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by sqrt17 11y ago
A point that has become more obvious over the years is this: there are "soft" instances of NP-complete problems where you can find good approximations in reasonable time, and there are "crunchy" instances of the same cla
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by sqrt17 11y ago
usually, we assume that a meat grinder does not "understand" meat, that a rice cooker does not "understand" food, and that a telephone or a CD player does not "understand" human language. Wiktionary terms &quot
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by sqrt17 11y ago
I'd argue that NNs (i) have to have a strong bias towards sensible structure to work well (e.g., use image topology in convolutional networks), and that (ii) a trained NN models one particular mode of the distribution, similar how Vari
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by sqrt17 11y ago
The article is reporting about a scientific study ( http://arxiv.org/pdf/1504.00680v1.pdf discussed in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9399090 ) that specifically talks about "future banned use
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by sqrt17 11y ago
I don't see at all why nominal interest rates have to be superior to the interest that people get through other assets (including cash). The real problem is that the base of the reserve requirements are based on demand deposits, which
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by sqrt17 12y ago
In particular, the Apache License 2.0 is the most appealing license for "commercial-friendly" open source, whereas the GPL with its "developer-friendly" license correlates highly with FSF-hosted, Gnome/KDE/...
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by sqrt17 12y ago
I'm not always a fan of modelviewculture, but I think what they say implcitly is very important: start with culture. Have a culture where men and women alike consider themselves functional and important parts of your business. Let this
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by sqrt17 12y ago
This gives me a strange impression of deja vu ... oh right, RedHat Linux and the not-quite-standard gcc 2.96 version and the solution of having a separate "kgcc" program that you could use to compile the programs that the default
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by sqrt17 12y ago
Germany in the 1700s/1800s had similar shoulder poles for carrying water: http://static3.akpool.de/images/cards/65/655879.jpg They added a thicker, slightly regressed bit in the middle to avoid the some
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by sqrt17 12y ago
You're arguing from a frame where there is a demand for a constant set of things ("jobs") and people capture the money that can be exchanged for that set of things. This assumes that a number of parameters in the market are f
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by sqrt17 12y ago
There's a thought error in here: "the economy", as an unmovable construct, does not really exist. As an example, a good shirt does not cost thousands of dollars anymore, because we have automated weaving looms and a whole tex
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by sqrt17 12y ago
The article specifically made the distinction between service dogs - which are well-trained and, as a result, well-behaved and very seldomly a bother to anyone - and untrained animals that are held only for reasons of mental comfort. The id
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by sqrt17 12y ago
There's nothing special about latin. If you teach people the grammar of a language throroughly, and expose them to all sorts of historic, philosophical and poetic writings, they will also learn some abstract thinking. For most foreign
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by sqrt17 12y ago
The answer in other countries has been to train the police force so that they can accurately assess risks to themselves and others and use the amount of caution and, if needed, force necessary to fulfill their task. Police should value thei
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by sqrt17 12y ago
Not trying to be cynical about this, but: You want nice things, not bitcoins and not dollars. Currently, more market actors accept dollars (or Euros, or JPY, or UKP) than bitcoin, hence you're closer to the things you desire if you hav
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by sqrt17 12y ago
Quoting a symposium with Chomsky talking about statistical AI: http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/myl/PinkerChomskyMIT.html "I think there have been some successes, but a lot of failures. The successes, to my knowle
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by sqrt17 12y ago
It's important to make a distinction between (i) Chomskyan linguistics, (ii) 90s style symbolic systems, (iii) 90s/early 2000s style statistical systems and (iv) 2010s style statistical systems. Chomskyan linguistics assumes that
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by sqrt17 12y ago
Maybe it's because Perl was really popular at the time I discovered Unix and its tool, but why would you use sed and awk instead of a Perl one-liner? (Or even :s// in vim or M-x query-replace-regexp in emacs, if it's jus
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by sqrt17 12y ago
The author of the post started by getting into programming/CS by wanting to earn more/better money, by picking up an Access book and working it out from there, and now that he's more established, he looks down at the young hu
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by sqrt17 12y ago
The point is not (merely) the technology behind it, it's the agencies' model of selling the customers "rich internet sites" whose main point is to show off to other people that you have pockets full of money. A good intr
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by sqrt17 12y ago
The point is: most of these applications (say, Photoshop, Gimp, Eclipse, OpenOffice, probably others) are things that you load once to work with them for a couple hours, and don't mind when they consume a lot of your system resources.
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by sqrt17 12y ago
IEEE may be more prone to precision errors (letting bad papers in) while NIPS may be prone to recall errors (throwing good papers out). With the way reviewing is done (no one can take a week off to read and fully comprehend the four papers
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by sqrt17 12y ago
If you look at Nordstrom's interviewing site (linked in the article), you see that they require people to have some technical background but also general communication skills. All the talk about "t-shaped" people boils down t
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by sqrt17 12y ago
Stopping a course because the instructor behaved in inappropriate ways outside the classroom (which is a fuzzy notion with EdX courses) is one thing, which would be an undrstandable step for MIT to defend their reputation. Taking down exist
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by sqrt17 12y ago
That seems like the difference between object-based (early VB) and object-oriented. XSLT is referentially transparent (no setf for you) but withholds from you most of the goodies that people take for granted in functional or logic program
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by sqrt17 12y ago
I know DrRacket from back when it was called DrScheme and you had to manually set it from "extremely limited scheme-like language that won't allow you to do anything" to "actual R5RS scheme". I found DrScheme and it
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by sqrt17 12y ago
Kind of like spider? Or Emacs? Or PyDev?
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by sqrt17 12y ago
Hi, I'm a computational linguist and I would find it really great if some people could share their traces of their typing/editing process. In programming, we have editors that have strong support for writing because we know exactl
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by sqrt17 12y ago
From the other side of the curtain, most companies have "salary bands" that they apply semi-uniformly, i.e., as a "junior developer" you can make from X1-10% to X1+10%, as a "senior developer" you can make from
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by sqrt17 12y ago
Much research in corpus linguistics or computational linguistics occurs on data that naturally occurred. It's part of the traditions in psychology to manipulate your subjects because that's the only way you can get more direct obs

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