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by amit_m 1y ago
It is a credible source with a left-wing focus.
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by amit_m 1y ago
An Introduction to Statistical Learning: https://www.statlearning.com It is a free, easy introductory text by leading researchers that covers all the classics and includes many "Lab" sections with code. It has a chapte
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by amit_m 6y ago
The Palestinians in the west bank and Gaza have their own healthcare systems. This was part of the Oslo accords. Plus, any Israeli medic who goes to Gaza is likely to be slaughtered. They wouldn’t trust vaccines coming from Israel anyway. D
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by amit_m 7y ago
I don't own a BMW for the signaling. I have no one to impress and it is quite an old station-wagon, so not a head turner. My wife doesn't know shit about cars but refuses to drive the Toyota on her longer commutes, because it&#x27
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by amit_m 7y ago
I happen to own a Toyota Camry and a BMW 5 series (not M5 or any other specialty model). Even for day-to-day errands, the BMW is a pleasure to drive. There is a lot of feedback and sharp responses from the steering wheel and throttle. The C
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by amit_m 9y ago
Waze started out as a community-based map building startup. They had their own maps.
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by amit_m 9y ago
In the mathematical sciences, working on old problems using classical tools is typically considered career suicide. I can only imagine how depressing it must be to do academic research on age-old philosophical questions - an endless literat
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by amit_m 9y ago
Wow, $60k CAD is really low. I don't think the smaller market is enough to explain it. In Israel the market for most startups is practically nonexistent, yet typical salaries are >$100k with Google/MSFT senior devs making more
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by amit_m 9y ago
From his FAQ: "About My Areas of Non-Expertise (e.g., Applied Cryptography) I believe that sound practice of Cryptography has to be based on firm theoretical foundations. Still, this necessary condition is not sufficient, and expertise
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by amit_m 10y ago
Nowadays there's no clear difference between statistics and machine learning. But the latter gets you more grant money. :-/
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by amit_m 10y ago
One of us is confused. In that table Berlin is behind in every category.
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by amit_m 10y ago
Sorry, I am not trying to "push" any evidence nor am I an expert in startup ecosystem measurement. If you don't like the "Global Startup Ecosystem Ranking 2015" data set you can link to a different data set of your
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by amit_m 10y ago
There's a very simple reason for leaving: the cost of living is high and the typical salaries are low. But this isn't true for the Tech industry. An experienced software engineer makes around $100k/year, 5 times the median sa
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by amit_m 10y ago
From a legal perspective, anyone who has at least one jewish grandparent can obtain immediate citizenship and be eligible to free healthcare, subsidized university education, etc. Historically, this was created in response to the Nazi Nurem
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by amit_m 10y ago
"largest startup hub outside the US": http://www.businessinsider.com/the-20-hottest-startup-hubs-i... "highest concentration of startups per capita": http://www.forbes.com/sites/ilya
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by amit_m 10y ago
Israel is one of the largest startup hubs in the world, with the highest concentration of startups per capita. It is typically regarded as the largest startup hub outside the US. It also has R&D offices of all the major tech companies (
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by amit_m 10y ago
Why is it the norm that employees even need to pay cash to buy their options? Why don't companies set the exercise price to zero? Or if one must have a non-zero exercise price - why isn't there a way to do something like a "c
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by amit_m 10y ago
Hong Kong's subway is profitable and is the best subway I've ever ridden. (fast, clean, easy to navigate)
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by amit_m 11y ago
What is the problem you are solving?
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by amit_m 11y ago
Because it is difficult to do business in the US without a US subsidiary and bank account. You can't even run a Kickstarter campaign as a foreigner.
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by amit_m 11y ago
Very quick, simple UI - I like it! Where do you pull the event data from? Btw, you should look into adding a custom icon when bookmarking on an iphone. At the moment it just shows a screenshot of the page.
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by amit_m 11y ago
Or you can simply take a spoonful of very finely ground coffee and add boiling water for a delicious unfiltered coffee. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_coffee
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by amit_m 11y ago
Can anyone explain the version numbers? PyPy 2.6.1 compared to 15.11, which will eventually become 4.0.0...?
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by amit_m 11y ago
No, the helmet is not supposed to split in half. It is supposed to crush, absorbing the impact's energy. And you would most likely not suffer serious question injury from such a fall. The horizontal speed is not so important if you hit
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by amit_m 11y ago
There is a lot of this post-hoc analysis, the main line of thought being that if the helmet broke then maybe your head would've been the one to break instead had it not been for the helmet. This is completely false and not based on any
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by amit_m 11y ago
The waste produced by a nuclear power plant is orders of magnitude less than what a coal power plant produces. Even if we only look at radioactive waste - coal power plants produce more of it, only instead of being stored in a special under
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by amit_m 11y ago
For cars we don't really need nuclear power, rooftop photovoltaics are almost as cheap as coal and getting cheaper fast. Their main drawback is intermittency, but cars can charge overnight or in the office parking when the production o
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by amit_m 11y ago
Why go through the blurring, rescaling and JPEG compression?Simply take the first few DCT coefficients of the image, then quantize and compress them. In fact, one can make this scheme output the gaussian-blurred image by adding gaussian-wei
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by amit_m 11y ago
Opening paragraph, the honest version: "When we launched Google+, we were scared of Facebook winning over the internet and knew how powerful the network effect is. So we decided on a douchebag move - abuse all of our monopolistic power
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by amit_m 11y ago
All of these datasets seem to be some kind of unweighted graph with no additional information (except community information in some cases). Does anyone know where one can find richer network data sets? i.e. a graph in which the vertices hav

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