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by mej10 14y ago
Makes sense. Thanks!
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by mej10 14y ago
Awesome, thanks for the info. I am checking out some of the benchmarks now. Why do you think it is that simple models often win? Is it due to the experts no participating or is there a lot more low-hanging fruit than I previously thought? O
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by mej10 14y ago
I am really interesting in ML, but have only recently been diving into it. I have watched all of the videos for Andrew Ng's Coursera course (and most of the programming exercises), but just looking over some of the Kaggle contests I think I
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by mej10 14y ago
There are limits. You cited some very obvious ones. I have no idea why you think that you are among the "catastrophically limited" as I will call them. You presumably can program a computer based on your comment history. This puts you firml
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by mej10 14y ago
In my experience, people primarily bring up "factual" information when trying to argue some point. If you tell them that their facts are wrong then their only choice is to disregard that knowledge, else they could be wrong. "Please, continu
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by mej10 14y ago
I actually just read this book due to you, aaronsw. Your post on LessWrong where you mentioned it caused me to go out and read it. I am now aware that ~90% of the people I associate with are very much in the "fixed mindset". It is kind of s
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by mej10 14y ago
I like how you went from comparing passable skills in programming, to being international level experts in other areas. I know plenty of people that are both programmers and in orchestras, that race cars, and fly planes, paint beautifully,
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by mej10 14y ago
Isn't it going to be open sourced at some point? Why not just let people get at your dev branches or at least provide builds for them Also, keep up the awesome work!
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by mej10 14y ago
So happy to see Kippt going in this direction! I have been using Evernote for storing/searching gists of interest. It looks like Kippt is more seriously looking at integration with other services, which has the potential to be awesome. Keep
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by mej10 14y ago
I have been dreaming of something like this for years. So glad that it is being worked on.
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by mej10 14y ago
Reminds me of this anecdote from Richard Hamming's "You and Your Research": Now for the matter of drive. You observe that most great scientists have tremendous drive. I worked for ten years with John Tukey at Bell Labs. He had tremendous dr
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by mej10 14y ago
Yes! This and some other basic optimization problems were such a great taste of what is possible with linear algebra.
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by mej10 14y ago
Making these arbitrary categorizations into "liberal" and "conservative" for things where we have all of the data is pretty much useless. http://lesswrong.com/lw/no/how_an_algorithm_feels_from_insid...
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by mej10 14y ago
Yeah, that is definitely a pain point with it. I have a list of things I would like to change, but it is pretty low on my list. Also the code isn't exactly how I would've built the app, so it is a little discouraging to work on in my free t
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by mej10 14y ago
Sounds like org-mode, except it is free and open source with tons of great add-ons. MobileOrg for iOS which is also open source.
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by mej10 14y ago
I may have sounded a bit negative, but I don't think it was a "bad" move, especially seeing as how I am personally excited about Grid even without it currently having this feature. It just shouldn't come as a surprise when a lot of people q
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by mej10 14y ago
It isn't even that hard to get a basic implementation of such functionality. Not sure why this is missing. Just make a directed graph out of cell references. Get the strongly connected components. All of the components with more than one ve
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by mej10 14y ago
Have you looked at Clojure?
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by mej10 14y ago
One prominent non-cat/comic meme isn't quite on the influence level of what Swizec was trying to make 4chan out to be. My point is that he is vastly overstating its influence. The millions of 4chan users have produced _maybe_ as much influe
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by mej10 14y ago
[citation needed] on 4chan producing memes that are more than comics and cat pictures. Anonymous, sure. 1% movement? Ehh I need some proof. "And come on, it's where all the memes are born." It is not where all of the memes are born, much le
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by mej10 14y ago
I just want to second this. Especially with Leiningen, swank-clojure and clojure-mode, getting everything set up with emacs was extremely easy. It was exactly how it should be. Leiningen has "just-worked" for me from day one. Everything I h
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by mej10 14y ago
Sort of as others said, the nice thing about switching to zsh is that you get a lot of benefit _just_ by switching, and it is very similar in basic functioning to bash. It isn't like vim or emacs where you can't do basic tasks until you lea
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by mej10 14y ago
Thats part of the nice thing about the code I sent you - no strictness hints.
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by mej10 14y ago
I accused you of that, because it seemed like you knew what you were doing with the other implementations, and then just suddenly forgot data structure performance when you got to Haskell. It was an asshole move, and I am sorry. They aren't
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by mej10 14y ago
My point is, I am not Haskell expert, but I know that linked lists aren't an efficient data structure for what we're doing. You didn't use lists in your other implementations, so it was just weird that you did for Haskell (originally, and t
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by mej10 14y ago
I replaced the array/"surrounding" list with an unboxed vector, and removed the strictness annotations and it runs at ~0.85 on my machine, while the C code runs at around ~0.5. The code is so incredibly close to your SML code (where you als
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by mej10 14y ago
I have no idea what is heavily optimized about that Haskell code. I am no Haskell expert, but all you did was use an unboxed array. I added one strictness annotation to the "v" parameter on your iter function and it reduced the time from 10
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by mej10 14y ago
I hope they will weaken this restriction, and will just not have non-sandboxed apps show up without searching for them, or without switching some "power user" option on. Some types of applications simply cannot exist with these types of res
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by mej10 14y ago
Do you have any data on how well non-App store applications are doing? Specifically I am looking at the power-user/developer market.
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by mej10 14y ago
There is a ton of documentation and example applications on Apple's developer website. Most major parts of the API have example applications. https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/navigation/ If you already know how to program then this

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