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by mayank 16y ago
> Offer multiple skill levels. I think there might be a market for GRE-level math questions. If your site loads quickly and is generally snappy, test takers could stop by for 5 minute lunch sessions.
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by mayank 16y ago
Wow, very nice intro to Processing, and a nice demonstration that human-generated random numbers aren't very uniform. I absolutely love the C-like syntax. Anyone have any tips on integration with R?
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by mayank 16y ago
Certainly, but I would say that there are very few Internet startups that cater to a single (or even a few) geographical locations. Your numbers currently indicate quality of service for customers in the same hosting block as Amazon EC2.
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by mayank 16y ago
Unfortunately, I think the parent commenter is right -- your numbers are (currently) meaningless. Statistically, your sample size for estimating response time is 1 for each of those sites. You need at least a dozen or so monitor sites, pr
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by mayank 16y ago
Nice rant.
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by mayank 16y ago
Check out particle filters if you want crazy mathematicians. Fun stuff.
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by mayank 16y ago
Understandable, but for future reference to anyone who might be interested, telling strangers to "use their brains" is generally not appreciated in many cultures, since it implies that they weren't.
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by mayank 16y ago
Ah, point taken.
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by mayank 16y ago
Launching a spaceship almost certainly uses Bayesian methods for tracking (e.g., Kalman or particle filters for position tracking), but I seriously doubt that building a supercomputer requires a dedicated use of Bayesian statistics. On a
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by mayank 16y ago
If they try to ban Chinese citizens from international conferences and journals in anything related to Bayesian methods, I can tell you firsthand that a lot of math/CS/ML/AI conferences will shrivel up quite a bit. They won't die, but it'll
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by mayank 16y ago
I would seriously doubt this is the reason. If you want to learn applied Bayesian stats, you go to a machine learning or game theory conference or read research papers. There are plenty of Chinese citizens doing both, including low-level un
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by mayank 16y ago
Um...I guess "decent" is subjective :)
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by mayank 16y ago
In my experience, the PhD does makes you smarter in a sort of trial by fire. I haven't met a single (math/CS) PhD student who wasn't intimidated by the magnitude of their research field when they started, or seriously intimidated by the mat
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by mayank 16y ago
From the article: > If you are able to write an unhosted web app, then you will be one of the first people in the world to have done that. Doesn't really inspire much faith in the idea. Also, I'm a little tired of seeing this refrain: &
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by mayank 16y ago
...unless of course you're running a BDSM site.
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by mayank 16y ago
I would argue that the consolidation of (fiscal) power into a few large centralized institutions can be a natural outcome of capitalism, since an increase in the size of an institution (either through growth or acquisition) can offer more p
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by mayank 16y ago
Hi everyone, thanks for the great feedback. As the author of the program, I have taken down Serendipity out of courtesy to Kayak.com after receiving an email (very nice, I might add) about the costs incurred by continuously running searches
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Long distance relationship? Perl can help.(code.google.com)
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by mayank 16y ago
> But instructing your visitors in some way to click on your ads does cross the line. If you think that crosses the line, then you just gave anyone with access to a small botnet (or who knows how to cleverly use Tor) an easy, cheap way
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by mayank 16y ago
The problem is also that so much discourse these days is driven by buzzwords, with little thought given to what they actually mean in context. For example, the knee-jerk Republican reaction to the word "regulation" is negative. Pair that wi
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by mayank 16y ago
I've seen some valiant attempts at procrastination, but boy--this really takes the cake. Cross-examining engineering dialogue diagnosing fictional technology? Really?
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by mayank 16y ago
This is great, but as another comment below notes, beware the legal troubles that are headed your way. A number of wonderful guitar tab sites (starting with OLGA back in the day) have been taken down. In fact, it seems that OLGA is still do
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by mayank 16y ago
> Wouldn't you like to see the results, just to see them? Perhaps as indicators of the business environment. For example, perhaps your model would indicate that successful startups from the last few years would include the word "social"
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by mayank 16y ago
> In the future we might try doing some text classification to predict which applications will be good. In theory, that sounds a bit dangerous. If there was a good model for predicting "success" from application text, then (a) the appl
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by mayank 16y ago
Wouldn't a better calculation involve (2^64 + 1) bytes of storage, or even 2^65, instead of going for the upper bound at (2^128)? In other words, what's the minimum energy requirement for 64 bits to be insufficient? A neat calculation for
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by mayank 16y ago
That works perfectly fine with old boxed software too. And by jove, have I kicked a lot of software.
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by mayank 16y ago
I'm curious -- what is your faith in them based on? I feel sorry for the amount of expectations they were shouldering, but are you being supportive because you truly believe in their (unproven) technical abilities, because you hate Facebook
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by mayank 16y ago
Because the problem is trivially solvable if the companies in question bump all traffic to SSL, which they hopefully will do en masse now.
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by mayank 16y ago
All very nice suggestions below, but I found suffix trees missing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suffix_tree And the reasons why it blows my mind: (1) Knuth called it "Algorithm of the year 1973" (possibly because it beat an intuitive lowe
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by mayank 16y ago
From TFA: > that's why profs shy away from foreign students: they can't contribute to discussions. In a field like computer science, or indeed any engineering, I haven't known a single professor to "shy away" from foreign students. To p

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