pixcavator

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by pixcavator 15y ago
>"economists asserting the difference between modeling human behavior vs. the behavior of physical objects" Is it really that different? Try to attach an object to several springs and see if it behaves "rationally".
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by pixcavator 15y ago
And Amazon.
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by pixcavator 15y ago
>>Half a mil to learn about Poetry Writing. Sorry, but that's just silly. Except it's payed for by your taxes. Who is silly here?
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by pixcavator 15y ago
>>This is largely a topological problem: If you're surrounded by mountains... Topological or topographical? It's kinda both in your example.
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by pixcavator 15y ago
They can't give course credit or award degrees. There was a relevant quote posted recently by "tokenadult": “the diligence of public teachers is more or less corrupted by the circumstances which render them more or less independent of their
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by pixcavator 15y ago
But it's OK for doctors, lawyers and their clients to do that?
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by pixcavator 15y ago
I find this kind of reports very encouraging. I think the future of education is professors becoming free agents in a free market. Really, why can a lawyer set up his own firm or a doctor start his own practice and deal with life and death
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by pixcavator 15y ago
>>My cofounder, Ryan, has spent the past couple of years helping developers at Columbia learn how to apply their theoretical computer science skills to actually programming. He’s taught hundreds of Columbia students the basics (and
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by pixcavator 15y ago
>>if it was funded by someone else (e.g. the public) then my view is that everyone who contributed to funding that research should have the ability to access and use the results. If you show those results to "the public", they'll li
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Improve your PageRank with outbound links, yes, OUT-bound(inperc.com)
3 points by pixcavator 15y ago|1 comments
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by pixcavator 15y ago
Non profit != no charge
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by pixcavator 15y ago
Why would it be more impressive? Because paying customers vote with their money. Money is a better validation than "you're great!".
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by pixcavator 15y ago
I'd be much more impressed it these (or at least a part of them) were paying customers.
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by pixcavator 15y ago
I'd take a good book over this any day.
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by pixcavator 15y ago
>>a list of people's heights isn't going to follow the distribution. Try centimeters.
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by pixcavator 15y ago
Here's a relevant image: http://inperc.com/wiki/index.php?title=A_common_view_of_digi... .
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by pixcavator 15y ago
It's actualy the latter, followed by the former -- on paper.
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by pixcavator 15y ago
Here’s a “Russian” problem: find the largest projection on the plane of a box with sides a, b, c.
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by pixcavator 15y ago
"European"? Are you ashamed of your nationality?
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by pixcavator 15y ago
Anything that requires extra work from students is no-go.
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by pixcavator 15y ago
Two pieces are rotated, that doesn't make the whole thing symmetric.
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by pixcavator 15y ago
I understand that they are "equivalent" in a certain sense, but "symmetric"?
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by pixcavator 15y ago
Did it ever occur to you that maybe you were able to handle PCA, CG, portfolio theory, etc because "Hefferon was my textbook for 2 full semesters"?
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by pixcavator 15y ago
Jumping through the hoops for a chance of $20,000 doesn’t sound enticing. Certainly, the amount won’t be enough incentive to spend several years to write a new book. They might get some really old books or more recent ones that have gone no
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by pixcavator 15y ago
What a strange use of the word "symmetric": "Two grid paths are symmetric if they share the same start and end point and one can be derived from the other by swapping the order of the constituent vectors."
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by pixcavator 15y ago
>>It's why I think companies like Google (disclaimer: I work for Google) should stay out the content business. Isn't AdSense content business?
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by pixcavator 15y ago
BTW, is "officially" the new "literally"?
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by pixcavator 15y ago
>>Randomization means that the last percent is just not worth chasing... True, but only in the case of complete randomization. In the case of randomization kicking in only when the election is close, one side will be chasing the l
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What if PageRank didn’t exist?(inperc.com)
3 points by pixcavator 15y ago|3 comments
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by pixcavator 15y ago
Thanks for the explanation! My only concern now is the validity of the meaning of the principal eigenvalue: "λ determines how much influence people share with each other through their connections. If λ is small then the CEO has a lot of inf

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