snikolov

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by snikolov 15y ago
While I agree with the need to push yourself, and it might have worked for you, I disagree that this is a lame excuse in general. Good work requires focus. Whether you can work and handle school at the same time also depends on your course
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by snikolov 15y ago
Fascinating stuff --- thanks for digging that up. The main question in methods like this is how to constrain the blur kernel and the original image. I've only skimmed the first one, but the key idea used there seems to be to constrain thing
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by snikolov 15y ago
If you are wondering how they might be doing it, here is one approach that I saw in a computer vision class (no idea if they are doing anything similar to this) (slides: http://cs.nyu.edu/~fergus/presentations/fergus_deblurring.pd... (~60
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by snikolov 15y ago
There is actually a combined Math/Verbal/Writing score totaling a maximum of 2400. There is a separate score for the essay of the writing part, but it is factored into the final writing score out of 800.
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by snikolov 15y ago
It's scary how much this describes me at the moment. I'm way overcommitted and yet unwilling to give up any one of the things I am working on. I have a project I've collaborated on for more than a year and it would be incredibly difficult t
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by snikolov 15y ago
So they suck in a bad implementation choice because it looks pretty to them An implementation choice that looks pretty is often a good implementation choice.
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by snikolov 15y ago
I think I see what you're trying to say --- practical experience beats theoretical knowledge in most work you'll do in industry --- and I agree. But as someone who did an EECS program that didn't require a lot of coding, I've found that a l
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by snikolov 15y ago
I am no expert, but I am guessing it is because many startups are pre-profit or even pre-revenue. Whether you consider Twitter to still be a startup is another question. However, consider that until fairly recently, much effort had been dev
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by snikolov 15y ago
Nor does it fit with EJ's original account: I would be remiss if I didn’t pause here to emphasize that the customer service team at airbnb.com has been wonderful, giving this crime their full attention ... She wrote her original account
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by snikolov 15y ago
The notion that she is somehow out to get AirBnB or "hell bent on revenge" is ridiculous. She saw the facts being misrepresented by AirBnB for their own benefit, and she wanted to set the record straight. If someone is skewing facts about t
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by snikolov 15y ago
I think the point was that the interviews don't require you to be able to have published research in optimization or algorithms --- they want you to be able to solve a relatively constrained class of problems quickly, for which a specific k
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by snikolov 15y ago
It would be great to have smart people working on real problems, but problem solving skills without a desire to work on those problems just won't work. I think a lot of mathematicians just like doing mathematics and would be really bored so
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by snikolov 15y ago
I consider myself very lucky that 1) I've always been big and athletic since elementary school and 2) that I went to a high school with other really smart people where people were known and respected for being smart. Hence, I don't really r
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by snikolov 15y ago
I write things down. I set micro-deadlines. I force myself to move on after the deadline, or if I really need to finish it, set another deadline. I need to keep the pressure on. A little distraction is a slippery slope for me, so it's u
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by snikolov 15y ago
Both solid choices. Having used CLRS (the Intro the Algorithms book), I would say it's a fantastic reference, but I found some of the presentation rather terse. It is nothing that a motivated reader can't power through, but some people ha
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by snikolov 15y ago
First, as was said already, MIT is actually expanding to teach more students. Second, the OCW initiative at MIT has given thousands of people access to educational material. Finally, it makes sense to me to donate money to an institution th
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by snikolov 15y ago
Some friends and I demo'd our autonomous mobile robot http://maslab.mit.edu/2011/wiki/Team_Two/Final_Paper for this and it was a lot of fun. I nearly lost my voice after only two hours. I wish it was more than just 5 hours though, at th
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by snikolov 15y ago
I would be very surprised if a simple bag-of-words approach works in this case. Intuitively, it's not the presence of certain groups of words that's important, it's something much more subtle and structural. Something that might be promisi
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by snikolov 16y ago
I don't buy the argument that this is okay because some pepole don't work well according to schedules or because there is nothing new to discuss every day. This is a problem of communication and accountability. If you've agreed to something
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by snikolov 16y ago
If you experiment with a project and you mess it up, you abandon the project and move on. I don't think it works that way with kids. If you are working on a project, it is subject to your will, and though you may not have complete control
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by snikolov 16y ago
That's exactly what I thought. I stood there for half a minute looking incredibly silly trying to make it frown. My guess would be that frowns are more subtle and harder to detect.
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by snikolov 16y ago
My takeaway from this is that the goal of data analysis is, above all, insight. This insight could come from eyeballing the data or visualizing it the right way, or it could come from applying sophisticated mathematical techniques. Someti
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by snikolov 16y ago
As an MIT student, I can confirm this. I know someone who came back after 5 years to finish his last semester, and one of my TAs this term joined the military and came back after 10 years.
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by snikolov 16y ago
* A robot that does gymnastics. http://fairlypre.posterous.com/robot-gymnastics It's a final project for a class on computational control of nonlinear underactuated dynamical systems. * A system that automatically finds features in fly e
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by snikolov 16y ago
Having lots of points in these games means that the person has spent a lot of time submitting content, answering questions and commenting. I consider that this time would have been better used to write open source code, to directly teach n
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by snikolov 16y ago
I see a lot of people making the argument that a Spanish-speaking HN is bad because information about startups/business/technology/etc written in Spanish is limited and therefore a Spanish-language HN limits exposure to information. These
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by snikolov 16y ago
I meant that it is tricky to automate QA without feeding it back into Mechanical Turk for manual evaluation, for example, by classifying the task results are good or bad. This is an active area of research (see for example [1]). Even if in
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by snikolov 16y ago
The article raises an interesting point: that many turkers just assume there is no quality assurance being done on the requester end and everything will automatically be accepted and paid for. Since it is tricky to automate QA for huge se
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by snikolov 16y ago
I've spent a good chunk of time modifying an image labeling interface to make it more intuitive for mechanical turk workers to label obscure things like biological scans. The hope is that a better interface will increase quality (they did
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by snikolov 16y ago
I would actually suggest another set of MIT courses that I think are more relevant: Linear Algebra http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/18-06-linear-algebra-... Probability and Statistics http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineeri

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