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by textminer 13y ago
This is a common generational worry, right? We learned X a certain way, that pedagogy was necessarily linked to the technology at the time, we worry in retrospect that that specific technology was a necessary condition for ever learning X.
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by textminer 13y ago
I thought those seemed part and parcel. :) "I'm in the gravity well of a star" leads to "this alters the geodesic of spacetime that the I tumble down", which made me wonder "wait, why does it tumble down geodes
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by textminer 13y ago
Good discussion of your question: http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/24359/why-do-obje...
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by textminer 13y ago
I went for Jill Stein. After hearing nothing of substance in the Romney/Obama debates, the third party debates were a breath of fresh air. How I wish they had electoral clout, or that we had a system which encouraged voting one's
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by textminer 13y ago
One can ABD almost anywhere! Usually requires paying a nominal maintenance fee while you do other things.
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10 Reasons Millennials are Screwed(salon.com)
2 points by textminer 13y ago|0 comments
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by textminer 13y ago
If you've never read this article in Jacobin magazine, I think you'd quite like it: http://jacobinmag.com/2011/12/four-futures/
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by textminer 13y ago
Yeah! Modes of centrality can mean lots of things. It's why it can be so frustrating when media folks casually toss out "average" for long-tailed things that require way more specificity.
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by textminer 13y ago
The median is not found by (H-L)/2+L. Read that Wikipedia entry again. Disproof: 1, 1, 2, 10, 101. The median of this list is 2, not 51.
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by textminer 13y ago
"vimtutor" is pretty gentle. Alternatively, http://vim-adventures.com/ is just fun.
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by textminer 13y ago
HN-as-a-hivemind really should approve of this sort of snark. It's nerd-snark!
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by textminer 13y ago
SVMs are lickety-split simple. You're drawing the best line/plane/hyperplane between some points. You can turn this into a nice convex optimization program, given some conditions. If this thing isn't fully separable, you
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by textminer 13y ago
Nice write up! I'd caution just checking for an exactly-zero determinant. Read up about ill-conditioned matrices, and maybe check that conditioning number (or a determinant below a certain threshold) first. Also, work hard to never, ev
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by textminer 13y ago
It can be hard to sell those shares when there's no market, no? I recently left a small startup in which the AMT hit would've been $26k, with no possible way to recoup that from selling the shares themselves (outside of a scheme l
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by textminer 13y ago
LSA and truncated SVDs on a user-item matrix date back to the 1980s, don't they?
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by textminer 13y ago
I've noticed that to correlate with local population. E.g., University towns having plenty of great Dover prints on Algebraic Topology versus my mid-Michigan industrial boomtown mostly having a huge Spiritual/Christianity section.
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by textminer 13y ago
Presumably you'd then have many more possible patentable, innocuously "different" molecule patterns, ruining the competitive edge.
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by textminer 13y ago
I've moved recently from building data manipulation and machine learning systems in Python to a stack that's primarily C++, and it's striking how much less nimble I now feel transforming that data or in building machine learn
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by textminer 13y ago
I commute from Oakland to Menlo Park. It's kooky how it's either a 40 minute drive (consistently) or a 100 minute bike->BART->shuttle, the latter being way more stressful due to transitions and multiple failure modes.
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by textminer 13y ago
Traditional well-regulated customer-supporting carriers don't have the margins that black market dealers do?
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by textminer 13y ago
Are you a Software Engineer in the United States? I've never heard of unionized programmers (at least within the Bay Area, which I shouldn't presume you're in.)
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by textminer 13y ago
Why is that not Twitter?
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by textminer 13y ago
I'm gay. Was making a joke at "fruit fly". Will save the one-liners for Reddit and Facebook posts.
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by textminer 13y ago
She was being homophobic. :\
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by textminer 13y ago
Live in "NOBE" now (or Longfellow, or Gaskill, or Golden Gate, whatever it's really called), but I regularly see car windows smashed in when I head over to Temescal's 50th/Telegraph area for dinners out. Loving my o
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by textminer 13y ago
Love El Cerrito, and even Richmond. Contra Costa County is way overlooked by the tech community. But sorta hope it stays that way for a while, in case I want to buy a house in a few years...
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by textminer 13y ago
Yes, a friend's motorcycle was severely damaged last week from someone trying to steal it. He was upstairs in our apartment eating dinner. Nine more months on the lease!
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by textminer 13y ago
Actually live in Oakland near Emeryville. Not sure why I wrote Berkeley, except for misguided attempt at identity obfuscation. But used to live up in Contra Costa county, and the mornings I'd drive into SF-- boy howdy, 580/80 along the coas
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by textminer 13y ago
You've just broken my heart. My timing's basically based on two 9 AM drives that hit traffic/construction, but took no more than 45 minutes. I start tomorrow.
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by textminer 13y ago
I feel like it'd be affine, so the floor buying power of each individual wouldn't be zero, but some offset of zero that nonetheless has buying power (even if that marginal amount is less than in the original system).

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