terra_t

36 ms·

271.
by terra_t 16y ago
Some thoughts. The people I know who do work in machine learning (Jon Kleinberg, Thorsten Joachims, and their students) work in straight-up C, not Haskell, as the author suggests. Most of the dominant methods used today, such as the S
272.
by terra_t 16y ago
High end multivitamins scare me. Most of them want to create the perception that you can "feel" the results of taking the supplement, so they contain stimulants like gotu kola, synephrine, etc. Some of these, like synephrine definitely
273.
by terra_t 16y ago
Purified Omega-3 1000 mg, 4000 IU Vitamin D, 100 mg CoQ10, 1000 mg Calcium, 800 mg Magnesium; thinking seriously of capping up KCl and taking that too... idiots that kill themselves with potassium overdoses mean you have to pay prescrip
274.
by terra_t 16y ago
WebKit sucks, when it comes to performance, compared to Chrome and Opera. I'm sure you'll always find compatibility 'issues' but Microsoft is also planning to pull out all the stops when it comes to HTML 5 application performance.
275.
Car Hackers Can Kill Brakes, Engine And More...(networkworld.com)
2 points by terra_t 16y ago|0 comments
276.
by terra_t 16y ago
Digg is the case study I always bring out as to why "web 2.0 doesn't work" and "we need web 3.0." Web 2.0 sites are held hostage by their user communities at two points in their growth: (i) when the site is just starting and (ii) when the
277.
Intel Cuts Idle Power For Tablets And Smartphones by 50x(tomshardware.com)
4 points by terra_t 16y ago|0 comments
278.
by terra_t 16y ago
I dunno... Mike has been complaining for years that TC isn't any fun. I wouldn't blame him for selling.
279.
by terra_t 16y ago
Well, Facebook has to do something to pay for the servers and the programmers. They're estimating $1B or so in revenue for 2010, that sounds like a lot of money, but that's an ARPU of about $2 or so -- most real businesses do 50 times th
280.
by terra_t 16y ago
I swore off that sh-t ten years ago. I just got too worried about lawsuits, hit men (some toughs show up and you've got 30 seconds to decide how badly you want to mess them up to minimize your risk of future problems), wondering which pe
281.
It doesn't make sense to spend a lot on a domain name(circleid.com)
2 points by terra_t 16y ago|0 comments
282.
by terra_t 16y ago
My use of tests is situational. If I'm writing security-sensitive string parsing code that isn't going to change much, I'm going to write a thorough set of unit tests. When I wrote database abstraction layer that ran on MySQL, PostgreSQL,
283.
FBI: The Top Ten Job Descriptions in Organized Cybercrime(computerworld.com)
1 points by terra_t 16y ago|0 comments
284.
by terra_t 17y ago
zed's dead baby
285.
Colorful Random Walk [Developed and deployed in 10 minutes with MIT Scratch](scratch.mit.edu)
1 points by terra_t 17y ago|0 comments
286.
Cornell Won't Ban the iPad(cornellsun.com)
1 points by terra_t 17y ago|0 comments
287.
by terra_t 17y ago
Sensei taught me two things about web analytics, when it comes to making money online: (1) Checking your stats too much is a disease: if looking at stats isn't going to changbe your behavior, it's a waste of time (2) Monthly revenue is t
288.
by terra_t 17y ago
I've worked enough in the non-profit sector, where 'accessibility' is a substitute for 'usability'. Never again.
289.
by terra_t 17y ago
That Willy Wonka-style competition drove me up the wall. The county I'm in turned down a chance to get 10x matching funds from the federal government and decided to buy a ticket in the Google lottery instead.
290.
by terra_t 17y ago
If you're a new entrant in a field, you don't usually have a choice. I think of some non-disruptive spaces, such as job shops that make web sites for other businesses, that are boring businesses... boring businesses because they never g
291.
by terra_t 17y ago
Normally I would, but if you're talking about fundamental issues about quality in graphic design, I'm going to hold you to a higher standard than the usual blog entry.
292.
AFNIC Report On "The Secondary Market For Domain Names" [pdf](afnic.fr)
1 points by terra_t 17y ago|0 comments
293.
by terra_t 17y ago
the thrust of this article is good, but there are a lot of annoying details such as: (i) no content above the fold and (ii) he cites "How to draw comics the Marvel way" but shows an illustration of two D.C. characters underneath it.
294.
Color Things Green... If you want to destroy the Earth(nytimes.com)
7 points by terra_t 17y ago|0 comments
295.
by terra_t 17y ago
When I hear "stem cells" my first thought is "scam." A lot of people want more from medicine than it is ever going to deliver. Just say no to another expensive procedure that has no demonstrable value.
296.
by terra_t 17y ago
I don't think NLP and AI are dead-ends, however, I agree with you that sentiment analysis is a crowded area. Personally I find I need sophisticated domain-specific heuristics to evaluate consumer reviews in particular spaces. For instanc
297.
by terra_t 17y ago
This ducks the real issue. I'm not all that concerned about the efficiency of the codec and of the mechanism that flushes video to the screen. That said, <video> in a web browser that's codesigned to work on a platform is always g
298.
by terra_t 17y ago
It's not hard to rank high for a neologism, particularly if you own the domain name and practice SEO basics. The profitability of a site depends on a lot of factors. For one thing, traffic. How many people care about your keyword? #1 for
299.
High fan-out in social networks dooms the "web of trust"(artofsystems.blogspot.com)
1 points by terra_t 17y ago|0 comments
300.
by terra_t 17y ago
you read this? http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200909/health-care

More ›