stevenbedrick

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by stevenbedrick 12y ago
> It's a larger data-set not a more complex problem. Ummmm... yeah, scaling the kinds of algorithms that one might apply to this sort of problem up to larger data sets is often extremely difficult.
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by stevenbedrick 12y ago
Couldn't it be both?
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by stevenbedrick 12y ago
So, they'd have to, you know... actually have revenue in excess of their expenditures? Shocking!
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by stevenbedrick 12y ago
In case anybody's interested in an application of machine learning to this problem area: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5558287
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by stevenbedrick 12y ago
Simon Fraser University has a well-regarded NLP group. That might be a good place to start networking if you were looking for something in Vancouver...
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by stevenbedrick 12y ago
A wonderful read on th subject is Robert Sapolsky's "Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers": http://www.powells.com/biblio/1-9780805073690-1
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by stevenbedrick 13y ago
Yeah, I just noticed the "can't drag pictures in" issue. If anybody from the OneNote team is reading these comments, this is a pretty big missing feature. Mac OS is all about drag-and-drop, and a well-behaved app (especially
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by stevenbedrick 13y ago
Very good point.
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by stevenbedrick 13y ago
Housing in Portland (particularly rental housing) is getting less affordable by the day, and the city is very aggressive about land use planning. This is, of course, one reason why the city is so nice... but it also means that there is a
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by stevenbedrick 13y ago
I imagine that it depends on the state (or country, if we're not being US-centric), but many non-married couples can and do set up durable powers of attorney (PoA), advance medical directives, wills, and so on. As a sibling commenter n
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by stevenbedrick 13y ago
Google Scholar has a reasonable interface, but I find its actual content to be unreliable at best. Downloading references in e.g. BibTeX format, I almost always find significant errors, sometimes in relatively innocuous fields (different fo
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by stevenbedrick 13y ago
> I can't wait for a day when we get a centralized, non-profit, publish/subscribe consumer service for all the papers that ever get published by major research universities (with a good search tool) You probably know about this
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by stevenbedrick 13y ago
Your point is a good one, but maybe a different procedure would be a better example- most people suffering from an intracranial hemorrhage aren't in a position to do a whole of of comparison shopping on where to have it taken care of.
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by stevenbedrick 13y ago
Nope, you're not the only one. I've been wondering for years how 23andMe has been getting away with what is clearly a flagrant violation of FDA marketing rules.
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by stevenbedrick 13y ago
I know several industrial physicists who use it very heavily.
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by stevenbedrick 13y ago
The ACL Anthology is a free online archive of the last couple of decades' worth of Association for Computational Linguistics-sponsored journals and conference proceedings, which is where many people working in computational linguistics
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by stevenbedrick 13y ago
This is probably a stupid question, but is the Canvas's DrawLine function thread-safe? It looks like multiple Nodes could be drawing to the same canvas at the same time, and I don't see any locks/mutexes/whatevers wrappi
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by stevenbedrick 13y ago
Thank you. This is an important point, and one that I haven't seen nearly enough of on HN lately. It is very difficult to overstate the extent to which "government people" live in a bubble. In many ways, they are working fr
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by stevenbedrick 13y ago
Very. And the consequences from getting caught are bad.
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by stevenbedrick 13y ago
They also didn't seem too interested in our application for a radiation oncology treatment planning tool, so maybe they just weren't into medical stuff?
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by stevenbedrick 13y ago
She actually does mention teaching- she lists sub-par problem sets as a contributing factor to a particular month being difficult, and she groups teaching in with research as her non-quota-having activities. But I suspect that your analysis
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by stevenbedrick 13y ago
Good point, and there are a lot of factors that go into it. r00fus made a similar point in a sibling reply, and I absolutely agree that users like us are quite different than 99.99999% of Google's other users- it definitely sounds like we h
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by stevenbedrick 13y ago
Yes, I've noticed that corporate PR statements that begin with "To serve you better..." rarely end particularly pleasantly for me as a customer. It makes more sense, of course, if we interpret such statements through the lens of the Twiligh
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by stevenbedrick 13y ago
That's definitely a fair point- "experts" have very different search behavior from "novices", and could potentially get more benefit from personalized search support.
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by stevenbedrick 13y ago
> Keyword search isn't good enough anymore Citation needed. I'd actually be quite satisfied if the current state of the art for general-purpose web IR stayed about where it is now- it's pretty dang good! I can't remember the last time I
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by stevenbedrick 13y ago
That said, while your advisor's job is in part to protect you from whatever politics are going on in your department, it is important that you not be completely politically naïve when you finish. So your advisor probably shouldn't try to ke
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by stevenbedrick 13y ago
A properly-run academic department insulates its students as completely as possible from politics. If, as a student, you're having to concern yourself with departmental politics, it's a sign that your advisor isn't doing their job.
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by stevenbedrick 13y ago
In case anybody's interested, one of our (former) graduate students has done some really fascinating work on computational analysis of prenominal modifiers (adjectives, etc.). For example, her ACL paper from 2011: Mitchell, M., Dunlop, A.,
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by stevenbedrick 14y ago
Yes, usually.
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by stevenbedrick 14y ago
> While it sucks for the workers at the plant that they're probably going to lose their jobs... From TFA: When new violations are found, Apple requires its suppliers to return the workers back to a school chosen by the family and

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