.fi)
2 points by lkozma 19y ago|0 comments
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by lkozma 19y ago
It seems to have the same drawback like all similar sites I've seen, s.a. Froogle, etc. I search for Dell Inspiron Laptop and the first pages only contain batteries and accessories. I guess if you sort by price it will always happen like th
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Live visualization of who edits Wikipedia around the world(lkozma.net)
10 points by lkozma 19y ago|0 comments
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A wikipedia/google maps mashup I wrote today(lkozma.net)
2 points by lkozma 19y ago|0 comments
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Ask YC: Yet Another Voting Scheme Idea
4 points by lkozma 19y ago|8 comments
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by lkozma 19y ago
Even more funnily, it probably conveys as much meaning as an hour long talk on the phone.
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by lkozma 19y ago
one relevant story of Edison and Tesla, from Wikipedia: "During his employment, Edison offered Tesla $50,000 (equivalent to about $1 million in 2006, adjusted for inflation) if he redesigned Edison's inefficient motor and generators, an imp
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by lkozma 19y ago
Only if it generates enough current to run the fan ;)
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by lkozma 19y ago
Edward Tufte's forum: http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-new-answers?topic_...
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by lkozma 19y ago
Even there, the theory failed, because it couldn't anticipate "the Mule".

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