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by tsiki 14y ago
I agree with the sentiment, but I wonder if having a low barrier of entry is really the solution, or does having a low barrier of entry average out to a low level of initial commitment. It'd be interesting to see if an online course for whi
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by tsiki 14y ago
Awesome idea, I wish this was closer so I could go. Learning from people who failed with their startups is as important as learning from those who succeeded. Usually the successful entrepreneurs have a lot of failures behind them, but in sp
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by tsiki 14y ago
It's useful for exposing profiles where someone is pretending to be someone else.
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by tsiki 14y ago
Except that the Federal Reserve isn't private, its Board of Governors is nominated by the Senate and the President and its dividents are capped at 6% a year. "Fed is private" is just some crap being pedalled by conspiracy theorists who eith
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by tsiki 14y ago
My thoughts exactly. I sometimes read about these people getting fired from IT jobs after a couple days and keep wondering why their bosses even hired new people. Either the boss is too overconfident in their ability to gauge someone's skil
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by tsiki 14y ago
That's true. But, it's also completely possible to make a machine learning algorithms to separate "real text" (text meant for human to human communication) from text encoded images since they differ in significant ways. Granted, you could a
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by tsiki 14y ago
A big part of why they went with Microsoft was that the Android market is already saturated, as opposed to the WP market, where they have a chance to catch an ecosystem in its infancy and become the dominant player in that ecosystem.
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by tsiki 14y ago
Underscore also supports pre-compilation with _.template().
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by tsiki 14y ago
Will it have any support for popular JS modularisation libraries like require.js?
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by tsiki 15y ago
If you're gonna complain about machines 'taking' humans' jobs, you're 300 years late to that party.
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by tsiki 16y ago
Agreed. I'm a second year CS student and my summer job salary isn't far from that.
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by tsiki 16y ago
Indeed. It baffles me how many people think being skeptic means believing the opposite of what's commonly believed.
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by tsiki 16y ago
The austrians also predicted 20 of the last 3 recessions.
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by tsiki 16y ago
>(Also, it's odd to blame Rolls-Royce for the failures, when the engines are both owned and maintained by Qantas in Singapore.) I'd say it's much more likely that there's some bug in the A380 RR engine than Qantas doing a maintenance jo
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by tsiki 16y ago
Lots of good (and bad) advice here already, but here are my 5 cents: Being more outgoing. There are two steps here that need to work for that to happen: you need to like the person you are in social situations, and you can't care about what
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by tsiki 16y ago
Obviously, but we're talking absolute terms here. Look at his examples (20 fingers etc). He's talking about the efficiency of sewing buttons, not about the efficiency of sewing buttons compared to the salary.
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by tsiki 16y ago
>What I said about efficiency in China is a faithful description of what academic econ commonly says. No, you won't get a single econ prof to say that the Chinese are more efficient at sewing buttons. But then again: >More generally
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by tsiki 16y ago
>E.g., if we buy more transistors, then the price of each transistor has to go up. Right: Transistors used to cost several dollars each, and now, after buying many billions, maybe trillions, of transistors, we can buy a few hundred mill
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by tsiki 16y ago
Pretending sound scientific research is alarming has much, much worse record (see the past 'debates' over whether CFC's contribute to ozone depletion or whether cigarettes are bad for human health). The first IPCC assesment report was publi
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by tsiki 16y ago
Sylvester Stallone studied in U of Miami and in Switzerland under a scholarship and Schwarzenegger built a succesful business empire from scratch. There's no reason a good brain and big size would be mutually exclusive.
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by tsiki 16y ago
I'm not sure how this is newsworthy - they're basically just detecting texts with certain words in them. It sounds impressive, sure, but so does credit score when you describe it as an algorithm that can predict if people will get into fina
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by tsiki 17y ago
How would checking to see if the terms match help? Usually there are as many ways to translate something as there are translators.
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by tsiki 17y ago
Thanks for the tip, topcoder looks pretty interesting in general, too.
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by tsiki 17y ago
As a student this is very interesting since it could also be used to measure self progress. There's a myriad of ways to test your abilities in most subjects, but if I want to find out if I'm any good at programming or to measure my progress
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by tsiki 17y ago
I think the basic gist of the article is that originally he was comparing movie X to every other movie, one at a time, and in any single such comparison he had to fetch all the users who had rated both movies to calculate the Pearson correl
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by tsiki 17y ago
I guess my explanation sounded more awesome than it actually is - general game playing has been around for a while now (see for example games.stanford.edu and the wikipedia article on general game playing), mine's a stab at it with some hom
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by tsiki 17y ago
Working on an general game playing artificial intelligence. Nothing grand, I just have a few ideas I'd like to test in real life. It can theoretically play any game, but it's interesting to see if it's actually feasible, since it's turning
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by tsiki 17y ago
How on earth did they pull that off with only 6 cups?
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by tsiki 17y ago
Can't be done, and here's why: the 0.25% rate he's referring to is the federal funds rate, which is the rate banks borrow/loan money from/to each other. You don't just "borrow from the Fed". Most loans between banks are very short-lived, fo