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by tgflynn 16y ago
I thought like this for much of my life until I realized how badly the system exploits those who create value in science and technology. I suspect we live in a world where about 90% of the value is created by about 1-2% of the people who re
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by tgflynn 16y ago
Do you know of an example that shows category theory being applied to solving a CS problem ? From what little I've seen of it category theory seems to be more abstract than conventional abstract algebra and I've rarely heard of even group t
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by tgflynn 16y ago
I would suggest that anyone considering entering a kaggle.com competition take a look at their Terms and Conditions : http://kaggle.com/Legals/terms Note section 9 which appears to require the winner to assign copyright on the submission
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by tgflynn 16y ago
What strikes me is how few reports on this issue attempt to quantify the risks involved. Well over 30K people die each year in the US in traffic accidents ( http://www.car-accidents.com/pages/stats.html ) whereas only about 3K have died in
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by tgflynn 16y ago
In reading this article I was struck by the value judgements implied by the choices of terms within the context of contemporary American culture : Engineers == self-centered == bad Managers == other-centered == good Another perspective migh
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by tgflynn 16y ago
You might want to have a look at the "Princeton Companion to Mathematics". It's goals seem close to your "broad but not too deep" objective.
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by tgflynn 16y ago
I checked in a simple co-occurrence frequency based implementation for this here https://github.com/tgflynn/NLP-Challenge with a short discussion on my blog: http://cogniception.com/wp/ .