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by mbq 13y ago
Not mainstream, but there is something called Random Ferns (technically a mix of Naive Bayes and Random Forest) which is even faster than Random Forest because it optimizes nothing and has almost no conditional jumps both in training and pr
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by mbq 13y ago
Student versions of Mathematica are also pretty cheap; that's rather just a vendor lock-in attempt (;
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by mbq 13y ago
Nah, when gamma photon is absorbed it doesn't matter whether its energy will be used for fungal metabolism or converted to heat right away. And in case of gamma absorption rate mostly depends on mass density, so fungi will be likely as
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by mbq 13y ago
Actually it is a terrible CAPTCHA; no normal human will understand why the hell is he supposed to drag those noisy rectangles, while machine will easily find hidden image by scanning and counting entropy.
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by mbq 13y ago
Sure, I'm only trying to criticize the idea of learning language from error messages triggered by invalid (due to standards) input, as they directly take you to implementation details and other dirty stuff.
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by mbq 13y ago
Yeah, got me making the same error as I was complaining about. Thanks for the link though.
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by mbq 13y ago
To some extent, _start is ( https://blogs.oracle.com/ksplice/entry/hello_from_a_libc_fre... ), so you can make a working program that has no main(). And in general entry points are a quirky land heavily dependent on
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by mbq 13y ago
Actually the message quoted complains about the lack of _main not main, so the rest of this post is a huge overinterpretation. _main is IMO some windoizm connected to the use of WinMain for GUI apps.
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by mbq 13y ago
The same goes for stacked plots -- they seem OK but in practice humans cannot reliably compare height of things that does not stand on the same level.
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by mbq 13y ago
What does not necessary mean more capable in case of making AI systems.
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by mbq 13y ago
To begin with, it may not want to harvest more computational power. Even if, it may be initially too stupid to do this. Even if, the internet speed and small reliability of those nodes may make them unusable to this purpose.
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by mbq 13y ago
Er, you're assuming that this strong AI would be smarter than a human brain, what is not at all obvious.
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by mbq 13y ago
Springer's books cost so much that I'm sure even Springer doesn't expect to sell them directly. Their money comes from academic subscriptions that they will get regardless of how their readers get the content. This is why I t
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by mbq 13y ago
Agree; actually it even starts after the global freeze.
165.
by mbq 13y ago
Firefox OS's base, Gonk is pretty much the same as Android's foundation, so both can equally benefit from a fight with blob-drivers of mobile hardware.
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by mbq 13y ago
Sure, great decision! If nerds want math, they can type it with -xxx-border-radious hacks. Seriously, the only cross-browser way left to have nice looking equations without MathJAX is to make SVGs with dvisvgm, of course for the cost of int
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by mbq 13y ago
See: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1423081/json-left-out-inf... In short, this is because JS does not treat NaN and Infinity as numerical constants but as pre-defined, mutable variables; this way backward-com
168.
by mbq 13y ago
At least it doesn't copy the JSON's braindead idea to rule out NaNs and Infs...
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by mbq 13y ago
I live in Poland and I have the opposite; for me winter is a stimulant. I don't know whether this is some remnant genetic call to survive hard times or a fact that it casts a kind of sterile aura that helps me to flow, but I'm obj
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by mbq 13y ago
Trim is not needed if the disc directly gets delete commands, while wear leveling is actually a problem of spinning-optimized filesystems and can be solved easier if the external representation is a key-value store of immutable objects.
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by mbq 13y ago
Also SSDs implement an internal filesystem optimized for flash that emulates a block device to the outside. For this Kinetic Store, the controller would be quite likely even simpler.
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by mbq 13y ago
There is nothing less expressive about 1-based counting, it is only... different. Empty ranges are usually marked with 0 or empty index. Negative indices tend to mean "get everything except those" instead of "count them from
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by mbq 13y ago
As I understand, Google can go evil and use its patents to impose certain restrictions, like killing potential independent VP10 project or messing with webm's royalty-free status.
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by mbq 13y ago
It is perfectly sane idea for switching code with macros (though for(;0;) is better) and for making compiler do some tests without polluting the code.
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by mbq 13y ago
Situation: there are 0 free and libre state-of-art video codecs; Xiph is working on one supported by Red Hat and Mozilla. Mozilla buys Monty Montgomery from Red Hat. Soon: Situation: there are 0 free and libre state-of-art video codecs; Xip
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by mbq 13y ago
Boxplots from a list, matplot of a matrix, all the cool default plot methods for various complex objects like clusterings, trees, models... Maybe I'm alone in that, but I believe the power of R lies in its resilience and the fact that
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by mbq 13y ago
It is certainly a pollution of code -- a necessity to convert a good, efficient data structure which base graphics can plot into some specific form will always seem redundant from a programming point of view (and I was replying to a program
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by mbq 13y ago
It is actually a raw data from UAV mapping; the whole story: https://www.mapbox.com/blog/sensefly-drone-mapping-matterhor...
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by mbq 13y ago
Please don't blame R for the ggplot syntax -- it is bizarre on its own. Also ggplot requires very specific form of input, and thus many scripts must be heavily polluted with a nontrivial preprocessing routines.
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by mbq 13y ago
BTW, what is wrong with just hiding real activity with an artificial traffic made of random bits sent to random addresses? The only thing I can think of is that bulk senders may get uncovered, but this is actually good for fighting spam.

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