edtechre

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by edtechre 15y ago
You could claim the same about getting high off of glue since that affects the mind too. Seriously, what every day experience /doesn't/ affect your mind? My point stands on its own. Taking action makes a difference, dropping acid does not
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by edtechre 15y ago
Nowhere did I say I support the war on drugs, prohibition, or any such rubbish. You are free to engage in whatever stupid activity you so choose. Just don't try to claim it was some kind of fulfilling accomplishment, when it was merely sha
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by edtechre 15y ago
Flawless logic here. I guess I should try crack, heroine, or maybe downing some motor oil before coming to the conclusion they're not for me?
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by edtechre 15y ago
I have no issue with whatever it is you posited after your masturbatory experience. It's just that I don't find your epiphany particularly deep, nor do I see how LSD was even necessary for you to arrive at your destination of nowhere. You k
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by edtechre 15y ago
Instead of doing drugs to experience "enlightenment" (LOL), you could, I don't know... read a book and actually learn something of value.
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by edtechre 15y ago
How is that enlightening? The doc makes you sound like an imbecile.
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by edtechre 15y ago
Are you stupid? Zynga's not a young company at more than 4 years. And this is horribly detrimental for any prospect of IPO.
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by edtechre 15y ago
Same here. I'm thinking ML since it will have programming exercises. I'd likely forget all of the theory otherwise.
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by edtechre 15y ago
The course has some introductory Linear Algebra videos posted. I don't think you'd be able to understand multiple regression without some basic knowledge of linear algebra.
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by edtechre 15y ago
Excellent, many thanks. I've read O'Reilly's Collective Intelligence. It's a great introductory survey, but it was very light on theory. I also own Collective Intelligence in Action. It had more explanation of theory than O'Reilly's offer
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by edtechre 15y ago
And on that note, does anyone have any other good book suggestions regarding ML?
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by edtechre 15y ago
That's partly why I bought it. My university didn't have a statistics department, so I never had the chance to take a statistics course that was worthwhile. Statistics and linear algebra really should be required by all CS programs. It's
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by edtechre 15y ago
Great book. But I made the mistake of buying this book on Kindle just a few hours before I saw it show up here. :(
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by edtechre 15y ago
Nope. What I said is still true. Here is my code in Java: public List<Integer> mergeSort(List<Integer> list) { // Base case // If list has one (or less) element, return list as is int size = list.size(); if (size &
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by edtechre 15y ago
The article is not "gobbledygook". A well known limitation of NodeJS is its lack of support for parallelism. You have to try to take advantage of parallelism of the OS itself by pre-forking the Node server. NodeJS is great for application
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by edtechre 15y ago
It /might/ be faster? What? Do you fully understand the invariant of the algorithm? The left should always be less than the right partition. There's no need to re-merge them each call. As it is, you are always comparing all elements in
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by edtechre 15y ago
Good thing TechCrunch isn't worth reading anymore, or I'd actually be upset.
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by edtechre 15y ago
The recursive merge sort is not quite correct: function mergeSort(items){ if (items.length == 1) { return items; } var middle = Math.floor(items.length / 2), left = items.slice(0, middle), right = item
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by edtechre 15y ago
Let me clarify: competing ARM processors :) Chances are it's not an Intel CPU you're using in your smart phone, tablet, or game console.
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by edtechre 15y ago
Not if ARM processors continue to gain ground.
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by edtechre 15y ago
And by technology company I mean: Hardware (Apple, Amazon) OS (Apple, Google) Cloud services (Google, Amazon, Apple) Web services like email, maps, search (Google) Facebook has a very large user base. Whoopee. But does that mean staying po
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by edtechre 15y ago
Facebook lasting a hundred years? WHAT?! I hardly see Facebook as being in the same league as technology companies like Google, Apple, and Amazon. In fact, I don't really see Facebook as much of a technology company at all, at least in c
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by edtechre 15y ago
And yet no one addressed my point. Vote me down, druggies.
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by edtechre 15y ago
Yeah, vote me down. But people have talked about having chronic "tracers" and random hallucinations years after doing LSD. SF drug propaganda FTW! Doing drugs for "enlightenment" is for the lazy and stupid. There are many other ways to ac
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by edtechre 15y ago
Huh? How can LSD be "worth it" when it has been proven to cause brain damage and hallucinations? (Good bye karma)
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by edtechre 15y ago
I am surprised the author did not mention eggs. A good source of protein, cheap, and they have a pretty good shelf life.
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by edtechre 15y ago
TIL there are still people writing web applications in Perl.
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by edtechre 15y ago
"Wait, ENCRYPT credit numbers? I thought you said decrypt!"
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by edtechre 15y ago
"But in the US, the places where high-speed rail will work already have high-speed rail." Huh? What do you consider "high speed"?
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by edtechre 15y ago
That was utterly pointless. As China becomes the largest economy in the world, and its standard of living continues to rise, more Chinese will be able to afford to take high speed trains. Meanwhile, the standard of living in the US continu

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