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by nphrk 13y ago
It is the distribution of the average of n binomial distributions (taking on values x±1)†, which according to the CLT converges to a Gaussian as n→∞. [†] x is where it is centered.
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by nphrk 14y ago
The copyright issue can be a bit tricky. Assuming that Instagram goes on and sells users' pictures - who's liable if somebody uploads a picture which he/she doesn't own, and then Instagram goes on and sells that to a third party?
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by nphrk 14y ago
Great! I love the service, I miss only an app for my Android tablet. Keep up the good work.
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by nphrk 14y ago
The article uses the magnitude of the coefficients, which is computed using both the real and the imaginary part.
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by nphrk 14y ago
This is a nice way to see how the DFT is computed, however I find the view of the FT as a change of basis as even more important - generalizes easily to other bases and and one can understand easily wavelets and their advantages. Basically,
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by nphrk 14y ago
Could you recommend some introductory books? I've always felt bad not having clue about art.
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by nphrk 14y ago
There's http://www.videolectures.net , but I think that they only host their own material.
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by nphrk 14y ago
Just landed!
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by nphrk 14y ago
Very interesting, I have only one nitpick (maybe for the paranoid only) : why not show the cumulative distribution but pick 200$ as a threshold?
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by nphrk 14y ago
Well not quite. While SVMs gained a lot of popularity for having nice properties e.g. 1) a convex problem which means a unique solution and a lot of already existing technology can be used 2) the "kernel trick" which enables us to learn in
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by nphrk 14y ago
Well not quite. While SVMs gained a lot of popularity for having nice properties e.g. 1) a convex problem which means a unique solution and a lot of already existing technology can be used 2) the "kernel trick" which enables us to lea
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by nphrk 14y ago
There's a Coursera course by Martin Odersky going on at the moment ( https://class.coursera.org/progfun-2012-001/class/index ).
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by nphrk 14y ago
I guess you haven't seen the Old Spice commercial [ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owGykVbfgUE ].
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by nphrk 14y ago
There are better approaches for tackling this problem (with 0-regret asymptotically). You can take a look at the UCB (Upper Confidence Bound) algorithm, and you can do even more if you assume some continuity, e.g. what is commonly done is t
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by nphrk 14y ago
Looks nice I must admit :) Are you fitting a quadratic curve? When you have multiple points what do you plan to use - a spline?
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by nphrk 14y ago
No US universities, I guess they can easily get way better paying internships.
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by nphrk 14y ago
Unfortunately, even if illegal, there is a way around it. So what some of the teachers where I studied did (one of the eastern European countries) was to send her/his students to visit tutorial classes of the other teacher (for which you pa
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by nphrk 14y ago
Oh my, why the keyboard? Now I have one less reason to go with a Thinkpad over a MacBook :(.
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2012: The Year of the Semantic Web(huffingtonpost.com)
4 points by nphrk 15y ago|0 comments
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by nphrk 15y ago
You have some complaints about the ML class?
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by nphrk 15y ago
As I experienced it, Szeliski's book is better as a reference as it covers lots of material (just see the number of citations at the end). I don't think it's an easy read without reading (some of) the cited papers (or having background know
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by nphrk 15y ago
I woundn't consider The Elements of Statistical Learning Theory a (very) basic book. It covers plenty of material in relatively good depth.
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by nphrk 15y ago
Why did they charge the graphic designer and the developers?
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by nphrk 15y ago
What is bad about trying to provide "drought-tolerant" seeds to Africa? It's not like GE seeds are gonna ruin Africa, they might very well help fight the hunger problem. I don't understand the general negativity against GE food - if it's te
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by nphrk 15y ago
gnome-about says 2.32.1, but I suspect that the Ubuntu version is vanilla
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by nphrk 15y ago
My experience so far: * Looks nicer. * You can't modify the panels. I always had some shortcuts there, now I have to go through the menu. * You can't even change the default icon theme using the customization app. You have to get gnome-twea
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by nphrk 15y ago
Very nice idea! I have one technical question - do you also use some speech-to-text software, or is it 100% human labor? I believe the utilization of such software (even if it gives crude results) can be of great use to a service like yours
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by nphrk 15y ago
Also, pattern recognition/machine learning.
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by nphrk 15y ago
Is this Germany (judging from your username) ?
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by nphrk 15y ago
You got me there I got to be honest. It took me a while to realize it's April Fools' :).

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