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by oxtopus 10y ago
Can you elaborate on the "novel anomaly-detection algorithms" used here?
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by oxtopus 10y ago
Full disclosure: I work at Numenta. In the HTM model (presumably the Numenta algorithm you're referring to), synaptic weights are updated with every new data point in discrete time steps (as opposed to continuous). In that sense, HTM
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by oxtopus 11y ago
There are more reasons to stay at a company than perceived value of options. Options are only part of overall compensation and, I don't know, maybe you can actually like your job.
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by oxtopus 11y ago
See https://github.com/numenta/nab for anomaly detection results on real-world data, with comparisons to Twitter and Etsy Skyline.
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by oxtopus 11y ago
I should also add when they mean "architecture" they mean it in the literal sense -- the physical structure in the brain in which encoding sentence meaning takes place.
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by oxtopus 11y ago
Implications are that left mid-superior temporal cortex (LmSTC) carries information about sentence-level meaning, which had kind of already been implied in prior experimentation. The discussion states that they "Provide preliminary evi
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by oxtopus 11y ago
http://donatedav.org/donation-pickup.html
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by oxtopus 11y ago
In Mountain View, and likely elsewhere in the Bay Area, charitable organizations make the rounds once a month to basically do the same. They provide the bags, collect them, and presumably sell what they can for cash. As for batteries and
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by oxtopus 11y ago
I thought it was weird when I first heard it referred to as espresso, but the official name is "Aerobie® AeroPress® Coffee & Espresso Maker" and there doesn't seem to be any consensus on what _espresso_ actually is. The
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What Is Silicon Valley's Problem with Gender?(recode.net)
5 points by oxtopus 12y ago|0 comments
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by oxtopus 12y ago
Actually seems like it'd be a decent use of what became of the ill-fated super collider project south of Dallas. A quarter of it has already been bored.
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by oxtopus 12y ago
NuPIC, the Open Source project upon which Grok (Numenta's commercial product) is built has an active community at http://numenta.org/lists/ . We had a workshop and hackathon a few weeks ago, more details can be fo
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by oxtopus 12y ago
I've been there, having interviewed at both amazon and google and rejected at both. Ultimately, I'm better (and happier) for it. Eventualy found myself in the position of having to choose between multiple better offers. Use thi
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by oxtopus 12y ago
Numenta is very much alive. Grok is available in the form of an AMI on the AWS EC2 marketplace, and if you're curious about how it all works under the hood, NuPIC, the core implementation is free software, available at https:/&#
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by oxtopus 12y ago
FWIW, there is no learning on-chip. Machine learning is not the goal of this project, nor is its success dependent on it's learning capabilities (at least not at this phase). Where it does succeed, however, is in low-power computatio
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by oxtopus 13y ago
In one of my previous roles as a software engineer at a local, independent office supply company, this would have been a compelling idea. They ran a small fleet of leased delivery trucks, and employed drivers hourly, so as a company there
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by oxtopus 13y ago
Assuming your workers can periodically report on progress, Socket.IO may fit the bill, has multiple implementations and provides graceful degradation for older browsers.
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by oxtopus 13y ago
Wow. That contrast between New York and Bronx counties is staggering.
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by oxtopus 13y ago
Good call. Looks like it's a british english convention. I'd not seen that before, thanks!
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by oxtopus 13y ago
Felt ( http://feltapp.com/ ) - Java EE, Glassfish, and AWS experience - Experience scaling to one million+ users - Location: anywhere in the U.S. Please email tomer at feltapp.com for details!
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by oxtopus 13y ago
NuPIC was released as free software, in part, because there has been a strong interest in the academic research community. I encourage you to check out the mailing list ( http://lists.numenta.org/mailman/listinfo/n
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by oxtopus 13y ago
Crass. On a serious note, it's not likely more/better reflective clothing would have helped. It sounds like the driver was deliberately and abruptly deviating from the normal lane to bypass traffic. It was not a decision made wi
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by oxtopus 13y ago
Reading the Manta website, I can't help but be reminded of this webcomic: http://rbxbx.info/images/fault-tolerance.png
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by oxtopus 13y ago
I think the title of this is a bit misleading. The message is much less about "the valley" and more about building a culture around geographically distributed collaboration.
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by oxtopus 13y ago
Running your Flask application with uWSGI could allow you to do just that by way of the spool and other related decorators: http://uwsgi-docs.readthedocs.org/en/latest/PythonDecorators...
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by oxtopus 13y ago
Agreed. Just throwing it out there since I've encountered it before, more than once, where others assume there will always be a response, regardless of status code.
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by oxtopus 13y ago
Something to consider, the author advocates json responses across the board, which is pretty good advice, however, it's incompatible with `204 No Content` responses (also recommended). If you're building a client that connects to an API th
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by oxtopus 13y ago
Consider that git is a database of snapshots-in-time with an interface to append your own snapshot(s), and a protocol for distributing the revised timeline to others. `git fetch` is how you retrieve those changes from a remote (like github)
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by oxtopus 13y ago
Felt actually does have a pane that you can pull out to block input where you might rest your palm, and the quality using just a finger is surprisingly good.
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by oxtopus 13y ago
I think you're on to something, there. If only I could manage my taxes with git...

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