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by trapper 18y ago
If I weren't technical I would go to a local university. I would contract someone who is well published in something with a combination of math and computer science to screen my hires for people he would consider for his lab, and assume tha
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by trapper 18y ago
Well, having done exactly that, you really do need a rewrite or fundamental refactoring. It will touch most functions in your codebase. Memory mapped won't help when you have a 100gb+ file, and as you say it gets slow as it's definitely not
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by trapper 18y ago
Great minds say more with less.
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by trapper 18y ago
Why the move to Manila? What is the difference in your opinion? Has it made success harder?
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by trapper 18y ago
Why is it people don't understand that all groups have different means given large enough N. Statistical significance has nothing to do with the magnitude of difference. Effect size is what you are looking for which looks at the magnitude o
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by trapper 18y ago
The biggest problem is that the design decisisons of some of the projects listed are pretty poor. Who decided that dataset size should be limited to available memory? Not only does this mean you have a severe limitation to the framework, bu
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by trapper 18y ago
Great point. I personally believe in the paid model, but if I were to try an ad-supported model I would do just as you suggested.
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by trapper 18y ago
After this I am really looking forward to the public release. Go alpha!
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by trapper 18y ago
You tweet essentially saying "its for charity, and if you want to be charitable let me know". If he doesn't respond, he looks like he doesn't want to be charitable, to the public. This is sort of like blackmail imho.
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by trapper 18y ago
Yes we are talking about numenta. http://numenta.com/for-developers/education/htm-related-pape... Unfortunately the three (why aren't there more?) independent papers didn't use HTM, and certainly don't answer all my questions.
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by trapper 18y ago
I think it's this: "I could walk away from tarsnap tomorrow (or get hit by a bus) and tarsnap would keep on running and making a profit." To me that's a fundamental understanding of business and is worrying.
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by trapper 18y ago
It certainly would be interesting to go through crunchbase and do some exit analysis for each of the companies. I would hypothesise that there would be a really high failure rate of companies who do not charge. Conversely a "huge exit" rate
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by trapper 18y ago
I have taken a look at the website. Apart from hype there is nothing that I have seen that makes me want to use it for any AI (which I do a lot of commercially). How does it compare to other architectures? What sort of problems does it exce
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by trapper 18y ago
I hope it fares better than numenta.
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by trapper 18y ago
Honestly, I think your post is terrible. Didn't you think you could ask him first? Rather than "asking" publically? Your tweet to me reads like blackmail.
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by trapper 18y ago
I think the second word is the issue: commodity implies stagnation. If you have innovation, there is always a moving target, and thus the ability to charge. Making replicas isn't a good business model. Creating something new and capitalisin
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by trapper 18y ago
Similar to optimisation theory, each skill has positive and negative effects on other skills. This has been thoroughly explored in fields such as profit maximisation and breeding, but little has been done in sports.
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by trapper 18y ago
Cool graphics, but seems a bit slow & clunky on FF3 ubuntu.
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by trapper 18y ago
Sorry but the body doesn't burn just-eaten food that quickly. > Reference please? Are you sure? :) Unless you somehow burned through all your carb stores before bed you're not going to be burning much fat while you sleep. > Explain
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by trapper 18y ago
Perhaps. I am sick of this "Yes, it is a myth. Calories in versus calories out. It's as simple as that." being portrayed by people as a fact. It's just not so simple, and it's wrong. I could write long winded responses with references. The
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by trapper 18y ago
I am not really surprised at this. If you ask for money with a good product, people often pay. A fact that seemed to be lost on many in the tech community in the last few years.
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by trapper 18y ago
You do realise that industry has tons and tons of research that has never been published. Most academics I know have never searched the patent database, which is only the tip of the iceberg.
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by trapper 18y ago
Whoever taught you that has poor understanding of biochemistry. Ever heard of futile cycles? Heat dissipation in the mitochondria? Hormonal effects of food? Anabolic/catabolic foods? Let alone the short, medium and long terms effects on the
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by trapper 18y ago
Umm... it's still missing?
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by trapper 18y ago
Agreed entirely. I don't understand why they don't get testing either. Not one I have met realises just how error ridden their scripts probably are. Still, a lot of programmers don't understand the value of testing yet.
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by trapper 18y ago
That is just scary.
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by trapper 18y ago
That is one of the funniest things I have read in a long long time. Although I do feel so sorry for them as an entrepreneur. It must be like some sort of terrible nightmare for them.
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by trapper 18y ago
If you are doing any sort of data analysis you really need to avoid spreadsheets. Unfortunately, most data analysis is just as bad. I have worked with SAS & R code, thousands of lines long, all without a single test. Basically a big ser
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by trapper 18y ago
I have no plans to commercialize many of my ideas. Hundreds just sit in envelopes & notebooks. I can't figure out the "hack" you speak of in your profile. Viewing source makes no difference - there is no additional information to work w
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by trapper 18y ago
Whats your email address? If you want to be able to patent it I can give you a start on a few ideas that haven't been done.

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