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by rohwer 10y ago
Dybvig's compiler course was exemplary. Say what you may about Scheme, you learned so much more in those classes. His Scheme Programming Language book is highly recommended. Especially check out his extended examples chapter: http:&#
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by rohwer 11y ago
Great link. Just ran Ilya's first query--median time to first render--against September Pages: "median": "2389", "seventy_fifth": "3543", "ninetieth": "5191" How did the Inter
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by rohwer 11y ago
Translate IDF to "how uncommon is this word in the corpus?" TF-IDF is acronym soup, but mathematically simple: IDF is a scalar applied to a term's frequency. And in the comparison, the numerator is the document overlap score
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by rohwer 13y ago
Yes, we have this in memory. And at the highest level, extremely important. The more important lesson is to analyze the opening position for the plans and thematic patterns at crucial junctures. Then, with critical positions memorized, you
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by rohwer 14y ago
They've drawn each game up till this win by Gelfand. Beautiful mate at the end: Anand, the world champion, playing black, marched a pawn across the board, but Gelfand will checkmate in two moves regardless. The knight checks on G6, the Kin
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by rohwer 14y ago
Agree completely. I've attended both types. Even though, oddly, some state school campuses are being saved by online programs. The free online education programs remind me of the initial chess online experience. Yes, it's different, but o
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by rohwer 15y ago
I'd say your circle of friends and programming languages researchers are the best part of universities. The fun part of exploring new ideas happens far more often at a university then at say, Accenture. But the paper chase is utter horror.
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by rohwer 15y ago
On the WTF Podcast by Marc Maron, he explains how his terrible buying habits with an Amex black card, including a new Mercedes, a sojourn at the Ritz, and a brass instrument, led to his inability to get a credit card for many years. He basi
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by rohwer 15y ago
This programmer design fallacy got started by the Mormon church (not kidding): http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=169163 Gregg "Skip" Bailey, Manager of Human Factors, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Iterative methodol
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by rohwer 15y ago
As an addendum, the final round of the current world championship candidates matches are starting. See http://kazan2011.fide.com/ or This Week In Chess http://www.chess.co.uk/twic/
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by rohwer 15y ago
At the moment, it's being put to the test: British hedge fund invests 25 million pounds for IU professor’s Twitter research http://www.idsnews.com/news/story.aspx?id=80469