pskomoroch

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   by pskomoroch 18y ago

   I used to have a lot more time for non CS reading and actually made an Amazon list on this topic back in 2005: http://www.amazon.com/gp/richpub/listmania/fullview/2INJSM38... 1. On War (Everyman's Library (Cloth)) by Carl Von Clausewitz
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   NYTimes style bubble charts with Python and Nodebox(juiceanalytics.com)

   3 points by pskomoroch 18y ago|1 comments
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   by pskomoroch 18y ago

   We launched our new Django webapp this week at http://www.concentrateme.com (with a free version if your site has google analytics). One of the features involves pattern mining within search query data which allows you to perform some int
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   Search Competition Among Travel Sites(juiceanalytics.com)

   3 points by pskomoroch 18y ago|1 comments
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   by pskomoroch 18y ago

   I talked to jeff barr @amazon a while back about these kind of issues (if you have large datasets to shuffle on/off EC2, is there an efficient & cost effective way to do it?) - shoot him an email or comment on the aws blog so they know
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   by pskomoroch 18y ago

   Numpy/Scipy syntax is very close to matlab, but python is a lot more powerful. I port matlab code over to python pretty frequently. A toy example is here along links to other comparisons: http://www.datawrangling.com/python-montage-code-fo
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   by pskomoroch 18y ago

   http://code.google.com/p/canopy-clustering/ "This repository contains a set of example map-reduces using Hadoop. Specifically, there are examples for: * Pagerank * Canopy-clustering " more examples like k-means here: http://
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   by pskomoroch 18y ago

   warning... visiting the versionista site crashed my iphone
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   by pskomoroch 18y ago

   I posted a bunch of machine learning video courses here: http://www.datawrangling.com/hidden-video-courses-in-math-sc... videolectures.net has a ton of material as well Hastie and Bishop are good books to start with, assuming you have a r
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    by pskomoroch 18y ago

    Hopefully they fix the usability issues they introduced quickly. I'm a long time user and I might bail. More feedback here: "Suggestions and ideas: What do you dislike about the new design?" http://support.delicious.com/forum/comments.php
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    by pskomoroch 18y ago

    Amazon does the same thing with Mechanical Turk Qualification Tests (Only has A-Z sorting): http://www.mturk.com/mturk/findquals?requestable=false&e...
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    by pskomoroch 18y ago

    also see http://www.snpedia.com "SNPedia is based on a wiki model, in order to foster communication about genetic variation and to allow interested community members to help it evolve to become ever more relevant. We anticipate that as th
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    by pskomoroch 18y ago

    Comparing travelocity and kayak is interesting, but the best flight scheduling interface is ITA's demo app (seems to be down right now): http://matrix.itasoftware.com/ It gives a color coded matrix of flights, and all the info is captured
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    by pskomoroch 18y ago

    1) yes. 2) no. 3) no. ...there is a minimum guaranteed performance level for each instance type. for small instances (1 core), each user gets a minimum of 1/N of the system resources. If you fire up an extra-large instance, you essentia
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    by pskomoroch 18y ago

    summize.com is also in the DC area...
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    by pskomoroch 18y ago

    Juice Analytics: www.juiceanalytics.com Looking for python/django developers, UI types, db developers, and machine learning people...
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    by pskomoroch 18y ago

    A bunch of APIs, data, and examples here: http://del.icio.us/pskomoroch/gis
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    by pskomoroch 18y ago

    Google Trends added functionality this week for CSV output of trends data. The code in the post is a quick hack that handles authentication and data munging, allowing you to query google trends directly from python. Should help people get
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    PyGTrends: Python API for Google Trends Data(juiceanalytics.com)

    3 points by pskomoroch 18y ago|2 comments
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    by pskomoroch 18y ago

    that is an elegant library... hadn't seen it before, thanks.
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    by pskomoroch 18y ago

    Here was my plan: http://www.datawrangling.com/hidden-video-courses-in-math-sc... Watched videos on the archos while doing cardio at the gym...Add regular weightlifting where the weight increases over time (just find a program you like fr
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    Django Dash: 48 Hour App Competition(djangodash.com)

    6 points by pskomoroch 19y ago|1 comments
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    by pskomoroch 19y ago

    Thanks, I still have 25+ pounds to go as well :) I think a lot of people fall into the same vicious work/code/sleep or school/code/sleep cycle, especially with startups.
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    Hidden Video Courses in Math, Science, and Engineering(datawrangling.com)

    37 points by pskomoroch 19y ago|6 comments
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    by pskomoroch 19y ago

    these press releases really need to start linking to the papers.. full paper here: http://www.iovs.org/cgi/content/abstract/49/3/1142
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    by pskomoroch 19y ago

    It was a great article, but he hasn't really been anonymous in the Netflix Prize world: http://www.netflixprize.com/community/viewtopic.php?pid=6090... Anyway, congrats Gavin...
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    by pskomoroch 19y ago

    http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000809.html
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    by pskomoroch 19y ago

    Good point, some of these datasets are open/free...others are not. If anyone is going to use a "seemingly-free" data set in open source code, try to get permission under the appropriate license. There is a good overview of the difficultie
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    List of Datasets on the Web(datawrangling.com)

    31 points by pskomoroch 19y ago|4 comments