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31.
by util 16y ago
Even if it was just 3 or 4 queries, I think it would still have value over what we've seen so far, and some people might have an idea on how to evaluate a few more paired comparisons: http://blog.crowdflower.com/2009/06/bing-an-improvement
32.
by util 16y ago
It'd be nice to see a more systematic review comparing the search engines head to head on the same set of queries or tasks. So far the reviews here seem pretty unscientific. Also, does anyone know if BOSS is now serving Bing rather than Yah
33.
by util 16y ago
GoF = "gang of four". The book has four authors. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_Patterns I'm not sure if it's an intentional reference to the Gang of Four from the Chinese cultural revolution.
34.
by util 16y ago
Yes, I see something similar. The page appears and then gets overwritten by a Reddit voting widget. I'm using Chrome under Mac OS X.
35.
by util 16y ago
I get permission denied when trying to view that page. Would be interested in seeing it.
36.
by util 16y ago
Thanks for the pointer!
37.
by util 16y ago
Just curious, especially after the deal with Microsoft: Has Yahoo made any long term commitments to support this? Would love to use this for some projects.
38.
by util 16y ago
Whether it's worth it also depends on how likely it is the laptop will get stolen. Is P(laptops stolen per month) * $3200 > $9, ie, roughly P(laptops stolen per month) > 0.3%?
39.
by util 16y ago
Cool, thanks! Very interesting stuff. Nice of you to share some of the "secret sauce."
40.
by util 16y ago
One thing I'm unclear on: Did they use the training data in assessing accuracy? (Sorry if I missed this in my reading.) If so, it might be interesting to see how well they do on a separate test set. Also, it would be interesting to see the
41.
by util 16y ago
Might want to substitute "corn" or "soy beans" for "wheat" when talking about Iowa :-) (Not that this undermines your point really.)
42.
by util 16y ago
Having another proof of location can be useful to defendants in a trial as well as prosecution. It's also useful to be able to say you're not at the scene of the crime. While this could make the effects of bad laws worse by making them more
43.
by util 16y ago
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/daan/parsec.ht... "Nowadays, Parsec is distributed with the standard Haskell libraries with most Haskell compilers (GHC, NHC, Hugs)."
44.
by util 16y ago
How about compared to Google Sites and MediaWiki?
45.
by util 16y ago
It makes it harder to correctly do operations on code as text, eg, inserting a chunk of code from elsewhere or moving it out from or under an "if" statement. I have trouble with this occasionally working in emacs at least.
46.
by util 16y ago
I wonder if the numbers he quotes are based on comparing users forced to use the Flash view vs the new view. It sounds like instead he's largely referring to trends over time. How's the new interface compare in terms of load time?
47.
by util 16y ago
Maybe a "typo II error"? :-)
48.
by util 16y ago
Neat! Do you have the data posted anywhere? I'm not sure my code produces much of an improvement on yours, but you can get some nice results with ggplot2: library(ggplot2) x <- Sys.time() + 60 * (1:2400) y <- rpois(2400, 50 * (sin(s
49.
by util 16y ago
:-( Sorry to hear about all this. I'm still tempted to use it but will be more prepared to be disappointed.
50.
by util 16y ago
"The fallacy is that you're searching for a theory in a pile of data, rather than forming a theory and running an experiment to support or disprove it." But looking at data is an important step in forming new hypotheses -- http://en.wikipe
51.
by util 16y ago
"We" for some value of "we" accept companies aiming at making money. If they're not shipping to Alaska or Hawaii, that suggests there's some reason they believe it wouldn't be profitable, right? If Alaska and Hawaii are really under-served,
52.
by util 16y ago
Could you talk about some of the limitations that led you away from AppEngine?
53.
by util 16y ago
Real odds of success? In gambling, for the house (or state lottery) to make money, the expected value of your bet has to be negative. This is not the case with investments in start-ups.
54.
by util 16y ago
How have unemployment benefits varied across time?
55.
by util 16y ago
Thanks for the exploration. "The scientific method to find out how to be happy is to gather as many happy people as possible and look for what they have in common." Wouldn't the scientific method be more like randomly assigning people to di
56.
by util 16y ago
It seems odd that he complains about lack of local (modifiable) state while at the same time talking up the advantages of pure functional programming. It's painful to have to explicitly capture state instead of depending on a closure to do
57.
by util 16y ago
Don't objects function as hashtables? var v = {"a": 1};
58.
by util 16y ago
"An Introduction to R" could be a good place to start along with the other manuals: http://cran.r-project.org/manuals.html (I think you can also access these through the help menu when interacting with R via the GUI.) Also, to make nice l
59.
by util 16y ago
The first article is incorrect in saying that "user_info" will not behave as you'd expect. (I guess the author didn't try it out?) There are definitely some deeper issues, but it seems wrong to call out something as not being programmed by
60.
by util 16y ago
Is it right that BeautifulSoup was (is?) implemented in terms of Python regular expressions?

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