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A Senior Recital for Computer Science Majors?(etilevich.wordpress.com)
1 points by tansey 14y ago|0 comments
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by tansey 14y ago
It's really about whether the email is commercial or relationship content. This is a subjective point for mixed emails, and the ACM TechNews email does in fact mix the two by containing banner ads and links to the ACM's social media sites.
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The ACM is Violating the CAN-SPAM Act(wesleytansey.com)
12 points by tansey 14y ago|4 comments
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The Inhabitants of Startup Land(wesleytansey.com)
1 points by tansey 14y ago|0 comments
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by tansey 14y ago
> There's no Stack Overflow for design. There are actually two stack exchange sites for design: - http://ux.stackexchange.com/ - http://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com I've used both and found them very useful. > It doesn't w
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by tansey 14y ago
Yep, it's up and running. We stagnated a bit over the holidays because most shows were over or on break. Then January we were slow to start back up because our co-founder got engaged. We're pushing several new episodes this week though. We'
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by tansey 14y ago
That's a great point. We have that signup header on every page for non-users, but it does seem confusing for first-time visitors on the homepage. I'm removing it now.
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by tansey 14y ago
> The AWS issues seem very solvable though. Well, solvable at a cost (in both time and money). > Aside from what's mentioned above... that seems like a not so bad week. Yep. As I noted in the end, this is really not that extreme
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What a Week Running a Startup Looks Like(wesleytansey.com)
44 points by tansey 14y ago|10 comments
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Retraining Baby Boomers to be Programmers in 6 Months(wesleytansey.com)
14 points by tansey 14y ago|1 comments
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by tansey 14y ago
I think that is an unfortunate attitude. I always opt-out. It's a form of civil disobedience and governments don't like that, so they enact procedures that try to discourage people. If enough people opted out, the whole system would come to
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by tansey 14y ago
Cool. I love the demo where it's hooked up to a player piano. After a quick glance at the source, it seems like what you do is build a simple Markov chain from the input snippet and then randomly sample it to produce the output snippet. Is
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by tansey 14y ago
Carried interest is just one of the loopholes that hedge funds exploit that should be closed. When I worked for a quant fund, we were making at least one trade a day, but because we were trading futures contracts we were mostly paying long-
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by tansey 14y ago
Interesting. Honest question: when were you poor, Paul? According to Wikipedia, you graduated from Cornell in 1986. You defended your PhD in 1990 and had sold Viaweb by 1995. Grad school life is certainly not luxurious, but I certainly woul
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by tansey 14y ago
Nice writeup, but comparing non-linear SVMs to decision trees and logistic regression is a bit disingenuous. Try comparing the performance to random forests and neural networks-- the differences will be much less stark. Also, in real-world
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by tansey 14y ago
I'll take a small issue with the end of the article that claims linear programming is used for game theory work in poker. With the exception of Andrew Gilpin's work using the "Excessive Gap Technique"[1], almost no poker game theory work re
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by tansey 14y ago
Does stattit have an archive that one can download or do they just provide the high-level summary stats shown on the site?
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by tansey 14y ago
$38.99 per project if I want the client to approve estimate categories? Seems pretty steep. Why not a flat, $9.95/mo?
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by tansey 14y ago
Can't the server mitigate a lot of this cheating by enforcing a matching checksum? That's how Subspace (AKA Continuum) does it, and cheating seems to be fairly minimal.
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by tansey 14y ago
Just nitpicking here: how is cooperative coevolution a crossover-dependent approach? Are you referring to some specific algorithm?
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by tansey 14y ago
> My main point was that mutation is not there to escape local optima, although I should have been clearer about the efficacy of crossover for that purpose. Mutation is absolutely there for the primary purpose of escaping local opti
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by tansey 14y ago
> ...an algorithm with no crossover will do usually pretty well, but will be prone to getting stuck in local optima. This is because it is possible to arrive at a solution where no incremental change can improve the fitness. False. Th
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by tansey 14y ago
I would think a letter is a more effective form of mailing congress. Postcards don't convey the same weight as a full letter.
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by tansey 14y ago
The original DARPA Grand Challenge was set in the desert on dirt roads. It's not that difficult to identify the road given some assumptions about how roads work (e.g., it's likely to be a slightly different color or texture)
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by tansey 14y ago
I strongly disagree, though it depends on your definition of what machine learning really is. If you define machine learning algorithms as those that learn from data, then okay. In that case, EAs are reinforcement learning algorithms and ot
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by tansey 14y ago
Great job! Technically, this is a supervised learning NN library that implements the canonical backprop algorithm. Also looks like all networks are feed-forward and fully connected, with neurons activated using a sigmoid function (1 / [1+e^
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by tansey 14y ago
Heroku doesn't. They are on US-East.
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by tansey 14y ago
> It does this for 20,000 different objects categories With 15.8% accuracy. > This is the most powerful AI experiment yet conducted (publicly known). It's only powerful because they threw more cores at it than anyone else has previo
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by tansey 14y ago
I was just speaking with a friend about effectively this same idea the other day. He was super excited and thought it could revolutionize the way research funding works. It won't. I'm sorry, but it just won't. There are several reasons why
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by tansey 14y ago
I don't think The Oatmeal "fell" for anything. They got even more publicity than FJ-- and it was all positive. Seems more like a classic "pick a fight and everyone wins" situation.

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