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by samg_ 13y ago
Hey, I agree with a lot of what you are saying here, but it seems unfair to cherry-pick a single method like you are doing here. There's a lot of confusing JavaScript out there, too.
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by samg_ 13y ago
In case this comment dissuades others from checking out Dr. Koller's class, I will add that I found her class challenging and well-constructed. I recommend it.
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by samg_ 14y ago
Google's Closure Compiler
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by samg_ 14y ago
I've taken Andrew Ng's Machine Learning class, Daphne Koller's Probabilistic Graphical Models class, Dan Jurafsky and Christopher Manning's Natural Language Processing class, and currently Geoff Hinton's Neural Networks class. I have spent
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by samg_ 14y ago
A year ago, I would have no idea what this was about. I'm very thankful that I live in a world where I can take high quality classes from Coursera that have given me the foundation to at least understand the abstract. :)
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by samg_ 14y ago
If I have learned anything from ml-class, pgm-class, nlp-class, and now neural-nets, is that becoming a data scientist is one of the hardest things I'll ever eventually succeed in doing.
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by samg_ 14y ago
Yeah, I did a few trial runs on the cluster gpu instances maybe 4 months ago. I found that, while the gpus themselves were really quite fast, moving data in and out of gpu was not. Maybe amazon will focus on increasing bandwidth to the gpu
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by samg_ 14y ago
"The numbers are, of course, averages. So parents may spend much more time, say, caring for children, while people without children will spend no time at all." Stuffed at the bottom, of course. Averages lie!
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by samg_ 15y ago
I don't think that would be a classifier, or at least not reasonably. You could have "In Soviet Russie X Y you" for each X,Y as your classes, but that would be unreasonable. Yakov Smirnoff is a structural joke. You would need to parse sente
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by samg_ 15y ago
It's in a very early stage (not production ready), but some colleagues and I have been working on a automated testing DSL built on top of RSpec that lets you generate API documentation from tests which validate the documentation is correct.
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by samg_ 15y ago
Just upgrading to rspec 2.8 made my test suite run 10x faster. You might have David to thank for a lot of that speed up. :)
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by samg_ 15y ago
For me, one of the biggest obstacles to understanding lots of Haskell code is opaque infix operators.
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by samg_ 15y ago
It would require an Internet connection, but GPS + some weather API would do.
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by samg_ 15y ago
I am just learning some of these machine learning tools and am rapt, so forgive me for asking, but would you be able to explain a little about what you are doing? How are you generating features? Stanford parser? Are you using logistic regr
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by samg_ 15y ago
I would happily use G+ as my blog for programming related things, but I would need to be able to make posts public and not spam my non-technical circles. Is that possible?
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by samg_ 15y ago
There's a lot of room to grow here. Mostly the choices in channels are limited. I think that if people could write and share channels through some API, a ton of use cases could pop up. This reminds me of Yahoo Pipes, but with webhooks inste
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by samg_ 15y ago
It's so important to evaluate whether you need range queries before picking a tech like Riak. They are coming, though. That's what I hear, at least.
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by samg_ 15y ago
You are right about query languages being a good for for monad comprehensions. See Torston Grust's dissertation[1], specifically "Combinators from Monad Comprehensions." 1. http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.88.9...
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by samg_ 15y ago
Last week I spent 17.5 hours in MacVim, 7 hours in a shell, and 2 hours on Github. That's out of 42 total recorded hours. On a related note, I love RescueTime.
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by samg_ 15y ago
There is a great post on the macports mailing list that identifies and explains some issues installed software might have after upgrading: http://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macports-dev/2011-July... I got bit by the Libc part, and I b
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by samg_ 15y ago
1. Ad hominem 2. Begging the question 3. Unsubstantiated generalization 4. Mis-quote 5. Misunderstanding the original comment I don't necessarily agree with Myhrvold, but I don't think this guy is giving him enough credit. The problem Myhrv
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by samg_ 15y ago
I've been playing with some clustering stuff in my free time for the past few months. What I've found is that the problem seems to get a lot more reasonable if you know how many clusters there are. K-Means requires this information, but afa
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by samg_ 16y ago
I didn't meant to say that Donut was itself a mapping from data to representation, just that there is some kind of mapping somewhere. I absolutely agree that Donut should not be concerned with its representation(s). In Flex, this is managed
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by samg_ 16y ago
Contrived examples like this have a problem, where the code example is too complex compared to the very simple task, in this case keeping a HTML list populated with items from a JS object. I have used binding mechanisms in the Flex framewor
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by samg_ 16y ago
I find that it can be valuable in a GUI toolkit. If I want to change a small part of a UI component, I can subclass it, change what I want, keep the rest, and classes that used the old component can use the new one too, because of subtype p
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by samg_ 16y ago
The fact that the subjunctive mood really only matters for one verb to me is an equally compelling argument that a) it's not a big deal that people forget and b) people should just remember it.
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by samg_ 16y ago
Navigation buttons: Back, Forward, Up, Top, etc.
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by samg_ 16y ago
Can you be more specific about the cluster membership testing? Sure it is based on some "distance" calculation, but how do you avoid long chain problems inherent to clustering algorithms? And to reiterate, do you need to know the number of
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by samg_ 16y ago
This guy needs to watch Preston Sturges's "Sullivan's Travels."
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by samg_ 16y ago
What algorithm is used to get the centroid clusters? Do you need to know the number of clusters in advance? I am familiar with max-link/min-link/avg-link hierarchical algorithms, but not centroid related ones.

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