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541.
by tdaltonc 11y ago
Why did they object to multiple languages within a notebook? What problem did they think it would create?
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by tdaltonc 11y ago
I wonder if using JSON as a data bridge works well in practice. If it does, I imagine that a polyglot jupyter notebook type must be on the horizon.
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by tdaltonc 11y ago
pets.com?
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Google Is Working on a New Algorithm – Thought Vectors(wtvox.com)
2 points by tdaltonc 11y ago|0 comments
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by tdaltonc 11y ago
"The Headline at The New York Times is 'How are We Paying For this?'"
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by tdaltonc 11y ago
I'm in. I can do cognitive-neuro, psych, and experimental-econ.
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by tdaltonc 11y ago
We don't expect insiders to objectively improve most social systems (politics, business, education, defense, etc). Why should we expect scientists to fix science (as opposed to just pushing the system to serve the insiders)?
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by tdaltonc 11y ago
You might enjoy "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions". It argues convincing against the idea that we have not been zeroing in on truth. Our understanding is better then it used to be, but it's not because we're bee
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by tdaltonc 11y ago
My startup[0] is building a tool kit for to make it easy for developers to build apps that work with what really motivates users. [0] www.useDopamine.com
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by tdaltonc 11y ago
I agree that a lot of beauty and skill can go in to a plot, but you shouldn't need to read Tufte to get your point across.
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by tdaltonc 11y ago
> Do they excel at producing analytics for computers or humans? This seems like a false dichotomy. There are certainly some polishing skills that might make a DS especially good at communicating data to humans, but if you can't show
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by tdaltonc 11y ago
Sure, but would it have become that if it had been segregated in 'A' after acquisition? Would it have "graduated" into Google proper at some point?
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by tdaltonc 11y ago
Thousands out of how many containers? Hurricane Sandy destroyed thousands (about 2000) of homes in Long Island but people are still eager to live there.
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by tdaltonc 11y ago
Lots world wide could be fitted with a standard socket so that your container house could be (1) taken from the ship, (2) put on a truck, (3) fitted on to a lot. Sockets could be stacked to create medium density housing. You could relocate
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by tdaltonc 11y ago
If android were acquired today, would the really be brought in to the google core?
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by tdaltonc 11y ago
By segregating a colony in a clean room with high quality feed and optimal conditions you could quickly bulk and split colonies. That would basically turn money in to bees.
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Housing is so expensive in SF the city can't hire enough teachers(sfgate.com)
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by tdaltonc 11y ago
Needs sparklines. https://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=...
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by tdaltonc 11y ago
There is a cornucopia of distances to choose from. It's not as simple as "just use the best one." Cosine similarity assumes a certain projection of data (by ignoring distance of points are from the origin). It preforms well
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by tdaltonc 11y ago
That's exactly my point. Silicon valley used to be driven by scientific advances too. But at some point the science got good enough that the engineering and business logic decoupled from the science. That will happen in biology, maybe
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by tdaltonc 11y ago
Wouldn't any CS academic also look at every YC software startup and say, "there are much more fundamental problems that we should be tackling."? Biological engineering can and should be a thing separate for biological science
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by tdaltonc 11y ago
Imagine this: A website that fulfills a search query by searching google.com, then searching google.fr, then searching google.cn. It shows the results to the google.com query but gives badges to results based on which governments appear to
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The Thing from the Future(situationlab.org)
2 points by tdaltonc 11y ago|0 comments
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by tdaltonc 11y ago
That's what iterative improvement looks like. You make mistakes, then you stop making them.
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Talking and writing about data with WALTER(janetkayfetz.com)
1 points by tdaltonc 11y ago|0 comments
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by tdaltonc 11y ago
How big is that fixed cost in proportion to the fuel energy? Also, how much energy does it take to make a combustion engine?
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by tdaltonc 11y ago
I imagine that the women in that picture is supposed to look like she's taking in a breath of fresh air, but she looks incredibly smug.
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by tdaltonc 11y ago
https://diy.soylent.com/wiki/other-nutrients
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by tdaltonc 11y ago
They've considered that: http://discourse.soylent.com/t/phytic-acid-not-enough-of-it-...
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by tdaltonc 11y ago
It's like people think that they know some nutritional secret that soylent hasn't thought of. I take them on their word that they're taking this seriously and every time I read a comment about "Soylent is so clueless! Ho

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