thisisnotmyname

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by thisisnotmyname 16y ago
For sequence alignment, the state of the art is BWA, which first compresses the "haystack", then builds a trie. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burrows–Wheeler_transform or http://bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2009/...
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How My School and District Failed its Students(anurbanteacherseducation.com)
168 points by thisisnotmyname 16y ago|124 comments
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by thisisnotmyname 16y ago
Got employed writing software full time. Tried to make my job a little bit easier every day.
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by thisisnotmyname 16y ago
I wonder if they controlled for family size. I imagine a big effect on a child's cognitive development comes from the amount of time they spend with their parent. If wealthier families have fewer children, and therefore have more parental a
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Urban exploration in the Paris metro(sleepycity.net)
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Why is the north magnetic pole racing toward Siberia?(scientificamerican.com)
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601 Squadron: Millionaire flying aces of World War II(bbc.co.uk)
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Retractions of the year(nature.com)
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by thisisnotmyname 16y ago
This sounds to me like what we now call the Busy Beaver problem. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Busy_beaver
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by thisisnotmyname 16y ago
And here's a good place to do that: http://smartfootball.blogspot.com/2009/06/gus-malzahnauburn-...
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by thisisnotmyname 16y ago
It isn't an experiment without a control. There aren't any mentioned in the article - are they in the book?
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by thisisnotmyname 16y ago
As someone who works with data I can tell you that distributions can take on all kinds of unexpected shapes, especially when n=600. I think he's bluffing - the stats can't prove that anyone has cheated. That said, the deal he offered soun
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The Billion Prices Project(bpp.mit.edu)
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by thisisnotmyname 16y ago
Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb - Rhodes Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness - Thaler & Sunstein Factorization Methods for Discrete Sequential Estimation - Bierman
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by thisisnotmyname 16y ago
Not to mention the sun.
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by thisisnotmyname 16y ago
The quote is: "Investors should remember that excitement and expenses are their enemies. And if they insist on trying to time their participation in equities, they should try to be fearful when others are greedy and greedy when others are f
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by thisisnotmyname 16y ago
I would go further and say that "ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny" is misleading at best, just plain wrong at worst. Its an alluring concept that is unsupported by science.
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Dark Secrets of the Games Industry (pdf)(files.aigamedev.com)
1 points by thisisnotmyname 16y ago|0 comments
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Starcraft AI Tournament 1 results (with videos)(eis.ucsc.edu)
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3D light painting with the iPad(datapointed.net)
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by thisisnotmyname 16y ago
If you like this, check out the RedR project: http://www.red-r.org/
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Gabe Newell: next-gen game engines will be ten times harder [to write](pcgamer.com)
9 points by thisisnotmyname 16y ago|1 comments
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by thisisnotmyname 16y ago
"If you are serious about going to grad school, I do not recommend [working in industry "for a year or two" and then appling to grad school "later."]" This suprised me. It is what I did, as well as several other people in my year. The dif
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by thisisnotmyname 16y ago
Is there really no simpler way to solve this problem? "Moving a message needs to move all of the message's comments, and all of the comments' files, and all of the comments' files' versions." Why can't you just change some top level referen
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Important Algorithms: Beam Search(en.wikipedia.org)
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Pelé as a Comedian(runofplay.com)
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by thisisnotmyname 16y ago
It's too bad the article doesn't include more numbers on accuracy - it would be interesting to see if there's a big difference between the ruling of the on-court judges and the camera system. It'd also be interesting to know how often close
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MIT unveils autonomous, oil-skimming robots(boygeniusreport.com)
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Giving in to feel good: Why self-regulation fails(psychologytoday.com)
2 points by thisisnotmyname 16y ago|1 comments
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by thisisnotmyname 16y ago
What you say is true, but not the main point of the article. Its a kick-in-the-pants for young smart people to go and actually attempt to create something, instead of waiting for a job to come to them.

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