mirajshah

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by mirajshah 9y ago
1. Looking at this at a national level, you do not know whether the people earning all the wealth are also the people who have the same belief (although the _probability_ is higher). 2. There are large numbers of important countries exclude
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by mirajshah 9y ago
IBM launched their datacenter last year http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/49305.wss
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by mirajshah 10y ago
Interestingly, this method is the primary example on the Dart homepage: https://www.dartlang.org/ .
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Can Online Delivery Increase Access to Education? (Results from Georgia Tech)(nber.org)
2 points by mirajshah 10y ago|0 comments
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by mirajshah 10y ago
Brilliant writing, thanks for the link!
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by mirajshah 11y ago
I wonder if the rendering complexity is low enough to work in games? (~real time) Even with the prior knowledge of well-known celebrity expressions, these faces do seem much more expressive than those of current video game characters who ha
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by mirajshah 11y ago
The amount of armchair condescension on HN is appalling. According to the reddit AMA, NASA does do some amount of sterilization before going to Mars, it is enough to justify the exploratory mission. More sterilization would probably take mo
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Political Extremism Is Supported by an Illusion of Understanding (2013) [pdf](scholar.harvard.edu)
74 points by mirajshah 12y ago|45 comments
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by mirajshah 12y ago
Interestingly enough, this is a topic that has been studied in behavioral economics, where the described strategy is known as "satisficing" (as opposed to "maximizing"). The model assumes that when humans try to make cho
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by mirajshah 12y ago
Great explanation, quite cheeky as well :)
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by mirajshah 13y ago
Check this out: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~vazirani/algorithms/chap10.pdf . Vazirani and Dasgupta's Algorithms textbook is amazingly elegant and concise; since Vazirani is an expert in quantum computing, he i
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by mirajshah 13y ago
I agree. For those familiar with soccer in Europe, take a look at the system they have in place there. Athletes on a path to professional sports join private sports clubs early on and (1) mature athletically much faster and (2) quickly have
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by mirajshah 13y ago
One of the points raised in the article is to understand why you can't immediately find a good competitor. 20-30 hours of search helps you cover your bases by finding the languishing or dead competitors; IMO learning what they have d
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by mirajshah 13y ago
What about asking these people: http://www.mongodb.org/about/production-deployments/ if it's a joke in production?