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by stillsut 12y ago
GoogleDrive-type editing is really neat, but I was thinking along the lines of an applied project e.g. if one person has a microscope they can collect images for everyone to analyze: http://nbviewer.ipython.org/github/s
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by stillsut 12y ago
I'm really excited about IPython as a tool for MOOCs. For example check out this ComputerVision class: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1186001332/pyimagesearc... Ultimately, instead of thousands of going
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by stillsut 12y ago
Is there some N such that BB(N) can produce any "arbitrarily large" number? Not infinity because that would mean it doesn't halt, but that there is no number which can not be exceeded by saying in effect "plus 1". O
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by stillsut 12y ago
Here in Boston, The Subway system has been completely shutdown by the snow and the executive in charge of the system has been fired. The MBTA performs poorly and consistently goes further and further into debt. I wonder what a system built
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The danger with specialist is the focus on developer-oriented value, e.g. you're front end guy spends all his time on designing his CSS code, instead of designing the page. The key is whether you understand what's important for th
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by stillsut 12y ago
This actually will happen if you speak with an HR rep for insurance predictive modelling: -So do you have experience with SAS? -Yes, but mostly I model in R. They are sister languages. -So how much SAS, how much R? -Mostly R as it is widely
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by stillsut 12y ago
Pretty simple: if a developer can be 10x-100x as productive than the average developer, you don't really worry about only getting 80% of their required time. So if this perk gets Treehouse talent that is +30% more productive, even if t
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by stillsut 12y ago
The article fails to mention Vick the Video Game programmer and Saul the security researcher. Hackers and game developers are some of the best programmers in the world, just because there's no academic departments for these, this autho
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by stillsut 12y ago
Stats 101 - A sample of the total customers is sufficient to calculate the monthly average. As long as the sample size is sufficient (capital one credit cards) and the sampling method is not too biased (or in this case stedaily biased month
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Biology and Social Sci – admitting you have a reproducibility problem is First step(washingtonpost.com)
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by stillsut 12y ago
I see how netflix's dataset helps them produce an addictive serialized drama like House of Cards. There are many examples to learn from, and the shows are basically built out of a formula. What I don't see is how this would help y
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by stillsut 12y ago
Who would EVER approve this? Didn't the majority of the country agree this summer that police should wear cameras at all times. And the police protested this development. (Remember police brutality debate?) I'm against the license
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by stillsut 12y ago
Irony alert: StackOverflows has amazing SEO. And I consider Google+SO the best programming tool ever created. wrt Closed Questions, simple heuristic - if the page has lots of visits, lots of upvotes and is high in google for common searches
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by stillsut 12y ago
Kinda bad analogy but I'll make it: do you really need to be storing GB's of log files because you might have a bug in the future? Yes, to maximize your chances of making the most robust response to a bug or hack, "all the in
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by stillsut 12y ago
The challenge isn't creating the "Intelligence" but creating a virtual "Environment" that trains the artificial agent to do tasks that learn and alter its environment. With a purely computational environment, all ta
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by stillsut 12y ago
Probably the most famous papers is Breimen's "The Two Cultures". The rejoinder's from Cox and Hoadley add two additional perspectives from long careers.
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At the very least, a documentary about filming the film _ala_ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hearts_of_Darkness:_A_Filmmaker...
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> I don't know when we would stop classifying a species as Homo Erectus and start calling it Homo Sapien Unlike other animals where the key factor is morphology (horse -> giraffe) for humans it is the ability to operate as a gro
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by stillsut 12y ago
on "seeks love" and "values hedonism", there was almost no commenter above .5. For "challenges authority" all visible commenters were above .95.
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Here's the actual data collected by a Code for America chapter: http://codeforboston.github.io/ungentry/index.html
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What was the deal with "the blight"? At one point, they mentioned it had to do with the ability to fix nitrogen? Also, wouldn't any pestilence as widespread as that be transported on the cargo ships with the people and their
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by stillsut 12y ago
When not open-source is okay: Basically hardware. Say you're trying to create scientific image proc for an an off-the-shelf smartphone. The following review of the 40MP android nokia shows the debate. http://www.cnet.com&#
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by stillsut 12y ago
I thought: E[IQ] = 100, SD[IQ] = 10 then SD (for n = 37) = (10 / sqrt(36)) =~ 2 So a 10 point deviation between groups is 5 sd's, p <.001 ?
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by stillsut 12y ago
Designing my first CNC, any ideas/answers would be appreciated: [1]Looking to move XY stage with fine resolution: 5 micrometers [2]The stage will only need to support ~5grams [3] There will be optical feedback [4] speed can always be
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by stillsut 12y ago
If you want Grand Engineering, why not get behind the Soviets? Their progress to space outclasses any other non-US country. So why is Russia a second world country, with world-class math, science, and comp-sci talent? Further: the 'sof
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As we know from 'Operation Valkyrie', high-level officials in the Nazi party wanted to surrender to the allies days after the Normandy landing. The problem is they were not high-level enough, and out-numbered. And as we can all ag
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Breakthrough space-tech is in no way is comparable to the broken window fallacy. In the latter, a window is replaced with a window, while in this case something un-precedented has been created. Most of the wealth of developed nations comes
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by stillsut 12y ago
The interview's pressure makes finding these relatively easy tricks difficult. While in the flow of programming, or discussing the problem with colleagues, you'd probably knock this one out in a few seconds, the power difference i
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by stillsut 12y ago
Enforcing anti-trust regulation depends on the industry: If BurgerKing and McDonalds collude to set a hamburger at $10, then Joe's Hamburger will quickly open and win market share with its $4 hamburger. If the product is an advanced pi
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by stillsut 12y ago
What role did the DIYbio community play in fertilizing your business? What role do you see that community playing in future 'non-trad' bio-tech start-ups?

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