spikels

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by spikels 14y ago
Makes sense. I have read many more math, stats and econ papers than bioscience. In there areas there tends to only be a few authors. Often there is an acknowledgement of some helped received either in the paper or at th bottom of the first
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by spikels 14y ago
Check out the other videos posted by 91177info on YouTube. A huge variety of paranoid fantasies mixed in with lots of half-truths. Their focus seems to be pro-Iran and anti-US and Israel propoganda. Also it would be nice to know what the fo
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by spikels 14y ago
Anyone know why such a straightforward article has eight authors? What could each of them possibly have contributed? I have noticed in the past that bioscience articles tend to have lots of authors but always thought it was due to their inh
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by spikels 14y ago
There is the death penalty for some federal crimes like terrorism even in MA.
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by spikels 14y ago
Thanks for the definition but I was not trying to get into a political discussion. Yes Austrian propoganda sucks but Eritrean propoganda sucks balls! I wish nobody was unemployed. Well not really - I don't want an employer - a boss. You sho
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by spikels 14y ago
I wish you were right but there is a big difference between research not being able to show that large debts slow growth and banishing unemployment forever. For starters there will always be some unemployment due to natural turnover: compan
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by spikels 14y ago
Seems like there would be two stages: (1) solve the crime and (2) gather the evidence. Seems like as long as the evidence is not tampered with it would still be usable in court. For example uploading a picture shouldn't destroy its value as
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by spikels 14y ago
I'm no lawyer but I don't we why it wouldn't be admissible unless it somehow violated the perpetrators rights. Even then since we are not the police the situation might be different. Anyone know for sure? There must be rules of evidence tha
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by spikels 14y ago
If you go to the police or FBI and offer help I am pretty sure they will say no. Except in very controlled situations they are unlikely to share any of their evidence. It is just not their culture. However I wonder what you could achieve wi
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by spikels 14y ago
Interesting insights on the natural conflict between standards and innovation from the node community. While standards have benefits they also have costs: any innovation that requires breaking the standard will become very expensive. It's s
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by spikels 14y ago
Then did extending unemployment insurance to 99 weeks actually screw the people it was intended to help? I have not read the details of the original study but this article seems to indicate that a recently employed person in a different ind
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by spikels 14y ago
I appears you have not heard about the man sentenced to 10+ years in prison for hitting and injuring a bicyclist in Healdsburg, CA (about 70 miles north of San Francisco). The article also mentions two other ongoing prosecutions of drivers
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Will Teachers Unions Kill Virtual Learning?(reason.com)
3 points by spikels 14y ago|0 comments
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by spikels 14y ago
The situation is very special in capital intensive industries like this. When you have to invest and thus borrow huge sums of money to create a business everyone involved is keenly aware that competition can put the entire investment at ris
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by spikels 14y ago
I don't think Google's strategy is to build these networks themselves but to demonstrate consumer demand and thus entice others to build them for them. I can't imagine they actually want to spend tens, if not hundreds, of billions to wire e
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by spikels 14y ago
I think you are correct that Google wants everyone to have fast and high bandwidth internet connections as it benefits their core search advertising business. Google Fiber is just one of many efforts including Chrome/V8 and Spdy. However go
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by spikels 14y ago
I think the Cliff Click tech talk you are looking for was at Stanford in 2007. He covered both his wait free hash table and scaling on modern systems, specifically Azul Systems in 2007. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYXgtXWejRM
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Coursera Takes a Nuanced View of MOOC Dropout Rates(chronicle.com)
1 points by spikels 14y ago|0 comments
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by spikels 14y ago
Statistics (noun) - The practice or science of collecting and analyzing numerical data in large quantities. http://www.google.com/search?q=definition+statistics And I would argue that qualification that the data be "numerical" in this def
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by spikels 14y ago
I agree. I absolutely love almost everything on this list but I only despise the term "data science" slightly less than "big data". Sadly what is often called "data science" is the rather narrow analysis of log files generated by websites.
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Coursera Isn’t Scared of edX, or Your Skepticism(bostinno.streetwise.co)
2 points by spikels 14y ago|0 comments
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Internet takes education to new level: Will universities make the grade?(cosmiclog.nbcnews.com)
1 points by spikels 14y ago|0 comments
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by spikels 14y ago
Then I think I misunderstood the point your post - I hope you can see how it could happen. And I am probably yet another example of exactly what you were trying to warn against - people on the Internet talking past one another. I think we a
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by spikels 14y ago
If this was just a post on language I think I totally agree - it is a tricky word to define. And I hope you saw the comment above on the ironic origin of the word. However I got the impression from several things in your post that you don'
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by spikels 14y ago
That really is one of the great ironies of the English language. And this is not well known - I didn't know this until a few years ago (maybe on HN?). I guess the reality is that "meritocracy" is a goal that in practice is hard to achieve.
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by spikels 14y ago
This is a strawman argument. Forget about Donald Trump as some model of success. Despite his head start he almost went bankrupt - twice. He is much less respected as a real estate developer in the world of real estate than you think. His su
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by spikels 14y ago
More people attacking online education. While again mostly based on misunderstandings I have some sympathy for the argument that this may be best done by a non-profit. I'm a little worried what may happen when Coursera tries to monitize the
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For-Profit Fiasco: California Public Colleges Turn to Web Courses(thenation.com)
1 points by spikels 14y ago|1 comments
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by spikels 14y ago
Everyone needs to understand that the low completion rates are not as bad as they at first seem. The way to try out these classes for free is to sign up. There is no obligation at all: completely voluntary, no cost, no time commitment and i
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by spikels 14y ago
I have taken classes at several top private and public universities and except in a few smaller, more advanced classes few questions were asked during the professor's lectures. And only some of those questions were helpful to the majority o

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