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by mrcactu5 13y ago
is there a reason the charts are so difficult to read? especially after 50 posts a day on data visualization here on HN?
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by mrcactu5 13y ago
could this be just a shift in how we measure and disagnose behaviors which lie outside the norm? not long ago this behavior was not tolerated at all, and an autism diagnosis was undesirable. now we have more resources to identify and tolera
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by mrcactu5 13y ago
I remember the spell-checker being harder than it looks. You have to train a Naive Bayes classifier to "recognize" misspelled words. I can't access the link right now... OK: http://web.archive.org/web/20
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by mrcactu5 13y ago
i was trying to build a word cloud algorithm and then I had a question: how do you rasterize letter shapes? I looked at pyCairo but I couldn't figure out how to use it. http://cairographics.org/documentation/pyca
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by mrcactu5 13y ago
this graphic chart was made in 2003 but it's pretty nice illustration of all 17 wallpaper groups http://www.math.columbia.edu/~bayer/symmetry/wallpaper/Wallp... there is also "geometry and the imagi
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by mrcactu5 13y ago
where is all the theory behind q-lang coming from? are there theoretical principles behind this new schema language?
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by mrcactu5 13y ago
> Here's a popular thought for HN: why not a YC-style academic funding, where you fund people, not ideas? So the charistmatic scientists with shitty ideas get the most funding?
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by mrcactu5 13y ago
Peter Norvig of spell-checker fame explains us regexes. I always get confused when I have to do NLP stuff and use the re library.
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by mrcactu5 13y ago
is there any consistent way to turn LaTeX into HTML?
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by mrcactu5 13y ago
there's plenty of evidence for "Conspiracy of Northern European Hegemony" just leave Northern Europe and get someone's opinion from there.
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by mrcactu5 13y ago
i routinely get jobs from doctors at prestigious universities who say, "here's at study with 3 samples, see if we can get p < 0.05"
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by mrcactu5 13y ago
as a mathematician, i grimace at the level of resistence I get from programmers as being too "theoretical". I try arguing, "but all your libraries do at low level is math calculations, don't you want any control over tha
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by mrcactu5 13y ago
Is it possible to Kickstarter to fund science or engineering projects? Kickstarter seems geared towards the music, arts or engineering with clear visual impact. Most science does not have elevator pitches -- they are hard to explain or visu
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by mrcactu5 13y ago
At least the guy admits he is a first-adopter. All I really get from this blog is that some influential guys approve of these two new JS libraries. For someone who still builds website HTML, what are Grunt vs Gulp originally supposed to do?
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by mrcactu5 13y ago
what if they haven't done their "big thing" yet? What constitutes a "significant accomplishment" anyway? * building an awesome web site ? * raising a child ? * graduating college ? * overcoming cancer ? * learning t
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by mrcactu5 13y ago
When my boss replies with "sounds good" I start looking for my next job. I totally agree with "let me know". These simple 2 or 3-word phrases can mean very different things in different English-speaking subcultures. Her
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by mrcactu5 13y ago
this is a few steps behind Wolfram Alpha, but at least it's open source
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by mrcactu5 13y ago
> Since its launch in 2004, Rosetta has made three flybys of Earth and one of Mars to help it on course to its rendezvous with 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, encountering asteroids Steins and Lutetia along the way. This is quite a fea
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by mrcactu5 13y ago
absolutely. I am doing a minitature sql join. other database operations may have similar interpretations in terms of vector spaces. math - when it works - is a layer of abstraction unifying several different-looking experiences.
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by mrcactu5 13y ago
the outer product is the tensor product of two vectors https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outer_product
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by mrcactu5 13y ago
Any array in several indices is using a tensor product. x[1][2][3] On StackOverflow, I asked about making an multiplication table in Python. [[a*b for a in x] for b in y] or in NumPy x[..., None]*y[None,...] This
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by mrcactu5 13y ago
Arithmetic is a type of mathematics.
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by mrcactu5 13y ago
I am failing to see how this is a counterargument. The mast has less to do with the accounting and more to do with how your webpage is getting to your users. You used math in several instances: * implementing the accounting formulas * C
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by mrcactu5 13y ago
the apps you can build without mathematics are limited to crappy Facebook clones.
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A new topological invariant for the "Rubik's Magic" puzzle(fr.arxiv.org)
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by mrcactu5 13y ago
where is the bottle neck in such code? why is this faster than say Norvig spell checker? http://norvig.com/spell-correct.html
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by mrcactu5 13y ago
congratulations! you're a dick
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by mrcactu5 13y ago
don't be a dick, just answer the question.
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by mrcactu5 13y ago
where is the bottle neck in such code? why is this faster than say Norvig spell checker? http://norvig.com/spell-correct.html
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by mrcactu5 13y ago
I read the results on the survey that computer scientists should learn more of what math can offer them. One premise of this survey is that math and cs are both "sequential" -- which is FALSE. And the survey assumes the Math and

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