vosper

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by vosper 16y ago
I don't have a problem so much with having myriad statistics and picking the right ones, but not knowing which stats to generate in the first place from my database of results. For example, I assume that a dogs past performance must be some
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by vosper 16y ago
You're welcome. One of the things I'm looking at now is adapting ranking systems from other sports or competitions. For example I know that the Elo system from chess has been applied to other sports (I don't know the details, though, or wha
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by vosper 16y ago
I didn't implement the machine learning algorithms for myself, because there are some really good packages out there and I know I don't have the smarts to better them. Keep in mind that I didn't really have any success: There seem to be two
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by vosper 16y ago
My ongoing quest to make money predicting horse races. So far I've not made a dime, and don't really expect to, but the faint hope of future monetary rewards keeps me going. The real payoff has been that in the process I've learned all sort
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by vosper 16y ago
In fact, the bad old days are still with us, as most applications still rely on fragile custom code, running in an application server like Ruby on Rails, Python's Django, or some kinda Java thing. I'm pretty sure the fragility of the code
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by vosper 16y ago
This is fantastic, I've been wanting to build one of these for years. I was surprised at the number of paintballs it goes through though - clearly not something you could use quickly / surreptitiously. If they could make it fire LED throwie
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by vosper 16y ago
It's certainly not unique to America, here in New Zealand it's known as Tall Poppy Syndrome http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tall_poppy_syndrome
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by vosper 16y ago
I sit on a Swiss Ball, constantly bouncing up and down. It doesn't seem to have any impact on my typing or ability to read code.
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by vosper 16y ago
Hi, signed up just to let you know that the track progress meter has some issues: 1) Because the total length of the song increases as it is streamed the proportion of it that has been played can go down as it is played, causing the progres