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by msbmsb 16y ago
The project was delayed in 2008 with the slowing economy. This is a good sign for the economy as a whole, not to mention the NE Oklahoma region. Quote from Google: "We always intended to make the Mayes County data center operational at som
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Delayed in 2008, Google restarts Data Center build near Tulsa, OK(google.com)
4 points by msbmsb 16y ago|1 comments
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by msbmsb 16y ago
Link to actual paper: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~glmiller/Publications/Papers/KoutisAp...
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Approaching Optimality for Solving SDD Linear Systems(drdobbs.com)
10 points by msbmsb 16y ago|3 comments
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by msbmsb 16y ago
mymint.com cost $3,000; mint.com cost $181k in Series A equity: "They offered him [previous owner of mint.com] equity in the company's Series A funding round rather than a cash payment, and assured him that he'd be the only New York financi
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by msbmsb 16y ago
There is the new Barnes & Noble PubIt platform just detailed [1] for digital self-publishing. Royalties are 65% for the $2.99-$9.99 range and 40% for $10.00 <= prices <= $2.98. Supposedly with "no additional charges, regardless
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by msbmsb 16y ago
MLComp ( http://mlcomp.org ) is a site for comparing different algorithms outputs over various datasets. The site appears to be down right now, but you can go here ( http://hunch.net/?p=1309 ) for an overview of the site. (If it comes back
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by msbmsb 16y ago
Not a Hotel "Death Ray" - a "Quick-Tan Pool Area". bug->feature
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by msbmsb 16y ago
Google Brazil employees: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&#38...
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by msbmsb 16y ago
Right, taken on a vacation to Half Moon Island by the VP of Engineering for Maps. Not all of Antarctica, yet.
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Google Street View adds Antarctica, Brazil, Ireland(googleblog.blogspot.com)
38 points by msbmsb 16y ago|23 comments
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by msbmsb 16y ago
Referring to this, evidently: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/dhc0d/apache_sv... 1,000,000th commit on Apache SVN done by the Lucene project.
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Google Prediction adds multi-class predictions, continuous output & mixed input(googlecode.blogspot.com)
5 points by msbmsb 16y ago|0 comments
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by msbmsb 17y ago
I think it's more than quite a leap to go from worrying about the marketability of your specific idea to asking about the futility of two very broad fields of research. I work in NLP, my company has a sentiment analysis product. It's a very
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by msbmsb 17y ago
Often the real-time results (especially from twitter) have duplicates or simply very sparse info that may scroll by too fast, making it easy to just ignore altogether. The real-time results box on google also feels cramped to me. It can be
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by msbmsb 17y ago
From the comments on the page: "This is actually just one screen shot from the study. Overall, Oneupweb did track all of the real-time results, including those in position 2, 3, and 4 of Google."
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by msbmsb 17y ago
also skipjack.com
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by msbmsb 17y ago
The final two phrases "how to use the data to make it as useful as possible to the algorithm, and how to fine-tune the parameters that each of these algorithms take" are just as influential in the quality of any ML process as the selection
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by msbmsb 17y ago
Immersion and Usage. Any opportunity to be surrounded by the language, and especially when you are forced to use it, will greatly increase your fluency. Not being too concerned about making mistakes and just speaking as much as you can is a
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by msbmsb 17y ago
It is possible at some cell phone stores to purchase an unlocked phone and renew a contract at the same time for a discount on the hardware. Discounts can range from $50-$200 depending on the phone and renewed plan.
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by msbmsb 17y ago
Unlocked phones are available at many of the big electronics retailers (best buy, frys, etc) and there are myriad cell phone stores that specialize in unlocked/imported sets.
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by msbmsb 18y ago
Evidently so. Sorry.
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by msbmsb 18y ago
A lot of google earth imagery is aerial and not from satellites.
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by msbmsb 18y ago
It is World of Goo. I own it and love it, the game idea and environment are very nice, the physics engine makes the game truly interesting and trying to hit the "OCD" bonuses, which are advanced goals like collect 21 goo balls or complete t
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by msbmsb 18y ago
Note: I work in the NLP field. I'll echo what others have been suggesting, that in this case a restricted grammar with a thesaurus for synonyms and making use of some extant date libraries might be your best option here. I suggest this beca