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by physcab 17y ago
The Batman one was awesome. Too bad I can't find it anywhere. It was hilarious.
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by physcab 17y ago
From what I remember from my Intro to Materials class, aerojels have to be made from a sol-gel process, meaning that at any period the quantity is going to be inherently small. You have to introduce the right chemicals at specific periods
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How Under Armour founder Kevin Plank is taking on the industry's biggest players(washingtonpost.com)
2 points by physcab 17y ago|1 comments
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by physcab 17y ago
Ah. You're right. I misread it. However, I stand by my points on visual scripting in general. Even if there is a way to automate certain tasks via GUI elements, you are placing a great deal of trust on the system to operate as expected. I
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by physcab 17y ago
There already is a visual scripting environment--its called LabView and its terrible. LabView is used mostly by scientists who want to control their experiments but don't want to learn how to program. It's very effective when dealing with
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by physcab 17y ago
I assume this strategy works because they would be functioning as a Dropbox-like service where they just supply the hard-drive space in the cloud. Since space is pretty cheap (and Apple has a ton of cash anyways), it seems like the perfect
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by physcab 17y ago
I hadn't heard of this before, so thanks for posting.
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by physcab 17y ago
While I can't find a link, my guess is that Vimeo has exclusive distribution rights with the labels.
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What If Conan Said, ‘Bye, NBC. Hello, Internet’?(bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
21 points by physcab 17y ago|21 comments
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by physcab 17y ago
Yeah, the music industry is experiencing some brain trauma right now. It'll happen to the film and TV industries too in a few more years once bandwidth and memory prices decrease. Because music is so readily available, almost no one expect
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by physcab 17y ago
This is such a dumb article. The author makes it seem like our hands are tied and we are forced to pay such high fees. No, I'm sorry, those are the fees you have to pay for all those services since you chose all of them in the first pla
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by physcab 17y ago
or the CMU speech recognition project: http://cmusphinx.sourceforge.net/wordpress/
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by physcab 17y ago
Woot woot for Casella! (UF prof) My go-to book for Machine Learning is Christopher Bishops Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning. I've read that book cover-to-cover and its got an excellent foundation and covers all those other books in
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by physcab 17y ago
If you get the VM, it has all the tools already installed. Best to try it out on your own machine(s) first before paying the big bucks to Amazon. For the record, its not really EC2 that costs a ton, its the storage that nips you in the bu
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by physcab 17y ago
I think arguing about what you did is right or wrong misses the point. You're free to say whatever you want on your own blog. For the record though, I had no idea who you were before reading your previous two posts, but after reading your
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by physcab 17y ago
Hi HN, I submitted this article because it has sat in my bookmarks for a while and I've referenced it quite a number of times over the past few months. I thought it may be helpful to some of you who work on similar problems. I like it beca
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Calculating 316 Million Movie Correlations in 2 Minutes (Down From 2.5 Hours)(dmnewbie.blogspot.com)
61 points by physcab 17y ago|8 comments
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Impact of 'iSlate' Could Rival iPhone(nytimes.com)
9 points by physcab 17y ago|16 comments
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by physcab 17y ago
I don't believe Facebook made this decision lightly. I'd like to believe that if they found that by releasing this information it placed their users in jeopardy, they wouldn't have done it. Call me naive if you want. I didn't pay much atte
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by physcab 17y ago
What's the unethical component to this? To me, it all depends on what you do with this information. If you use the demographic info simply to understand your users and improve the service for them, then why is that bad? Perhaps you rea
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by physcab 17y ago
Think about this from the perspective of the user though. When I go on Facebook, I expect that whatever information I put on the site is public, regardless of privacy controls (btw, I didn't change any privacy settings when they made a fus
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by physcab 17y ago
Also, Machine Learning Repository: http://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/
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by physcab 17y ago
The only reason why I advocate the easier algorithms is because most people understand how to take the mean of something and can intuitively understand what kmeans or knn will do to a dataset. And I'd even argue that most people wouldn't ev
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by physcab 17y ago
This is a good overview, although I have some critiques. 1) The author doesn't really emphasize how complicated these algorithms are. Most people look at ML and think it can solve their problems (ie predict the future). In practical appli
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by physcab 17y ago
I disagree. Youtube has over 100 million users and they watched nearly 6 billion videos [1]. It's almost as much as digital and basic cable customers combined [2]. Content providers should be begging Youtube to broadcast their content
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by physcab 17y ago
> Now in the future when a blue or heavy thing comes along, I'd like the machine to try to predict whether he'll like it or not. There seems to be two separate steps. First you need to classify the thing a person rates. I'm guessing f
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by physcab 17y ago
What you can do is have a classifier for each tag. You can use a naive bayes technique, which is in PG's essay that I posted to above or you can check out the chapter in Collective Intelligence. You would need to know how much the tag app
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by physcab 17y ago
I always like to think of an application when learning new concepts. Bayesian theory is often used in machine learning, for example, where the "learning" is simply done by updating a bayesian equation. In ML you often have this: posterior
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by physcab 17y ago
I used to be a happy Zipcar member. I spent somewhere in the neighborhood of $600 that year on reservations and whatnot. Then I unfortunately backed up into a tree. I paid the $500 fine. Then they closed my account. Back to my bike.
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by physcab 17y ago
As a material scientist myself, I was curious about their study. So I pulled up their paper in JAP. My first thought before reading was that the high intensity laser pulses were causing local heating such that any impurities in the solid (

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