mav3r1ck

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by mav3r1ck 9y ago
This sounds like an awesome story. Please do share if you already haven't somewhere!
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by mav3r1ck 13y ago
I know javajosh would agree, but seriously, is no one else extremely disturbed by the clear implications of this 'plot'? So basically, a group of corporations can't get people to behave the way they want them to. So their ide
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by mav3r1ck 13y ago
No popups, it definitely helps to just use Chrome's builtin javascript white-list.
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by mav3r1ck 13y ago
To this day I still don't remember the exact number of feet in a mile. I know between 4-5 thousand, but the exact number is just absurd.
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by mav3r1ck 14y ago
I agree with you in that I value savings more than debt (hate the current savings rates) and that the Fed does nothing to help the poor (but that's not their job or incentive to do so and I never thought of it that way ever). The Fed had t
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by mav3r1ck 14y ago
"the printed dollars are deposited in the accounts of large banks, enriching the very richest and making everyone else worse off." I absolutely agree with you on this one though, but that also shows why the current printing of money isn't m
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by mav3r1ck 14y ago
The droughts are not one off, they are occurring with more regularity due to global warming And the 2007-2008 world food prices were cause by this, not related to inflation at all: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007%E2%80%932008_world_food_
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by mav3r1ck 14y ago
I think with both the gas prices and food charts (thank @cdtwigg for pointing out longer-term historical food prices) I'm sorry to say but this is an extreme abuse of statistics. If you extend the chart you linked to by exactly one more ye
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by mav3r1ck 14y ago
Um, your link to gas prices show them going down. I don't consider that as "energy prices going through the roof", quite the opposite actually. By the way, a barrel of oil right now is in the same exact price range it was 5 years ago (go t
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by mav3r1ck 14y ago
I think Krugman hit the nail on the head with some comparisons here, such as of being a bit-bug is no different than being a gold-bug and how money cannot stand outside the system. That's exactly what the value of money is-- it's other peo
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by mav3r1ck 14y ago
Not quite sure what this article is talking about: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_file_systems#File_syst... I personally believe log-based file systems are a perfect match due to never saving the same file repeatedly to the same lo
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by mav3r1ck 14y ago
I'm surprised no one commented on the cost: 14,400! Assuming they don't do job placement (didn't see anything about that) then this is a total rip off and is just some people trying to cash in on the data science fad. Besides, they just lis
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by mav3r1ck 14y ago
I really don't think Lincoln said that (assuming he did, Lincoln certainly didn't try to apply that to the question of slavery, so under what context did he say it?). My sense of history smell is calling shenanigans and a quick search show
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by mav3r1ck 14y ago
Same problem as with airlines-- a toilet would probably remove 4-6 paying passenger seats, which means less money. Toilets don't generate revenue whereas seats keep paying for themselves many times over.
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by mav3r1ck 14y ago
Actually, the different between fuzzy logic and probability is more than just notational. There is a nice table at the end of Section 8.2 (in the 3rd edition) of Russell and Norvig's Artificial Intelligence book talking about the epistemol
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by mav3r1ck 14y ago
He was also smart enough to have hundreds of PDF documents on his work computer proving the crime at hand.
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by mav3r1ck 14y ago
I think The Register might have had a valid scoop here because it's not like everyone reads Verizon case studies to get their news and it's similar to how the latest medical studies make the news rounds. However, this is an absolutely horri
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by mav3r1ck 14y ago
@edw518, Awesome! Thank you for sharing what you're doing here with the data. I was thinking of playing with this dataset too and since I'm new to this field (data), look forward to learning from you if you post more info in the future! Tha
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NIPS 2012 Trends(machinedlearnings.com)
2 points by mav3r1ck 14y ago|0 comments
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by mav3r1ck 14y ago
This should come as no surprise to those that are familiar with MSR (Microsoft Research). I've had the fortune of visiting the place a few times and it is amazing, especially the people they get to come in for research (even the interns ar
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by mav3r1ck 14y ago
The whole point of Monty Python's "Dark Night" sketch was because Cleese wanted to show the ridiculousness of the statement of "always persevere". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Knight_(Monty_Python) I agree with your statements and a
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Ask HN: Unusual Recruiting Practice?
1 points by mav3r1ck 14y ago|0 comments