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by platypii 13y ago
Because that's what is necessary to actually use algorithms in practice if the demand is non-trivial.
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by platypii 13y ago
The irony is not lost on us :-) We are a small team actively building this site. We will be completely open as soon as possible.
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by platypii 13y ago
Sorry for being vague, that wasn't our intention, so much as to focus on laying out the problem that we've experienced personally as algorithm developers. We will be posting more blog posts with much more detail about the system i
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by platypii 13y ago
I agree that the existing libraries are great, and if anything that success is what we to encourage even more of. We want to build a community around algorithm development, and have a central place for developers to share their work, and co
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by platypii 13y ago
We are algorithm developers ourselves and our goal is just to make these awesome algorithms that are being developed more widely available. We are not trying to monopolize basic algorithms. In fact in a free market I don't see how that
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by platypii 13y ago
Algorithmia will be like a wiki of algorithms. Or a github. The difference is that the code will also be available live as a service so that other developers can easily make use of them. We strongly believe in open source, and the source co
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by platypii 13y ago
Based on my experiences in grad school, I'm not sure it is an exaggeration to say that it's "broken". So much work done solving hard problems, that ends up in academic journals and never seen again. And there's no r
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by platypii 13y ago
Yes definitely. The code is available for people to learn from, and you will be able to edit the code and see the results immediately. The goal is to all about making algorithms more accessible.
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by platypii 13y ago
Thanks! Will be coming out with more details about the platform soon. Always interested to hear feedback though.
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Algorithm Development is Broken(blog.algorithmia.com)
80 points by platypii 13y ago|54 comments
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by platypii 13y ago
Doesn't work without the parent having a defined height.
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by platypii 13y ago
Sorted list + binary search was 2000pts and ran much faster than the hashmap solution.
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by platypii 13y ago
I like gandi.net. Very clean UI, their motto is "no bullshit" and they live up to it in my experience.
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by platypii 13y ago
This seems like a cool idea. What I like about it is the way that it assigns a quantifiable value to mathematical proofs, and incentives their production. Assuming proofs are valuable (which I believe they are), then by creating a market we
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by platypii 13y ago
I have always assumed it was to reduce the likelihood of conflicts with future alarms. For example if I set alarms at 8:00 and 9:00, if I've been snoozing the 8:00 alarm, and snooze is 10 minutes, the two alarms will both fire at 9:00.
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by platypii 13y ago
From the Android API docs: "What a Terrible Failure: Report an exception that should never happen." http://developer.android.com/reference/android/util/Log.html... , java.lang.String)
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by platypii 13y ago
good riddance
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by platypii 13y ago
Something like this, where they put up a 30-story building in 15 days in China. Super impressive timelapse: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hdpf-MQM9vY
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by platypii 13y ago
Could you please characterize the difference between "criminal charges" vs "political ones"?
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by platypii 13y ago
My problem with his remarks was that he was addressing the wrong issue. He was defending the need to access this data without a warrant. He then repeatedly stated that he welcomed the discussion. But how can a national discussion take place
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by platypii 13y ago
Maybe Microsoft would have some more interesting products if they had more employee churn...
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by platypii 14y ago
http://bitcoinity.org/markets
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by platypii 14y ago
I was pulled over for this exact reason in CA. I went to court, showed cell phone logs that I had not made or received any calls or texts, and the case was dismissed. The judge said specifically that "I'm not convinced that using maps is an
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by platypii 14y ago
No, gopro has acknowledged it. I think it's a weak response, but here it is: http://www.reddit.com/r/gopro/comments/1anq5d/gopro_doesnt_l...
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by platypii 14y ago
When I say relatively easy, I mean compared to the prevailing wisdom that causing a fork requires controlling 51% of the total bitcoin mining capacity. Also, it doesn't need to be a crypto failure. Just a divergence of the clients on how th
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by platypii 14y ago
OK, so it's not hard to imagine double spends happening during a fork. This incident proves that as long as there is at least one provider willing to exchange BTC automatically, and is unaware of a fork in progress, then one can exploit the
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by platypii 14y ago
Right, but that's what I like about Play. They took Netty, and they took Akka and all the other really nice reactive stuff and integrated it very cleanly. With Akka you get most of the concurrency benefits you would get from a language like
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by platypii 14y ago
Friend of doppenhe here. Amazon, heroku etc aren't fast enough for us due to spin-up time. Basically when we get a particular command from a user, we need to do a LOT computation on many parallel machines, but for a short burst of time. Kee
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by platypii 14y ago
Well I guess I have some citations to read later, but intuitively I just have a hard time believing that lack of training data is the problem. There's so incredibly much data available on the internet. If that was the limiting factor, it wo
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by platypii 14y ago
While I believe the author is not wrong in his argument that information theory is a bound on machine intellignce, I think the problem with using information theoretic bounds is that it is not a tight bound. In other words, I don't think in

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