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by physcab 17y ago
Just curious- do you have to pay any licensing costs? And if so, do you know offhand how they compare to music licensing costs?
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by physcab 17y ago
Thanks for contributing. But it's not necessary to preface your submissions. We can tell by looking at your profile.
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by physcab 17y ago
This sounds a lot like how my PhD oral qualifying exams went. Except I got 30 minutes of highly technical questions from all 6 committee members and then sat outside for 40 minutes while they deliberated if they should let me stay in gradu
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by physcab 17y ago
I hear they also have a great Artists product (artists.grooveshark.com) that provides real-time analytics to artists so they can tour and promote their music more efficiently :)
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by physcab 17y ago
This debate comes up often here, but one point that always seems to get left out is that a PhD affords you time for your ideas and skills to mature. I currently have the unique opportunity to work for a startup while also working on my Ph
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by physcab 17y ago
I really enjoy your blog posts. You have the ability to distill your ideas down to the essential concepts and communicate them very clearly. You also always seem to have the right proportions of confidence and humility, which is a rare fin
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Book Review- Googled: The End of the World As We Know It(nytimes.com)
12 points by physcab 17y ago|10 comments
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by physcab 17y ago
A good indespensible textbook for me had been chris bishops book Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning. However it might be suited best for the grad student. Honestly the best thing you can do is start working on machine learning problem
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by physcab 17y ago
I wonder how lucrative the market is though. As hackers, we're naturally inclined towards products like these. If actigraphy is an established sleep-study technique, then you have to wonder why there aren't more players.
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by physcab 17y ago
Sorry, when I wrote the comment I was on my Iphone and didn't check the website. I just did. I see what you mean. Why don't you just aggregate total click data and see which articles get clicked the most, bin the results to categories (5,
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by physcab 17y ago
Can you elaborate more on how your sleep changed? I don't have trouble getting to sleep if I put in a full day of productive work topped off with exercise. Is this product only for people with sleep problems?
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by physcab 17y ago
First, I think just based on your description you are indeed asking a lot of the user. For our service, we simply ask the user to vote up or down a piece of content and our dataset is pretty sparse. Users like to consume-they don't have any
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by physcab 17y ago
You make some good points, but isn't this always going to be a problem when training your algorithms? You can't really train in real time so by the nature of the industry you're always going to be put at a disadvantage by using older data.
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by physcab 17y ago
Can't you just download a historical set and use that to test whatever algorithms you think you would use? Then when you are confident enough in their performance, you can take the risk? I wouldn't say it would be a complete waste of ti
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by physcab 17y ago
I haven't seen SAS code before. I'll take your word that it's ugly. However, if SAS can adopt new standards, I hardly see them waning. Companies will always be thirsty for better ways to understand their customers, and now with the ease a
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by physcab 17y ago
I really enjoyed that article. The active M&A in business intelligence software companies shows just how big Big Data is for business, and how big the market is for new startups to tailor specific techniques for niche industries. Howe
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by physcab 17y ago
Grooveshark is always looking for quality people. I know the marketing teams are continually bringing new people on and we will probably be scaling our dev team soon as well. We're in Gainesville Florida though. Send me an e-mail.
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by physcab 17y ago
Hey Pete, what's the difference between Voldemort and HBase? Looks interesting.
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by physcab 17y ago
I did, but I'm not sure what in your comment disproves the self-esteem issue. My point is not what men think of women (how they rate them), but what women do when presented with the options I mentioned (attractive guys messaging them). I
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by physcab 17y ago
Ok, I'm going to go out and say it: There is an absurd amount of pressure on women in this society to be perfect. Now, I'm not going to refute the fact that I wouldn't message the most-attractive women as well. But if the knee-jerk reacti
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by physcab 17y ago
There is a lot of people who think like you and lots of people are hard at work solving this problem. The space is quite crowded, but is still ripe for disruption. Good luck.
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by physcab 17y ago
That's an interesting proposition. Let me shed some light on the process from what I've learned over the past year. - Artists are all about distribution. For artists to want to effectively "sign" with you, you have to present them an aven
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by physcab 17y ago
I think you are best served by diving head strong into a programming language in order to make your idea a reality. When you struggle, get on mailing lists and forums. Go to Hacker meetups. Hang out at your nearest school's computer scie
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Hunger in U.S. at a 14-year High(nytimes.com)
9 points by physcab 17y ago|1 comments
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by physcab 17y ago
K-means is a fairly easy algorithm to implement. You just split your data depending on how many clusters you want, calculate the distance of every point to each cluster, assign, re-split, re-calculate, re-assign until some convergence crite
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by physcab 17y ago
If anyone is looking for a good reference to one of AI's subtopics--Machine Learning--then I highly recommend Christopher Bishop's Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning. I believe the book was published in 2006, so a vast majority of the
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by physcab 17y ago
From the Monterey Bay SeaFood Watch application I have on my Iphone... "Rating: Avoid - All populations of bluefin tuna are being caught faster than they can reproduce. Bluefin is being further depleted by ranching operations that collect
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by physcab 17y ago
Knowing regular expressions is an all around good idea when doing data processing. Steep learning curve but pays itself off in increased productivity. What stream XML parsers do you use? I just get my data ready for Hadoop and let it go.
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by physcab 17y ago
No I meant 100MB. It really depends on how strained your databases are. For example, we have about 6 people constantly running jobs on MySQL and running it into the ground. So if I ever wanted to do some data manipulation I have to prett
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by physcab 17y ago
I've been using Hive for the past month or so. It has significantly reduced my development time in doing analytics. If you're interested in this tool, let me give some advice: 1) Hive shines when your dataset is truly massive (ie > 10

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