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by aksbhat 14y ago
Its not that bad, I took public bus to school as a thirteen year old. It was as crowded as an MTA bus. Except there is no Air Conditioning, otherwise it is not that bad. Trains however tend to be much worse, since the doors never close.
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by aksbhat 15y ago
While I wouldn't go as far to call it BS. I agree with your argument. I believe we need better laws that will ensure the freedom rather than modifying the system. In all other aspects of human life, we have relied on legal system to achieve
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by aksbhat 15y ago
I have tried using both Hadoop (55 node cluster at Cornell) and a single AWS High Memory double extra large instance with 32GB memory. I have found that since the Twitters social graph is small enough to fit in the memory, a single instance
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by aksbhat 15y ago
I believe that the benefits of a social network such as Facebook outweigh the risks. The problem is that, it is very hard to quantify the positive effect which arises from small interactions. Sure there is huge scope for improvement, but on
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by aksbhat 15y ago
its load shedding (which means that electricity is turned off for few hours everyday) which is quite common in the subcontinent.
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by aksbhat 15y ago
another guy https://twitter.com/#!/smedica
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This Guy Live-Tweeted The Bin Laden Raid Yesterday Without Knowing It
4 points by aksbhat 15y ago|1 comments
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by aksbhat 15y ago
Rather than using Google scholar, I would suggest looking at papers in ICML, NIPS and Journal of Machine Learning Research. For vision based research I would suggest CVPR and ICCV conference and IEEE Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligenc
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by aksbhat 15y ago
link to the paper: http://aje.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2011/04/19/aje.k... I guess that a paper won't get accepted in Am. J. Epidemiol without proper consideration of such correlation. The studies generally try to control for homo
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by aksbhat 15y ago
I completely agree with you! As someone who has dysgraphia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dysgraphia ), I have faced this problem so many time in school. Luckily in India esp. in my state, if you have Dysgraphia, you could use a scribe and
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by aksbhat 15y ago
I tried it and found it really useful. It is especially useful for people like me who aren't very well versed in CSS. I guess you should market it as WYSIWYG CSS template builder.
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by aksbhat 15y ago
You are comparing Garage Band to A High End Medical device? Technically, they had the feature but the feature didn't help the doctors be better doctors. Features don't automatically translate to outcomes. How can you determine util
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by aksbhat 15y ago
Interesting article! A lot of commenter here are scared of using Magik code. However note that Search/Information Retrieval is a hard problem. Unlike other problems, developing a generalized full text search engine is difficult. Testing sea
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by aksbhat 15y ago
Think of it this way, it is easier for anyone to write code for solving simple problem. however this does not makes you stand out from the crowd, also at the same time there is no guarantee that the same person wrote the code, i.e. it wasn'
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by aksbhat 15y ago
Following are the counterpoints to their argument: 1. decreasing ROI on a college degree: They are confusing between supply and demand. While it is possible in future that a college degree will no longer provide an edge over High-School di
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by aksbhat 15y ago
what is even more interesting is that books are also much cheaper e.g. Algorithms by Cormen, et. al. cost only 6$. It would be interesting how eBooks are priced in India, as compared to US.
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by aksbhat 15y ago
If you are a good dev/student and some bank is willing to lend you 40,000$, it is far easier to join a good US university for a masters degree and then get a job in Silicon valley. So all you are left with are people who cannot take above o
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by aksbhat 15y ago
Not true, "most" of the research gets funded by NSF, NIH, DARPA, ARPA, Naval Research. Of course there are companies such as IBM research, Microsoft research but they are few. By money and for money generally gives you High Frequency tradin
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by aksbhat 15y ago
"Hammerbacher looked around Silicon Valley at companies like his own, Google (GOOG), and Twitter, and saw his peers wasting their talents. "The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads," he says. 'That suc
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by aksbhat 15y ago
https://www.amia.org/files/workforthesecondaryuseofhealthdat... provides a good discussion about the subject. Then what are your thoughts about http://www.practicefusion.com/pages/pr/practice-fusion-teams... ?
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by aksbhat 15y ago
Do you imply that services that sell anonymyzed patient data are unprofessional? Medicine has progressed because of sharing of information, and I dont see any harm in anonymyzed information being shared, as long as its a fair and open marke
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by aksbhat 15y ago
Cant you use it on Xoom considering it has a Web interface.
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by aksbhat 15y ago
It's Stanford. You can have a look at stats of Cornell CS grads: http://www.engineering.cornell.edu/resources/career_services... The median was ~ 75K in 2009
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by aksbhat 15y ago
Complex numbers are a powerful tool for studying the two-dimensional plane: each point corresponds to a unique complex number . The beauty of this correspondence is that it allows you to add, subtract, and multiply points in the pla
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by aksbhat 15y ago
Harvard affiliates? There are no Harvard affiliates but there are higher education affiliates, which are called as universities. Harvard itself is one such affiliate in some sense. Universities are a result of Theory of The Firm, since a u
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by aksbhat 15y ago
First, your assertion "college can be valuable but is not necessarily so" makes no sense. You can always claim that "X can be valuable but is not necessarily so". Where X can be anything in this universe. Second, you are trying t
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by aksbhat 15y ago
I find the discussion here as well as the article myopic in the scope. Programming/Web Startups are just a small part of the world. You still need Doctors, Lawyers, Engineers and Scientists. Sure one can question the utility of spending
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by aksbhat 15y ago
I agree they are not very high confidence classifications. Due to random nature of the algorithm, It is very hard to correctly label a community. Also since for most users explicit permission to follow is not required which leads to dubio
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by aksbhat 15y ago
I made a mistake in typing the url.
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Mining Twitter follower network of 36 million users(akshaybhat.com)
33 points by aksbhat 15y ago|5 comments

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