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by slashcom 12y ago
FWIW, the paper is much more modest and honest than the gigaom article. It's certainly a hot topic and getting wide coverage, but most scientists are being fairly conservative about their claims.* * Grant applications and future work s
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by slashcom 12y ago
You mean to say, granting more wide recognition for the collection itself, rather than the analysis stemming from collection? Possibly, I don't know. Mostly this is just my understanding from talking to peers in the social sciences and
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by slashcom 12y ago
My understanding of why this isn't often the case in the Social Sciences is that data is usually extremely expensive to collect. The researchers usually spend many, many hours writing proposals, revising it, resubmitting it, until they
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by slashcom 12y ago
If we're going to go that route, linking to the actual paper might be even more appropriate. Even the blog article is only a second hand source. http://arxiv.org/pdf/1404.3840v1.pdf If you read it carefully, there
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by slashcom 13y ago
What is Mesa here? There's no readme on the github.
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by slashcom 13y ago
Shit HN Says: the adjunct professor at CMU who's designing floating point hardware for processors is "totally stupid." I'm guessing he intentionally underspecified for his audience, and if asked, could tell you in excruc
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by slashcom 13y ago
Even then, it should scale reasonable well if one added a repl, and kept the database in memory. Probably would be fine then up until at least a couple gigabytes, depending on how well sqlite handles in-memory tables (probably very well).
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by slashcom 13y ago
With respect to 4: probably the funniest way I've ever seen vacation homes ever painted. Presumably it goes Top AI -> Successful and wealthy -> has vacation home in quiet, rural area. The author seems to paint it as Top AI ->
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by slashcom 13y ago
I'll throw this out there: what if the clock in Chicago was just 5ms slower than the one in NYC. The logs would show the transactions happened at the same time, but they didn't. The NYSE mandates that business clocks never drift m
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by slashcom 13y ago
Well he only gets 7p according to the article, so more like $6.50/hr. AFAIK, receiving calls in the UK is generally free (as in, it doesn't count as minutes as it does in the US), and the calling party foots the bill. He's es
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by slashcom 13y ago
Another problem is he doesn't include any sort of meaningful baseline. Maybe 67% of the people he talks to are male. In which case, he's not predicting anything. Just guessing randomly biased by his own calling habits. [EDIT: I ha
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by slashcom 13y ago
I like the idea greatly, but it appears to be broken at the moment. Perhaps the HN load is too high?
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by slashcom 14y ago
As an NLP researcher, this is interesting as a sort of summarization data set. The thing is though, summarizing news articles is best done by just reading the first paragraph of the article. News articles are intentionally written this way,
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by slashcom 14y ago
It should also be noted that on about 400 short texts (~300 words each), it did not correlate with the Flesh-Kinaid readability measure at all. So it's not measuring something like average word length or syllable counts. But it's not QUITE
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by slashcom 14y ago
If I were to make the software, the corpus of PR, licenses, etc. would be the way I go. But "they did it statistically" doesn't answer the question "what is the model?" There are many different statistical models one could use. My other pos
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by slashcom 14y ago
Here's a few things I've gleamed from experimenting with it: - It uses a unigram language model. You can take the same text, randomly permute the words, and you get the same score. This means it also can't be using things like POS tagging,
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by slashcom 14y ago
Please train a Conditional Random Field on this data. (A hidden markov model would also be interesting, but risks going out of key more easily).
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by slashcom 14y ago
Indeed. While the results are very interesting, and some of them are clearly very strong differences, I'd like to see some t-tests.
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by slashcom 15y ago
Not a dumb question at all. Short answer: it throws a syntax error otherwise. Long answer: I don't know.
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by slashcom 15y ago
Sweet idea, sweet product it seems. But that ad did not feel tasteful.
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by slashcom 15y ago
Facebook's smart for taking advantage of the cold and such, but there are a lot of factors that go into choosing a location. Tax incentives, proximity to users, and a million other things I'm not aware of. And while they will probably save
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by slashcom 15y ago
I would think so, but if you put a number of these into Wolfram Alpha, you usually just get simple definitions rather than Siri's clever responses.
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by slashcom 15y ago
$x/hour * 40 hr/wk * 50 wk/yr = 2 n 1000 The general rule is always "times 2, add 3 zeros" to do it in your head.
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by slashcom 16y ago
Obligatory reference to Gödel, Escher and Bach. (For the record, I do understand this article explores a different mathematical aspect of Escher than Hofstadter)
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by slashcom 16y ago
Took me a while to come back here to comment. :) Very fun, very creative. Abuse is most definitely the correct word.
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by slashcom 16y ago
Zero other (english) publications by the author in the Cornell archive and only four references within. Not an indicator as to whether the paper is correct (I haven't read it), but that's "smelly".
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by slashcom 16y ago
Prolog has its limitations, but it still stands out as one of the oldest, influential and important declarative programming languages. IMHO, it's hard to say what is the natural successor to Prolog. For all that it shares with Lisp, it defi
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by slashcom 16y ago
You should put screenshots/demos on the home/sale page.
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by slashcom 16y ago
You should post aggregate values in a few days as well. I hope you're also storing timestamps with the submissions. Just guessing, but I'd bet any predictions made on 04/30 will correlate much better than those made today.
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by slashcom 16y ago
That was the worry and it is indeed the case. However, as demonstrated in the video, the interference wasn't as bad as expected.

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