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ML algorithm predicts human emotional response to abstract visual art(extremetech.com)
34 points by pav3l 14y ago|9 comments
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The Scientific Blind Spot(online.wsj.com)
2 points by pav3l 14y ago|0 comments
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by pav3l 14y ago
>Beethoven's Great Fugue is not a miracle of the universe. No, but our ability to enjoy it is.
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by pav3l 14y ago
Interesting how requests from Russia, Turkey and Hungary are consistently ignored, how China is not on the list, and how Brazil's requests have very high compliance rate (similar to the U.S.)
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7-Eleven in Southeast Asia: The rise of a junk food empire(globalpost.com)
2 points by pav3l 14y ago|0 comments
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by pav3l 14y ago
>We keep seeing fake jQuery sites popping up and being used to distribute malware. Anyone has more info? What kind of malware? I'm assuming client side? Any 0-days? Unsurprisingly, both websites are blocked at where I am.
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by pav3l 14y ago
"Big data" technologies just help you perform data analysis on larger datasets. It can be anything from calculating some average to building advanced statistical models. If you are claiming it's useless then you're either claiming 1) that l
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by pav3l 14y ago
http://paulgraham.com/startupideas.html
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Microsoft to power data centre with sewage-sourced methane(wired.co.uk)
1 points by pav3l 14y ago|0 comments
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by pav3l 14y ago
I remember that book being posted on HN, but was hesitant to order it. Has anyone here read it? What are your thoughts?
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by pav3l 14y ago
I actually think of your first two points (optimizing...) as cost cutting services, while the other two are good examples.
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by pav3l 14y ago
Thanks for posting this, I have had some very vague ideas about some cool music-related side projects that I could work on, but never knew how to go about learning the theory (enough to at least formulate some well-defined projects). This l
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by pav3l 14y ago
Just curious, was your site hosted at the same place?
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by pav3l 14y ago
>And let know that the possible options before the Zionist soldier entered Gaza are four options, no more! 1- Either will be killed 2- or will be captivated 3- or will be handicapped 4- or will be mentally ill >We Muslims are people
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by pav3l 14y ago
How do people use these sort of things? I'm genuinely curious. It's not even that fancy of a calc app, since you can't support numpy or plotting. If someone could implement something similar to http://www.mathworks.com/mobile/ for Python,
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Lockheed's F-35 logistics system revolutionary but risky(reuters.com)
2 points by pav3l 14y ago|1 comments
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by pav3l 14y ago
This is an excellent essay. I am coming from a math background and mostly picked up programming on my own. Even though I may not directly use algebra or analysis in my programming, usually what I see as elegant and neat from a mathematical
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by pav3l 14y ago
>1) These script kiddies are not Anonymous; I think you may be overestimating "the real Anonymous".
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Punk Rock Languages (2011)(pragprog.com)
5 points by pav3l 14y ago|0 comments
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by pav3l 14y ago
> I'm reading lots of articles lately that misuse statistics, and I don't think this post puts your company in a good light. Actually I didn't even see any inferential statistics in the post. He just reported observed values and drew hi
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by pav3l 14y ago
I just ordered it 2 days ago directly from O'Reilly website (they currently have "buy 2 get 1 free" promotion, just use code OPC10, http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920025108.do ). Really excited to read it when it comes. In case you're
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Creativity Tips From a Top Mathematician(huffingtonpost.com)
2 points by pav3l 14y ago|0 comments
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by pav3l 14y ago
I had know idea this has been an issue anyone cared about. Is there some back story that would explain this petition?
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Petition to Declassify Discoveries by NSA Mathematicians(petitions.whitehouse.gov)
3 points by pav3l 14y ago|1 comments
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by pav3l 14y ago
>High-end software development skills will become even more scarce. It's not obvious to me. Can you explain your reasoning?
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by pav3l 14y ago
This reminds me of the mug-shot removal service I read about while ago http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/08/mugshots/
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Philosophy's madhatter(3ammagazine.com)
1 points by pav3l 14y ago|0 comments
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NSA Outs Top-Secret Report That Missed the Future of Supercomputing(wired.com)
2 points by pav3l 14y ago|0 comments
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by pav3l 14y ago
For python people, I found this 30 min talk by Ned Batchelder extremely helpful: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgHbC6udIqc
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Time traveling in Vim(coderwall.com)
1 points by pav3l 14y ago|0 comments

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