lucasrp

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The Curse of Dimensionality in Classification(visiondummy.com)
92 points by lucasrp 12y ago|26 comments
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Ask HN: Good tools for text extraction from PDF
3 points by lucasrp 12y ago|2 comments
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by lucasrp 13y ago
Everytime some financial institution tries to promote fear by freezing accounts, they show why bitcoin is so superior.
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Ask HN: What if governments tried to control bitcoin mining?
1 points by lucasrp 13y ago|0 comments
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by lucasrp 13y ago
Im a beginner um programming, and did machine learning course right after a introdutory course (CS50 and 6.00x at Edx). I've been able to do the whole course, but only because i have good math skills. My impression is that math skills
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Ask HN: Help a self taught programmer wannabe what to do next
11 points by lucasrp 13y ago|3 comments
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Vicarious AI solves 90% of Google's recaptchas(vicariousinc.tumblr.com)
2 points by lucasrp 13y ago|0 comments
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Functional Programming course just started on Coursera(class.coursera.org)
2 points by lucasrp 13y ago|0 comments
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by lucasrp 13y ago
1) Yes. I'm 28 and began coding 6 months ago. I guess that the biggest challenge for people like us was how to get education. I couldnt spare 4 years of my life in a university. But MOOCs changed this. A few courses on edx/courser
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Scipy 2013 Tutorials. Awesome workshops on ml and data manipulation in python.(conference.scipy.org)
1 points by lucasrp 13y ago|0 comments
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by lucasrp 13y ago
You may be forgetting Bill Gates, the biggest philanthrop of all times, who are changing Africa with HIS OWN MONEY. But that isn`t necessary. The good thing in capitalism is that even assholes who only think of themselves can change the wor
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by lucasrp 13y ago
I am a law major, who did 1 year of engineering a long time ago. I always been a math geek, but 0 in CS. In my last year of college, i created a startup with some friends. It was a ERP for small lawyers firms. That didnt work out, but turne
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by lucasrp 13y ago
But it`s much easier to create new words in english. Like transform a verb in a noum, or adjective, etc I`m a native portuguese speaker, and think that romantic languages can be more "emotional" than english. But its amazing how a
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by lucasrp 13y ago
Create a non-English based programming language is very different from translating a english programming language. Different languages have different ways to express time, state, etc. If one translates a english programming language, it wil
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by lucasrp 13y ago
Agreed. I'm also a native portuguese speaker. Another point is that you get used to English, and begins to "think" in it. Guess that, besides the whole globalized world thing, i would find very confuse a portuguese programmin
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by lucasrp 13y ago
The article is wrong. The official exchange rate is a phony rate. The real price is the street price, and it's relatively the same as in other countries. If we take the official exchange rate in consideration, then EVERYTHING is more e
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Ask HN: Whats the best set of tools do Structure crawled web pages?
2 points by lucasrp 13y ago|1 comments
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Ask HN: Best way for a beginner to learn Networks and Async Programming
2 points by lucasrp 13y ago|1 comments
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by lucasrp 13y ago
Should a us citizes fell threatened?
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US Gov serious about digital currencies: Liberty Reserve founders arrested(businessinsider.com)
2 points by lucasrp 13y ago|1 comments
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Talking about the Computational Future at SXSW 2013(blog.stephenwolfram.com)
10 points by lucasrp 13y ago|0 comments
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by lucasrp 13y ago
This is not what is happening right now. Fact. BUT, if the project becomes mainstream as the dollar is today, the people of the earth will have a monetary system that doesnt allow taxation through inflation, with no banking monopolies, and
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by lucasrp 13y ago
Krugman obviously don't know what he is talking about. The resources he is talking about are used to process the transactions between bitcoin owners. The mining is just a side effect. How did a nobel prize winner made a so basic mistake on
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Bitcoin Meets Big Government(salon.com)
3 points by lucasrp 13y ago|0 comments