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Unless you specify an error, all growth can be approximated with exponentials. In fact, by your logic, even investors don't desire exponential growth. Why specifically would they want the growth of their investments to follow the rule
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All companies grow exponentially. Any compounded growth is exponential. The k in e^(kt) can be anything. You perhaps meant to say, investors want way-better-than-S&P-and-in-line-with-APPL/GOOG/FB growth?
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Colonialism was one factor. It is not clear how India would have imbibed and benefited from the Enlightenment and Industrial Revolution in the absence of British presence in the subcontinent. Just a reminder that British presence started in
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So, it's probably wise for Apple or any other company to keep a model or two that are modular to satisfy the geekier crowd. It would be expensive, because with larger-numbers, the razor thin laptops will be cheaper due to scale.
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Good point, there are two notable contiguous bands: Atlanta-Greenville-Charlotte-RTP and Florida Atlantic coast. A couple of things to add: in the south, distance between dense counties is large elsewhere- not too many contiguous regions&#x
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I think one of the 'problems' in viewing the South as a homogeneous whole is that it is so huge and so sparsely populated. Austin, Dallas, and Atlanta (and to an extent, Houston) are pretty tech-y, but they are all so far apart, u
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I see quotes to use it as an analogy. I'm not claiming that their algorithm over fits. It is just another way of saying the system is too specific and optimized to chess to be generalizable.
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It does: like an overfit (verb) model, Deep Blue and Jeopardy Watson don't generalize well to other problems.
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I don't intend to pick a fight. I am pointing out one deficiency I perceive in this widely shared article. On the philosophical questions: I think even with the greatest technological advances, the question remains: will we adopt AI? I
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Interesting article! However, Deep Blue, Watson, and AlphaGo are very different from one another. I don't think anyone deemed beating humans at chess or jeopardy impossible at the time Deep Blue and Watson were built. On AlphaGo the po
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Spurious cherry-picked statistics. I'm pretty sure most Westinghouse / Intel winners are doing exceptionally well, being in the top 1-10% of the society. A couple of such articles I'm reminded of: 1. Statistician Andrew Gelma
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None of 1-4 are addressed by minimum salary requirement. All that it will do is make it impossible to hire h1bs to certain professions, like faculty at universities located in remote college towns or industrial engineers at a factory in Ark
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Huh? If you think assistant professor salary in UIUC will go up because of H1B minimums you are probably living in a parallel universe.
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115k minimum is insane, and too high in most cases outside software engineering in certain geographical areas. There are many many other high-skilled professions that don't pay as much. I would go further and argue that current H1B reg
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Since both numbers are out of the realm of brute-forcing, the bigger achievement is because of the more fluid and strategic nature of Go compared to chess. Chess is more rigid than Go, and playing Go employs more 'human' intellige
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The problem in India is that the poor and the rich don't necessarily live in very different sanitary conditions. In my experience, the situation is likely worse in poorer neighborhoods, but it is still very, very bad in rich neighborho
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Chikungunya is a horrible malaise. It is very prevalent in India. While not deadly, it can cripple you for days and also leave lasting damage to joints in older people. Every adult in my family in India has gone through a bout of it. It is
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There is research that shows that at least with outcomes measured by BP, CPAP and mandibular devices are almost as good: http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=2473494
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The guru of visualization and Powerpoint critic, Edward Tufte recommends projected presentations (not necessarily using ppt) be accompanied with well designed 4-5 page handouts.
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This! In fact, I know a couple of researchers who started as programmers in research groups and research labs, and slowly transitioned into PhDs and later, faculty positions. Especially if you have specific skills. I think the kind of labs
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> relatively new to tech - Tektronix (now acquired), founded in Portland in 1946 - Intel, opened their largest center outside Santa Clara in 1974 + lots of companies that have been acquired, etc. It has been called the Silicon Forest at
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> That is the size of the state matters (in a way that penalizes states with larger, more diverse economies). Like 2nd rank California, home to 50 Fortune 500 companies ranging from Apple to Clorox to Allergan? /s Also, diverse eco
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Isn't this identical to saying, "If you need to post a pic, do it on Instagram?" The essence of Twitter, Instagram, etc. is the social network. The format of the content is fungible. Further, short tweets can coexist with tex
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Pico Iyer is a well regarded author who has written a lot about Japan. If you look at it from a purely utilitarian writer-looking-for-exciting-experiences-to-write-about perspective, Indian-ethnicity British-American choosing to live in Jap
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I don't know about the specifics of characterizing beam-pattern, etc. I am pretty sure, Kinect 1.0 can be more directional in spite of having fewer microphones because the microphones are cardioid, as opposed to the uni/omni-direc
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> I've used a lot of different voice recognition technologies, You've probably not used the Kinect controller? It has a very sophisticated distant speech system.
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The only Daily Mail (!) article with significant upvotes [1] on HN is this one, and I wonder if it is a coincidence that it is about immigration, a topic that often inspires heated debates and attracts misinformed commenters on HN. [1] htt
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Earnest question: on the presumption that Free Basics (FB) will become popular if launched, trying to shoot it down means that many people (mostly poor) will not get access to the internet. How does one address this? Now, this activism can
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Nicely done. Playing up stereotypes based on a couple of anecdotes. Do you have any solid evidence about this? Are you accusing a mass of 1.3 billion people, 1/5th of humanity, and their representative agents and agencies of being, wha
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> But she first needs to get a 'license' from facebook. How is this different from the iPhone and the closed app store? If people don't like closed app store eco-system of the iPhone, they buy Android. Similarly, if the po

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