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by scottfr 12y ago
It really is a truly excellent piece of writing. There's not an ounce of apparent judgement or subjectivity in it. Rather the article is purely an enumeration of causes and effects that leads to a scathing critique of these scheduling
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Show HN: VidToy - Experimental YouTube Search Interface(vidtoy.com)
1 points by scottfr 12y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: VidToy.com Discover Great YouTube Videos – Weekend Project(vidtoy.com)
1 points by scottfr 12y ago|0 comments
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by scottfr 12y ago
For those looking for examples of actually used languages designed specifically for optimization problems, there are several out there. AMPL is one such language [1] [1] http://www.ampl.com/EXAMPLES/
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by scottfr 12y ago
Ok, I think you need to decide what you are really interested in. ML and neural networks research are very different from projects like openworm both of which are very different from neuroscience work and modeling. So you have three very di
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by scottfr 12y ago
Random pet-peeve. I dislike how the graph in the article has markers at each decile. This is model-generated data so they could put an infinite of markers at arbitrary locations. The use of markers implies to the viewer that is a data-gene
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by scottfr 12y ago
Remember the CEO's idiotic (and apparently now deleted) blog post: "It's a fucking startup, why are you here" [1]. I guess 1/3 of the staff couldn't come up with a good enough answer. It's a shame they&#x
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by scottfr 12y ago
"poor work-life balance" is a greater issue for women than men due to childbirth and general fact that childcare and elder care burdens generally fall primarily on the woman in a couple. "lack of mentors" and "occas
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by scottfr 12y ago
I spend a lot of time working on models. This is not a "poisonous and anti-intellectual" statement, it is simple a statement grounded in experience. There are dozens of failed projects to make different models work together. It wo
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by scottfr 12y ago
I'm sorry, but this sounds like a fantasy land. I am extremely skeptical that you could get a detailed and accurate enough simulation to reveal any useful novel results. The list of "unknown unknowns" that we don't even
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by scottfr 13y ago
Could you resolve the issue by introducing an element of stochasticity into the distance players are displaced to avoid collisions? That way, one player would move right (or left) more than the other player and the collision would still res
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by scottfr 13y ago
What are the pro/cons as compared to Graffletopia? Graffletopia seemed to be perfectly functional to me.
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by scottfr 13y ago
The Google model is designed to predict the CDC levels, not predict actual flu prevalence (which is unknown). Error in the Google model is by definition the difference from the CDC levels.
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by scottfr 13y ago
One issue is that the number of historical data points used in the model is really very very small. The author's point out that the model initially was fit to 1,152 CDC data points. However, these 1,152 data points are highly temporall
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Unreal Engine 4 Features Trailer – GDC 2014(youtube.com)
1 points by scottfr 13y ago|0 comments
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by scottfr 13y ago
I believe App Engine actually has specific handling for files you identify as being static. This bypasses much of the dynamic overhead.
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by scottfr 13y ago
This may just be a function of the blogger's particular interest.
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One Hundred Songs In A Day(onthemedia.org)
5 points by scottfr 13y ago|0 comments
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by scottfr 13y ago
Abstract of the cited article ( http://www.nber.org/papers/w18992?utm_campaign=ntw&utm_mediu... ): Many scholars have argued that once “basic needs” have been met, higher income is no longer associated with higher in
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Interactive Simulation and Modeling Ebook - Beyond Connecting the Dots(beyondconnectingthedots.com)
1 points by scottfr 13y ago|0 comments
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by scottfr 13y ago
I expect this will be used as another tool to obfuscate prices. Just like sales tax is effectively a semi-hidden last minute fee in America, I think we are going to start to see all sorts of purchasing method fees at the cash register. It w
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by scottfr 13y ago
The author brings up an interesting example where Google Now provides him a tool to automatically identify and describe a TV show he is watching at night. When he later tries to demo this feature to his friend during the day, it simply does
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Tension and Flaws Before Health Website Crash(nytimes.com)
16 points by scottfr 13y ago|5 comments
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by scottfr 13y ago
I use the underlying product [1] for a graphical online simulation and modeling program [2]. It really is a top notch diagramming library for JavaScript. It is very customizable and they support it back all they way to IE 6. When I was look
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by scottfr 13y ago
Similar to something like ExtJS. Using Ext you declare the UI purely with JavaScript (CSS and HTML can be inserted if desired but that is antithetical to the standard practices). It works pretty well. But when you have complex layouts, your
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by scottfr 13y ago
I'm currently using GitHub to collaborate on writing a book with a non-technical coauthor. Generally it works great, but there are two key issues: * Changes are tracked by line which is equivalent to a paragraph in a book. If I go in a
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by scottfr 13y ago
Looks great! One thing R really needs is some sort of dead simple pass-by-reference mechanism for functions. Creating copies object copies every time you call a function on an object is a real performance killer.
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by scottfr 13y ago
Just as a rule of thumb, in general the most important assumption that is violated is independence. If the data is not independent and is instead positively correlated (the most likely form of correlation in practice) most equations will ov
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by scottfr 13y ago
Looks similar to what I've tried to do with Modelian [1]. With Modelian, I went the route of developing a Domain Specific Language designed to be simple to learn (which has an interpreter built all in JS). It has things like case-insensitiv
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by scottfr 14y ago
It seems to me that Microryza itself is an example of one of the key problems facing Academia. You have very successful sites in this space, and Microryza doesn't seem to offer much beyond these in exchange for their smaller user base and l

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