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Academics are suspicious of anything slightly outside the mainstream. Did he know that? MIT trains hackers for a living, since before this guy was born.
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I am glad he was able to articulate why some types of change are accepted and other changes rejected with hostility -- that some new things can be interpreted through analogies with previous experience. It is the difference between "ch
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this is cool have you seen snarxiv? http://snarxiv.org/ in the comments the author discusses how he generated convincing titles using context free grammars: snarXiv is based on a context free grammar (CFG) — basicall
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I remember going to Yodobashi Akiba and being confused. Then I went into the small shops, I couldn't read the names of the parts. Then I ate ramen and bought a toy train.
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I am guessing, this site calculates page-rank for the network of articles it has and removes the top 10^? articles and re-calculates the page-rank. That's how I would do it. And I would guess this would be closer to vanilla page-rank
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I didn't know this... that the new "Knowledge Economy" is making the imcome gap worse . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_economy
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When we hire someone for a job, we want someone who is "good" at what they do. By this logic, we pick someone in the top 10% - a notion which will vary from person to person. Now consider a job market, where employers are looking
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I think that's the general idea. Going to school - rather than getting a job right away - is considered a waste of resources, or elitist and therefore a rejection of one's community. For some reason, education does not carry the
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I’m going to define “good” as the 90th percentile among the player pool you’re competing against. This is a very interesting definition of "good". Appropriate for Chess, but has interesting ramifications elsewhere.
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She might be referring to the 36M African-Americans & 50M Hispanich-Americans in this country. So American still has a White majority at around 60% of the population. In the year 2010, only 36 million African-Americans in the US, is
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how do you hear the equations in mp3?
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I like reading these off stack-exchange since I am often to lazy to read the textbook. My other problem with algorithms textbooks is that I get into arguments with other developers about how much we need them. At least here, I can say &q
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My 7 year old nephew can't tell the difference yet between the carefully scripted dialogues we hear on TV and the impromptu ones we hear face to face. Social media has enriched our online-interactions at the expensive of face-to-face.
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I don't understand. Isn't anything we tweet public domain?
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many people still can't pass it or understand it...
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The equations look fine to me - I was a math major in college. Honestly, I get so tired of humanities people -- or programmers, bragging about how much they hate math. Except: https://gist.github.com/benmcredmond/0dec5
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The roots of the current American predicament go back to the 1970s, when wages of workers stopped keeping pace with their productivity. * head explode * So this has been going on for the past 40 years and we have stopped ques
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this is how I learned JavaScript
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his pictures of the Waldo distribution remind me of the eigenvalues of the Gaussian Unitary Ensemble! http://www.math.wisc.edu/~valko/courses/833/circle.jpg
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I knew about the Wiki http://michaelnielsen.org/polymath1/index.php?title=Bounded_... However, I did not know about the solo paper http://arxiv.org/abs/1311.4600 In their celebrated paper [5],
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if English majors won't do it -- I will. My guess is that machine learning can approximate and formalize some of their delicate and thoughtful intuitions. From what I have browsed in bookstores, graduate level English and Sociology ca
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it is great to see the reflections upon reflections.
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I like the Excel example b/c of its simplicity http://jsfiddle.net/ondras/hYfN3/
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What’s this? It looks like we can just tell the game we finished a level, without any other hassle the game insults players' intelligence on so many levels
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what does "pure CSS" mean? no javascript ?
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it will be great to use this -- when it comes out in a few months. i guess they aren't waiting until its closer to production
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A kind of Stone-Age version of Inception is "La Vida Es Sueño" by Pedro Calderón de la Barca written in 1635. http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_vida_es_sue%C3%B1o It is a 3-act play where the Prince of Poland,
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> The future of computing, after about 2035, is adiabatic reservable hardware. When such hardware runs at a cost-minimizing speed, half of the total budget is spent on computer hardware, and the other half is spent on energy and cooling
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http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/59369/prime-spirals-...
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Patterns related to Primes are difficult - outside present technology. On MathOverflow, Joseph O'Rourke and Terence Tao offer more pretty pictures and discussions on patterns related to the spiral http://mathoverflow.net&#x2

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