rm999

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721.
by rm999 14y ago
I think EP describes a problem, whereas how much data you have to move around is dependent on your implementation. For example, SETI@home is an EP problem that could be run on a multicore machine completely in parallel without moving data.
722.
by rm999 14y ago
> even the most parallel programs tend to have bottlenecks There's a big class of "embarrassingly parallel" tasks, which usually are only limited by how quickly you can move your data to where it needs to be.
723.
by rm999 14y ago
All passive income comes from something with value, and hence carries inherent risk. I'd argue real estate is even riskier, yet you aren't criticizing people in this thread who make money from renting/airbnb.
724.
by rm999 14y ago
The world record for average solve time (over five solves) is 7.56 seconds. I think 5.66s is abnormally fast I think. Here's a video of the 5.66s solve: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3v_Km6cv6DU
725.
by rm999 14y ago
Because it's running so slowly, can someone describe what it actually does and maybe mirror to an example? I think I can guess what it is but can't be sure because there is no explanation on the site.
726.
by rm999 14y ago
They have zero profit, so you could argue any single cost is taking away "all their profits". But I'm probably missing a more insightful point - maybe that the RIAA engineers the situation so that their margin is ~0.
727.
by rm999 14y ago
Probably an oversight. I usually surf on 30+ mbps connections, so if I were testing a site I wouldn't notice it.
728.
by rm999 14y ago
>Take the 3rd mason and start giving him a list of what's wrong with the work he's doing every day until the cathedral is built, and see what happens Even the smartest people I know write imperfect/buggy code, especially the first time
729.
by rm999 14y ago
Amazon started a similar service very recently: http://www.forbes.com/sites/greatspeculations/2012/10/05/ama... Instead of a credit card it's a loan (which makes more sense to me), but basically the same idea.
730.
by rm999 14y ago
Can you provide citations? I have read that paypal is regulated far less (in the USA), and I am fairly certain that paypal is not a bank in the USA. One example I can think of: a bank's customers can be plaintiffs in a class suit against th
731.
by rm999 14y ago
I've been banned from Paypal, I assume because my account has been hacked twice (they never gave a concrete reason) among 100s of legitimate transactions over many years. What is frustrating is "this limitation cannot be appealed" - it seem
732.
by rm999 14y ago
The worst was cbs who (used to?) forward me to the main mobile site instead of the article. I still completely avoid cbs on my phone. I don't get why mobile has to be so complicated for publishers. I realize they may be struggling to moneti
733.
by rm999 14y ago
This isn't a literal simulation of real-life work, it's a programming test. Certainly gluing together free components is an important skill for any developer, but I would expect anyone interviewing for a medium to senior level position to b
734.
by rm999 14y ago
Is there a way to get a notification if your region is trending?
735.
by rm999 14y ago
I think a programming assignment is effective at determining how they can perform in a real-world setting. Let them use the internet and any other resources they want (except of course plagiarism), and give them a couple of hours of alone t
736.
by rm999 14y ago
Keep in mind that they are a supervised technique so they can't be compared to what google is doing. 80s style neural networks are flexible and powerful learners. Theoretically they can learn any function, and in practice they often come up
737.
by rm999 14y ago
I'm interested in the service as a consumer. I keep backups of my important files in my apartment, so I consider data loss a very rare but catastrophic event. Glacier is a reasonably priced insurance for my important files.
738.
by rm999 14y ago
> that have been around for the last many years Unsupervised deep learning is the heart of what they are doing, and this is a relatively new method (first I saw it was at NIPS in Dec 2006). The 1980s were dominated by two layer supervis
739.
by rm999 14y ago
Cool article, thanks. I used to spend 90% of my downtime trying to improve my stats and machine learning knowledge, but in the last couple years I've come to realize how much my lack of proper engineering was hurting me. A (flawed) analogy:
740.
by rm999 14y ago
I wonder if Apple has lost more value from the map debacle than Nokia's entire marketcap. Apple's stock is down ~25-30B dollars since the the iphone 5 came out, and Nokia is worth 10B.
741.
by rm999 14y ago
Facebook reported in their SEC filing that they had 170M active US accounts, about 55 accounts for every 100 Americans. Interesting gap, especially because this survey only looks at US internet users and doesn't ask about active. I wonder i
742.
by rm999 14y ago
Interesting, a quick glance at a paper on SVRs indicate they kind of work in the opposite manner of a SVM - in an SVM you try to maximize the number of points far away from the separator (taking into account class), whereas in regression yo
743.
by rm999 14y ago
I am not an expert in SVMs, but I consider myself fairly experienced in machine learning. In my professional experience the answer to your question is 'not quite'. SVMs have solved some problems very well, but I've had issues with them: 1.
744.
by rm999 14y ago
I'm curious when that screenshot was taken. If it was at 8 am EST (5 am PST) that would make perfect sense.
745.
by rm999 14y ago
Ultrabook makers learned this the hard way last year: http://www.macrumors.com/2011/08/03/intel-ultrabooks-unable-... It's a tough spot. Apple is a several years ahead in product design and is undercutting prices at the same time.
746.
by rm999 14y ago
I'm just pointing out that the worst case time complexity is an issue that can't always be cast aside. Aren't cryptographic hash functions generally slower?
747.
by rm999 14y ago
It depends on the application of the hash table, but malicious agents could 'attack' code by purposefully creating collisions if the author isn't careful. An algorithm expected to run in O(1) that runs at O(n) could be catastrophic.
748.
by rm999 14y ago
I'd yield to someone who understands the code, but a quick glance at dictGetRandomKey() shows it is randomized, and I believe is very close to 1/N. If there are a large number of elements in a single bucket this may not be true. At an extre
749.
by rm999 14y ago
As a unitless unit, when people talk about hz they almost never mean just hz. In the case of computing, "hz" is always shorthand for cycles per second e.g. a 2 Ghz computer is 2 billion cycles per second.
750.
by rm999 14y ago
As I said, we aren't talking about hz, this is about cycle * hz. You aren't adding hz, you are adding cycles. I argued in my comment why I think this is ok.

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