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by waldrews 15y ago
And friggin' nobody thought to range or even type-check the inputs? preconditions? overflow?
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by waldrews 15y ago
or go the other way - monetize by selling greeting cards, gifts, etc. for each possible apology subject: http://ap.olo.gy/forgetting-anniversary/
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by waldrews 15y ago
ap.olo.gy - kind of like PostSecret, (optionally) anonymous forum for public apologies and statements of forgiveness; url's like http://ap.olo.gy/sorry-about-running-over-your-doll/
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by waldrews 15y ago
wait, shell sort is stable?
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by waldrews 16y ago
Anything like this in Clojure?
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by waldrews 16y ago
I guess I'm referring to http://www.itworld.com/open-source/66329/suns-open-source-bo... - not-quite-JRE might be a more precise way to put it.
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by waldrews 16y ago
I'd suggest, as a simple heuristic for ranking words for improbability/relevance, contribution to K-L divergence from the frequencies in the general-purpose word corpus: P ln(P/Q) where P is the frequency of the word in the narrow corpus (H
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by waldrews 16y ago
What does this mean for the almost-but-not-quite-JVM implementation in GAE?
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by waldrews 16y ago
Hold off on the "he is not a scientist" line... the Caltech Physics Ph.D. (a theorist, not some namby-pamby experimentalist) does give Michael the street cred to rant about such things. Now if only he used his powers for good instead of evi
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by waldrews 17y ago
Was it Max Planck who gave up economics for physics after finding the former too difficult?
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by waldrews 17y ago
Is that the same Adam Smith essay I keep bringing up at every opportunity? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1118334
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by waldrews 17y ago
I was going to say "too little, too late" but it would be more accurate to say "just enough, too late."
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by waldrews 17y ago
In what language is 0.1 + 0.2 == 0.3? (I guess C# with decimal literals, but you'd have to specify that with a suffix)
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by waldrews 17y ago
Compare Adam Smith's analysis in Wealth of Nations: "The time and study, the genius, knowledge, and application requisite to qualify an eminent teacher of the sciences, are at least equal to what is necessary for the greatest practitioners
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by waldrews 17y ago
Thought CV stood for Computer Vision; was confused.
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by waldrews 17y ago
Wow... I also don't understand why these traits (cognitive biases?) fit together, but somehow they feel like a coherent archetype. Surprisingly insightful.
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by waldrews 17y ago
Anyone here with Java hosting experience want to do a (cheap) paid account model? Looks like we all still need a well maintained one.
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by waldrews 17y ago
Sorry, what's Dot? Can't exactly google it :).
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Hack or scam? Two arrested in Japan for exploiting travel reward points.(examiner.com)
1 points by waldrews 17y ago|0 comments
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by waldrews 17y ago
I'm probably missing something, but why md5 the output of /dev/random - won't it have the same entropy it started with?
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by waldrews 17y ago
I don't mean to imply that these aren't powerful tools in the right hands; the program definitely looks like a well designed tool implementing a good range of modern techniques. Just saying, every time scientists get a new toy like this to
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by waldrews 17y ago
Every installation of this program needs to come with a statistician to stand over your shoulder and hit you with a ruler and shout "That's data mining, not a controlled experiment! No causality for you!"
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by waldrews 17y ago
An unholy mixture of pre-high-school math and graduate specialist seminars. Some good stuff in there, by chance. And did they seriously call Markov Chain Monte Carlo a card game? That didn't sound like they were joking.
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by waldrews 17y ago
Does anyone have a sense of what the ACID properties of this setup are, especially under replication?
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by waldrews 17y ago
Sounds like you're more into probability modelling and machine learning than statistics in the traditional hypothesis testing sense. Besides ESL, a book I'd recommend is Bishop's Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning. It starts from th
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by waldrews 17y ago
"Emopreneur" - great coinage; if you're not going to take the domain name, could I?
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by waldrews 17y ago
Might need a better specifed prior for that Bayesian calculation - prior expectation of 1% gets you the mean of the prior distribution of the success probability of each Bernoulli trial, but you also need a variance or other measure of the
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by waldrews 17y ago
Wait it's by Google? I thought it was just hosted on Google code, as per this thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=826945
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by waldrews 17y ago
Clickable link to "First we take Manhattan:" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFBKV0zVXSE
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Ask HN: Songs for Startup Inspiration?
4 points by waldrews 17y ago|3 comments

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