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by mitko 16y ago
Happily there are too many people that haven't heard that things cannot be done, so they attempt... and do them. To me this seems more like a proof of concept article, yet, it opens an area of research which may in fact succeed after some t
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by mitko 16y ago
Simulation that can simulate itself!
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by mitko 16y ago
Trying all the words in the captcha one by one has a big chance of "hitting" correct answer. If it doesn't a brute-forcer can just request a new captcha until it works. Said that, they don't seem very spam-proof to me. For more info about h
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by mitko 16y ago
that's for 250 cards from vistaprint in comparison to 25 cards from overnight's
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by mitko 16y ago
As a student in MIT, I agree with the author that all the "accomplishments" (such as SAT scores, A's) people at top-rated achieve make it harder to not think of oneself as somebody better than the others. Because of the environment and the
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by mitko 16y ago
wow! At 4pm today I was giving a talk in my lab about how cool this work is. What really impresses though is not that it works. It is the Find-Fix-Verify design pattern which tries to set some good practices in crowd-sourcing. For example i
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by mitko 16y ago
cool. My girlfriend had an idea about startup and we started discussing it. At some point I told her 'lets stop hand-waving and look at some data' . For ~10 bucks we got 110 good responses to 11-question survey on Mechanical Turk. It reall
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by mitko 16y ago
Definitely. There was a case a couple of years ago. Search "Star Simpson" for more info. Edit: the case was not about hacking "oficially"
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by mitko 16y ago
>> A dean, who had been informed about the hack after the arrest, went down to bail the students out. He pointed out to the detective that the battery-lined coats were only circumstantial evidence. At this point the dean opened his
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by mitko 16y ago
> While many spores on Earth can survive that kind of extreme heat, none have yet been discovered that can reproduce in those conditions, much less require it to begin reproducing. Much less than none?
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by mitko 16y ago
"Prayer is also a framework for solving problems" Agreed. They stay on top of different assumptions: Prayer supposes that there is "god" that can overrule everything, mathematics stands on top of axioms. Mathematics, even though can be amaz
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by mitko 16y ago
"Math is a framework for solving problems" I've never heard a better concise (one-sentence) description of what mathematics is.
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by mitko 16y ago
For me, what is interesting in that problem (besides the obvious flaw that people here discussed) is that the answer changes is the value A is observed. I.e. : If I have two envelopes, one of which has twice the money of the other, you pick
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by mitko 16y ago
A friend of mine told me a similar problem that he got at D.E. Shaw interview. Person A writes random real numbers in two envelopes. Then person B randomly 50/50 picks one envelope and sees the number X written there. Then, B has to guess w
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by mitko 16y ago
one way to mimic the successes of these people is to do what they do Disagree. Thinking like that is a common logical fallacy. Suppose you find a relation "isHacker?" <~> "schedule type". Then you have NO evidence at all that that
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by mitko 16y ago
Can anybody write a macro statement this way? Something like: macro square(x): return exec("#{x}*#{x}") might be useful. Edit: can anybody help me how about the comments markup. I tried searching around but couldn't find anything.
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by mitko 16y ago
Another great application of CRFs. Go AI!
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by mitko 16y ago
Success in an area is not transferable. Counter-example: Arnold Schwarzenegger
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by mitko 16y ago
Apparently, from the plot seems that if you are faster than the slow raptor, your best direction is not straight at it, but nearby. This makes some sense because if you you are close to the slow one and far of the fast ones you can outrun g
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by mitko 16y ago
If you find quad-copters doing cool stuff check out also this video: http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/18/quad-copter-responds-to-y...
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by mitko 16y ago
recently gedit is my favourite. Really fast and easy to setup. Also to move my settings from one computer to another I just need to copy 1 folder and install one package. That, in combination with command line is very powerful for me. I use
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by mitko 16y ago
arhg, me too. I just applied and then found out that it is in MV and I am in Boston. Well, that's life...
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by mitko 17y ago
I don't believe he uses only his netbook. I think he also uses the public CSAIL computers at Stata Center in MIT. They have a KDE Linux on them. I have used them from time to time, and as before logging in, at the username prompt usually yo
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by mitko 17y ago
My line is "I do Artificial Intelligence". To most people it sounds like rocket science. It also has some The Matrix/Terminator/I Robot flavor.
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by mitko 17y ago
Also known as "smoothed" max/min which in my opinion is better name as it is mathematically more meaningful as the max function [NOT smooth] is approximated with a smooth function. There is no such thing as soft function in mathematics! Ple
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by mitko 17y ago
Actually both. Some of the HR people were pretty irresponsive to emails. Also the interview was a joke- an 8th grader would have no problems answering the questions. I gave them this feedback so I hope they have improved since.
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by mitko 17y ago
They do their coding with Java. I interviewed with them for an internship this Spring and even got offer, but ended up rejecting it.
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by mitko 17y ago
Whoever wants to do/acomplish something finds a way. Whoever doesn't finds a reason. You have your reasons(based on faulty assumptions) so I would conclude that you simply don't want a girlfriend.
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by mitko 17y ago
IMHO, The North Face also gains no matter what the end of the lawsuit is. That's a lot of advertisement, and wouldn't make me think less of their products. It can be also a reputation boost for TNF. After all the parody is on them because t
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by mitko 17y ago
Fun example. And the idea of a Fractal track is one of those: how-haven't-I-thought-of-it-before things. I don't know how a true fractal song would sound. The author of the post uses the original song to smooth the final result to make it l

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