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by sidupadhyay 11y ago
These are very salient points, especially given that right now many of the advancements (from a technical and methodological perspective) established from GiveDirectly's early Kenya and Uganda programs are furthered by a spin-off known
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by sidupadhyay 13y ago
Civitas Learning - Austin, TX http://www.civitaslearning.com Our mission is to use predictive analytics to improve the student learning outcomes and empower better educational decisions. We work with a wide range of institutions
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by sidupadhyay 13y ago
Civitas Learning, Full-time, Austin, TX ( http://www.civitaslearning.com/ ) Our mission is to use predictive analytics to improve the student learning outcomes and empower better educational decisions. We work with a wide ran
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by sidupadhyay 13y ago
They also have one in Austin, but the greater issue here is that the stores can't help customers as much. Specifically, in order to comply with state laws the stores can't talk about the purchasing process nor help with the registration. Te
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by sidupadhyay 13y ago
Thanks! Here's the specific section on backbone from page 11: Backbone.js is a great example of an abstraction pushed too far. While we initially liked the ease of wire-up, in practice it suffers from the same issues as all such databound
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Khan Academy is looking for the next generation of medical educators(khanacademy.org)
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by sidupadhyay 14y ago
Eligible is a Health Information API that launched last summer (YC S12, I think). This sample app is a basic demonstration of the API's ability to instantly show patient eligibility information for specific medical procedures. Prior to thei
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by sidupadhyay 14y ago
Hany, well done! This is one of the best hacks of feed gaming[1] I have seen. Keep it up! 1. https://developers.facebook.com/docs/feed-gaming/
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by sidupadhyay 14y ago
Yup, just got the same email. I really wish they had linked to the blog post and explained the situation in more details instead of using the standard email template. It's interesting though that one of the recommendations was to revoke acc
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by sidupadhyay 14y ago
This may not be a comparable example, but the TexasTribune is a digital only publication that focuses on Texas news and political coverage. They operate on donations and through revenue from content partnerships. According to their about pa
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by sidupadhyay 14y ago
This is a pretty good intro to DFTs. I was excited to see that others were also motivated by the connection to music and math! I looked into this quite in linear algebra in college and found Benson[1] and Smith[2] to be really thorough and
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by sidupadhyay 14y ago
This is awesome! Please do open source it! I looked into doing this once before for ioloop, but ended up implementing IDLE with Twisted's twisted.mail.imap4.IMAP4Client instead. The results were fairly good, but I don't think it was worth t
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by sidupadhyay 14y ago
It's totally doable. You'll probably start off with a lower hourly at first, but you can quickly establish a higher rate and then eventually a consistent weekly as patio11 described. Early in college, I found the best way to find my true ho
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The University of Texas System joins edX(edx.org)
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by sidupadhyay 14y ago
Linear Algebra was at the core of almost every math and cs course I took. I ended up taking several semesters of it and by the end we were approaching highly relevant problems in subjects like quantum mechanics and machine learning. I canno
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by sidupadhyay 14y ago
Also, if you are interested in learning R while you build your knowledge of probability and statistics this is pretty good: http://ipsur.org/
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by sidupadhyay 14y ago
This really is a fairly thorough overview of an undergraduate statistics degree. It reminds me a lot the summaries I would write before exams. The first few sections covering probability are especially good. Though some of the later section
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Private schools use data mining to optimize donation campaigns(nytimes.com)
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by sidupadhyay 15y ago
Any chance you'll have an API for this in the future? I can see amazing potential for new business and experiences to be build on top of Exec. If nothing else, in some sense you can "automate" tasks that occur at less predictable intervals,
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by sidupadhyay 15y ago
This is one best directions with the available technology. We're trying to do this at Hoot with what we call "Smart Chat." We've taken the markdown editor and adapted backticks (`) to wrap a simplified subset of Latex, so that the language
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by sidupadhyay 15y ago
Another good book is "Mathematical statistics with applications" by Wackerly et al. It's focus is more on the application of the toolkit from probability, but about half the book focuses on the background of probability theory. What's great
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by sidupadhyay 15y ago
It is unfortunate that the content isn't available outside of iTunes. Thought, if you're interested there are some other pretty good intro probability courses online: Math and Probability for Life Sciences (UCLA): http://www.academicearth.
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by sidupadhyay 15y ago
This is a really great addition to iTunes U. Skipping through the videos, the course appears to give a thorough treatment to the theoretical background of probability. I haven't seen too many intro probability courses explore topics such as
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by sidupadhyay 15y ago
This is a great idea! You may want to use `git ls-files` instead of `Dir[' / . ']` in order to consider only tracked files inside the directory.
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by sidupadhyay 15y ago
Lithium is a really great option. It forces you into a good set of rules to develop your app rapidly while not sacrificing quality. It integrates really well with both MongoDB and CouchDB out of the box and provides a solid set of testing a
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by sidupadhyay 16y ago
Akshay, great use of LP. Did you consider other functions for adsorption besides a max vote? It would be interesting to see a distribution of possible communities based on seeded community labels from your current results. Also, thanks for
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by sidupadhyay 16y ago
Facebook's language translations are actually crowdsourced. It's funny that so many people would approve errors like this. There is a brief blog post about it: http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=10056937130 The whole system is pretty