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by maurits 15y ago
I am missing the entire 90s in this story. And epic the 1984 commercial might have been, but I don't see how they successfully leveraged it to split the camps, if any at that time in personal computing history.
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by maurits 15y ago
A Matlab implementation and tutorial to give you an idea can be found here: http://labrosa.ee.columbia.edu/~dpwe/resources/matlab/finger...
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Visualisation of Machine Learning Algorithms(mldemos.epfl.ch)
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by maurits 16y ago
I have nothing but praise for the MIT/SIT for putting their courses online. For an introduction to python and cs, however, I like "Practical Programming: An Introduction to Computer Science Using Python" http://pragprog.com/titles/gwpy/pra
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by maurits 16y ago
For a bit more detail: The New Yorker http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/12/13/101213fa_fact_... The actual referenced article (PDF) http://www.edwardtufte.com/files/Study1.pdf
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by maurits 16y ago
That would be the cosine metric then. I don't think it is that simple. The position (or dimension if you will) of a keyword in the data-vector is all important. So equal vectors in terms of the symbolic presence of a number of keywords will
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by maurits 16y ago
As a phd in Switzerland, one can only dream about a 55 square meter apartment. O well, doing research is good for the soul, isn't it?....
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by maurits 16y ago
it's obvious Time magazine has been pressured to choose someone less controversial I feel that a far more gloomy and more likely scenario is that companies like Time, Mastercard, etc etc have not been pressured significantly or at all by
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by maurits 16y ago
That might be the case in general, but in this case they are just copying from the 'the wire' who themselves are copying from the official press statement. Which, I might add, is quite void of any real information such as the exact level of
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by maurits 16y ago
In order of appearance - Logo/hypercard. My highschool doens't even own a pc at this point as I command the turtle around - True Basic. Fast forward to the line-number free future. Also the birth of my first project, an implementation of EL
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by maurits 16y ago
Simple :-) As an alpine climber who spends at least 6 weeks a year being cold, wet and hungry, the coding I do the rest of the year, in a nice climate controlled room with ample food and coffee close by, is simply a holiday. I feel climbing
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by maurits 16y ago
So, I have been to this airport traveling as a press photographer, which means you have an interesting itinerary and lots of interesting bits of kit in your luggage.I can add a little human aspect to this article. Last time the guy in fron
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by maurits 16y ago
Well, I only got it all the work ( on OS X ) like an hour or two ago, and am currently happily learning&exploring. I wanted to venture beyond Matlab because for what I am currently doing the environment and language is to limited, yet I
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by maurits 16y ago
Thanks for the reply, I am checking out the academic enthought lib. now
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by maurits 16y ago
I feel this article is somewhat unbalanced in its single minded rejoice for a certain tool/environment. So in the same spirit here come a couple of reasons not to switch from Matlab to Python, all stemming from my experience when I decided
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by maurits 16y ago
This reminds me a bit of high frequency trading. He is fast, thrives on market inefficiencies and is somewhat frowned upon.
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by maurits 16y ago
Okay, so I am not a lawyer, but I don't get it. One of the most know audio matching systems is from Kalker and Haitsma, published 2002. http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.103...
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by maurits 16y ago
A fixy is the shortest route to blown out knees. Especially if they were bad to start with.