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by mreid 15y ago
(Pedant warning) I think you may be abusing Big-O notation a little here since, technically O(10) is equivalent to O(1000)—and both are O(1).
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by mreid 15y ago
I think you are making the author's point for him. A game that requires a virtual joypad is not a game that is well designed for a phone. It's using a hammer to put in a screw. There are plenty of iPhone games that do not use the virtual bu
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by mreid 15y ago
I was writing it mathematically as I thought you would appreciate how your intuitive grasp of what n-dimensions is described mathematically. The terminology (gibberish) I used is nothing more than a convenient but very precise shorthand for
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by mreid 15y ago
The way you think of it is precisely the mathematical way of thinking about n-dimensions. Mathematically, an n-dimensional space is R^n, that is, the cross product of the real numbers (R) with itself n times. Each copy of R lets you specify
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by mreid 15y ago
I think this is precisely the reason. +Name is already used as a form of reference in Google+ analogously to @handle in Twitter.
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by mreid 15y ago
I'm guessing he had emacs open in a "Cathode": http://www.secretgeometry.com/apps/cathode/ session. The extra warping at the end of the video can be achieved by fiddling with the "distress" parameters in Cathode's preferences.
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by mreid 15y ago
Mitchell's ML book is showing its age a bit now. You may want to consider adding Bishop's _Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning_: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/cmbishop/prml/
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by mreid 15y ago
How does this differ from http://futureme.org ? I used that service in the past to send myself a message from me pre-PhD-completion self to my post-PhD-completion self to ask how it was. Although it was basically procrastination at the ti
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by mreid 15y ago
"Good mathematicians see analogies. Great mathematicians see analogies between analogies." — Stefan Banach
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by mreid 15y ago
I think you probably want to check out Vico: http://www.vicoapp.com/ When you fingers crave Vi but your eyes crave OS X.
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by mreid 15y ago
I don't know how Sedenions fit into the picture but "Hurwitz's theorem": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurwitz%27s_theorem_(normed_div... may be one explanation as to why there are essentially only 1,2,4, and 8 dimensional numbers.
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by mreid 15y ago
Maybe I missed something but I don't understand this criticism. The author states that 'The number of hits for each year was divided by the number of hits for "machine learning".' Wouldn't that control for the inflation of data in exactly t
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by mreid 16y ago
Recruitment, Douchebag.
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by mreid 16y ago
Hi, I'm one of the developers of annotatr. First of all, it's great to see people having a look at it and offering encouragement and constructive feedback. Thanks. Annotatr was more a proof of concept and fun hack than anything else. While
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by mreid 16y ago
What's worse is that the papers ACM charge for via their Portal site are often papers you can get (legally) for free elsewhere. For example, there is an ACM Portal page ( http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1553489 ) for a paper I wrote
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by mreid 16y ago
Thanks for the answers. I wasn't disputing your opinion, I just wanted to know your experience differed so much from mine. De gustibus non est disputandum. It seems the main point of difference is that you found the meandering digressions a
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by mreid 16y ago
Dilettante - from the Italian "to delight". I think that's fair. Hofstadter doesn't make any claims to being an expert in any of the areas he discusses (at least not in 1979). I think of GEB as an extremely idiosyncratic but well written pi
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by mreid 16y ago
Out of genuine curiosity, what were expecting to get out of it before you started reading it? Also, if you found the proof of Gödel's incompleteness and RNA transcription "ultra basic concepts" my hat is off to you. I'm a programmer with a
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by mreid 16y ago
Agreed. I've tried a few systems and like this one the most. The fact it doesn't do anything fancy is part of its appeal. The storage format is plain text so you can always view/edit it in any editor (there are plugins for vim, textmate, et
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by mreid 16y ago
> Having a little boy motivates me much more than not having one. I want to build a successful company that makes me independently wealthy so at some point, I can spend my time with him and the rest of my family. That's an admirable goa
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by mreid 16y ago
> Maybe the quote has a proceeding sentence that makes it clear. Let me guess, you're an engineer?
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by mreid 16y ago
Here's mine: * project - configurable file lists * NERDTree - directory browsing * autocomplpop - autocomplete pop ups * markdown - syntax highlighter * pathogen - sane plugin management * Molokai - nice colour scheme
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by mreid 16y ago
I'm also a guitarist. I mainly play folk, rock and classical but recently started seriously delving into jazz guitar. I never used to think much of practising scales but I now find their connection with chord construction fascinating. Knowi
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by mreid 16y ago
Very good, concise advice. I was lucky enough to get a good mentor and collaborator on my first grant application and got many of those tips from him as well.
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by mreid 16y ago
I also did something similar when I switched my site to Jekyll. The usual blog content + header + sidebar format seemed unnecessary for me so I started by focusing on the content and building up from there: http://mark.reid.name/info/site.
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by mreid 16y ago
Also, check out Blum's speedup theorem. Very odd.
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by mreid 16y ago
> what is the word for an argument premised on a proposition that is contrary to fact? Fallacy? Counterfactual? Hypothetical?
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by mreid 16y ago
> But I think that screwing around with the bizarre aspects of a concept like infinity is a huge waste of time. It's playing around at the limits of human reason. I don't see it as any different to most sports, music, and art. All are a
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by mreid 16y ago
I think the distinction you are looking for is Fred Brooks' "accidental" vs. "essential" complexity. To paraphrase Einstein, your code should be as simple as possible but no simpler. If you've ever tried to write your own code to handle dat
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by mreid 17y ago
You forgot "custom blogging engine".

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