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by user24 16y ago
ironic, since this was actually submitted by RiderOfGiraffes - the user behind DupDetector!
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by user24 16y ago
Took me till 4 minutes in to realise the slides are shown below. (I have a small screen)
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by user24 16y ago
what, just in case I happen to be looking for one?
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by user24 16y ago
Yahoo were aware of the leak at most 45 minutes after it leaked. Damage control wasn't deployed until a day later. This is their fault. They could have nipped this in the bud by getting a decent blog post out within an hour, and contacting
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by user24 16y ago
> Helping people find decent things - even when old - has to be better How are previous submissions with 1 point and 0 comments 'decent', exactly? Because you frequently link to such posts. Maybe you should tweak your algorithm to only
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by user24 16y ago
Right. I'll just give up then. It's a good job no-one wasted time trying to apply machine learning to speech recognition, cuz there's no free lunch you know. Or handwriting recognition. Or housing prices. Or game strategies. Thanks for lett
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by user24 16y ago
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hockhafcdegocajmjh...
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by user24 16y ago
Is there such a thing as a "reddit-like post"? They have a squillion subreddits for all kinds of different subjects. I sometimes see posts which I'd upvote if it was on reddit, but which I ignore or even flag if I see it here, because the t
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by user24 16y ago
I was really impressed about this. I changed most of my other password but forgot about LinkedIn. I think it's really responsible of them to proactively take the initiative on this.
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by user24 16y ago
Ah, you're right. Wasn't intentional. I say: > Return the sum of the differences between the chromosome and the target string. but I mean something more like: > Return the sum of the character-wise differences between the chromosome
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by user24 16y ago
Yeah, I've heard of using GA to find good weights for an ANN. GAs are general optimisation techniques, but 'evolutionary computing' is very closely linked to AI and ML.
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by user24 16y ago
Ah, right I see :) > This gives the option to also specify how many survive from one round to the next v.s (correct me if this is wrong) a random amount each time in your example. in mine the population is constant. A set of two parents
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by user24 16y ago
> This is with random strings inside a main() wrapper with stdio I'm impressed it managed to get something which ran at all! Usually with GP you at least start with a set of valid operations and keywords (eg genes=['function','printf','
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by user24 16y ago
You never know until you try ;)
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by user24 16y ago
:D Thanks for your positive comments! > I love the quotes interspersed You've no idea how hard it is to find good quotes about mutation! (I did try to find a good TMNT quote at first...) > I was hoping for a GA that evolved a /progr
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by user24 16y ago
Nice! Yeah I was thinking about trying to genericise it so you could plug your own fitness function in, but didn't get around to it. I got an error when playing with the values though; pop 400, mutation 0.2, crossover 0.8: "When executing f
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by user24 16y ago
The code's fairly messy, but I hope the blog post and online demo will be enough to give the absolute beginner a good idea of how GAs work. One day I hope to apply machine learning to the art of predicting real-life events. This is one smal
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Show HN: A Genetic Algorithm I wrote in JavaScript to evolve "Hello World"(puremango.co.uk)
109 points by user24 16y ago|38 comments
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by user24 16y ago
> or, more realistically, rainbow-table matching I think that's not true - you'd have to generate new rainbow tables for each user for gawker. So this method would indeed make rainbow tables impractical. edit: but I think the rest of wh
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by user24 16y ago
> that's sort of the holy grail of blogging. eh, I've lived through several spikes in the 6 years I've been blogging - the real holy grail is watching your search engine traffic increase bit by bit, month on month. I've been on digg's f
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by user24 16y ago
> Traveling around the world is frequently suggested here. I like to travel, and have done a fair amount of it. But I can't shake the feeling that I'm running away from my problems and not confronting them. +1, I like to travel too, and
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by user24 16y ago
yeah that's what I thought when I read it; a refreshing change to the normal presentation of the term and philosophy of hackers.
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by user24 16y ago
they may also be effects of less than perfect implementations of URLs: here on HN every comment has a URL, which is really excellent. There's also a great signal-to-noise ratio on each page - I'm not talking about the quality of the content
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Modern 'hackers' are not worthy of the name(guardian.co.uk)
5 points by user24 16y ago|2 comments
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by user24 16y ago
This is true, but why would that impact the effectiveness of the tactic?
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by user24 16y ago
Deployed it on my blog - http://www.puremango.co.uk/about/privacy-policy/
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by user24 16y ago
I have a hobby launching wallpaper sites. http://www.ScienceWallpaper.com has gone from 0 to 80 organic visitors per day in one month. I've linked it from 3 or 4 of my blogs, and it had a popular reddit post last month. Other than that, j
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by user24 16y ago
1) Tweetdeck. An actual app! 2) Hootsuite. A bookmark to hootsuite.com 3) Aviary. A bookmark to http://goo.gl/VOFHH which seems to work fine in Fx. 4) Box.net. A bookmark to http://goo.gl/Osbby which works fine in Fx. 5) nytimes. A book
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by user24 16y ago
> 'apps' do not necessarily have this same requirement But a great many do. Many of the 'apps' on Google's web store are literally just normal web apps doing their normal thing, expect that Google is presenting them as though they don't
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by user24 16y ago
yes that's true, I should have been more specific that I wasn't talking about extensions and themes - those do rightfully belong in a Chrome-only marketplace, because they genuinely only work on Chrome. But the 'apps' are literally just web

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