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by viergroupie 17y ago
>Is the putative student "bad at math" or "bad at math the way it's taught in high school, perhaps even by a certain teacher"? It could also be a mismatch between someone's personality and the sort of math kids get taught. I did poorly
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by viergroupie 17y ago
>The remaining intelligences have nothing to do with intelligence or cognitive skills per se, but rather represent personal interests (for example, musical represents an affinity for music; naturalistic, an affinity for biology or geolo
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by viergroupie 17y ago
Oh God, the horror. Almost every time neural network library I've seen manages to obscure a very simple idea in piles of useless objects. "Neural networks" are just the composition of several nonlinear regressions. There's nothing particula
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by viergroupie 17y ago
>What about evidence of design patterns? Does it look like the person who wrote the code doesn't know about things like Observer, Visitor, and Decorator patterns? This is his criterion for a research position? Understanding of the uns
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by viergroupie 18y ago
No matter which language you choose for productivity, I would start with the exercises in the Little Schemer or Little MLer. They're disarmingly simple while still challenging your brain to shift into a recursive/applicative mindset. As for
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by viergroupie 18y ago
I think you're misunderstanding the role of "neural networks" in academia. NIPS has a lot of value to the machine learning and AI communities but, beyond vague inspiration, it has almost no connections to neuroscience. There is a substant
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by viergroupie 18y ago
Is that a map of population density I see?
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by viergroupie 18y ago
>Adam Leibsohn, a 27-year-old communications strategist who makes roughly $60,000 a year and pays $1,650 a month for his own apartment in the East Village...“It’s kind of a spartan lifestyle,” he says. We admire your frugality.
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by viergroupie 18y ago
The machine learning lectures here are of fantastic quality. I hope this is the future of academia.
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by viergroupie 18y ago
Other questions for PG: - Why does God allow evil? - Does P = NP? - How does it feel to be so gosh darn awesome?
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by viergroupie 18y ago
Anything specific?
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by viergroupie 18y ago
>There is a political swing towards what were once considered the ideas of the political left such as minimum wages, benefits and so on,' said Holgar Schaefer, labour economist at the Cologne Institute of Economics. 'It is a tendency th
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by viergroupie 19y ago
First of all, kudos on the turnaround. I think the most important thing to keep in mind is except for a few scattered geniuses, no one is inherently good at math. I know it sounds like a tired metaphor, but math really is a different langua
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by viergroupie 19y ago
Yes.
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by viergroupie 19y ago
An article on CSS layout with overflowing text and a search box several ems too long? (firefox 2.0.0.6 / linux)
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by viergroupie 19y ago
I wish I could search the database without having to give you my email address. also: I find the high contrast a little painful to look at.
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by viergroupie 19y ago
I just updated linkherd.com and urls are now stripped of spaces and underlines. Please let us know if you spot any problems.
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by viergroupie 19y ago
Yeah, not dumb at all. It's on the to-do list, thanks.
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by viergroupie 19y ago
I know this is supposed to be a startup echo chamber, but come on... I feel silly even contemplating spelling out the many reasons (beyond loss aversion) why not everyone starts their own company.
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by viergroupie 19y ago
It's pretty well established in the psychology literature that the effects of money on happiness are relative. You're happy (for some short time) if you make more than you expected, and you're (often) happy if you make more than your peers.
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by viergroupie 19y ago
There is no such thing as public domain for software. If you simply give your software away, it's still your copyrighted work...just without a license for other people to use it. http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6225
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by viergroupie 19y ago
I second zlib. It's slightly more restrictive than MIT, but in a very sensible way. I don't think preventing modified sources from masquerading as the original Arc, or maintaining author attribution will impede adoption overly much.
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by viergroupie 19y ago
Fantastic video, thank you!
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by viergroupie 19y ago
Praise [God|Jesus|Allah/|Turkey Baster]!
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by viergroupie 19y ago
Oh right, I'm an idiot.
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by viergroupie 19y ago
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by viergroupie 19y ago
I don't quite get the faith Lush seems to inspire in some of its users. It's terribly documented, has antiquated semantics (no closures), and isn't even type safe (you can segfault if you pass an object of the wrong type). I might consider
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by viergroupie 19y ago
I can't speak for you, but I find that working crazy hours is a big waste of time in the long run. My health, happiness and mental soundness all deteriorate due to a screwed up sleep schedule and lack of socialization. Aside from the long-t
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by viergroupie 19y ago
The problem I had with Scheme was that it doesn't stay simple. The core is certainly more elegant than Common Lisp's, but all the cruft has a nasty way of sneaking back in through SRFIs and big hairy macros.
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by viergroupie 19y ago
If you're looking for a big data cruncher on the cheap, I think your choice of programming language becomes important. Ditch Python for something a little snappier. There's a discussion of languages for Machine Learning at http://hunch.ne

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