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by tabeth 9y ago
That might be a good project actually. Try to predict previous houses prices from historical data. A retrospective analysis would be fun since you know what the "right answer" is and can adjust your model accordingly. It seems thi
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by tabeth 9y ago
You would think real estate would prove to be one of the few real life fields where machine learning would be able to predict the prices pretty accurately. You have: 1. List price 2. "Favorites" on the MLS. 3. Square footage 4. Be
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by tabeth 9y ago
Are people really that against interacting with someone, even if it is forced, for a few minutes? Money saving aside, it's hardly conclusive to whether or not self-checkout is superior. Such reasoning such as reluctance to make convers
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by tabeth 9y ago
I don't think freshly minted M.Ds are hardly representative of America. Even if they were, there's a middle ground between sparse rural areas and hyper dense Tokyo's.
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by tabeth 9y ago
Everything you've stated is true only if you limit your scope to some arbitrary geographical region. If you look at the greater picture, the reality is that most land on earth, even land deemed livable, is vacant. There lies the soluti
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by tabeth 9y ago
Indeed you are right! Unfortunately, that's even worse.
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by tabeth 9y ago
> Loretta Taylor, who lives in the southern-Illinois town of Mount Vernon, started using a Walmart MoneyCard when her local bank branch closed late last year, forcing her to drive 45 minutes to make a deposit. A registered nurse, she has
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by tabeth 9y ago
tricking people to save paltry sums of money meanwhile using the gains in interest to fund your company's most recent marketing campaign to trick people into buying more useless garbage they don't really need . what's wrong
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by tabeth 9y ago
I was referring to what huangc10 suggested with letting users communicate "offline" via SMS. I'm also skeptical that email is less reliable than an app push notification. The post itself even suggests that before they made ad
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by tabeth 9y ago
I've only skimmed the article (as of yet), but how is this superior/better than just a dedicated server plus DB for messaging with a simple READ(all), REPLY(to_message) API? This seems like an interesting technical problem, but I
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by tabeth 9y ago
I wonder if it is actually possible to make money in the commoditized transportation business. Virtually all government transportation organizations lose money -- luckily for them they're governmentally funded (MBTA loses money [1],
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by tabeth 9y ago
The article literally says, verbatim "...Date Your Digital Assistant." However, the only mention of a "boyfriend' is referring to Siri's deflection of such questions in a stereotypically Siri-esque manner. Even the
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by tabeth 9y ago
It's pretty trivial to prove that thinking is faster than speaking -- just read a 200+ word article out loud vs. "in your head" and the difference is clear. The gap in speed will become larger as the overhead behind speaking
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by tabeth 9y ago
I don't use facebook, but that seems like silly advice. if you're going to unfollow everyone, then the primary value prop is gone. each time you bother to manually check on someone, you could've just called/emailed/
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by tabeth 9y ago
the common counter to this feeling is that if facebook makes you miserable, then your friends are probably just not good ones. of course, this ignores that we all have friends who do things we don't like, and they're friends in sp
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by tabeth 9y ago
What exactly is the end goal of these advertising platforms, exactly? Ads in my mind are zero sum, so I'm pretty clueless on this front. One thing I find interesting is the simultaneous popularity of these newfound distractions and tas
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by tabeth 9y ago
I recently watched the scifi film Arrival and it suggests that language can not only allow you to experience time differently, but to [1] (spoiler). I wonder if there's any truth in what it suggests, or if its just scifi mumbo jumbo. [
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by tabeth 9y ago
To this day I am still shocked Wal-Mart didn't (and still doesn't) run same day shipping of all of its items in store at prices that beat Amazon's. Not only would this crush Amazon, but would simultaneously restore Walmart&#x
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by tabeth 9y ago
Indeed. However, the hard limit here is the number of "discernible" and distinct characters that can fit on the page. The whole second thing is really just a way of permuting the existing data. So I'd say there would be infin
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by tabeth 9y ago
AFAIK a single character is 1 byte. An A4 sheet of paper is 62370 sqmm. A good printer can print a 1 sq mm character. Therefore, at a minimum you have 62370 bytes * 2, so basically 0.12 of a megabyte, which is pretty bad. However, say you s
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by tabeth 9y ago
Was @ts-check just added in this version? I assume so, but if not -- is it possible to use TypeScript and just @ts-check and get basically the full type-checking power (assuming the items to be checked follow the standard lib)?
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by tabeth 9y ago
I love the design for this. Excellent! As a side note, I'm curious to how/why you named it Audrey. I think it's very interesting that these 'personal assistants' have traditionally feminine names. P.S. At the bottom
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by tabeth 9y ago
One day people will look in horror as many didn't even need to be tricked to give away their privacy and self worth. They just gave it away willingly.
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by tabeth 9y ago
What do you define as "American"?
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by tabeth 9y ago
I believe this is the inevitable outcome of the following: 1. The desire to maximize personal capital and assets. 2. An individualistic mindset 3. The compounding effects of (1) and (2). With all three, you get the current problem as desc
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by tabeth 9y ago
Why not give employees a % of their amortized stock options per day of employment? Any other scheme is nonsensical and the power balance is clearly on the side of employers. If you're worried about the employee not adding value then ma
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by tabeth 10y ago
It doesn't matter. Don't you have better things to be doing?
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by tabeth 10y ago
So many of the problems surrounding this would be fixed with: 1. More representatives per capita 2. Shorter (and limited max) term limits. There's nothing wrong with what he's saying here. The problem is that his view, though repr
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by tabeth 10y ago
Because despite being thorough, there's no way this write-up could be completed slower than building the actual thing they're describing.
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by tabeth 10y ago
I haven't used TypeScript extensively, but I feel that there should be more of a push (maybe there is, please correct me if I'm wrong) to introduce whatever functionality people deem worthy that exists in TypeScript and introduce

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