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by pz 17y ago
skyline chili! if i moved back to the 'nati i'd get a job there. i miss it so... (the canned stuff doesn't come close)
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by pz 17y ago
i believe its cut off. 'read more' doesn't finish the sentence. this reminds me of the pancake sort problem, except there you can only flip a contiguous subarray at the beginning. i got this in an interview once and then used it a few time
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by pz 18y ago
if you want to read a good mathematical exposition, check out chapter 6 in Mackay's (the guy giving the presentation) book "Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms". It covers stream codes and, specifically, arithmetic codin
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by pz 18y ago
its about time this started getting some attention. i am currently selling just enough to get by (living in SF, with a taste for good whiskey) and its a pain not knowing when the money will come in. it took them over 2 months to deliver m
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by pz 18y ago
convex optimization covers a lot of different problem types. in general, you are trying to minimize (or maximize) some function (the objective function) over a set of variables subject to a set of constraints on those variables. 'convex o
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by pz 18y ago
i second this. this is probably my favorite text book behind Mackay's "Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms". if you take the time to honestly follow the text you come away with a great understanding of convex optimizatio
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by pz 18y ago
having it somewhere with beer would be nice. that way the day can devolve into a bare-fisted language war.
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by pz 18y ago
pancho villa at 16th & valencia is pretty good and la cumbre around the corner is also pretty good. i also like the tonayense taco truck on harrison and the al pastor at san jose at 24th & mission is delicious. if you want something
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by pz 18y ago
see you there
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by pz 18y ago
yes, i stand corrected.
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by pz 18y ago
objective c is fine, its cocoa i find daunting. i am used to object.method() syntax so the [object message] syntax was a little hard to parse at first.... but you get used to it. i went from writing a lot of python to writing obj-c so the
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by pz 18y ago
I second the Hillegass recommendation. Between that and example code and a lot of head scratching i think i finally understand the iPhone dev framework. I just put out my first app (iGo) and things are promising. We'll see but my hope it
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by pz 18y ago
amen! godspeed is a must have. i definitely prefer repetitive or ambient, non-lyrical music. sometimes i'll even put on sleep-music albums a couple albums in particular standout: * philip glass & ravi shankar - passages * kawabata
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by pz 18y ago
I agree that initially you should dump it to a local filesystem. Since this is an experiment you don't want to get bogged down in DB performance details. Also, if HD space is a concern, occasionally tar/zip up a bunch of the data. HTML is
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by pz 18y ago
flippant summary of bayesian stats: normalize the likelihood, multiply by a prior (which you can just set to whatevs). oh, and you are allowed to assign probabilities to non-repeatable events, i.e. what's the probability there is life on ma