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by naftaliharris 13y ago
This link I submitted is partially out-of-date and really does not do the consulting service justice: 1) The service is open to everyone, not just to Stanford affiliates--we'd love to hear about statistical problems that startups are facing
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Free Statistical Consulting at Stanford(www-stat.stanford.edu)
5 points by naftaliharris 13y ago|1 comments
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by naftaliharris 13y ago
Sure, I'm glad you like it! :) str2num parses words by iterating through them once and keeping state about the result so far and what I call the "magnitude". So, for example, when you feed it "three and three thirds", it initializes magnitu
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by naftaliharris 13y ago
And for people who want to convert user entered numbers, like "3.2 million", into strings, I wrote a package especially for that: https://github.com/naftaliharris/numutil >>> from numutil import str2num, num2str &#62
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by naftaliharris 14y ago
Something about these numbers doesn't quite make sense. The reason cited for dismantling the machine is that "it isn't energy-efficient enough to make the power bill worth it." But the supercomputer uses 2345 kilowatts, which at US prices o
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by naftaliharris 14y ago
My caps-lock gets mapped to escape. On linux, or at least the flavors I'm using, this is super easy: Just drop the following into ~/.Xmodmap !! Delete the caps lock key clear lock !! Make caps lock map to <esc> key
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by naftaliharris 14y ago
But at only 1 million downloads, they've paid $30 per download. If they were mostly interested in the traction, that would seem quite excessive to me.
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by naftaliharris 14y ago
I heard him speak at Stanford a few weeks ago. He made some great points about academia having a lot to learn from the open-source community. In summary, he said that academics should strive to make their research more open and reproducible
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by naftaliharris 14y ago
> In the real world of mathematics, this is as stupid a question as me asking “Is there a mathematical size bigger than the amount of integers but less than the amount of real numbers?” [1] because you can’t answer it without going thro
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by naftaliharris 14y ago
Those were my thoughts too. If you click on the "paintings" tab, they only show you three of them, (not the 100,000 claimed), and it looks like they dressed them up manually. Also, by paying them 10 Euro to search for your phone number, you
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by naftaliharris 14y ago
It looks a lot better than the current site! A few criticisms: 1) The line numbers and spacings on the list example are confusing: The examples come from an interactive session, but the presence of line numbers suggest that it's a script. A
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by naftaliharris 14y ago
> "sometimes, a coffee can mean the world." It's true--I can definitely still remember small but sincere acts of kindness that I've received from friends or acquaintances over the years. Seriously, the $8 it costs to buy some overpriced
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by naftaliharris 14y ago
I imagine that Google, Facebook, and other companies that make much of their money from online ads must be pretty scared that this huge revenue stream depends on the general public not taking the two minutes that are required to install an
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by naftaliharris 14y ago
If I were running a company, I think I'd try the following approach to hiring: Every time I received a resume or job application, I would run it through some script that would find the individual's name, store it somewhere hidden, and then
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by naftaliharris 14y ago
Reading status.github.com over the last few weeks, I found it interesting how often little things were broken at Github. It's like every few days, a small part of the site is unavailable or the sysadmins are investigating this or that conne
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by naftaliharris 14y ago
I've long been curious about this: In the Civil War, the United States killed hundreds of thousands of Confederate soldiers, (without a trial, of course). Yet the fifth amendment explicitly states that "No person shall be ...deprived of lif
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by naftaliharris 14y ago
What I found most interesting about this article is that parents felt so strongly about having their kids nap outside, despite the fact that the scientific evidence presented in the article that this is actually better than napping indoors
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by naftaliharris 14y ago
> Elon might have been better off concentrating on this point more, rather than some of the smaller inaccuracies. I agree. Often when you're arguing, you have a really strong argument and a few weaker ones. You'd think that making both
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by naftaliharris 14y ago
I was shocked to read this as well. This summer I went to meetups where after talking with somebody new for five minutes, they would say, "By the way, we're hiring...", to which I would reply, "Yeah, so are we!" About half of my classmates
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America's Genius Glut(nytimes.com)
21 points by naftaliharris 14y ago|16 comments
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by naftaliharris 14y ago
Do you suppose the author is a lefty? I'm right-handed, and one of the challenges for me was using my left hand on the WASD keys.
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by naftaliharris 14y ago
One of the key tenets of liberal democracy is protecting the rights of individuals, regardless of how popular they are. I don't like this idea at all, even if it is only in jest.
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Stepping Through CPython(youtube.com)
1 points by naftaliharris 14y ago|0 comments
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by naftaliharris 14y ago
You probably wouldn't want to do that: If the pin was somehow compromised, then the attacker would likely try the same compromised pin number in other places. Using different pins for each service avoids this attack.
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by naftaliharris 14y ago
You can always check http://isup.me/ . Looks like it's down!
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by naftaliharris 14y ago
Well, possibly. Let's compute some simple p-values: Suppose that some fraction p of potential speakers are female. Then the probability that all 22 of the speakers are male would be (1-p)^22. For p = 0.1, we have a p-value of 0.098, which c
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How My Chess Engine Works(naftaliharris.com)
1 points by naftaliharris 14y ago|0 comments
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Bit Twiddling Hacks(graphics.stanford.edu)
5 points by naftaliharris 14y ago|0 comments
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by naftaliharris 14y ago
I just learned today that the first few google hits for NLP are about Neuro-Linguistic Programming and not Natural Language Processing. Imagine my disappointment!
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Very Difficult Analytical Puzzles(folj.com)
2 points by naftaliharris 14y ago|0 comments

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