korch

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by korch 16y ago
Let me get this straight. A wealthy, white, educated, privileged male who is incredibly talented and who won both the birth and tech lottery back in the 90's is now whining about the government taking too much in taxes? Cry me a fucking riv
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by korch 16y ago
I'd like to see a quality open source Basecamp clone put up on Github. Written in Rails of course, ironically. There certainly are enough Rails devs driving open source projects to make this happen. That's the peril/blessing of embracing o
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by korch 16y ago
How can the present state-of-the-art in NLP ML be more than a toy having limited scope if the most interesting, and truly useful real-world applications require impossible amounts of hardware resources, along with algorithmic running times
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by korch 16y ago
Maybe it's just me, and maybe I'm wrong or over-thinking it, but this question bugs me. I think this is a trick question, because there is no single right answer unless the question is prefaced with "in [language X], define polymorphism." I
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by korch 16y ago
Never. There are defeats more triumphant than victories. —Michel de Montaigne I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. —Thomas Edison
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by korch 16y ago
You do have a point there. I've read that the last Universal mathematicians we've had were Chebyshev and Poincare, who could claim to know "all of math", and who were active in research in nearly every sub-field. It's been over 50 years s
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by korch 16y ago
Look at the dropout rates. In undergrad, nationally, and historically, 50+% do not complete the 4 years to obtain a bachelors degree. Of those who go on to grad school, again, 50%+ withdraw without completing their Phd/Masters. If we as a s
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by korch 16y ago
"Which is ye surest character of a true Mathematical Genius, learned these of his own inclination & by his owne industry without a teacher." — Isaac Newton In many respects, math has a totally unfair advantage over every other subject
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by korch 16y ago
That's kind of what happened in the plot of Sagan's book(and film) Contact .
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by korch 16y ago
I agree, as I think Disney is the only other company on the planet that in many ways is a mirror of Apple. Let us compare: Founded by a charismatic visionary, check. Highly aesthetic products, check. Fulfilling dreams of fantasy and the f
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by korch 16y ago
Wait, think about what you're complaining about—do you want your police to be low paid so they are more susceptible to bribes and corruption? Like they are in many other countries? And California is on the border with Mexico where massively
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by korch 16y ago
It's not just about eigenvectors, though that is the coolest part of it. The "magic" part is that PageRank is also about stochastic processes, which use the Ergodic theorem to show that their PageRank exists at an arbitrary scale. Therefore
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by korch 16y ago
I have thought about this too. It would be bizarre if all of us thinking "they're working on that" had some kind of society-wide placebo effect to actually cause people to live longer and healthier. Now that's a self-reinforced feedback-cyc
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by korch 16y ago
So this guy sounds like some office granny scolding the interns over trifles of etiquette. He summed up his 12 years of working at Microsoft with a bunch of smarmy anecdotes typical of office gossip & politics. Not a single mention abou
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by korch 16y ago
Like a wise person once said: Interest is aptitude All of the nature/nurture constructs built around males to interest them in the autistic endeavors like math, physics, computer science are very different for females. It's not that wom
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by korch 16y ago
Why not make this idea itself into a crowd-sourced startup idea generator website? It is somewhat ridiculous that so many folks think an idea itself has value apart from circumstance, context and execution. Perhaps by getting everyone to
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by korch 16y ago
To see that we will need some healthy competition in the ad and search space. I actually hope Bing does well just for serving this purpose. Google's search page was nearly the same for 5 years, Bing comes out and adds a few more dynamic way
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by korch 16y ago
Share it on Bit Torrent! Large, accurate real-world datasets are difficult to find for the purposes of testing and experimenting with various machine learning algos.
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by korch 16y ago
I haven't (yet) researched this topic very much, but if it is only legal to trade on public information, then how are all of the private investment banks on Wall St. legally allowed to develop astronomically sophisticated and proprietary, a
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by korch 16y ago
Is this pattern going to become one of Google's weakest links ? Analogous to the way Microsoft ignored the web until it was too late, and that gave Google a foot in the door. So the formula to overtaking Google is blindingly simple: change
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by korch 16y ago
Craigslist. Take the 10+ billion web pages out there, zoom in on the top 100 by traffic, which one is effectively used by the maximum number of people for non-trivial tasks? Craigslist is at or among the very top of the list. I don't coun
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by korch 16y ago
I'll chime in with a rant about the URL bar because I've spent so much time thinking about how much I hate it. First, slapping a simple breadcrumb menu over the text URL bar wouldn't be so hard, so it's a worthwhile experiment, at least jus
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by korch 16y ago
Big fan of the Exile here too. They had really great writing in a way, one moment they're talking about some business scheme in some remote part of the world, then it's about a point a classic Russian writer once made, then it's onto some o
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by korch 16y ago
I used to be a developer at Ticketmaster, and all I can say is kudos, great job! It took TM/LN an absolutely ridiculous amount of time to build their own half-assed interactive seating charts, and yours beats all the big guys. Don't worry
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by korch 16y ago
Everyone has known for years that Paypal is awful, regularly steals large amounts of money held by perfectly legitimate customers, and does it all through inscrutable, unfriendly, customer-service processes. I know this, man. Yet Paypal i
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by korch 16y ago
Well I guess I won't be doing anymore business with Rackspace, since their idiot executives who cleared this decision clearly do not respect the rights given by the American constitution, nor understand the point of net neutrality, nor any
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by korch 16y ago
The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it. Incidentally, many of the communities on these under the radar, non-Craigslist sites are now bracing for the equivalent of the Eternal September , like when AOL opened up acce
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by korch 16y ago
I don't think it's such a great thing that the freshmen linear transforms for 3d manipulation are finding their way into the top-most level of the web stack(Javascript + CSS) These transforms are already built into the the lowest level in t
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by korch 16y ago
First, college material is only ~25% of society. The banks would cry screaming to their congress-critters if suddenly loans and credit were only allowed to college grads. What's next, only those holding degrees in econ are allowed to rece
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by korch 16y ago
Thanks for the clarification!

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