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by physcab 16y ago
Sorry about that. A lot of the meta-discussion I had with others (mostly non-techs or semi-techs) this past week about the Prediction API was simply "But what would I use this for?" kinds of questions. That's what this post was meant to
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by physcab 16y ago
Good idea! But I also want people to understand what I'm talking about to some degree :) This is actually quite difficult to do. First you need to identify which features of a song are representative of its genre (a song might have 3 mill
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by physcab 16y ago
Yeah thats weird. I'm not sure why. If you go to the homepage or take out the trailing slash, it loads up on Google Chrome.
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by physcab 16y ago
Right. At this point you kind-of have to just imagine the workflow (which is actually what I do quite a bit before tackling an analytics problem). You have to envision an ultimate goal of what you want your output to be, an understanding
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How I Would Use the Google Prediction API (To Find Your Musical Profile)(thedatascientist.com)
28 points by physcab 16y ago|14 comments
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by physcab 16y ago
It's unfortunate that the demo they performed went so badly. If I'm going to view internet on my TV, it has to be easier than plugging in my laptop. After watching them fiddle around with their devices so awkwardly, I doubt it will be any
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by physcab 16y ago
No, I don't mind using their algorithms (I'm sure they are correct anyways). I just mind that I can't tinker the algorithm to be optimized for my special use case scenario. You can have accuracy and scalability. It's just that normally yo
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by physcab 16y ago
That would be interesting. Does anyone have a dataset? Ideally to do this type analysis you would also need to know the upvote (or downvote) history of the users so you can pinpoint any bias, or predict which comments you as a user are
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by physcab 16y ago
For very specific problems, yes. The translation classification example is definitely a type of prediction problem that would be good for this service. However, this is far from a silver bullet to ML problems. It can be quite dangerous, f
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by physcab 16y ago
Quoted from "Summary for the lazy" aka tl;dr "VP8, as a spec, should be a bit better than H.264 Baseline Profile and VC-1. It’s not even close to competitive with H.264 Main or High Profile. If Google is willing to revise the spec, this c
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by physcab 16y ago
Heh. When I first read "SEM Specialist", my first thought was "why does Airbnb want to hire someone who knows Scanning Electron Microscopy"?
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by physcab 16y ago
Expectations for Diaspora are too high? Diaspora has a curse? I got the feeling from Kickstarter that people without expectations give money to a cause. When I donate money to Kiva, I know fully well that that money may never come back
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Ask Yourself, Is this Data Useful?(thedatascientist.com)
1 points by physcab 16y ago|0 comments
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by physcab 16y ago
Maybe he was joking. But whether it was joking or accurate, that was probably a comment he could have kept to himself. I guess I hear those types of comments all too often in academia from scientists who are trying to make a name for themse
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by physcab 16y ago
> He [Alexander Slocum] has a lot of creative ideas. One in 10 are really brilliant ideas, but nine are dumb,” said MIT professor Wai K. Cheng, a colleague in Slocum’s department. I don't understand why some scientists come public with
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by physcab 16y ago
Yes, there are a few of us sharks lurking around here on the interwebs...
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by physcab 16y ago
Its pretty amazing. Even though the shuttle is less intense than the Saturn V would have been, its still spectacular. We were a good 6-10 miles away and it felt like someone was blaring a 15" subwoofer close-by. Then you look up into the s
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by physcab 16y ago
What I'm wondering is: can't Facebook create intent? If they know my favorite bands and location, can't they sell me concert tickets I might be interested in? If they know I'm in school and who my friends are, can't they not only advert
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by physcab 16y ago
> Of course, if we had fusion we could easily solve this problem, but that's a good 40 years away. Funny, I've heard people tell me that's what they said 40 years ago.
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by physcab 16y ago
Let's hope that because this is Hurricane Oil Slick instead of Hurricane Katrina, the cleanup at the Gulf will take less than the projected 20 years (of Katrina that is). The residents at the Gulf sure don't get a break from natural and ma
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by physcab 16y ago
Actually I think it depends who your customers of that data are. If you're supplying that data to existing customers as "nice-to-know" details, you're right on. But perhaps you run an advertising-based business and you're looking to increa
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by physcab 16y ago
Well, not exactly. Developers can make use of Scribe which is Facebook's opensource logging server, or roll their own dead-simple log server. Really its all about firing events everytime a user does something on your site and recording th
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by physcab 16y ago
Yes. Lots of info out there. You can use our API at Grooveshark available here: http://tinysong.com/api You can also bulk download Discogs here: http://www.discogs.com/data/ And MusicBrainz has one here: http://musicbrainz.org/ You c
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by physcab 16y ago
To present an alternative viewpoint on this matter, I would say for people looking to start data-driven startups to first think about your application. What do you want to make? Then think about how you can glean information from the norm
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Ask HN: Editors For Hire?
6 points by physcab 16y ago|2 comments
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Data, Data Everywhere(economist.com)
1 points by physcab 16y ago|0 comments
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by physcab 16y ago
I had the same thought too. Their deal structure seems a bit convoluted, and when this is paired with the fact that they are gleaning my personal information it comes off as spammy.
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by physcab 16y ago
It's funny you bring up that anecdote about tenure because I had several professors tell me that exact same thing . Except in my scenario, I had brought forward allegations of cheating and the full professors were the ones to get behind m
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by physcab 16y ago
Well, I think you have to define what you mean by "college course". From past experiences, core college courses seem to have bell curves because everyone has to take them and not everyone will be good at them. Graduate core college course
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by physcab 17y ago
I'm not sure if this is actually true or not, but when those SpaceX flights failed, I sent the articles to my dad for his interpretation (currently works on the Atlas rockets). His response was somewhat comical: "Oh yea, those were mistakes

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