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I still get distractions and end up doing filler non technical work during those first 3 high-speed hours, but I try to go at a pace as if the world is coming to an end and I need to give my work its full and qualified attention that it deserves...just like I use too when taking tests during my university days
Anyone who's studied basic probability in high school should be able to answer that question.

52! > 2^64
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I'm looking for something to improve my programming skills, like a hackathon. The only problem with just showing up for a day is that it costs $79 to register either way.
It's a 10 letter password in [a-z]. 8 letter in [A-Za-z]. It's 47 fair coin flips.
That's the same as the probability that 2N flips of a fair coin result in exactly heads: (2N choose N)(.5^N)(.5^N).

Check out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binomial_distribution
The exact answer is (2n choose n) * (1/2)^(2n). This is approximately sqrt(1/Pi n) as n grows large, with error O(n^(-3/2))
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His complaint that more engineers won't go to work for larger tech companies instead of either working for smaller startups or starting their own company is rather hypocritical. A cursory read of his wikipedia page shows that he has never joined a large tech company.
Choosing a language for a class has different constraints than choosing one for research or production systems. I imagine performance is less important while ease of learning the language is probably worth much more (probably means not using Haskell for a class :().

I think the ML class at my university--it's in "beta" right now--is using Python following similar logic.
> I was a math/CS TA for several years, and I don't think the problem is with tough freshman classes, low grades or a focus on theory.

Eh. Math illiteracy is a problem, but I came into college having taken calc/physics/quantum mechanics, had nearly perfect math SAT's/SAT II's, etc, and I still hated engineering school.

I think engineering is just plain taught the wrong way. I'd say 80% of my classes were literally just the professor deriving some formula in some tortured fashion, doing a token problem, then going onto the next formula. This might be an adequate pedagogical style for a PhD candidate, but at the undergraduate level this just rewards the kids who have the longest attention span.

As a practicing engineer, you need to understand some of the origins of the formulas, sure, but more than that you need to see how the formulas work in practice, how they interact with each other, how they fit into the big picture. Professors give barely token attention to any of that. In fact it even goes beyond the theory/practice distinction. Playing with concepts and seeing how they interact, rather than laboriously grinding out every mathematical detail, is a great way to teach theory too!

The basic components of good communication are universal: you tell your audience what you're going to tell them, you tell them, and then you tell them what you told them. Engineering professors can be ridiculously inept at doing this, and it's no surprise people tune out and leave the programs.
This article doesn't really describe what the title implies. It states issues and concerns for several languages, names several that have large ML libraries written for them already, and even gives his own approach for how to implement new ML algorithms, but it doesn't actually give real options for "Programming Languages for Machine Learning".

I've found that Matlab/Octave is a decent substitute for a "high-level language" to sketch out new approaches with. They're significantly fast, as well as significantly suited to matrix algebra that they can give decent results, even though they have some less-than-beautiful code. Matlab appears to be the language of choice for AI at the University of Toronto.

Personally, I think the best option would be to roll with a functional language (or at least, a language with functions as first-class objects), since a lot of ML algorithms can be reduced to recursion on several matrices, often using very similar functions. For example, ANNs frequently have very similar structures and training strategies, but simply use different learning functions.

Everything can be done in C/C++ though, and while it'd be harder, ML is an area where the gain in speed and efficiency is so significant that extra development time pays boatloads in terms of ROI. Even basic ML examples often involve dealing with 300x236 dimensional data, so you can imagine how much that data would scale up significantly in production environments.
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Not exactly. The person would have to be a constituent, so he would live no further than any other people in the district.

You could make a statement about wealth and lobbying, but to be honest, those are considered in a different category anyway.

It's actually rather accurate. If someone takes the time to write a handwritten letter and mail it, it means a lot more than just clicking a DemandProgress button that has all of your personal information pre-populated. The Internet lowers the cost (effort) of communication, but on the other hand, the non-material cost is a way of showing that the issue is important to you.
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heh. I really thought it was 100 (and so does the site because it said I was correct).

maybe something like, "How many birthdays has a fourteen year old has?"

Or: how many inches of sandwich do you get if you get a half-foot long?
It should be noted Solitaire is not secure for long messages.

http://www.ciphergoth.org/crypto/solitaire/
Yeah. You just summed up in 2 sentences what I couldn't figure out from the entire readme!
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Just kidding. You could always do a drawing. Ask for a donated ipad. everyone who answers 100 or more catchpas correctly are eligible to be in the raffle.
You can. Append:

&tbs=li:1

Ugly, but it works.
Actually it is enough. If the timing is wrong people won't want it. If your marketing sucks, people won't want it ... etc
The China gov is working with banks and its social services orgs to integrate all accounts on a "smart card" that is an NFC connected to your phone SIM. This works as both a stored value card for things like subway entrance as well as purchases made for health services by deducting from your health care account, etc.. The roll out is happening now. I'm not sure when all 260 million cards are scheduled to be out, but a 15 million card rollout is happening in the next few months.

