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by simon_ 17y ago
I don't think that's fair. My computer science education was seriously enriched by the community of students and professors at Stanford, even if I could have learned the basic material mostly on my own.
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by simon_ 17y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_sex_ratio I believe it doesn't even out until relatively late late in life, with male mortality being slightly higher at all ages. From the wikipedia article: The "First World" G7 members all have a gen
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by simon_ 17y ago
Maybe I'm misreading Wikipedia, but it looks like False Light and Approbation violations would require (respectively) the dissemination of false information or some intent to gain financially. However, it's probably true that these laws wil
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by simon_ 17y ago
This sentiment seems a little silly to me - there's no implicit right to anonymity in RL, especially if you go around pissing people off by stealing from them.
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by simon_ 17y ago
IANAP, but wouldn't confirmation of the existence of supersymmetric WIMPs not necessarily prove that they account for a large portion of dark matter? EDIT: Not to imply that it wouldn't be a huge deal anyway.
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by simon_ 17y ago
Maybe I'm missing something obvious, but I don't understand what that graph is trying to tell me. If the horizontal axis is x... what is the vertical axis? What does the shaded wedge represent? It certainly doesn't represent "x>1" in
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by simon_ 17y ago
Why can't Byron Cook make his own TeX package? I'm sure someone at Microsoft can help him with that...
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by simon_ 17y ago
The author seems to be totally clueless. In addition to seeming to claim that this guy invented subset and union notation ("U, or union, makes a new relation or set out of the relations or sets that are passed to it"), he/she completely mi
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by simon_ 17y ago
Right, and the next doubling will be even better (twice as good!). But the sense that we're right on the threshold of the infinite future has probably been around at least since industrialization. For example, that bit about instant access
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by simon_ 17y ago
Isn't a lot of the singularity idea based on flawed math? I always hear about and see graphs of exponential curves about to "go vertical", but... exponential curves definitely don't do that. You can zoom in on any point of e^x and it will
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by simon_ 17y ago
Just curious: Do you eat the transaction fee if people fund their accounts with credit cards? If so... it seems like people might pay themselves thousands of dollars to rack up rewards at your expense.
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by simon_ 17y ago
As long as they're out to disrupt complacent information aggregation businesses, I hope they have Bloomberg and Reuters in their sights. Like Lexis and Westlaw, they reap enormous profits from providing structured access to mostly free inf
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by simon_ 17y ago
I agree that there are serious problems with this article. Consider the statement: "Our personal consumption in the U.S. is already in overdrive. It's now equal to 70% of our GDP (about double that of China and nearly a third more than tha
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by simon_ 17y ago
But not, apparently, built a house.
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by simon_ 17y ago
If it was structured correctly, you wouldn't take a tax haircut on the 250k. (You don't pay taxes on the proceeds when you get a loan, e.g.)
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by simon_ 17y ago
It seems like there would be serious problems in the enforcement of a contract like this. I don't see any reporting requirements imposed on the entrepreneur, and it's pretty unclear what a court would do in the event of a default on the en
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by simon_ 17y ago
Marine and Aviation equipment together account for about 15% of Garmin's revenue. The overwhelming majority of their business comes from exactly the segment Android is targeting.
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by simon_ 17y ago
On the other hand, they've already had to get in bed with the music industry through their Youtube partnerships.
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by simon_ 17y ago
How about law? Obviously there are non-technical problems there as well, but it seems like there is still a lot that could be done technologically to improve transparency and (maybe more interestingly) reduce expense.
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by simon_ 17y ago
Looks like they took the overview page down... you can still see features here: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/nook/features/techspecs/
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by simon_ 17y ago
Andrew Ng's course notes are 90% of the way to being a textbook, and are an incredible resource, especially if you're going to watch the lectures. http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs229/materials.html
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by simon_ 17y ago
Keep in mind that WSJ charges a substantial fee for online subscriptions, and probably ends up profiting more on them than on paper subscriptions.
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by simon_ 17y ago
several years ago, i took a class from prof tibshirani using this book and was absolutely blown away. if you don't have a deep stats background (as i didn't), you might find it scarily dense, but wow there's some good stuff in there.