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by rm999 10y ago
There's some good discussion in this reddit thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/chess/comments/5rm88g/hou_yifan_res... . As someone who does statistics for a living and used to play tournament chess, a
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by rm999 10y ago
This is an example of the economic principle of goodwill. Uber has a poor reputation that leads to actual losses, but the negative value of the reputation is difficult to quantify. Conversely, Lyft has fostered positive goodwill that streng
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by rm999 10y ago
It's not a gimmick, it increases immersiveness when done right. The problem is the technology isn't quite there and directors haven't been trained in it (and usually don't make the effort) - so it's basically never
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by rm999 10y ago
The US airline industry has a serious problem with these outages. By my count, 4 major airlines have been hit with system-wide computer-related outages in the last year (southest, jetblue, delta, united). This article goes into some detail
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by rm999 10y ago
There's something big about hiring that I never realized until I started doing it: most hiring managers never get trained in hiring and don't put much thought into it. Job descriptions often go through several layers, with a line
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by rm999 10y ago
You may already know this part, but for anyone who doesn't know: vector space models very often use cosine distance to make comparisons, instead of Euclidean distance. In this model, you can visualize your vectors as points on a unit h
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by rm999 10y ago
What does introvert even mean? I've heard shy people who are energized by talking to others described as introverts, and I've heard outgoing people who have to be alone to energize described as introverts. These descriptions are t
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by rm999 10y ago
I've purchased generic red plastic cups before, and the experience was terrible. They were hard to pull apart, weren't stable laterally (i.e. the force when you grip it with your hand), and sagged after an hour of being full of li
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by rm999 10y ago
Have you seen murfie.com? They have reasonable prices and will "sell" you a physical CD but just digitally deliver you the FLAC. Of course the fact that they even have to do it this way is so anachronistic. Audiophile quality digi
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by rm999 10y ago
Speaking for NYC, but I imagine silicon valley is similar. The supply-demand dynamics have changed a lot in the last couple years. I'd roughly break it out into two groups: people with work experience + strong software development skil
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by rm999 10y ago
Right now 100% of the comments in here are about "predicting" the election, when the word "predict" isn't even used in the article. Probably an over-eager editor who changed the title. The article itself is about a
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by rm999 10y ago
This is about game AIs, which are definitely interesting. But for the most part they overlap very little with what most people think of as AI. In undergrad (mid 2000s) I partially specialized in both computer graphics and machine learning,
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by rm999 10y ago
> The equivalent in any other platform is awful. I think that's absurd. When personalization is done right you probably just don't notice it. For example, Google search makes fairly heavy use of personalization (in a great way
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by rm999 10y ago
That usually comes down to product and business decisions, not the algorithms. Facebook (like Pandora and many others) falls into the same trap of optimizing too much on top of their algorithms. Instead, some gentle prodding in an interesti
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by rm999 10y ago
It could be as simple as "Hey, we noticed you spend a lot of time on r/gaming and r/frugal - might we suggest r/gameDeals?". Or perhaps even just filling some of the front page with threads from subreddits that may
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by rm999 10y ago
It's pretty clear to me that Reddit has always lacked a solid experienced science-driven data person. Someone who can pinpoint an issue, formulate the issue into a product-driven concrete problem, come up with hypotheses on how to fix
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by rm999 10y ago
>Wow Stack Overflow has 300 employees!! So at a typical benchmark of $500,000 of revenue per employee they should be making atleast $15,000,000 per year in revenue. Isn't that 150 million a year in revenue? If so, 500M is about righ
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by rm999 10y ago
From http://blog.bonus.ly/a-look-at-googles-peer-to-peer-bonus-sy... : > A typical example would be one employee giving $175 to a peer that “coded an SQL query for me and saved me a lot of time.” ... the sums involved mig
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by rm999 10y ago
I was born in Baltimore, lived there for several years, went to college there, and visit it several times a year. I still consider it my home and have an intense amount of love for it. So "no meaningful experience with the city" d
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by rm999 10y ago
Normally, proximity to a bigger city like DC should be a good thing - you can get a nicer place for cheap and use public transportation (MARC train) to commute. But something has prevented Baltimore from growing and gentrifying. I think the
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by rm999 10y ago
>I think the guideline exists because even as an honest question it does not add anything to the comment I hope you see the irony here considering how much you're derailing this conversation (I'm only responding because I reali
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by rm999 10y ago
It was an honest question, not snark (passive aggressiveness is not my style). The introduction is kind of hidden on the page, and clarifies the meaning of "model" in this context. Otherwise, GP is correct that "model" i
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by rm999 10y ago
The introduction clarifies what the authors mean. In this context "model" isn't about implementing a supervised model, it's about "modeling" your problem to build a bespoke algorithm that closely matches the pr
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by rm999 10y ago
It's not a bug I'm concerned about, it's this part of the privacy policy "if you permit the Uber app to access location services through the permission system used by your mobile operating system (“platform”), we may als
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by rm999 10y ago
> Uber's infrastructure is completely incapable of handling that volume of data, The data volume isn't very big. Let's assume Uber records locations for 20 million users and pings each user every 5 minutes. We're talk
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by rm999 10y ago
I'm thinking 20-50 years from now as the developing world develops and embraces globalization on its own. In the next couple decades we're likely going to see some bad (or at least chaotic) times :(
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by rm999 10y ago
I see this as part of the waning influence of the USA as a world hegemon. The USA and its allies, as a matter of foreign strategy, have propped up secular "democracies" since WWII. This has led to world-wide stability and peace (e
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by rm999 10y ago
I'm not a fan of Trump or the way this election played out (or even facebook, really), but this article is absurd. >Because Facebook has multiple figures in leadership positions that supported Trump. Thiel vocally, Luckey surreptiti
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by rm999 10y ago
There's a huge difference in economics. A house will be used, so looser tolerances in carpentry are not obviously good and are seen by many as a bad trend. Sure, you may not die from those lower tolerances, but you'll likely reg
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by rm999 10y ago
The author makes some great points that I initially wanted to dismiss, but I think are actually really interesting. Unlike many other types of engineering/craft, most experienced software developers have settled on an aversion to perfe

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