terra_t

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by terra_t 16y ago
Wow, this is the first site I've seen to use frames in about 10 years!
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by terra_t 16y ago
Its generally true, but I've developed systems that go sideways and fork into multiple versions, so the data structures get more complicated.
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by terra_t 16y ago
I said it in fewer words and didn't add any adsense junk.
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by terra_t 16y ago
I used to have this problem. Then I realized that if I want to really copy a file, I type $cp file_from file_to and that $ln -s link_from link_to has a very similar effect to the cp command above. I haven't messed this up ever since.
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The Future of High-Speed Rail in California(youtube.com)
2 points by terra_t 16y ago|1 comments
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Wikipedia Powered Classifier Uses Ontology to Wipe Floor With Bag-of-Words(arxiv.org)
1 points by terra_t 16y ago|0 comments
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by terra_t 16y ago
Unless you're targeting a specialized market where you're really in demand, I'd have nothing to do with "web freelancing". A few years ago I worked at a job shop that did web sites for small businesses, and I was talking with my accountan
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by terra_t 16y ago
I've got a rule that "If it's not impossible, it's not worth doing." If most people think that what you're doing is impossible, you've got less competition.
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by terra_t 16y ago
If it makes $30k of revenue a year and you don't think that revenue stream is about to stop, this is a good investment. Do it.
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by terra_t 16y ago
Domain age counts for something, as does the rich mat of links that a long-existing site has. On the other hand, the price looks high for a site that gets that much traffic. I can pretty consistently create SEO-oriented sites that get th
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by terra_t 16y ago
I've often been unhappy with off-the-shelf monitoring systems, because every major site I've worked on has had some unique kind of problem. For instance, there was one site where user abuse was the real problem... Bad enough that I built
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by terra_t 16y ago
This definitely sweetens the deal. AMZN's monitoring facilities have been expensive and not really all that good.
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by terra_t 16y ago
Halos around your text are quite important if you're trying to draw titles on television, particularly the old NTSC television. You see them all the time in video games too.
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by terra_t 16y ago
Yes, it is good, but not good enough for many applications. You're also left with the issue that one kind of "apple" is more common than the other kind of "apple" so the baseline accuracy of something that always assumes it's one kind of
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by terra_t 16y ago
Sure, but the fact is that nobody actually needs a "word-sense disambiguator", they need a search system with better accuracy, or a classifier with better accuracy or an information extraction system that turns text into facts. Many area
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by terra_t 16y ago
92% accuracy, unfortunately, isn't good enough. Bag-of-words models perform pretty well at classification and search, and the main thing you need to improve search is to boost scores when words are close together. You might think you cou
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by terra_t 16y ago
Heck, I'd like to see Facebook credits be more flexible than they are now. In particular, I'd like to be able to use FB credits to pay people for work... I've got a suspicion that this would undercut mechanical Turk. I guess the main re
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by terra_t 16y ago
I dunno. I took second semester Chemistry when I was a senior in college... I never showed up at class except to take the weekly quiz. The professor was not at all offended that I got the highest score in the class.
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by terra_t 16y ago
I've long believed that standardized tests are a better measure of what people know than grades.
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by terra_t 16y ago
I think we're going to see a lot of papers like this. In a quantum gravity universe, we know there's no singularity at the big bang. Therefore, scientists are going to be looking through ways that we can see through to the other side of
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by terra_t 16y ago
I wonder if Web 3.0 will miss Silicon Valley. I've found that the less technical and "webby" people are, the more they understand Web 3.0 A lot of that is that, in Web 3.0, perhaps 70% of what's necessary for Web 2.0 is superfluous... P
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by terra_t 16y ago
19 upvotes but no comments?
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by terra_t 16y ago
image search that works. Look for something on Google image search and typically the same image will show up in 25% of the first page of results and precision can be anywhere between 10-75%. Image search is still so bad today that people do
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by terra_t 16y ago
http://ookaboo.com/ did web and API simultaneously -- mobile will happen when revenue or investment comes in and I can hire a team to do it. The API has been a tough sell, however, because it's doing something entirely new. It's also g
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by terra_t 16y ago
Oh yeah, kids who get "You have to be a doctor" parenting have a 50-50 or so chance of succeeding when at least one "doctor" is a parent. Some have brilliant careers, and others screw up totally and end up destitute.
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by terra_t 16y ago
Damn... I had a boss that wrote significant parts of a product and we could always tell that he wrote part of it because he'd repeat a 30-line block of code 7 times, rather than writing a subroutine. There are cases where we all violate t
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by terra_t 16y ago
I've got a friend who's the youngest deacon in the Catholic Church in the diocese that includes Syracuse. He practices what he preaches, so he's had 11 children. He tells me that each child has an individual personality once they hit the
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by terra_t 16y ago
How about a service where you can pay people to do it for you, maybe, say, 10 cents an image?
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by terra_t 16y ago
I've seen signup success rates between 30-97% with conventional login systems. There are two things that appeal to me about Facebook: (i) people take their Facebook identities seriously, so they're less likely to be griefers, and (ii) th
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by terra_t 16y ago
The person who succeeds best in our culture is the one with Narcissistic Personality Disorder. NPD people are great at telling others what they want to hear, and, unfortunately, that gets you further than any other skill. If there's a r

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