I am working with one of the companies supplying the cards. They and their banking partners are highly interested in value added services (better payment systems, etc) to latch on to this train thats about to leave the station. Feel free to contact me if you have any ideas ;)
It would have to be a very irritating satellite indeed to justify the expenditure of hundreds of millions and loss of secrecy to those programs involved in shooting down a random satellite.
Unfortunately, the maintainer didn't like it as much as you.
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So eventually you don't have to carry a wallet.
Not even that, since most astronauts don't really travel to space frequently. It would have to be "involves somewhat longish trips" to be a proper understatement.

Since the ad is for astronaut candidates, the frequent travel is presumably of the boring, Earth-bound type.
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Remove million cards from my wallet. From bank to subway to airlines. Hell, this may remove the whole damn wallet.
I believe that it's in this combination guide:

http://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Installing-A-Guitar-String/718/1

It looks like "Use two lamps on the object, one on each side." is the recommended lighting scheme. A light tent would certainly be an asset.
It's actually pretty easy to do. I've seen several Windows, several BSDs and linuxes as well as some open-solaris derivative on x86 Macs.

The PowerPC macs are a bit less well supported just because there are fewer distros for PowerPC, but on the other hand, since apple's pretty much abandoned them, going with linux or a BSD has its own advantages
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Better: http://golang.org/doc/effective_go.html#concurrency
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I've used faxes reasonably effectively. With my former representative in Congress, I always received a written response in a timely fashion. (Swing district, and they were taken out in the last "swing".) Faxes (well, letters sent as faxes) have some of the impact of a physical letter, but can be delivered on short notice and escape the scenario the parent describes -- if that is indeed what is happening.

I've put some considerable time and thought into a few letters that I've in turn faxed.

If you have a Windows machine with a modem, and a landline, you already have a fax. I presume *NIX boxes have or can acquire software that will do the same job.
Is the Color Nook comparable? How about the Galaxy Tab 7?

The i.MX5 and OMAP4 were both announced in early 2010. Here's someone showing a tablet reference design with the chip:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUk296efZE8

As for running Linux, I've had a usuable mx51 reference board running Ubuntu on my desk for over a year now. It's driving a 21" HDMI monitor.
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So I have many ideas and have had many ideas throughout the past week. I thought one way to finally stick to one would be to ask HN and get input on why it sucks in order to understand how to better it.

I have wasted a lot of time reading books that were on top reader lists for business, programming, design, etc. Only to find the same information in another highly rated book rewritten or condensed.

I want people to be able to minimize the amount of books they need to read and to maximize the amount of knowledge they obtain by suggesting books to a user based on what it is they are trying to learn and then giving them a sequence of other books to read in an order to further their knowledge in said subject.

What does HN think of this and are there any similar sites/competitors?
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this is what will actually make it take off I believe. While a subset of Android devices support it, the marketing push it will receive when Apple bring it to their devices is what will drive adoption. All the news articles and other coverage that come when a new iPhone is announced will talk about how the new iphone is making the wallet obsolete etc, and people will get their first introduction to the technology.

I was disappointed the 4S didn't support it, as it would have been a good feature that only the 4S would have.
Heh, I just found this too and added it to my default omnibox search in Chrome.

You may have to add your own to the list:

hXXp://www.google.com/search?q=%s&le=en&start=0&tbs=li:1
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"Nothing is ever left to chance. There's rarely any opportunity to explore, or approach via another route, and therefore absolutely no means to experiment with different strategies in the way that you routinely have to in multiplayer."

That describes nearly every single-player FPS ever made. And it's exactly why I have always preferred MP to SP. Everything he mentioned is wrong with single-player today has always been wrong -- boring, repetitive, tedious. Duke and Quake weren't any better, MP was way more fun than SP back then too. Multiplayer is like single-player, except the enemies are intelligent, it's different every time, and you can go any way you want (not just down the alley, up the correct ladder, through the air vents, to collect the good gun you need to beat the next guy who will always be waiting in the same spot). I play America's Army 3 now, it's MP only.
I'm sorry, I'm completely lost. So now you are trying to tell me the universe may not have been the beginning, but that it did not come from anything.

You are aware of the scientific issues with the cyclical universe model I take it? There are issues with entropy, fine tuning, the fact that information cannot leave our universe through the event horizon of black holes (singularities), that universes of the size of our own are almost infinitely less probable than much smaller universes, that our universe does not look to be headed for a "big crunch", etc.

You also say, "You are the one that believes things happen without a cause". So now are you trying to tell me that you believe things cannot happen without a cause and that I am the only one asserting that?

If so, then do you not see that an infinite number of prior causes (e.g. your cyclical universe theory) leads to an actual infinity of prior events and that we never get to this point because there are an infinite number of events that must precede it? (This is but one of many absurdities implied by such a presupposition.)

The only escape from your argument is to suppose that there is a first cause which is uncaused, outside of the physical universe whose existence is necessary but which is sufficient to explain the existence of the universe.

