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by enupten 11y ago
Neat! Can people in the know share their experience with TeXmacs which is supposed to do very similar stuff ?
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by enupten 11y ago
Nation \neq Civilization. If I were a fish, I'd want not to be eaten. I don't care two bits whether I'm fried in margarine or in butter (to paraphrase Nehru). Enough said.
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by enupten 11y ago
Wow, Quartz defending a fellow Hinduphobe's views! Man something has gone awfully wrong with the Monsoons.
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by enupten 11y ago
I'm sure that helps you think well of yourself. Thankfully the British kept a meticulous record of the beautiful civilization they destroyed with utmost cruelty. India was much more advanced than Britain at the time. Now the thief clai
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by enupten 11y ago
:) Ah, colonialization and its many wonders!
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by enupten 11y ago
The conditions are because the rural economy has deliberately been kept very weak. You can't blame poor people for trying to make a living. Go outside of your big cities to see the country for what it really is. I wouldn't necessa
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by enupten 11y ago
This is a genuine question: why can't they outsource their software devel ?
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by enupten 11y ago
Sure - but that's not what the OP is referring to. There is no "sync" step in multiple parallel chains, unlike particle swarm & genetic algorithms. MCMC is also used for finding MAP solutions, an operation which is stri
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by enupten 11y ago
It is a multivariate (co-ordinate wise) version of MH. You can paralleize it because the Bayes net allows a decomposition of the p.d. I feel like while your comment on Global-optimization algorithms may indeed be true, I don't quite
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by enupten 11y ago
One of the parallelized versions is Gibbs sampling that is used for sampling from Bayesian networks. In this case you don't even need a proposal distribution; neither would you need the test from MH. I think Graphlab ( https:/&#x2
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by enupten 11y ago
Bernie Sanders does appear much more consistent than Hillary; and he unlike Hillary has talked of dismantling the NSA. I'm afraid he won't make the Democratic nomination. The other republicans seem like a bunch of idiots. It'
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by enupten 11y ago
I found this paper to be an excellent discussion on the implications that Physics has on the complexity question, http://www.scottaaronson.com/papers/npcomplete.pdf
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by enupten 11y ago
I'm surprised the author didn't mention PCA and its invariance to orthogonal transforms - and its complete breakdown to those that aren't.
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by enupten 11y ago
> The teachers make long speeches about how they're here to help. A lecture I was listening to once mentioned how this was akin to asking how much sugar one should add to turn the ocean sweet.
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by enupten 11y ago
That's like saying, I know my life doesn't mean anything to the Universe, and then consequently jumping out the window.
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by enupten 11y ago
Isn't that a bit too agnostic (and fatalistic too) ? I mean it is us who are causing the downfall afterall. I agree that on the large scale we're no less "natural" or "conscious", but surely we can be better th
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by enupten 11y ago
> This is not something to be proud of. It's sad and depressing. High school is a time for kids to learn social skills, not advanced computer science concepts. Unless they want to. I'm not entirely sure that most do.
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by enupten 11y ago
Here is what I found incredible: he was mediocre even in his Math exams (and failed the rest). http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/did-srinivasa-ramanuja...
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by enupten 11y ago
You know there is something called Enthought (started by Travis) right ?
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by enupten 11y ago
Is the startup going to follow in the footsteps of Enthought ?
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by enupten 11y ago
Precisely. I find that getting the balance (that ethereal "style") right takes a lot more time than actually "learning" the language.
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by enupten 11y ago
"Normal schools can’t personalize the curriculum and so deal poorly with asynchronous learners." Couldn't agree more! Universities tend to be much worse in this aspect.
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by enupten 11y ago
ಗೂಬೆಗಳು!
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by enupten 11y ago
X220 Tablet, if using Wacom is your thing.
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by enupten 11y ago
They also seem to have killed off the awesome Thinkpad X-tablets :( I wish it was also a bit less plasticky; something like Macbook Air + Nub + Old Thinkpad keyboard + Black Rubberized body + WACOM would be a dream come true. Hardware upgra
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by enupten 11y ago
It has nothing to do with Ivies or the US; it's humanity.
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by enupten 11y ago
Even better: use org-mode.
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by enupten 11y ago
Yes, I think the above is a fairly useless digression. Thank you for making me think more about this.
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by enupten 11y ago
http://planetmath.org/anysigmafinitemeasureisequivalenttoapr...
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by enupten 11y ago
Is clojure any "better" in real-world use ?

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