catechu

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by catechu 15y ago
While I do not know whether or not Watson actually does this, the paper doesn't mention anything about parallelism -- I suspect that the exploitation of structured parallelism is another handy benefit to using Prolog on as many machines as
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by catechu 15y ago
Brings new meaning to the field of computer science.
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by catechu 15y ago
From article: "The mass of Earth dimples this fabric, much like a heavy person sitting in the middle of a trampoline." I will never imagine general relativity the same way again.
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Ask HN: improving my automatic adwords interface?
2 points by catechu 15y ago|2 comments
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by catechu 15y ago
Or he could have pulled a Ludwig Wittgenstein and given it to the "already-corrupted" rich.
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by catechu 15y ago
Hmm... The Wired article (linked within under "can control the universe") seemed to suggest that he solved the problem by "channeling Jesus"...which seems to misrepresent that he was talking about his childhood training, rather than how he
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by catechu 15y ago
"...couldn't really put his finger on what it was that he really wanted but couldn't just do." As an amusing literal interpretation of your metaphor, IIRC Leonardo actually painted the shadows around the Mona Lisa's mouth using his finger,
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by catechu 15y ago
I speak for myself here, but I don't think something needs to be the "Future of the World" for it to be an immensely fulfilling way to lead one's life, degree or not.
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by catechu 15y ago
For those who enjoyed the author's story, there's plenty more in his well-written autobiography: http://www.amazon.com/Against-Odds-Autobiography-James-Dyson... .
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by catechu 15y ago
Seconded. Link to pdf for the lazy: http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/itprnn/book.pdf . And to other incarnations: http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/mackay/itila/book.html .
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by catechu 15y ago
While I agree that it can be unstable (inference can get stuck in local maxima), latent variable models like LDA can be used to rigorously evaluate textual categories (e.g. journal articles). We take for granted that the categories we set
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by catechu 16y ago
In case you're wondering whose annotations those are, IIRC, the marginalia are from Vinod Khosla.
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by catechu 16y ago
Independent of the elegant typesetting it produces, TeX contains well-designed notation for mathematics, reflecting the algorithmic bent of its author, Don Knuth. Mathematics doesn't change as frequently as desktop publishing, so it's a goo
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by catechu 16y ago
"It is only when thermal energy is not equal to gravitational work that the cloud either expands and cools or contracts and warms, a process that continues until equilibrium is reached." Gosh, I want pants like that!
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by catechu 16y ago
Biggest impact I've found which is not directly discussed in the OP: A great package repository (e.g. CPAN) can outweigh quirks in language design (e.g. Perl spaghetti code). It seems to me that TeX did the best job of winning at both -- ov
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by catechu 16y ago
At any rate, whatever people might tell you about your lack of credentials, you've already set your pitching skills apart by putting this out here in front of everyone. It's surprising just how much of presentation skill is about taking one
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by catechu 16y ago
I use the basic version of PayPal for subscriptions, but I've had issues with canceling customers' subscriptions without their explicit request, and the PayPal support is horrendous. The fees are a little higher than some of the other servi
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by catechu 16y ago
I think product sales is a game of incomplete information in which sellers don't know what each buyer wants and buyers don't necessarily know what they want either. It seems to me that advertising, which is effectively gambling on consumers
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by catechu 16y ago
Not to divert attention from the point he's making, but is that a MacBook he's using in the article picture?
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by catechu 16y ago
Wonder if the old NN/g results for eye tracking still hold up: http://www.useit.com/eyetracking/ .
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by catechu 16y ago
That said, impatience also prevents feature creep.
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by catechu 16y ago
While anything that brings more talent into the programming world is a good thing, I find it disappointing when I see such lists encourage cursory understanding like this. While it does have a section on "Becoming the Master", I think that
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by catechu 16y ago
How can you check if nothing happened?
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by catechu 16y ago
I wondered why this is legal and my doubts were resolved in the FAQ. "Having the winnings become philanthropic gifts solves the legal problem and also introduces an appropriate element of service and generosity to the whole process."
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by catechu 16y ago
Useful presentation, though I don't know how reliant Google still is on MapReduce for search. There's a slide in there "Numbers Everyone Should Know" that deserves its title -- things like 10,000,000ns for a disk seek.
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by catechu 16y ago
I would say the same, but I think its absence has reduced me to tears enough in the past, so I'll pass. :)
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by catechu 16y ago
I don't think Jobs is concerned about retrospectively predicting the successes he had. Rather, I think he wants to emphasize their inherent un predictability, together with the assertion that such unpredictability doesn't matter. So it's n
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by catechu 16y ago
Would the magnetic field required be detectable by other means, offsetting the stealth? If not, that's pretty neat. Now to make an iPhone app for it...
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by catechu 16y ago
There's certainly an air to having your dot sketch in the WSJ from what I hear, though I imagine that's faded after its years of remodeling itself and its time under new ownership. That said, the difficulties with using an algorithmic filte
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by catechu 16y ago
Her portfolio seems to be here: http://www.ecargnfx.com/grace_portfolio.pdf .

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