mitko

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by mitko 16y ago
Advice, drop the 1 and 3: just [2,4] - its cleaner.
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by mitko 16y ago
Few things that I know & like (they are rather heavy but deep): F. Cucker and S. Smale. On The Mathematical Foundations of Learning. Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society, 2002. Sutton & McAllum : Conditional random
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by mitko 16y ago
I've read the book twice once at age of 17-ish and once at 22. I got very different things from it each time. I don't think that I learned some specific knowledge or skill from the book. Rather it provoked me to look differently on many thi
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by mitko 16y ago
upvote for running linux :)
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by mitko 16y ago
Hey, would it be possible to get these with absolute scale, not only the relative percentage? It will be interesting to see processes such as "baby-boom" over time.
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by mitko 16y ago
actually, people in my lab are recently trying to put a kinect on a quadcopter: they got two kinects just in case :)
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by mitko 16y ago
That will work until an AI can pass the Turing Test.
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by mitko 16y ago
EC micro instances are 56$/year (reserved) and in a combination with version control tool like SVN I don't see why one would pay > $300/year
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by mitko 16y ago
tl,dr version of his strategy (as far as I understood it) 1. For a fixed permutation construct a Viterbi-like search on the triplet assignments - if it fails it is not satisfiable. However, if it doesn't fail right away, there is still no g
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by mitko 16y ago
Why not a Russian? For example the Russian Mathematics Olympiad is considered harder than the International Math Olympiad by many of the top contestants. Edit: why downvoting?
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by mitko 16y ago
division by zero ?
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by mitko 16y ago
Another example is Linear Programming - it is provably polynomial using the ellipsoid algorithm but people tend to use algorithms (such as simplex) which are not provably in P but run much faster in practice.
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by mitko 16y ago
"Oh, brave new world!" - is the picture he is painting positive or negative? With a global, rather than distributed government, there is a single point of failure.
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by mitko 16y ago
Before I clicked the link the title seemed like an article which would argue why a real chalkboard is better than computers for planning.
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by mitko 16y ago
I absolutely agree with you - one should use the right tool(robot) for the right task.
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by mitko 16y ago
What you say makes sense - robotic cranes should be able to operate with heavier pieces, and will require less energy per piece placement. However, MAVs (micro air vehicles) could reach into places where cranes wouldn't be able - i.e. insid
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by mitko 16y ago
Gaussians? Why Gaussians? Why not Cauchy for example (it has fatter tail)? And why identity matrix for the Gaussian covariance? I really like the way you are using your technical skills for computation but I think you are using it on the wr
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by mitko 16y ago
In Bulgaria there is a list of people declared for national investigation (обявени за национално издирване). In this list there are people who need to be arrested, who need to be a witness in a case or who are missing(i.e. they are kidnappe
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by mitko 16y ago
> A quarter of a cow, instead of a whole cow Now that is minimalism.
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by mitko 16y ago
It's amazing but it makes my eyes hurt. It reminds me of an old B/W "Опера" TV set.
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by mitko 16y ago
This page converted me. I'm giving DDG a test as my primary search.
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by mitko 16y ago
What about YouTube? It's much more successful than the last 6 of your examples (maybe except Maps)
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by mitko 16y ago
I guess I just wasn't comfortable cooking in a dorm kitchen and there were multiple appliances that I was missing. But, yes, Jules, a big sharp knife is definitely necessary. We didn't compare, nor we set a wager, but I got my 6packs and
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by mitko 16y ago
An year ago I could hardly cook anything except omelet - badly. During the last year I've learned a bunch of recipes - enough to feel confident in the kitchen. Looking back, I think the factors that made it easiest to me to develop the habi
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by mitko 16y ago
I agree with you that borrowing when needed is good, but excessive borrowing can create crisis. Karl Marx did foresee this: Owners of capital will stimulate the working class to buy more and more of expensive goods, houses and technology,
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by mitko 16y ago
yes, they could, if you use something that simple, AND they know you are using such a scheme. I used that just as an example. In reality you'd use something a little bit more complicated raising the bar for them by a considerable amount.
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by mitko 16y ago
For about an year and a half I've been using a simple trick that I learned from a friend of mine who is very good at using exploits to enter company websites and find security leaks. He was also very very cautious about security and pretty
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by mitko 16y ago
The other day I was walking in the stairs in CSAIL, and through the windows of the conference room I saw the guy filming this. I got late to my meeting (in the room above this). "The future is here", I thought. Even if there are some bugs a
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by mitko 16y ago
did they mutate to include arsenic in their DNA
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by mitko 16y ago
He is angry at Google but still uses their ads on his site. I wouldn't believe anything he writes.

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