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by mwexler 9y ago
The business models for pricing aggregators and reviews sites are completely absent. Even Consumer Reports struggles to meet the costs of testing and staffing. The BBB is a mess. The "Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval" hasn&#
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by mwexler 9y ago
Things make more sense if you look at the top level page: https://microsoft.github.io/ELL/ talks about their embeddable ML libraries, with the focus on allowing some live training on the embeddable, instead of, say, Co
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by mwexler 9y ago
The ability and willingness to slag your own defective work is rare, especially in public. Compliments to the dev, who recognized how much he's changed and was able to point out flaws with no holds barred and some humour.
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by mwexler 9y ago
Even more natural: Edward (probabilistic modeling library in Python) is officially moving into TensorFlow. But I see your point.
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Street View of 80s NYC(80s.nyc)
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The UK MoD published a 112pp Wargaming Handbook last month(twitter.com)
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by mwexler 9y ago
Geeky in a very different way: I get a kick out the true atomic watches ala Bathys https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/introducing-the-bathys-ces... , though Hoptroff begs to differ... https://www.hoptroff.c
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by mwexler 9y ago
As it turns out... http://watchesinmovies.info/ And if you want to see what the celebs choose in real life and compare to what they chose in the move, sometimes http://www.watch-id.com/ has the info.
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by mwexler 9y ago
Both Anaconda (for Python, https://docs.anaconda.com/anaconda/packages/pkg-docs ) and Microsoft (for R, https://mran.microsoft.com/ ) have "reviewed and audited" collections of packages fo
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by mwexler 9y ago
Didn't Uber have a similar issue? You open the app, see multiple cars around you, so initiate a request, only to discover that the nearest car is actually not that near (and won't take your request)? Uber later said that the dis
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by mwexler 9y ago
(I'm assuming that we are talking about the original post http://sharpsightlabs.com/blog/machine-learning-prerequisite... reposted on r-bloggers, focusing on business/company use of data science, not necessar
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by mwexler 9y ago
This reminded me of the MacGuffin concept, popularized by Hitchcock, about the need for a goal to drive a the plot of the movie, but it was just a throwaway device used to get into the characters and their conflict ( https://en.wi
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PyTorch vs. TensorFlow – spotting the difference(medium.com)
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by mwexler 9y ago
Like Gibson's story "The Gernsback Continuum", I see cars like this and, I see that, for a moment, the future we dreamed of is finally coming true... then it fades back to reality, where instead we have... http://w
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by mwexler 9y ago
This seems like a race to failure, this nickel and diming. Each content producer will have a min amount per month that they will accept. A consumer only has a certain amount of disposable income. The horizon hurts both sides: consumers wi
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by mwexler 9y ago
I'm somewhat surprised that one of the touted features of smart watches never materialized, and doesn't seem to matter... early prognosticators proposed lots of custom faces: ones that emulated famous watches, ones that allowed a
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by mwexler 9y ago
Ah, the last device to allow me to listen to terrestrial radio and MP3s without using data or my limited phone battery is now gone. I know, who still does that? Well, actually many of us in the NYC area who listen to NPR in the morning... b
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by mwexler 9y ago
Well worth the read. Check it out at http://carlos.bueno.org/optimization/
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by mwexler 9y ago
All the comments that "you can just use X to do Y" is missing the point that Paint just works, for almost every value of Y. No argument, Paint.net is great, snipping tool solves the grab and crop, but for most anything else you n
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by mwexler 9y ago
Finally, Spotify's shuffle algorithm can be fixed! Thank goodness you created this.
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Yahoo (aka Oath) releases Bullet, real-time streaming query system(yahoo.github.io)
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by mwexler 9y ago
So, they randomized the creative and made "unique versions". Whee. A real win would be "Nutella 'hires' algo to optimize design aspects to both increase sales and improve label perception both emotionally and rati
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by mwexler 9y ago
BTW, if you aren't familiar with the Nielsen Norman Group, it's worth visiting their other work. It includes Don Norman (jnd.org, Design of Everyday Things), Jacob Nielsen of Alertbox UX fame, and Tog (Bruce Tognazzini) who start
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by mwexler 9y ago
This sounds a lot like the Net Neutrality argument: All content should be treated as equal, whether it's pay or not, whether it's powered or supplied by the search engine/ISP or not. Is there harm in ranking good content app
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by mwexler 9y ago
And yet, a short period of working with some large apps shows that, in fact, it isn't quite so good at all: from Safari pages refreshing to apps "paging in", the lack of ram is clearly present once one starts really working w
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by mwexler 9y ago
It is interesting that of the 5, Microsoft is still in the mix. Look back 10 years, or 20 years, and ask which companies you would have thought would also be present. MS may have made the list, but wouldn't a lot of others as well?
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by mwexler 9y ago
What a great title. Before clicking, I fully expected to see things like "Why should I keep working here?" and "Will anything, ever, happen here?" and other questions about working in a boring, mind numbing job... Rea
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by mwexler 9y ago
Is it because so many of Google's customers would then feel obligated to also offer support or service? While it's easy to pike at Google as a huge company which should provide this level of service, where do you draw the line?
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by mwexler 9y ago
Should the fact that T-Mobile is GSM while Sprint is CDMA (as far as I recall) matter? Is 5G going to make that distinction go away (ignoring frequency issues, which I thought I read was still a concern)?
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by mwexler 9y ago
Almost every online car purchasing service at major brands is a white labeled truecar. Don't assume that, say, the "AAA" or "Costco" brand is giving you any special treatment. Your lead goes into a lead queue, a p

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