monk_the_dog

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   by monk_the_dog 14y ago

   If you already have a little exposure to machine learing, let me recomend an interesting review paper [1] on random forests: http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/155552/decisionForests_MS... It isn't everything you need know in 30 minutes,
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   by monk_the_dog 14y ago

   Pandas is outstanding, I love it. This may not be the place for this, but... I just built pandas 0.8.0 and it would not build with MinGW 0.5. The problem is -mno-cygwin is no longer recognized by MinGW's gcc. My solution was to edit distuti
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   by monk_the_dog 14y ago

   Yes, this is how it's played. It really is a fun little game, especially if you and your opponent are the type of people who over-think things. Try it sometime!
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   by monk_the_dog 14y ago

   This reminds me of the game "clomp" (which I may or may not have invented+) but I used to play with my brother on car rides. Here are the rules: 1) Pick any integer. Your partner picks an integer without knowing yours. The first person to t
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   by monk_the_dog 14y ago

   I recently learned about Tommy Flowers and Colossus from this book: http://www.amazon.com/Colossus-secrets-Bletchley-code-breaki... The British kept Colossus secret for a too long and Flowers did not get enough credit (and von Neumann see
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   by monk_the_dog 14y ago

   Everything I want is there: text objects, visual mode, windows commands, macros, everything from ex that I use. Try it, you'll be pleasantly surprised. The only two issues I've noticed are: 1) '\c' does not work for case insensitive search
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   by monk_the_dog 14y ago

   Yes. Babel requires emacs. Quote from the article: <quote> VimOrganizer also lets Vim users access Org-babel, a subproject of Org-mode that allows execution of source-code blocks in org-format documents. Uses for Org-babel range
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   by monk_the_dog 14y ago

   There's an inspiring article in The Communications of the AMC on the group of people who came together to help search for Jim Gray when he disappeared: http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2011/7/109892-searching-for-ji...
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   by monk_the_dog 14y ago

   I saw "Indie Game The Movie" last night ( http://www.indiegamethemovie.com/ ). They followed the ups and downs of developing fez and super meat boy (and some braid). If you're racing to develop something before you run out of money, take a
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    by monk_the_dog 15y ago

    I'm not asking for anonymous giving. I'm asking that my user name appears on the backers page instead of my full name. It doesn't bother me that the project (or the site) knows my real name. However, I feel better if future employers of min
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    by monk_the_dog 15y ago

    Yeah! All I'm really looking for is for the person to acknowledge my donation. BTW, I did just donate a small amount to the chili project. One more piece of feedback. My real name shows up on the donation page. Not a big deal, but I'd prefe
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    by monk_the_dog 15y ago

    I know it's irrational, but I want something in return for donating. For example, I'd give $20 or so to the hot chili project if he'd send me $2 worth of "something really hot" to me. Somehow getting something in return makes me feel more c
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    by monk_the_dog 15y ago

    I use emacs with viper and vimpulse ( http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs-es/vimpulse.el ) and I'm very happy. This setup does support text objects. I have not used evil, so I'm not sure how vimpulse compares with evil.
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    by monk_the_dog 15y ago

    Once upon a time I thought about using ml/vision in slot machines. I would try to read the gamblers emotions/age/sex and the slot machine would change stimulation (music/lights etc; not mess with the odds) to try to keep them at the machine
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    by monk_the_dog 15y ago

    Zeratul, you're obviously into ML. Would you mind if I asked what your application is? I'm just curious. I work in computer vision. When I do a machine learning problem, I spend most of my time brainstorming and implementing good features.
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    by monk_the_dog 15y ago

    I just took a quick look on the chapter on clustering. Looks good! I'll put it on the ever growing stack. Thanks!
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    by monk_the_dog 15y ago

    You make a good point. Ensemble methods seem to outperform single classifiers. There's no reason you can't have an ensemble of SVMs. The paper should have included something other than an ensemble of trees. I tried to find a paper comparing
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    by monk_the_dog 15y ago

    I'm enrolled in the online Applied ML class from Stanford, and I've also been watching this course from CMU (I'm up to the Graphical Model 4 lecture - almost the midterm). If you've taken at least one stats class you'll get much more out of
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    by monk_the_dog 15y ago

    Here's two other sets of lectures that I'm really enjoying: 1) CMU graduate-level machine learning class: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~tom/10701_sp11/lectures.shtml 2) Mathematicalmonk's machine learning lectures: http://www.youtube.com/user/m
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    by monk_the_dog 15y ago

    I first read about the Curta in a Scientific American article by Cliff Stole (see scans here: http://www.leighbureau.com/speakers/CStoll/essays/Calculator... ) I am awed and inspired by this story. It helps me understand why people think
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    by monk_the_dog 15y ago

    I went to SciPy this year for the first time, and I loved it. I understand that PyCon is a much broader conference, but do many people interested in scientific python show up for this?
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    by monk_the_dog 15y ago

    I was happy to see "Hierarchical columns" on the features wish list. My app uses a R data frame like structure (table of heterogeneous columns with possible missing data). One "cute" thing I implemented was hierarchical columns. Super usefu
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    by monk_the_dog 15y ago

    Are you thinking of this article: http://www.nytimes.com/2001/02/25/magazine/jonathan-lebed-s-... Good read for sure.
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    by monk_the_dog 15y ago

    Here's a quick timeline of what I've used for calculators: HP 28C ( http://www.voidware.com/calcs/hp28c.htm ): Mid 80's through mid 90's Emacs calc mode: Mid 90's through mid 2000's orpie ( http://pessimization.com/software/orpie/ ): Mid 20
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    by monk_the_dog 16y ago

    When I was learning C++ I subscribed to a great magazine called the "C++ Report". I first read about expression templates and template meta-programming in that magazine (Todd Veldhuizen's articles on Blitz). I blew my mind that people cou
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    by monk_the_dog 16y ago

    Fair enough. Maybe Henry Petroski instilled a little too much engineering pride in me: http://spectrum.ieee.org/at-work/tech-careers/engineering-is... Sorry if I was being a pedantic jerk. BTW, I have these two images hanging in my office
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    by monk_the_dog 16y ago

    Engineering and science are not the same thing. The astronaut's footprint, earthrise, and atomic bomb are all examples of feats of engineering, not science.
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    by monk_the_dog 16y ago

    Nice list. One quibble: I'd put Steve Blank's "Four Steps" under Entrepreneurship rather than "Value Creation and Design". I've read Four Steps, Universal Principals of Design, and Design of Everyday things (I have not read Rework, the othe
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    by monk_the_dog 16y ago

    Here's another favorite story from thinking machines: The Rise and Fall of Thinking Machines http://www.inc.com/magazine/19950915/2622.html For what it's worth, last I heard Sheryl Handler was running Ab Initio. I wonder if she's really t
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    by monk_the_dog 16y ago

    I don't know wolfram alpha, just thought I'd point out something interesting: if ^ is the xor operator, then -2^2==(11111110)xor(00000010)==(11111100)==-4