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by xaa 14y ago
This article is more about casting shame on IBM, not South Africa.
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by xaa 14y ago
It seems the relevant quantity is whether P(important outcome | work on unimportant project) > P(important outcome | work on important project) I doubt it.
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by xaa 14y ago
The original nytimes article implies that the U.S. started this program as a way to prevent Israel from responding in a military way to Iran's nuclear program. But yes, it certainly does seem that nary a geopolitical snafu goes by without t
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by xaa 14y ago
If these were isolated incidents, I'd agree with you. We should give Linus the benefit of the doubt because of his substantial contributions to OSS. Unfortunately, this behavior is very well established. To take a few random examples of Lin
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by xaa 14y ago
I don't see that calling people "morons" or their work "garbage" as being that ambiguous.
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by xaa 14y ago
Seems neat. It's really hard to know whether Wolfram is a visionary or a lunatic (and by extension, whether the suite of Wolfram products are ahead of their time or just shiny recapitulations of existing tech). For example, in his "A New Ki
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by xaa 14y ago
Why can't they just call the police?
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by xaa 14y ago
People can develop on 13" screens?
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by xaa 14y ago
Yep at #1. Perhaps, as an exercise in empathy, people here could imagine how their lives would change if, due to "supply and demand", programmer salaries dropped to $20k/year.
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by xaa 14y ago
Seems a little too simple -- how can you generate predictions without even specifying which is the class variable and which are the predictor variables?
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by xaa 14y ago
Well, your second statement was not really accurate or even really coherent. CL and Clojure both have relatively simple syntax compared to most mainstream languages because of their use of S-expressions. Although reader macros mean they are
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by xaa 14y ago
Two words: citation manager.
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by xaa 14y ago
So if we have one meta-"HN-is-dying-OMFG" post for every dumb post on the front page, do we not then have twice as much noise?
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by xaa 14y ago
I would argue that Python's approach is FAR better than Clojure/Leiningen's "no batteries included" approach. Suppose you want to do a very common task like parse some XML. In Clojure, the workflow is: 1. Go to Github or Clojars, find t
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by xaa 14y ago
"epigenetic inheritance". Another example: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v479/n7373/full/nature1...
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by xaa 14y ago
They are comparable in the sense that a new Stanford CS grad might conceivably be deciding between working in cancer research or cat picture startups. Your overall point about funding is correct, but typically the very best students and res
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by xaa 14y ago
This solution is still less elegant than Python because you have to declare every dependency twice (and remember the right version for each package, which usually involves a trip to github or clojars). If this could be combined with a globa
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by xaa 14y ago
No one is going to want to pay a percentage just for an idea, but an "idea person" can also easily become a business cofounder. Sales, marketing, and raising capital are things that perhaps require less expertise than motivation and persist
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by xaa 14y ago
Over-hyped? In my neck of the woods these approaches are treated with extreme skepticism for just the reasons you mention. For instance: De novo protein folding is not a solved problem, so how can a simulation predict dynamics for a prote
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by xaa 14y ago
How efficient is this compared with running your own cluster? 2x slower? 10x? In addition to latency between nodes, surely you're paying some kind of performance penalty for virtualization?
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by xaa 14y ago
Unfortunately, for non-computational peers and reviewers, "high-throughput" is often a synonym for "fishing expedition". This perception is gradually changing, though. Furthermore high-throughput assays are more expensive so people often cu
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by xaa 14y ago
(Bioinformatician here). Although I think bench work is the most obvious route and the most likely way these problems will be solved, there are in principle some computational ways they could be addressed. If we had good computational mod
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by xaa 14y ago
Jon Stewart had a hilarious sketch earlier this week on this increasing tendency to throw around the term so lightly: http://www.thedailyshow.com/full-episodes/mon-april-16-2012-... around 7:00.
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by xaa 15y ago
Do HFTers pay any sort of commission or transaction fee (to the exchange)?
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by xaa 15y ago
Publishing a version controlled source repository is actually more stringent than publishing the results of a lab assay, because it contains a record of everything you tried, older versions, and errors (that have hopefully been fixed). Wh