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by pav3l 14y ago
Many use Matlab because of its amazing IDE, a great collection of toolboxes and remarkable speed, not so much because of its language features. Last I checked Octave was still missing all of that. If you can afford it, Matlab is usually wel
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by pav3l 14y ago
It seems like a good idea, but I wonder how actually useful highly specialized programming languages would be. Why? 1) Most data analysis tasks boil down to roughly the same things: accessing the data source --> data cleaning -->sim
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by pav3l 14y ago
Here is a nice 4-year old still active discussion on pros and cons of different data analysis technologies: http://brenocon.com/blog/2009/02/comparison-of-data-analysis...
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by pav3l 14y ago
I was on Haida Gwaii couple years ago with 2 friends. Pretty much every local we have encountered was very friendly and offered us home canned salmon for free. There were golden eagles and huge ravens everywhere. Ancient rainforests. I got
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by pav3l 14y ago
Very true, once you start understanding how to approach the right questions , the problem moves to the scientific domain, e.g. natural philosophy--> physics, philosophy of mind (partly) -->psychology/neuroscience/cognitive science,
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by pav3l 14y ago
(2009)
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by pav3l 14y ago
Even worse! They could derail passenger trains loaded with lethal chemicals and nuclear weapons!
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by pav3l 14y ago
Aren't cellular automata in continuous space just PDE's? If so, what is the equation being integrated? EDIT: found the paper: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1111.1567v2.pdf
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by pav3l 14y ago
"Of course I apologize to Mr. Dotcom. I appologize to New Zealanders, because every New Zealander that sits within a category of holding a permanent residency, or New Zealand citizen, is entitled to be protected from the law, when it comes
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by pav3l 14y ago
Same. As I was watching the video, I thought "this would be a great project to do", rather than "I'd pay a lot of money for this".
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by pav3l 14y ago
Javascript can run in the browser, distributed computing. http://hackaday.com/2009/03/03/distributed-computing-in-java...
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Heartbeat could be your new password(sciencenewsdaily.org)
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by pav3l 14y ago
While we are on the topic, the much anticipated Python for Data Analysis ( http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920023784.do ) is supposed to come out this month. I'm wondering if anyone here has tried the early release and what are your tho
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Which "mean" to use and when?(stats.stackexchange.com)
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by pav3l 14y ago
OkCupid sold a sample of their dataset for $1,000, but I can't find it on Infochimps anymore.
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by pav3l 14y ago
Most arguments I've come across seem to be of the type "FP will make you a smarter programmer and better person, just try it and you'll see. Lot's of programmers are too dumb to get it though, so don't feel bad if you're one of them". I wa
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by pav3l 14y ago
I am not a computer scientist by training. Can someone experienced in Haskell convince me why I should take time to learn it? I do tons of technical/statistical computing (python, Matlab, R) and some web-based projects (database driven most
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by pav3l 14y ago
I'm curious where you got your data for the graph? For example, I don't understand how R is influenced by Scheme, and S is isn't.
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by pav3l 14y ago
Someone just started a discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4577865
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by pav3l 14y ago
Wait, they just used your graph and didn't even contact you about it?
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by pav3l 14y ago
Do they still heavily rely on PageRank? With the amount of traffic data Google has, I would expect more statistical approaches based on what users click (rather than graph algorithms based on how the web is linked) to be the backbone for ra
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by pav3l 14y ago
Would definitely like to read it! I personally find the need to go back and forth quite a bit between different tools when working even on a single dataset. Say, i'll do some work with text part of the dataset in Python, then use Matlab for
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by pav3l 14y ago
I would be interested to see more "low level" posts about how people approach their data analysis workflow. I do data analysis for a living and find that efficient workflow has just as much impact on your productivity and results as the cho
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by pav3l 14y ago
Publication in Nature is not so much for newest information on your specific and somewhat narrow subject, but for more or less breakthroughs of various degrees. From guidelines[1]: - report original scientific research (the main results and
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by pav3l 14y ago
Why, in this day and age, is there still publicly funded research that is not open access? Also I could rant for hours on the need to make your data available for any peer reviewed publication.
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by pav3l 14y ago
Wouldn't that significantly increase "the variance" and segregation of different political ideologies across the world, thus promoting more international tension?
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by pav3l 14y ago
Right, nevermind...
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by pav3l 14y ago
Exactly, most likely Watson's stuff came from his ISP's cache.
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by pav3l 14y ago
http://www.robohornet.org/ doesn't even load on IE7
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by pav3l 14y ago
HN discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4136016

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