mjtokelly

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by mjtokelly 18y ago
Blast, it was fine just two hours ago. http://74.125.47.132/search?q=cache:iqMjX8uGgroJ:www.ailab.s... Google cache, to whet your appetite...
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by mjtokelly 18y ago
http://www.ailab.si/orange/ This is the most thorough Python machine learning package I know of. Includes SVM. Lots of tutorials, too, and a visual development environment (if that's your style).
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"Broken Windows" crimefighting experimentally tested(boston.com)
6 points by mjtokelly 18y ago|0 comments
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by mjtokelly 18y ago
A followup to this discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=483435 which answers many of the commenters' criticisms. "A speed bankruptcy; 1) punishes current management reducing moral hazard, 2) will be less politicized if done un
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Free Market Bank Nationalization(marginalrevolution.com)
1 points by mjtokelly 18y ago|1 comments
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by mjtokelly 18y ago
"Help us out here, Computer. This just will not cut it. Blimey!" I enjoyed their documentation style.
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by mjtokelly 18y ago
http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2009/02/nationalization-or-pr... "Nationalization, or Pre-privatization?" More discussion on the same theme. 'Bankruptcy could become, in effect, a massive bank recapitalization. Essentially, the equity hold
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"What IQ is good for" (not for avoiding most biases, it turns out)(marginalrevolution.com)
7 points by mjtokelly 18y ago|1 comments
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by mjtokelly 18y ago
[in response to the previous three comments] Without arguing whether the government should have become a creditor to all banks (which I would disagree with), I understand his claim to be: the system fails if creditors do not take action t
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by mjtokelly 18y ago
What if the phrase "government power" were left out? I think that 'enforcement' is the key concept here, rather than an assumption that it has to be a government doing the enforcing.
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by mjtokelly 18y ago
An interesting claim I haven't seen before: nationalization of failing banks does not constitute socialism. Rather, it's the legal--and responsible--outcome under normal bankruptcy law.
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Why We're Not Socialists(forbes.com)
21 points by mjtokelly 18y ago|27 comments
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by mjtokelly 18y ago
A more elaborate explanation can be found here: http://www.milliondollarideaguy.com/blog/?p=185
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A Lottery for People Who Are Good at Math(freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com)
26 points by mjtokelly 18y ago|17 comments
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Share likelihood ratios, not posterior beliefs(overcomingbias.com)
1 points by mjtokelly 18y ago|0 comments
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by mjtokelly 18y ago
Nice, clear explanation of something that drives Python beginners crazy--especially if it's their first programming language. It would have been worth mentioning the 'copy' module. 'copy.copy' for shallow copies of any object, 'copy.deepc
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by mjtokelly 18y ago
Sounds like it will be a long time before most videos have download links. For now there's still http://www.pwnyoutube.com ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=458409 ) and http://www.arrakis.es/~rggi3/youtube-dl/youtube-dl (a fantast
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by mjtokelly 18y ago
My favorite--Quantum Cloud--isn't covered by this site. QC is based in Bangladesh, which isn't in the list of possible countries (UK, USA, Canada, Australia, India and Ireland).