kurumo

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by kurumo 13y ago
Imagine I want to send a letter to someone, but I am worried that it may be intercepted (by the government, for the sake of argument). So instead of sending it directly to my recepient, I make arrangements with some reliable friends so that
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by kurumo 13y ago
While not free, 'Machine Learning: A Probabilistic Perspective' ( http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/0262018020 ) is the best book I have found so far. I also second the recommendations for Tibshirani&#x
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by kurumo 13y ago
There is an IM in Boston who routinely gives people, mostly without regard for their rating, 30 seconds to 5 minutes odds with no increment. I have seen him win these controls against other masters. So comparatively it is not too surprising
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by kurumo 13y ago
That is simply incorrect. A GM can perhaps give a strong amateur (2000+) 1 to 5 time odds, maybe 1 to 7, in under a minute time controls. Larger odds would be arrogant, foolish or even suicidal, depending on the specific GM (rating, opening
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by kurumo 13y ago
Fair use or not, if you could do it I would buy it :) Fine, forget conference papers. If you can demonstrate fast NER in multiple languages, across domains, with competitive precision/recall metrics, I will buy it. The rest of it is not par
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by kurumo 13y ago
Thanks, that's somewhat helpful. I am not particularly interested in the summarizer plugin itself (mostly because we have one, built in house), but I would love to talk about the underlying pipeline. If you have e.g. a named entity recognit
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by kurumo 13y ago
What precisely makes this particular engine 'the most powerful in the world'? Does it do domain independent named entity recognition with an F score better than 0.8? For what classes of entities? Is it at least adaptable without oodles of t
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Readers of Antipope speculate on near future(antipope.org)
1 points by kurumo 14y ago|0 comments
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by kurumo 14y ago
It's actually 1/6 * Sum_n (5/6)^2n = 1/6 * 1 / (1 - 25/36) = 6/11. The first move provides a small advantage, as intuition dictates.
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by kurumo 14y ago
It tells me if they can at least minimally apply their knowledge and reason about a problem. It's a filter question. If a person with a college degree in math cannot solve this, what's the likelihood they will be able to solve an actual rea
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by kurumo 14y ago
I have been using this when interviewing people with math degrees: Two players play a game with a single six-sided die. The player that starts can only win by rolling a 1. If he or she doesn't win, the other player gets to roll; he or she c
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by kurumo 15y ago
We do (Bloomberg), but on equities, not commodities. We are working on it though :)
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by kurumo 15y ago
Now, how hard would it be to design a sort of minimal virtual machine that can run this in parallel with e.g. a Windows host OS? Distribute it via some existing delivery vector, et voila...
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by kurumo 15y ago
New York, NY; Skillman, NJ; London, UK; other locations. Bloomberg is hiring, Intern, H1B candidates are welcome. http://careers.bloomberg.com/hire/internsearch.html http://careers.bloomberg.com/hire/experiencesearch.html C++, Java, .NE
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by kurumo 15y ago
That is not entirely correct. If you have already acquired credibility (somehow, doesn't matter how for the purposes of this exercise), your estimate or advice can (and frequently does) become a self-fulfilling prophecy. Knowing that a sign
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by kurumo 15y ago
29,500, non-native English speaker (but studied in the US). Retook the test and omitted all the words I could not define with total confidence on the spot; the original score was 31,400. The test is peculiar in that the distribution appears
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by kurumo 15y ago
Cold War 2.0 China edition.
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by kurumo 16y ago
I think this is the original article: http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa0802905
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by kurumo 16y ago
Not bad at all as far as interface goes, but their timer is buggy. In 5 0 it ate 15 seconds of my time, apparently due to lag. A thought I had for a while: do analysis on games as they occur and try to estimate opponents' strength, as a way
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by kurumo 16y ago
http://senseis.xmp.net/ is not bad
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by kurumo 16y ago
Bloomberg, NY, London & elsewhere. News R&D is looking for people to work on a real time news search engine. Great place to work on interesting problems. http://careers.bloomberg.com/hire/jobs/job27500.html http://careers.bloombe
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Vinge on Singularity (1993). What had changed since?(mindstalk.net)
1 points by kurumo 16y ago|0 comments
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by kurumo 16y ago
Is nobody bothered by the prices of the actual books?
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Updated iPad in Q1 2011?(digitimes.com)
2 points by kurumo 16y ago|0 comments
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by kurumo 16y ago
Robert Anton Wilson Schrödinger's Cat trilogy especially
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by kurumo 16y ago
The full list: http://careers.bloomberg.com/hire/experiencesearch.html Filter to R&D. We are mainly hiring in NY, NJ and London. It's a great place to work. Regardless of the problem domain you prefer, there is something interesting
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by kurumo 16y ago
I work in this field. That is not the first paper written about this system; the previous was "Sentiment Analysis of Financial News Articles", Schumaker et. al. This is not the only academic project describing something like this, see pape
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by kurumo 16y ago
Generally speaking, CS programs out there seem to lack both depth and breadth, be out of touch/time with "the desert of the real", and suffer from what Dijkstra called "the infantilization of curriculum". Too often do I see people who are p
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by kurumo 16y ago
http://www.ted.com http://www.wikipedia.org http://ocw.mit.edu
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by kurumo 16y ago
Thanks, I will try it. Application-level solution would still be preferable, I think, and is an interesting problem, aside from the immediate usability benefits.

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