If you do not accept that, then your position seems to be that our universe does not have a reason for its existence (a cause) and that it does not need one (you seem to have claimed that, regardless, quite apart from my deduction from your claims). I claim only that things which do not have a beginning need no cause. And I claim that it logically follows that such things are changeless. If not, you have to accept the existence of an actual infinity, something which leads to a multitude of mathematical contradictions (look up Hilbert's Hotel).

You can't argue with a deductive argument by saying that it is wrong but we just haven't figured out any workable alternative yet but that we are working on it. You have to either refute the premises or demonstrate a self contradiction in the argument. Without that, the argument stands.

You are welcome to your opinion that you are suspicious of the premises.
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"Assuming you don't care about the poorly acted, nonsensical storylines, predictable AI, done-to-death use of military scenarios, corridor focused levels, and complete absence of challenge and ambition that infects the campaign modes of most of the current crop of blockbusters, then yeah - it's a great time to be an FPS fan."
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Thanks for this. I wrote my letter and probably wouldn't have done so without the help of this website. This is one of the first times that a bill has come up that I feel so strongly against. If this thing becomes law, we'll all refer to the internet "before" and "after" this moment. I certainly hope it never comes to be.
I am mourning the death of the non-respawn multiplayer shooter.

Counterstrike, as another commenter pointed out, is still the third most popular game on Steam. And yet, every major FPS franchise has moved further and further away from that model.

SOCOM and the Gears of War franchises were probably the two biggest non-respawn online shooters on consoles, and the latest iteration of both has instead put respawn pandemonium front and center instead.

Nothing beats the tension of a shooter where you don't pop back to life 0-5 seconds later. It makes players more likely to work as teams, and it compels players to act with self-preservation instead of running around like damn fools.

I miss those experiences. Hell, I'm playing MW3 because Search & Destroy mode is the closest I can get these days, outside of hardcore PC games like ARMA (which I would probably love if it didn't run like garbage).
These stories hit close to home.

I'm about to graduate from business school in December and have spent a lot of my time at university scavenging for free time between school/work/social obligations to educate myself in things far more marketable/interesting/fulfilling than dataflow diagrams and gantt charts.

As someone that can spend 12 hours a day bettering my own craft on a Macbook in Starbucks, I feel that school has been a monolithic obstacle in what I truly want in life. I just didn't realize that until far too late in my degree.
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if nothing else, most landlords have loans so you're subsidising their loan (so paying at least as much as you would if you had the loan).
It might be easier to take over the satellite from the ground:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Midnight_(HBO)
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Why does this query not do what one would expect.

halo -"halo 2" -"halo 3"

Also, removing "Advanced Search" from the main google.com and from the top of a search results page beats out moving "cached" to the preview page in terms of "stupidest decision Google has ever made".
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All I really want is for google to tell me when it didn't search for what I wrote. I put a word in the search, I expect it in the results - even if the result has a low page rank.

If you want to default considering some words optional, that's fine. But say that above the search results.
I usually find Gruber's tone to be arrogant and unnecessarily facetious. But I think his analogy is great.."This is like being a Rock and roll musician in the late sixties. This is like being a film maker in the seventies..."
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A student live in Singapore, please continue to read and allow me to explain myself the purpose of this submit.

I need help, help from a designer.
I'm developing a iPhone app, and have made several sketches. I'm in love with what I'm doing.
I wish for a designer to help make my sketches alive. Doing sketches is my limit and it pain me to see them staying black and white.
So I'm hoping I could have a chance working with some great designer, I would send you ideas and sketches. You would help me design in photoshop.
But, I could not afford anything to pay at the moment.
I do not have much money yet and I do not have anything valuable that i can part with at the moment.

But I do have a proposal, I would like to pay by Karma.
Yes, by doing me a favor you would be changing me and my family life. So one day, if you ever need help, I would be one of the first few to step forward. This would be a game of trust, and I hope you trust this submit and that I'm asking sincerely. I need your help.
This is not a joke or anything fake. I'm real and I live in Singapore, a small country where I don't have as much chance to meet people I would like to work with. Yet I have these ideas where I could provide solution, beautiful solution to replace the existing one in my country.

So I need help, and I hope you will.
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I just want to find his PR agent/agency. I've seen this story in 8 different outlets and forums over the last little while.
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You should play System Shock 2 some time, or Deus Ex. It does have multiplayer and singleplayer, but the multiplayer just gives you the story to play through as a team.

You could argue, of course, that those two games aren't really pure FPS. Since they do have a story.
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Maybe he works for a company that sells software priced at over $100?

I have no doubt such companies have employees, or contractors, who not only monitor message boards on behalf of the company, but who post comments on them in a deliberate attempt to influence discussions in ways favorable to the company's interests. Whether they are effective is another question. But they are trying.

Younger readers should be aware of this as they are the ones being targetted.

Perhaps it's not that a majority of users are convinced price equates to quality control so much as a majority are aggressively manipulated in terms of what information about software they are exposed to.
All I'm saying is, they're both exceptional (among the class of serious-about-flying hard-science PhDs with extensive publication records and > 10 years mission experience) and they did not get in. Just calibration.