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by tmsh 17y ago
nicely done (looks like nice code on github). there's another python implementation of frank liang's hyphenation here, fyi. http://nedbatchelder.com/code/modules/hyphenate.html cool way to see tries in action. (though arguably a language
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by tmsh 17y ago
I think this is a good point. But there's a balance. Questioning tools (blame is borderline useless) can be useful of course. I think it boils down to -- be humble about whatever context you're operating in -- so as to understand it and use
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by tmsh 17y ago
There's a somewhat recent reddit thread, fyi. http://bit.ly/bTMjtd I've found the best practices for C++ are usually to practice avoiding best practices whenever possible. That is if you're in it for the olde 10-year Norvig cycle. Time al
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The modern 'post' relationship(boston.com)
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Matt Damon's iPad(youtube.com)
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Brainstorming a better commute(boston.com)
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by tmsh 17y ago
http://twitter.com/arrington/status/8230803684
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by tmsh 17y ago
The way you 'succeed in business' is by creating value. Being closer to large changes in value (e.g., in sales) helps you individually make more money on average perhaps. And if making money is your idea of success in business, then that ma
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by tmsh 17y ago
And I've got some money.
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by tmsh 17y ago
It's amazing how voting gets pretty complex, pretty fast. Although, these are more ballot-based, I remember reading about this in my discrete math class (in high school!): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow%27s_impossibility_theorem http
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by tmsh 17y ago
Ah, I now think you are generally right. It is good to keep a check on becoming too enamored with Google's plans though. I mention this because I actually do care a lot about Google's role in the next decade, etc. Like anyone who is ambitio
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by tmsh 17y ago
That interview isn't bad. But take the first sentence of this article: 'Google Inc (GOOG.O) has asked the main U.S. energy regulator for authority to trade electricity in the wholesale market, which will make it easier for the Internet sear
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by tmsh 17y ago
Well said. Reminds me of Google's recent investment in power: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870485490457464... Seems more strategic than humanitarian, though mainstream reporters rarely seem to see through it. That said, I
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by tmsh 17y ago
I enjoyed the post. But I'd challenge anyone to google for the Paris Review interview between Frost and Poirier. Frost was interested in James' old, difficult Harvard veritas and all that -- for about five minutes. Although he had a bit of
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by tmsh 17y ago
But the argument hints that they are missing the big picture by, as you claim, 'mismanaged spending and [a] high taxation rate'. My point is that it's better to miss the big picture while helping people, than to miss the big picture while c
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by tmsh 17y ago
One sentiment people in Berkeley would seem to share, however, is that they'd rather be naive about helping people than naive about being critical.
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It's 2010(boston.com)
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A Deluge of Data Shapes a New Era in Computing (nytimes.com)
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ccache
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by tmsh 17y ago
i e-mailed this. including it below in case anyone finds it curious. 'of course fake steve jobs is all caught up in the fact that he wrote a semi decent article for newsweek about this. but the failure at nyt is pretty epic. i remember read
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by tmsh 17y ago
Good point. Like you say there are those who oversee both sides. It is inherently problematic to have anyone oversee both sides.... But people always assume that the worse case scenario is that if the sell side gets screwed, well that means
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by tmsh 17y ago
Another problem is that a former Fed chairman should know how to break up the banks instead of simply saying 'break up the banks'. There's already a clearly defined line in which to break up each bank. It's called the Chinese wall. http://
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by tmsh 17y ago
How about Ned Batchelder's implementation of Frank Liang's hyphenation algorithm: http://nedbatchelder.com/code/modules/hyphenate.html or AI: http://aima.cs.berkeley.edu/python/readme.html
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by tmsh 17y ago
http://www.haiku-os.org/documents/dev/painter_and_how_agg_wo... http://bit.ly/131cxL (.doc file) those help. if you can figure out the source code without the documentation at the agg site + those files, more power to you. but basically
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by tmsh 17y ago
still suspicious about the netflix prize. what's at stake is the legitimacy of programming contests run by corporations. can someone explain why the checksums don't match between the FAQ and the files released to uc irvine? http://archive.
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Netflix prize checksums don't match(archive.ics.uci.edu)
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by tmsh 17y ago
> So this will be verifiable by anyone soon Yeah....what happens when the checksums don't check out?
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by tmsh 17y ago
maybe because 'bellkor's pragmatic chaos' won the progress prize and they have some special relationship with them. could be any number of reasons. this is i think the danger of a private corporation running a programming contest. i'm not s
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by tmsh 17y ago
i see. but if they don't make their private dataset public, what's to prevent netflix from fitting it to a particular entry?
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by tmsh 17y ago
so why didn't the ensemble win? in the rules it says, 'At the end of this period, qualifying submissions will be judged (see Judging below) in order of the largest improvement over the qualifying RMSE on the test subset.' this isn't the icf

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