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by tsally 17y ago
A scandal related to personal data large enough to spook your average consumer. We're talking serious stuff, like records being sold to criminals or given to the government without a warrant. The only thing that could cause a user to get
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I alway prefer this type of approach for solving problems. Even when formal proofs are required, I usually get the answer in this way and then reverse engineer the proof. Another example (the sum of 1/2 + 1/4 + 1/8 + 1/16...): http://medi
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Also, for real-time search, some users report small to medium size explosions after each query.
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I saw this and was very happy that he was exposing the issue of net neutrality to a large audience. However, I felt at times the explanation got a little too complicated. I could see how a non tech person might just stop caring about the
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by tsally 17y ago
1.) Was engaging and interesting at startup school? Check. 2.) Cool company initiative that I can respect? Check. I think Zuckerberg might finally be growing into his own. :)
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by tsally 17y ago
For the Lispers out there, I encourage you to try out StumpWM. It's tiling like Xmonad and written in Common Lisp. Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stumpwm Video: http://www.vimeo.com/1088321
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Hidden Markov models are serious stuff. If you already understand them, leverage that power and go build an application! No point in learning the theory if you aren't going to apply it.
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I have no doubt that it's a great place to raise a family. It feels much more honest than California or New York; there's certainly something to be said about the benefits of midwestern values. I certainly didn't mean to offend. A decade
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I appreciate your other comments about chances at Brown and Columbia relative to chances at the other universities Sure. This NYTimes article is useful in that it gives you the raw numbers behind admissions to Columbia and Brown: http:/
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I think you're forgetting the most important part of college: meeting smart people your age. Certainly possible to do elsewhere, but very easy at college
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You're missing some major ones with top notch CS departments: * Carnegie Mellon * Berkley * MIT * Stanford * UIUC * Wisconsin If someone thinks s/he can get into Columbia or Brown, s/he has a shot at any of these. I'm bias, but I'll tell yo
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by tsally 17y ago
Ugh, this morning I almost put some capital in Apple stock. Now it's up 12% in after hours trading. Investing is stressful as hell. I'm coming to the conclusion that lacking a large amount of money or extraordinary skill, $/hour is far b
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by tsally 17y ago
Off topic, but anyone have any idea what that color scheme is?
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Here's a case of Valve coordinating with the FBI, attempting to do what I described: http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2008/11/13/the-job-is-a-lie-va... . As for why extradition is not used, the lure is far quicker and much cheaper. The hack
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1 or 2 months later an offer of employment (to a Canadian!) arrived at his doorstep. This is a standard way to catch people who do this type of stuff. Once he sets foot on American soil, he would be arrested. You actually have to be pre
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by tsally 17y ago
You must be a troll. Either that or your incapable of having a logical thought. The cache shows an acknowledgment of my removal of white male before you mentioned my edit. Your either too oblivious to have a conversation with or you are
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by tsally 17y ago
You did not acknowledge your change until I mentioned it. Google cache proves I acknowledged it long before you mentioned it: http://74.125.95.132/search?q=cache%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fnews.ycom... It bothers me how you do not assume good faith
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by tsally 17y ago
That depends. Isn't it possible that you'd get more money by investing in attracting the highly talented students and reaping the later benefits, like large alumni donations? If you want money and the numbers say that, than obviously you
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by tsally 17y ago
And here you contradict yourself. By your own reasoning, minorities are statistically poorer, likely to require more financial aid, and less likely to end up as rich as their white counterparts. So in order to enroll less talented students
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by tsally 17y ago
Your point is well taken. There are certainly far better predictors than gender. I chose to use male as my example because it is (1) Simple (2) Something the admissions committee has access to (they may not have access to the financials o
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by tsally 17y ago
Fair question. If you're running a University as a business to make money, it's incorrect because attracting highly talented students capable of such feats is expensive. Far better to find less talented students that will attend and pay tu
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by tsally 17y ago
Anyone who's been in a conversation with me before knows I always edit my comments after I post them. Nothing wrong with it, and I clearly acknowledge my change. I hardly care about down votes. I care about being clear about my position.
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by tsally 17y ago
I'm not going to get into correlation does not imply causation bullshit with you. I understand statistics very well. Point is, admission committees don't care about statistical relevance, they care about simple measures. Since when was y
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It is only by your own racist assumption that white males are the best for that. There are more male billionaires and Nobel winners than any other demographic in the world. If I wanted to maximize my output of these types of alumni in th
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You are looking at it the wrong way. I'm only looking at it through the lens you presented, which was maximizing the number of billionaires and Nobel winners. If I'm looking at it wrong, it's your logic that is at fault. There is a diff
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By that logic every school should admit as many males as it can. Let's not even get into race, you're cutting out most women of any color. Turns out that making billions and winning the Nobel prize isn't what education is really about.
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I think what he meant in this context is that you can't use deductive reasoning as the main learning strategy in literature and history. If you're not using deductive reasoning in the study of history or literature you're doing something
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The 5-paragraph essay is often the last essay format one learns seriously. We spend the most time teaching it and no other essay format even comes close. A one semester writing course freshmen year in college does not count. Also, just be
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Yup. Another gem in his worldview: A learning strategy for history or literature: Subjective judgment is important; careful reasoning is not. Really, careful reasoning is not required? This is patently false, and probably based on his E
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