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by sqrt17 16y ago
Did anyone else consider the "currency localization" bit silly? I mean, Apple can pull it off to sell songs for 0.99USD, 0.99UKP or 0.99EUR, respectively, but if my locale determines the currency, I'd rather read Japanese dates and pay 1000
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by sqrt17 16y ago
Hey, this reminds me of AdventureQuest, only with decent graphics. So compliment for the decent graphics. The big green "SHARE" button is a bit too much in-your-face for my taste. I know you're depending on word-of-mouth, but it would still
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by sqrt17 16y ago
This is a good summary. Now, here's what you need to know to have it work: * initialize weights to small random values (otherwise it will quickly get stuck in a non-desirable local optimum) * you need to decrease the learning rate of the st
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by sqrt17 16y ago
Hmm... how should I put it? I don't see why anyone non-mathematical would want using neuronal networks in the first place. There's lots of machine learning tools that are designed to work out of the box (decision trees, SVMs) whereas neuron
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by sqrt17 16y ago
Exactly. It meant more: a customizable, scriptable editor that is more geared toward being adaptable to lots of things rather than (a) being extremely simple (e.g., pico, nano) or (b) being tailored towards one very specific thing (Eclipse,
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by sqrt17 16y ago
I think he's going in the other direction: All he knows is Ruby, yet he wants to extend his editor with additional functionality. (Which is less than useful IMO, because most of the time you don't really want to extend your editor in the se
427.
by sqrt17 16y ago
... but I suspect it to be largely true. I'd be hard pressed for finding a nicer, gui-ish-er editor that supports Haskell, C/C++ (with templates'n'stuff), Python/Cython, Java, Lisp/Scheme, shell and whatnot equally well. Ok, it's just font
428.
by sqrt17 16y ago
Medibuntu has made the step of installing codecs with shaky legal status incredibly easy. I used to cuss a lot more about video decoding in Linux.
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by sqrt17 16y ago
Recording a few packets off an open wifi doesn't sound like much of an issue. But the fact that governments -- be it Hongkong or Germany or the others -- line up to grab a share of the data should tell you that someone, somewhere, has a rea
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by sqrt17 16y ago
How is this new? My twitter-using facebook friends used to get on my nerves with "Just bought some bananas"-style updates from a twitter-to-facebook thingie years ago, until they discovered the "selective twitter" thing and/or got more reas
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by sqrt17 16y ago
I've heard the exact opposite point being made about the US: they have a large-ish trade deficit, and quickly increasing debt, but everyone who sells what the US people buy buys US state debt, so everything works out in the end. As an enter
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by sqrt17 16y ago
Since A and D give you the same result, the question is a "check all that apply question". Excluding contradictory combinations, there are four answers: * nothing checked (i.e., none of A,B,C,D) * A+D * B * C Assume the correct choice is am
433.
by sqrt17 16y ago
Is anyone else baffled by how the article title talks about "failure to communicate" and then goes on to talk about basic things such as spelling and grammar? In my opinion, communicating something is a far deeper skill than just writing co
434.
by sqrt17 16y ago
Citing usually has multiple functions: 1. You use the authority of the source you cite. (If a well-respected researcher has made the point, I may be more likely to assume it's sensible than if it just came to your mind). This is why citing
435.
by sqrt17 16y ago
Duh. I've never got the hang of git either, but I figure git is for those people who don't get enough mileage out of Mercurial because they have 42 megatons of source code, or need git rebase, or just want to shock and awe their friends. Bu
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by sqrt17 16y ago
(Apologies to any Zen Buddhists from Southern California. "Southern Californian branch" was meant as a slightly-snarky term for "Relaxation exercises for busy people, marketed as Zen Buddhism")
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by sqrt17 16y ago
where's my block of [citation needed] tags? Some of the things he claims (e.g., Eastern meditation is only about having an empty mind - that sounds like the Southern Californian branch of Zen Buddhism). Oh, just noticed - he does cite a w
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by sqrt17 16y ago
Kind of. Both RBMs and HMMs are a mean to squeeze statistics out of something so that you can take the something away and still know what it looked like. RBMs are a bit more involved (and hence a whole lot slower, which still matters in spe
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by sqrt17 16y ago
This is precisely why no one uses the raw waveform. Speech recognizers and phoneticians alike use something which looks more like this: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Spectrogram_-iua-.png Speech recognition uses a couple more fan
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by sqrt17 16y ago
If change were always a good thing, and temporary uncomfort good - do you mind if I borrow that office chair of yours and replace it with a different one? If you're still bored, there's this French-layout keyboard I could give you. And - no
441.
by sqrt17 16y ago
now... I'd gladly pay as much as for an iPad for a device that gives me (a) the basic functionality you'd use on an iPad (web browsing, calendar, pdf viewer) but also (b) enables you to use any kind of application, including your own, witho
442.
by sqrt17 17y ago
You may be starting from wrong assumptions. Asymptotic analysis of algorithms is useful when you want to extrapolate to larger datasets, since it helps you figure out what, if the data grew enough, would become the bottleneck in your source
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by sqrt17 17y ago
If you're a perl head, try one of the modern web frameworks for Perl, such as Catalyst http://www.catalystframework.org/ As a long-time pythoneer, I first had a look at RoR, but not being able to reuse old code and programming prowess is
444.
by sqrt17 17y ago
nah. Use Apache and mod_wsgi. (mod_wsgi runs the Python app in a separate process, which means that those Apache processes that just serve images will not be weighed down by a Python interpreter).
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by sqrt17 17y ago
IMO, dokuwiki works fine. Reasonably easy to install as a Ubuntu package, has several authentication plugins. And it doesn't look ugly.