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by sanskritabelt 13y ago
I'm not sure what sort of context can explain away this real-life Randian superman. (and it's interesting that you mention Rand and crime and the Fountainhead, given that Howard Roark blew up Courtlandt Homes with dynamite) This i
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by sanskritabelt 13y ago
That's part of it, yeah, lots of courses out there but they tend to be things like survey courses, etc. Some of this is that the video content turns out to be the equivalent of only a 1 or 2 credit course.
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by sanskritabelt 13y ago
I've taken several coursera courses and maybe the good ones are hiding in there somewhere but I'm really unimpressed by the ones I've seen.
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by sanskritabelt 13y ago
For the record, that was Ayn Rand talking about (one of?) her favorite serial killers, who became the basis for a character in an unfinished novel, about whom she wrote: "[he] is born with a wonderful, free, light consciousness -- [res
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by sanskritabelt 13y ago
Given recorded history, why would anybody sell insurance to bitcoin companies?
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by sanskritabelt 13y ago
He is too impatient to toil slowly through the years for the things he wants. Too uncompromising to succeed in the way of the popular men who know how to get along with those in power. Too intolerant to “get along” with anybody. Too passion
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by sanskritabelt 13y ago
People in SV who have some success want it to be a meritocracy so they can feel that they succeeded on their own internal merit.
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by sanskritabelt 13y ago
On the other hand, if you let yourself update your prior with the actual data, you'll see that frequentist statistics has had the better part of a century worth of successes.
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by sanskritabelt 13y ago
why do either when you can go outside and get some fresh air, maybe talk to a cute girl and/or guy.
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by sanskritabelt 13y ago
It's called "growing up."
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by sanskritabelt 13y ago
don't cross picket lines dammit.
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by sanskritabelt 13y ago
This is 2013. You gotta look out for Number One.
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by sanskritabelt 13y ago
Looking at your blog, I wouldn't want to work anywhere that would consider you a culture fit.
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by sanskritabelt 13y ago
Go back to Reddit. EDIT: some downvoter getting a little angry about a microagression?
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by sanskritabelt 13y ago
If this is the Moyes algorithm which does graph clustering I think you have to ask yourself a couple of things: 1. can a parallel algorithm that optimizes each node individually get the same result as a serial algorithm that optimizes them
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by sanskritabelt 13y ago
I don't want to run an O(n^3) algorithm on even a medium sized graph if I can help it. (and in the new order of 'big data', even O(nlogn) algorithms can be too expensive to solve).
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by sanskritabelt 13y ago
In that case, how much of your 18000x speedup is due to the GPU and how much of it is due to re-implementing the algorithm in a compiled language? Python->C/C++/etc is a 100x-1000x speedup right off the bat. That's not a f
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by sanskritabelt 13y ago
Twenty years ago low flow toilets were more evidence of the heavy-handed iron fist of the Orwellian state into our every day lives.
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by sanskritabelt 13y ago
What it means is I'm hesitant to believe an 18000x speedup.
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by sanskritabelt 13y ago
" My co-founder, Chuck Moyes, discovered a clustering algorithm that identified friend groups in a given social graph. However, the algorithm took an hour to run parallelized across 6 computers. Then Chuck had the clever idea of coding
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by sanskritabelt 13y ago
How do you feel about low-flow toilets.
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by sanskritabelt 13y ago
It's been done, and I've seen it as a worked example in introduction to Bayesian stats pages, maybe some of which were posted on HN.
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by sanskritabelt 13y ago
You're in a different part of the problem space.
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by sanskritabelt 13y ago
How does 'exploitative labor practices' float your boat.
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by sanskritabelt 13y ago
Helping Walmart is, at best, morally suspect.
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by sanskritabelt 13y ago
It's faster than python and R, dogg.
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by sanskritabelt 13y ago
Have you ever driven US101 between SFO and Mountain View?
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by sanskritabelt 13y ago
I used to think like that, then I took Caltrain for the first time.
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by sanskritabelt 13y ago
The 'boy band era' has been going since for-freaking-ever. Hey hey, they were the Monkees.
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by sanskritabelt 13y ago
Also the problem with rental cars is you have to drive down 101 which can be a nightmare especially if you don't know the road, in a cab you can at least sit in back and decompress/prep.

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