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Record Number of Women and Underrepresented Minorities Take AP CompSci Exams(geekwire.com)
2 points by NnamdiJr 9y ago|0 comments
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by NnamdiJr 10y ago
I'm curious, where exactly do you think his conclusions are wrong? I lived and worked in Beijing for over 5yrs and I think his conclusions are in general pretty accurate. Which is fairly impressive for spending only 3wks there.
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by NnamdiJr 11y ago
ML Specialist link goes to the same page as Data Operations, fyi.
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by NnamdiJr 11y ago
This is really a great idea. The number of issues surrounding the idea (customs, legal issues, etc.) are obvious, and the discussions around them reminds me of the questions thrown at many of the other major sharing economy start-ups initia
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Introducing Kaggle Datasets(blog.kaggle.com)
7 points by NnamdiJr 11y ago|0 comments
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by NnamdiJr 11y ago
Beijing Love Story (北京爱情故事). Actually 39 episodes. Don't have a great reason why I chose it other than that it was really popular at the time, and I felt it would cover general day-to-day language well, which it did.
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by NnamdiJr 11y ago
I can speak to the power of shadowing for improving spoken language ability. If you check out techniques discussed on the How To Learn Any Language forum [1] where many of the foremost polyglots and hyperpolyglots hangout, you'll see t
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Generating Captions: Describing Videos with Neural Networks(medium.com)
43 points by NnamdiJr 11y ago|7 comments
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by NnamdiJr 11y ago
Seems I might be the only one confused about your wording, do you mean the top 10 articles on the front page, or top 10 comments within an article? In answer to both questions, I do both. I usually go through the articles from #1 to ~#120,
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by NnamdiJr 11y ago
This is great. It's crazy how huge the Who is Hiring thread has become since it began on HN. Browsing it has gone from a quick scan through to a time consuming process, even using Ctrl + F and other shortcuts. I've been looking fo
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Flatley's Law: The Company Speeding A Genetic Revolution(forbes.com)
30 points by NnamdiJr 12y ago|7 comments
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by NnamdiJr 12y ago
Seems like DataRobot is building their team directly from Kaggle's leaderboard [1]. Yet another top Kaggle competitor the article doesn't mention who joined DataRobot is Xavier Conort, who was ranked #1 for a very long time. I&#x2
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Psychosis(creepypasta.com)
1 points by NnamdiJr 13y ago|0 comments
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by NnamdiJr 13y ago
As a reference for anyone reading, South Korea has a population of a bit less than 50 million. 20 million credit card details stolen means that just under half of the country's population was affected.. There is something to be said ab
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by NnamdiJr 13y ago
Thanks for the explanation. I was confused why this thread seemed totally off topic with no one commenting on Time Series Analysis.
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by NnamdiJr 13y ago
I would say Coursera's "Computing for Data Analysis" and "Data Analysis" courses, taught by JHU's Robert Peng and Jeff Leek respectively, were great introductions to the field using R. Both courses are over now, but you might be able to fin
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by NnamdiJr 14y ago
Yea, there was one a little more than a year ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2502759 The guy organizing it doesn't seem to be around anymore, but could shoot him an email to check.
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Patents Hamper Innovation(statesman.com)
3 points by NnamdiJr 14y ago|0 comments
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by NnamdiJr 14y ago
"Nothing really replaces the experience of having a wall of books you have read and curated". I strongly second that. As a long-time avid reader, over the past decade its been an interesting change going from a wholly physical library to mo
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by NnamdiJr 15y ago
Just to create an analogy for people not familiar with Chinese web, imagine if there were 2 Youtube's in the US who were both far ahead of the competition but neck-and-neck with each other... and then one-day one acquired the other. The dea
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Top two Chinese video sites (Youku & Tudou) Merge in huge deal(techinasia.com)
2 points by NnamdiJr 15y ago|1 comments
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by NnamdiJr 15y ago
The title of the article got me quite frightened for a moment, until I read on and realized the "gun" is more-or-less an audio playback speaker with minor delay. Early Skype users who made calls to people using their speakers instead of hea
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by NnamdiJr 15y ago
Here you go: "SpeechJammer (en)" http://youtu.be/USDI3wnTZZg
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by NnamdiJr 15y ago
Long time CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) language learner here.. I'm wondering, you say it's the app you always wanted but couldn't find, but I'm sure if you looked during your Jpns studies you MUST have heard of Skritter ( http://www.skri
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by NnamdiJr 15y ago
One of my absolute favorite short-stories. First came across it when I was on a SciFi reading rampage around the age of 8 or 9yrs old.. it completely struck me then, and still does each time I come across it again. I owe it in part to SciFi
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by NnamdiJr 15y ago
Probably up there amongst the most useful Python libraries IMO. Hasn't it been available for free online for a long time now though? Anyway, in case anyone reading this missed it, the Stanford NLP class taught by Chris Manning and Dan Juraf
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by NnamdiJr 15y ago
This is almost exactly the same path I've taken to learn Python/Django. Right now I'm at where you were at the end of Week2 (stopped at Chpt8 in DjangoBook for same reasons), and have been trying to narrow down a good next step to help me f
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by NnamdiJr 15y ago
Article's espousal of moving "East" here seems a little misguided to me. I've been working in Beijing for the better part of 2yrs and from what I've seen, basically wouldn't suggest moving out here unless you're in it for the long-haul. The
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by NnamdiJr 15y ago
I'm not sure if you're using "translation for "transcription" here but I think I'm in the same position. I've been using foreign movies subtitled in the same language as is spoken, as a method for studying languages for years as well and re
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by NnamdiJr 15y ago
As a language nerd (who has also spent a large portion of time learning computer ones) it's a bit hard for me to say, but I agree with the article. Although learning another language is completely mind-altering, much like learning to code i

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