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by skm 15y ago
I love seeing what other people in the community find interesting. Points let me see not just the comment, but how others felt about it.
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Deb Roy: The birth of a word(ted.com)
6 points by skm 16y ago|1 comments
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by skm 16y ago
Anyone who has disdain for real lambadas just doesn't know what they're missing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AfTl5Vg73A
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Nokia Rocks the World: The Phone King's Plan to Redefine Its Business (2009)(fastcompany.com)
1 points by skm 16y ago|0 comments
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by skm 16y ago
Original paper available here: http://arXiv.org/pdf/1005.4915
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by skm 16y ago
The "Australia/New Zealand" link seems broken - it prompts a refresh back to "World" when I select it.
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by skm 16y ago
This beautifully illustrates Thomas Schelling's racial segregation model, for which he coined the term "Tipping Point" 30 years before Malcolm Gladwell popularized it: Schelling, T. (1969). Models of segregation. The American Economic Revie
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by skm 16y ago
A recent New Yorker article "The Truth Wears Off" is based on the same mathematical fact - that statistical tests are being used wrongly in psychology experiments and (more worryingly) in clinical trials. http://www.newyorker.com/reporting
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Psychologists Must Change the Way They Analyze Data [pdf](dl.dropbox.com)
1 points by skm 16y ago|1 comments
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by skm 16y ago
Would anyone else like sentiment controls in google's search tools sidebar? Three settings I'd use would be: • Show more results about which people talk positively • Show more results about which people talk negatively • Show results which
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Teens Find Innovative Ways to Control Their Facebook Presence(allfacebook.com)
51 points by skm 16y ago|26 comments
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by skm 16y ago
Steve Jobs: "The problem with innovation in the TV industry is the go-to-market strategy. The TV industry has a subsidized model that gives everyone a set top box for free. So no one wants to buy a box. Ask TiVo, ask Roku, ask us… ask Googl
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by skm 16y ago
Exercise also grows neurons, according to many recent studies (so the effect is more than just short-term). See e.g. http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/16/what-sort-of-exerci...
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by skm 16y ago
$1.5 million, according to Steve Newcomb (co-founder of Powerset): "At that time we knew that a talented engineer in a tough to get tech was worth about $1.5 million per head. Thus, I knew with relative assurance that since we were going to
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by skm 16y ago
Spending egregiously on fresh fruit, vegetables, and bread of the highest quality. As soon as I had a little money as a grad student, I decided to allocate an unlimited budget to spend on these particular items. If you have unlimited budget
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by skm 16y ago
A question for C++ coders (I'm not one myself): how much of what he says about the hidden costs of C++ ring true? (I know this is a parody, but successful humor is often rooted in some element of truth.)
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by skm 16y ago
I suspect because writing memoization means controlling memoization, and controlling memoization in Haskell means either hacking the compiler, or dealing with state , and state means monads , and nobody likes monads. (Except those peopl
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by skm 16y ago
Haskell code: (explanation below) import Data.Array f :: Integer -> Integer f n = sum [0..n] largeNumber = round 2e6 :: Integer memo_f :: Array Integer Integer memo_f = listArray (0,largeNumber)
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by skm 16y ago
Actually, arrays in Haskell are automatically memoized and lazily evaluated. So in most practical situations you get memoization for free. For example, imagine you need to calculate a function f(n) for various values of n (let's say for n r
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by skm 16y ago
Seems really bizarre to me. What do they offer that, in your experience, is so much better than google analytics?
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by skm 16y ago
The Next Best Alternative to using Pretty Graph would be using Excel, for most people. How much better is Pretty Graph? Better enough to convince people to "pay" the extra cost (of using something new, via a web interface, rather than somet
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by skm 16y ago
What ads did you run?
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by skm 16y ago
I think such a business may succeed. Your biggest challenge will be what I'll call the "verification problem": How can a customer verify that you've provided them with a "good" product for their money? Consider selling programming services.