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by ppod 15y ago
Hmm, sorry.. i thought it allowed an intial viewing of one article.
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Why executives are learning to code (ft.com)
2 points by ppod 15y ago|2 comments
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by ppod 15y ago
Is the sum of logs method mathematically equivalent to the multiplication of probabilities (i.e. will it always produce a monotonic ordering of class predictions)?
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by ppod 15y ago
>hash passwords with something like bcrypt? It's like two damn functions. You just call them! I estimate that the average web user understands about 66% of those words. And that's if we give them 'password'.
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by ppod 15y ago
There's an odd moment just at the end of part 1 and the start of part 2. The camera guy complains a little that Wallace is moving around a lot as he talks, and then he tells Wallace that he's 'pontificating'. It's a strange one, I think the
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by ppod 15y ago
I see your point, but it's a little simplistic. By opening and complying with the law you are to a certain extent validating or condoning that law. By agreeing to abide by China's rules Google to some extent takes pressure off the Chinese g
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by ppod 15y ago
There is absolutely no information on that page as to what the possible ministerial order contains.
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by ppod 15y ago
Is it true that sites with a facebook like button send the IP address of hits back to facebook?
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Swimming submarines - The philosophical debate on machine intelligence(theswimmingsubmarine.blogspot.com)
1 points by ppod 15y ago|0 comments
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by ppod 15y ago
In a way, it is a really perfect picture though. It's a nice plain cup of nice plain black coffee, no visible writing or advertising, no clutter, nice background with a gradient.
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by ppod 15y ago
Thank you man, I don't know where I'd be without VLC....
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by ppod 15y ago
You have a spelling error there in the last section header - should be "leisure and hobbies"
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by ppod 15y ago
"participants were also asked to rate how religious they were." If this was the exact wording of the question, I think they should have instead asked people to rate to what extent they believe in a soul. It's not very fashionable (especiall
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by ppod 15y ago
A system to solve problems like #1 was actually one of the very first tasks solved by early AI research. It was a PhD in MIT in 1964. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STUDENT_%28computer_program%29
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Paper describing Bayesian method for solving Zodiac cipher (pdf)(aclweb.org)
1 points by ppod 15y ago|0 comments
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by ppod 15y ago
"“We’re not going to have faster processors,” says Katherine Yelick, a computer scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California." Seems a little premature, I wouldn't rule out some big leap forward in processor technolo
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by ppod 15y ago
"indication sent to the PC speaker from the computer's BIOS that the CPU fan is failing or has failed, or that the power supply voltages have drifted out of tolerance" Should have made it play "Daisy, Daisy, tell me your answer do..."
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by ppod 16y ago
statements would be morphemes wouldn't they? I think characters would be phonemes... perl?
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by ppod 16y ago
I wish the phrase "A modest proposal" would be reserved for the satirical intent with which Swift first used it.
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by ppod 16y ago
"how much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a wouldchuck would chuck wood" That isn't really the best example, considering how these systems tend to work. If their system has a giant bank of text it's using to predict the statistical likeliho
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by ppod 16y ago
I don't think it was an explicit requirement, it just would be very wasteful to do a linear search on a sorted list.
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by ppod 16y ago
Not really. In a programming language, for example, there is a feature called 'introspection' where the program can examine an object in memory as it runs and determine its type. It doesn't mean the program is self aware. I can think about
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by ppod 16y ago
Because linear is O(n) and binary is O(log(n))?
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by ppod 16y ago
"What readers end up with is low quality information, popular conspiracy theories, sensationalism, voyeurism, etc." Readers end up with this because this is what readers want. We know this is what they want because it's what they pay for, w
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by ppod 16y ago
I think that 'ego' and 'awareness' are abstractions we have invented in order to communicate about how we experience our perceptions, memories, and actions subjectively. However all of these perceptions, memories, emotions, and actions are,
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by ppod 16y ago
"But we all know, being inside of a brain and thinking as we read this, that something other than behavior is involved with consciousness You shouldn't say "we all know". I definitely don't know that.
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by ppod 16y ago
I'm a new grad (PhD CompSci) looking for a job in Dublin - where did you advertise your position? Where would you suggest I look? Any tips?
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by ppod 16y ago
there is a selection of positions they do not understand at all. Worse, by definition they do not understand what they do not understand and so cannot avoid them. This is almost certainly true for humans too in terms of general problems r
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by ppod 16y ago
A while ago I submitted a link to a blog post( http://bit.ly/igJeRB ) I did that goes into the system in a bit more depth, based on a paper IBM published - there's a link to the paper (open access) there too. For your cases, from what I g
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by ppod 16y ago
"she responded that there's nothing interesting in her mailbox and she doubts anyone is interested in doing so." What is wrong with this response?

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