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by thisisnotatest 13y ago
Aside: this test code would have been a bit easier to debug if it had used decimal bases. That is, replace int a[] = {10,20,30}; int r = 1 * a[i++] + 2 * a[i++] + 3 * a[i++]; with int a[] = {1,2,3}; int r = 1 * a[i++] + 10 *
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by thisisnotatest 13y ago
FWIW, I adjust my F.lux setting all the time! When the sun sets at 5pm but I'm still working in a brightly-lit office, I hit "disable for an hour." When I'm in a completely dark room, I switch it all the way to the dimme
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by thisisnotatest 13y ago
hackula1 means this: If one child is born to the family of a billionaire, and another child is born to a poor unwed teen mother, then in what meaningful way can it be said that those two children have "equal opportunity"? Even if
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by thisisnotatest 13y ago
> they're just selling it now (most likely to the highest bidder). [citation needed]
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by thisisnotatest 13y ago
If you can find any.
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by thisisnotatest 13y ago
> was most likely born I take it you just posted this comment for fun and didn't RTFA? That was the whole point; the author answered the question of how the tradition was born, down to the person and year.
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by thisisnotatest 13y ago
Um, that sort of happened in 2010. A pilot flew his personal plane into an IRS building in Texas. Not related to TSA screening on commercial flights, but still. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Austin_suicide_attack
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by thisisnotatest 13y ago
How about a karma/bittorrent system for researchers to encourage replication? In such a system, the "application fee" for submitting your experiment to a journal would be that you must also replicate someone else's exper
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by thisisnotatest 13y ago
Google doesn't spy for the NSA. The NSA might be spying on Google, but that's not the same thing.
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by thisisnotatest 13y ago
Google software engineer here. These gripes are legitimate. We want our users be able to depend on our features and services, and if you can't do that, we're letting you down. But I would beg for a bit more patience and understand
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by thisisnotatest 13y ago
FYI, you can quickly and easily toggle between "private"/"personalized" results and "global" results, right on the search page, by clicking the toggle button with the person and the globe to the top-right
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by thisisnotatest 13y ago
I work on Synonyms at Google. We're constantly tweaking our algorithms. It's possible that at one point one tweak made us more aggressive with replacing "verse" with "vs", but then later another tweak made it l
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by thisisnotatest 13y ago
I had the idea of limited-transfer items. For example, an item can be bound to three characters; once the third character picks it up, it's non-transferable. This would let me give my friend the bow I don't need, or even sell some
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by thisisnotatest 13y ago
Great move. I remember the first time I stopped by the auction house and bought some powerful gems for my level 20 character. I'd been collecting crappy gems planning to upgrade them, but then for a pittance of gold I had suddenly (alm
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by thisisnotatest 13y ago
I don't see what you get from asking people what they think they'd do in certain situations, when you could instead use the actual outcome of the hand as your training labels.
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by thisisnotatest 13y ago
Feedback: I clicked on the suggestion "Boston to Providence via McDonalds." Then I decided to try entering the information I wished I'd had on my Labor Day road trip: where was the most convenient place to stop at In'N&#
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by thisisnotatest 13y ago
Yes, we deal with those sorts of trade-offs every day. I can't discuss our internal metrics, sorry.
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by thisisnotatest 13y ago
That's a great example for the search quality team. What's interesting is the synonym "insect"="bug". Note that the result you like is whatsthatBUG.com, which actually contains no instances of the original quer
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by thisisnotatest 13y ago
Personally I would be a fan of giving users more "knobs" to turn in their search results. For example, we have the toggle switch to include personal results and personalized ranking, vs. showing un-personalized search results. How
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by thisisnotatest 13y ago
1) No, I mean, if you search for [nutrition information gm corn] and click on the "right result" for you, you might not even notice that the "right result" didn't have the exact words "nutrition" "inf
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by thisisnotatest 13y ago
Guilty as charged. :-) I could see how vb6/"visual basic" would cause some irrelevant results to come up. It's probably good sometimes, but also really bad sometimes. I've recorded it in our list of motivational exa
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by thisisnotatest 13y ago
We're working on the scraped sites. Also, advertising revenue has nothing to do with it. We don't even talk about revenue in our search quality meetings, just the utility and speed of our search results page.
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by thisisnotatest 13y ago
Putting an "word" in "quotes" is the inline way of exactly matching an individual word. It's conceptually similar to putting a phrase in "quotation marks," so personally I think it makes sense that we have
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by thisisnotatest 13y ago
This is great feedback. Thanks.
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by thisisnotatest 13y ago
I think the only time that Google changes a word in quotes is if the spelling algorithm is very confident. For example, if you searched for [barack obama "autobiolgraphy"], you are going to get results for "autobiography&quot
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by thisisnotatest 13y ago
For what it's worth, I assure you that putting a "query" "term" in "quotes" is identical to the retired +plus +sign +operator. I would be very curious, if you set up Verbatim search as your default search
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by thisisnotatest 13y ago
Google engineer here. We run experiments that show ranking improvements before launching changes to how we interpret query words. I would guess that for every time you notice Google "ignoring the word you asked for," there were se
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by thisisnotatest 13y ago
Oh, and, unfortunately, he has a known history for creating sockpuppet accounts, which unfortunately makes me unrecoverably skeptical of anyone who cites or endorses his ideas.
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by thisisnotatest 13y ago
Oh boy, michaelochurch. His experience was extremely atypical. He had a legitimately awful time at Google. I don't know what happened between him and his manager and team so I can't say who or what was to blame. But I think he w
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by thisisnotatest 13y ago
(Full disclosure: I'm a Google employee.) Personally I think Edward Snowden is a whistleblower, not a traitor. However, I consider the leaks to be insufficient evidence for the conclusions you're drawing from them. Here was Google

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