xel02

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I’m a Data Scientist – Here’s why I work at Facebook(medium.com)
3 points by xel02 5y ago|0 comments
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A New Chapter for MeteorJS – Acquired by Tiny(blog.meteor.com)
3 points by xel02 6y ago|0 comments
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by xel02 6y ago
Consider the annexation of Crimea. That's what happens in a power vacuum or a reduction in the belief that the US and the global community will retaliate against land grabs. What happens when the US's eleven supercarriers are not
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America is Coal Country(public.tableau.com)
2 points by xel02 9y ago|0 comments
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How to Patent an Algorithm(yaroslavvb.blogspot.com)
2 points by xel02 16y ago|0 comments
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CAPTCHA Arbitrage(bit-player.org)
61 points by xel02 16y ago|20 comments
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by xel02 16y ago
Regarding the time difference you might think of offering freelancers the option to highlight when they ARE available for calls by setting up a) Calling times b) Their current desire for calls. I.e Bob might be looking for a job and is will
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by xel02 16y ago
Twin studies ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin_study ) aim to examine the differences due to genetics vs environment. One naive method is to look at identical twins who have been separated, and see if there is a difference in exercise lev
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The Flaw of Averages, and Why Everything is Late(arandomforest.com)
3 points by xel02 16y ago|2 comments
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by xel02 16y ago
So students can place bets to whether they'll get a high GPA or a low GPA (i.e. short-sell their own grades). I'm going to find all the students that go to schools that grade on a curve and I'm going to take the opposite side of all those
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Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics(mitpress.mit.edu)
101 points by xel02 16y ago|20 comments
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Ask HN: Learning Engineering
27 points by xel02 16y ago|20 comments
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by xel02 16y ago
Reading your responses below it sounds like you want to work on interesting problems that have a quick turnaround in terms of real-life implementation. I'm in a similar situation and I'm looking into doing a graduate degree in Operations Re
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Fortran: The Ideal HPC Programming Language(queue.acm.org)
24 points by xel02 16y ago|5 comments
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Open Catalogues of City Data(arandomforest.com)
1 points by xel02 16y ago|0 comments
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The Kenneth Cole Pivot(engineered.typepad.com)
3 points by xel02 16y ago|0 comments
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by xel02 16y ago
There is, had to learn it in a probability class. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_tank_problem
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by xel02 16y ago
In Canada it is illegal to store student information on servers outside of Canada. At least that is what I was told when I was asked to create a CMS.
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New Free Book: Artificial Intelligence - Foundations of Computational Agents(artint.info)
10 points by xel02 16y ago|1 comments
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Mathfree Statistics: 90% Confidence Intervals(arandomforest.com)
2 points by xel02 16y ago|0 comments
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Net Neutrality: From ships to bits(economist.com)
1 points by xel02 16y ago|0 comments
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by xel02 16y ago
Most poeple will look at which ones are the biggest. Everyone should take note the fact that Education is the at the bottom in both starting and median salary.
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by xel02 16y ago
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noam_Chomsky Wikipedia says he's one of the most highly cited people in the world. I 'know' him better through his ideas of grammars (Chomsky Normal Forms) and their applications to bioinformatics. The ar
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by xel02 17y ago
For people interested in this kind of analysis I recommend Mathletics by Wayne Winston. He's written a blog and a book about similar subjects. The book itself is approachable with a basic knowledge of mathematics, probability, and statistic
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The 2-Minute Opportunity Checklist for Entrepreneurs(blogs.hbr.org)
10 points by xel02 17y ago|0 comments
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by xel02 17y ago
Does the second-hand market reduce sales? Yes: it undermines income streams. In the second year, purchases fall, and in the third year there are none at all. If the second-hand market could be eliminated, books would last longer than 3 yea
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by xel02 17y ago
There is are a couple http://www.learnprolognow.org/ http://www.amzi.com/AdventureInProlog/advfrtop.htm A good way is to look at maybe the lecture notes of an undergrad functional programming course. They usually present it quite simply
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by xel02 17y ago
It is not nearly as so simple. The majority of microbial species in the world cannot be cultured due to a lack of understanding in the nutritional requirements. This means microbiologists have a very difficult time studying them, one way of
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by xel02 17y ago
It might also that it takes time for algorithms to find uses and to really make an impact.
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by xel02 17y ago
I think the main issue at heart is the desire that every human being has in controlling their environment. I say this because I just read in a book (A Drunkards Walk) how seniors in a home who could arrange their rooms the way they liked an

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