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by rm999 14y ago
> Given this, it is counter-productive to build a tax system that asymmetrically benefits the people at the very top I don't think anyone really argues for this, even the most conservative tax plans I hear about are flat. I think he may
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by rm999 14y ago
It's not actually hz, it's cycles * hz, which is cycles per second. Cycles are additive: 1 cycle + 1 cycle = 2 cycles (in the same way that you get twice as many cycles in 2 seconds as you would in 1 second). We probably all prefer FLOPs/se
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by rm999 14y ago
Doing anything with addresses is risky from a legal and privacy perspective - I doubt facebook can get away with snailmail spam without permission, for example. Nor do I think they want to do that. For geographic targeting IPs and user-ente
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by rm999 14y ago
I actually think it could be more extreme. The printer industry is the way it is because most people don't really need one, so customers skimp instead of optimizing for long-term usage. I predict even fewer people will need devoted 3D print
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by rm999 14y ago
This article makes no sense. We know Google Maps won't be the built in mapping solution already, but it sounds to me like google did/will submit an app: >[Eric Schmidt] said any decision on whether Google Maps would be accepted as an ap
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by rm999 14y ago
>I can read faster than you can talk. This is my biggest problem with video tutorials, and why I skipped so many lectures in college. I found a good compromise for me is to listen to video lectures at 2-3x speed. I'd prefer a textbook s
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by rm999 14y ago
Last.fm has similar built-in functionality: last.fm/home/newreleases
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by rm999 14y ago
>"I'm ecstatic," Blank said. "In 50 years, people are just going to go, 'That was the pinnacle of military computing. These machines are going to be as important as the first PC or the first minicomputer.'" ... Regardless of where the m
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by rm999 14y ago
But they aren't "distributing" data, they are creating an "integrated experience". At least that's how I read it.
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by rm999 14y ago
Apple probably knows they are making a big sacrifice in the shorterm for a (hopefully) longterm benefit. The problem is the two major all-in-one map providers, Google and Microsoft, are building their own mobile ecosystems and directly comp
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by rm999 14y ago
They are making two simultaneous points: 1. Projects are over-promising and under-delivering 2. Kickstarter isn't a store and was never meant to be one. People have turned it into one, leading to all sorts of issues, including point #1 I th
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by rm999 14y ago
The unfortunate irony is I need my phone the most when I'm away from my computer for long periods of time, and these are the only times I run out of battery. I run out of battery maybe three times a year, but when it happens it's often a pa
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by rm999 14y ago
Every data scientist has to: * be very good at working with large datasets with computational tools (hadoop is an example) * be a decent programmer, scripter, and hacker * have a decent background in statistics A good data scientist: * has
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by rm999 14y ago
As a "data scientist" I found this article had much more meaningful content than most articles I've read in the past year. It's not just repeating how data science will be big in the next decade, it discusses who data scientists are and how
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by rm999 14y ago
Wow, that's... epic. According to the reddit comments the world is 165888x79872 pixels, and the guy at the beginning is 40 pixels tall. If we assume he's 6 feet tall, the world is ~25000 x 12000 feet, 4.7 x 2.3 miles, or 7.6 x 3.7 km.
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by rm999 14y ago
You're arguing vague semantics. He used it for personal e-mail, that's what is relevant here.
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by rm999 14y ago
From the researcher's facebook page: >Judge issues final order. Affirms the university’s right to withhold scholarly communications and finds that the documents & personal emails of mine demanded by ATI were indeed protected as the
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by rm999 14y ago
>the nature of science is that, at the very least, all results, data, and methodological information should be wide open The request for his e-mails had nothing to do with the scholarly process. When a professor wants to disprove anothe
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by rm999 14y ago
I clicked on the link, and am now likely going to count as an active user because I was logged into gmail. In other words, I am NOT a g+ user, but google probably counts me as one because of my gmail account. So, scottbartell may have a val
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by rm999 14y ago
Shazam for music was an amazing invention that has really helped a lot of people. Shazam for TV reminds me of QR codes that take you to websites - kind of pointless. There have been multiple ways of finding out what show you are watching fo
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by rm999 14y ago
I totally agree with your point that he should be willing to "do the time" and that he shouldn't be calling it a "silly mistake". Civil disobedience is noble BECAUSE it comes with a cost. That said, the legal system is setup in a way where
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by rm999 14y ago
I do almost everything remote via ssh, so I'm not positive. The macbook air has an i7 upgrade which should help, but my guess is it's still significantly slower than the pros.
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by rm999 14y ago
The Retina is a fascinating and revolutionary laptop. But it's the first generation, and most companies' (including Apple) almost always mess up their first generation products in substantial ways. Everyone I know with a Retina is mostly ha
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by rm999 14y ago
He presumably returned it, getting his money back. It's not silly, maybe he just felt it wasn't worth the premium.
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by rm999 14y ago
Ah, very interesting.
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by rm999 14y ago
What do you mean by parameter? If you mean hyperparameters, that's pretty standard, it's a hyperparameter search followed by training. Randomized hyperparameter search is actually pretty state of the art though (as opposed to a grid search,
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by rm999 14y ago
I used to do a cheap man's version of this for neural networks: train many models in parallel on subsets of my data and then choose the one with the best validation performance (I avoided ensembles for speed reasons). But I often found with
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by rm999 14y ago
I still don't get how it's parallelized, what's the reduce step? Is it averaging all the gradients from the maps? If so, that seems like what you were originally saying from your edit (and sounds like the functional equivalent of batch grad
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by rm999 14y ago
I don't quite understand the gradient descent section. How do you parallelize stochastic gradient descent? Each iteration changes theta, so any parallel computations will be computing the wrong gradient. His citation for that section doesn'
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by rm999 14y ago
So your reply about the wp7 userbase size was irrelevant to the discussion.

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