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by probdist 11y ago
I'm slightly concerned about the Hadoop/Spark + machine learning ecosystem right now. There seem to be a lot of technologies and projects being built up on the core foundation of in memory distributed computation. MLlib in Spark,
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by probdist 11y ago
Yes. The link for this story adds less than the average comment on HN in the previous discussion to the overall conversation.
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by probdist 11y ago
I tend to get conference call setups running via Microsoft Skype for business. The call in number stays the same but the conference code changes for each meeting even if it is a recurring meeting as does the link for joining via web.
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by probdist 11y ago
Why not just hire a lawyer to help with terms and closing? I'm assuming you have a significant fraction of a house in value here. You'd have a lawyer to help close that transaction.
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by probdist 11y ago
Indeed. It actually puts UC Berkeley in a pretty horrible position by going public like this. It does not look good for employers to have the same kind of public litany of complaints against an employee. Some things stand out from a quick s
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by probdist 11y ago
so Bostonography has been a long running attempt to build crowd-sourced definitions of neighborhoods. I expect the interested difference from my maps will be an aggregated report on the data that will come out as has happened on several pre
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Mapping Greater Boston's Neighborhoods(bostonography.com)
41 points by probdist 11y ago|3 comments
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Mapping Greater Boston's Neighborhoods(bostonography.com)
1 points by probdist 11y ago|0 comments
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by probdist 11y ago
No. Pao lost. 1) Pao lost the case and as a result was found to owe (part) of KP's legal bills. 2) KP has filled something with the court indicating that they don't need enforcement of that any more. Indicating either Pao paid the
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by probdist 11y ago
Haven't tried ADVI yet, but I think it is (likely) a great idea. In general automatic differentiation is a wildly powerful technique and is underutilized in computational science. Even in pure optimization problems people rarely levera
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by probdist 11y ago
Stan is best viewed in my mind as a successor to BUGS (Bayesian Inference Using Gibbs Sampling) which more people may have heard of. In fact, there are lots of players in the probabilistic programming space now, personally I like the model
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by probdist 11y ago
I guess I don't really understand this at least with respect to bothering to change the name. I'd try to draw a parallel to what Google did in becoming Alphabet but that doesn't seem to be a congruent situation. The organizat
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An Introduction to Startups in Synthetic Biology(synbiofieldreports.plos.org)
23 points by probdist 11y ago|4 comments
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by probdist 11y ago
Not entirely. For example many forms of music are subject to either compulsory or statutory licensing. Also, the United States government has long held that it does not need to comply with patent law for its own internal use (e.g DoD can ig
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by probdist 11y ago
Well twitter has just recently restructured the product team so maybe big things are in-store: http://recode.net/2015/09/02/twitter-restructures-product-te...
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Understanding the process of finding serious vulnerabilities(lcamtuf.blogspot.com)
65 points by probdist 11y ago|4 comments
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Statistical Process Control and Industrial Data Science(probdist.com)
1 points by probdist 11y ago|0 comments
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If You Disagree with This Post, You're Joining a Bullying Lynch Mob(popehat.com)
4 points by probdist 11y ago|0 comments
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Data, Information, Knowledge, and Wisdom(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by probdist 11y ago|0 comments
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by probdist 11y ago
Netflix is still running its own CDNs / using CDNs outside of Amazon. "The company, which competes with Amazon in the video-streaming business, elected to keep control of its own content delivery network." So Netflix is still
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by probdist 11y ago
The credit card data derived real time sales estimates were criminally insider information when individual people at firms were doing it (see Capital One case). It is okay for entire firms to be based around this same type of data stream? E
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by probdist 11y ago
This isn't that surprising as a thing that generates value. My questions are 1) how is this legal, and 2) what kind of agreement was forged with the credit card providers to make this possible? If we recall back a few months, analysts
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by probdist 11y ago
Yes. The appeal (Court of Appeals Docket #: 14-35576) and the district court case (Docket #:3:14-cv-00146) are both accurately categorized as huge messes. The allegation that Plunkett actually sent the "threat" flowers to herself
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San Francisco Middle Schools No Longer Teaching ‘Algebra 1′(ww2.kqed.org)
5 points by probdist 11y ago|0 comments
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by probdist 11y ago
The classic venn diagram of data science is still helpful: http://drewconway.com/zia/2013/3/26/the-data-science-venn-di... This article reads like a way to find yourself in the danger zone.
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by probdist 11y ago
Reddit's r/all page is in completely covered with reactions to this. This is perhaps the most controversial move made yet by Reddit staff.
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Witsenhausen's Counterexample(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by probdist 11y ago|0 comments
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by probdist 11y ago
In case anyone's interest was piqued by the complicated reaction mechanisms involved in even relatively simple combustion problems, you can automatically generate these mechanisms using software called "Reaction Mechanism Generato
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Analysis of nmap project and data(sourceforge.net)
17 points by probdist 11y ago|0 comments
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by probdist 11y ago
If I was involved in payment processing, I would not want to even distantly be associated with that industry. The federal regulatory authorities have not been kind to banking efforts in the space.

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