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Moneyball for basketball(arxiv.org)
2 points by plg 12y ago|0 comments
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by plg 12y ago
Yes that's true
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by plg 12y ago
i can haz gnupg?
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by plg 12y ago
bet you could get better service using an offshore (or not) online personal assistant (i.e. a real human)
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by plg 12y ago
for me the BS factor goes way up with slick, slick academic websites this style (i.e. no style) seems par for the course among CS academics content vs style --- I prefer content
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by plg 12y ago
Subscription fee + highly curated content + no ads (I think?) ... maybe this is the future of the newspaper business in the digital economy?
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Economist Espresso daily briefing for smartphones(economist.com)
1 points by plg 12y ago|1 comments
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Education is a fundamental human right for everyone(apple.com)
3 points by plg 12y ago|0 comments
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What happens when all Bitcoins are mined?
2 points by plg 12y ago|1 comments
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by plg 12y ago
A really good example of how to give a great talk.
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by plg 12y ago
I wish they wouldn't say that it's free. It's not free if you have to hand over a bunch of your information in order to see the content.
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by plg 12y ago
This is reminiscent of Julian Assange's recent article in newsweek ( http://goo.gl/hYbCa9 ) which draws parallels between early companies of the "military-industrial complex" (e.g. lockheed-martin, general dyna
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by plg 12y ago
wait ... pasta is fattening? I eat pasta ALL THE TIME and I am far from "fat"
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by plg 12y ago
iPython / SciPy R MATLAB Julia C It's nice to have so many options today, it means when you bang up against the shortcomings of one language/system you can often jump to another one to get what you want (e.g. speed, or specif
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by plg 12y ago
I'd like to see them donate to the EFF
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by plg 12y ago
some people only need (and are perfectly happy with) what is essentially a "microsoft office appliance" (or: google-docs + chrome appliance). that's fine. I just wish they wouldn't call it a "computer"
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FireChat 'off-the-grid' messaging app: What you need to know(cbc.ca)
2 points by plg 12y ago|0 comments
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by plg 12y ago
@teganandsara PROBABILITY FEMALE: 0.003 PROBABILITY MALE: 0.996 I would say this doesn't work very well.
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by plg 12y ago
that's a good summary, the figures you quote are accurate the question is, then, what are the salary possibilities for a person with similar experience, stature in their chosen field of work, in the private sector? my guess is there is
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by plg 12y ago
one of the biggest differences between academia and industry, in the context of salary, isn't just the salary per se but the increment in salary that is possible. in academia your salary is very much fixed. no such thing as a bonus. yo
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by plg 12y ago
"Can a Computer Replace Your Doctor? " only if it's pre-programmed to be > 40 min late for each appointment
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You are not our product (Apple)(macrumors.com)
2 points by plg 12y ago|2 comments
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by plg 12y ago
The question is, who released this information? My impression from all I have read about the Snowden affair is that some time ago he gathered some very large number of documents (large enough that he couldn't have gone through them all
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by plg 12y ago
Apple Pay? Pay Apple.
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by plg 12y ago
it's always interesting to me that we (north americans in particular) seem to think that just because a person is rich, that they therefore: - are interesting people - are smart - have opinions that are well founded and worth listening
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by plg 12y ago
I'm not sure the purpose here is to save people money. It's more about autonomy and privacy, no?
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by plg 12y ago
maybe they would thank you. Imagine though the day after, they had noticed security camera footage of a masked intruder wandering the store, and then taking merchandise out the door. They can't identify the intruder. They call the poli
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by plg 12y ago
I think the thing to be careful of here is the method(s) one uses to reveal a vulnerability. Think of a brick-and-mortar analogy. You queue up at airport security, you go through, and you notice that their procedures are such that one COULD
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by plg 12y ago
I dunno... it appears that he was expelled for some other reason, not the original reporting of the bug? http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/01/20/youth-expelled-from-...
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by plg 12y ago
yes absolutely thanks for clarifying what I meant

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