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One could be pedantic and say that the article correctly explains why he deserves to be "classified" as the best Scrabble player on Earth.
The very last line says that he knows every legal Scrabble word. The article also claims that he has a "photographic" memory. That's certainly an important skill to have, but can't be the entire reason. Even the strongest Scrabble AI has a worse rating than Richards.
The other aspect that the article mentions is a focus on the current game. Richards is not even interested in games that he has completed.
So, the article does not definitively conclude, but it does offer two significant factors that are significant to the question it proposed.
It's interesting that the interface is made in a way so as to make it difficult to tell from a screenshot who the receiver and sender is.

I don't have much faith in screenshot detection; it seems something like an arms race between screen shot app makers and the developers of this product, and it doesn't prevent a photo of the device's screen in any case, so it's pretty much moot except for possibly preventing screenshot behaviour from malware.
I have tried this and never got a response as to why. I have a feeling that their abuse team doesn’t even know what their filters are trigged on.
I like this transparency. I still have doubts about whether this project will succeed but at least they are keeping their investors informed.

While it smells of vapourware these kinds of actions will help to dull those fears. It was no doubt done exactly for this reason.
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The site is not helpful, and gets in the way of teaching. I am the target demographic, and went straight to the exercises. So much clicks on every step, the buttons to click on are grey and mouse focus turns them even more dull. Provide some visual clues on what buttons to click next, going forward and going backwards button both are the same color. Exercises themselves are more trivia then help in teaching what the piece does or where you went wrong. And "moving past the basics" exercises are http://i.imgur.com/c54R08y.png I just left on the first exercise itself. One of the hints: Attack two pieces at once. Yeah, right. Nothing like codeacademy at all.
No disagreement on the swipe - we're playing around with a several other UX mechanisms that might be better suited for higher time/consideration per person, would love to get your feedback on it when new UX's release.

In professional networking, both discovering mutually benefitual relationships and ice breaking are big problems. We're currently largely focused on the former, but hope to tackle the latter as well.
An alternate title: People with incentives to promote lean startup methodology score massive consulting contract with GE.
"We recognize that writers reasonably want to be left out of a dispute between large companies. Some have suggested that we "just talk." We tried that. Hachette spent three months stonewalling and only grudgingly began to even acknowledge our concerns when we took action to reduce sales of their titles in our store. Since then Amazon has made three separate offers to Hachette to take authors out of the middle. "

And the solutions they then present are very admirable. However, it was still amazon that took the unilateral action to punish authors, and it was likely the backlash from that that motivated those three noble solutions. It's a shame amazon had to poison the well with that move, because everything else points to Hachette being dumb and making bad decsions that hurt authors.

"Hachette spent three months stonewalling and only grudgingly began to even acknowledge our concerns when we took action to reduce sales of their titles in our store."

Hachette stonewalled. Amazon took action. Sales of Hachettes' titles. Out store.

Clearly, the authors did not factor into these moves.

"the lower price is good for all parties involved: the customer is paying 33% less and the author is getting a royalty check 16% larger and being read by an audience that's 74% larger. The pie is simply bigger."

That's great, but it's not a justification to hurt authors. It may be more revenue and customers for amazon in the long run, but these are authors who have put their souls into their art and worked for years. Jeopardizing their release window and sales for a percentage is evil and out of touch.
once you purchase a database, you get all of the credentials to connect to it externally or automatically once you tie an app
Combined with being a bike friendly city, (googling "best bike cities usa" brought up the city in the top 10 of every list). It seems like Minneapolis is doing commuting right. I wonder if there are any studies around the "quality" of the different commutes a city can have? Meaning does it matter that people can Drive, Bus or Bike to work in some very good conditions… or it doesn't matter; because most people think any commute sucks?

Now about those winters...
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Anybody else into collecting/digitizing large volumes of vinyl from all sorts of strange countries? If so let's talk, my Soulseek username is "freitas62".

https://gist.github.com/anonymous/12240984d874d428ef51
says a founder...
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This is getting good. Finally. I love Steve and menu other top execs, but even prison fits rasonably here.
And all the pretty language in the world doesn't remove the very real dangers to the mother's life during pregnancy which we have only very recently had a decent handle on.
As opposed to, say, my father?
I'd like to see some practical software written in Haskell (probably database based like you suggest). It sounds great theoretically, but I haven never come across Haskell in the wild.
After reading this, I am more convinced than ever that macroeconomics has no bloody idea what the hell is going on. We have a bunch of fancy models and then argue over whose model is the least broken.
It looks like cool technology but I missed how it combats counterfeiting of drugs. Was there something in there about how it's tied to the structure of the drug you're taking?
The how-to-draw-an-owl example is not accurate at all.

If you would not have gone "to the exercises ignoring all the other stuff", you would have gotten a clear 6 minute lecture where Andrew Ng explains, in detail, the position in the first exercise.

In the video, he introduces three tactics, the fork, the pin and the skewer, which are methods to attack two pieces at once.

If your comment was just plain sarcasm, then I apologize, I didn't get it.
I tried out SimplyBuilt early on and found it very easy and flexible. Love what you guys have done here!
Ah you guys are the bomb! I might have to fork some of your templates for our year 2005 looking emails..
Okay, this is a bit of a side issue, but a few details about the NumPy Quicksort are bothering me.

First, we've known since 1997 how to improve Quicksort's worst case number of comparisons to O(n log n) for an n-item list. (Track the recursion depth and switch to Heap Sort on the current sublist if the depth exceeds 2 log_2(n); this is usually called "Introsort".) This optimization is pretty well known. For a front-line library like NumPy to include a quadratic-worst-case sorting algorithm in 2014 is ridiculous.

Second (and rather less important), we can't write Quicksort with constant extra space usage, since, when sorting a small sublist, we need to remember the pivots in the larger sublists we are in the middle of sorting. So Quicksort's extra space usage is going to be at best O(log n) subscripts/pointers for an n-item list. However, the docs say 0 work space required. This would be correct if the sort were written in "C" and NumPy only counts Python objects in its space usage, but I can't find anywhere this is stated.

Third (and perhaps very important), I don't see anything in the docs about locality of reference or any other is-this-algorithm-friendly-to-modern-processor-architectures issues. There are good reasons Quicksort is largely being abandoned for standard-library sort implementations.
Why not emacs + evil-mode full time over vim + tmux?
Given that he has a better Scrabble rating than a computer algorithm, there has to be an element of poker at this level - otherwise if it were pure probability and memorization of the words (which a computer would have done perfectly, with no room for error), then a human could not outrank a computer.

I'm wondering (for the professional scrabble players out there) - do you play words differently depending on your competitor? That is, do you leave a vulnerability with some players, that you wouldn't with others? Or do you play the same game every time.

I was surprised that element of Nigel Richard's Scrabble game wasn't discussed.
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> Who thinks "I want a 3 column email template"?

People who send out monthly e-mail newsletters and the like. Sadly, that's a use-case that isn't really included.

Other than that - very nice approach.
What about html parsing/posting, api creation/consumption, and screen scraping? It's what I've used Haskell for the most and would be happy to make some introductory tutorials.
I thought most Energy were from the LCD backlight, so how much energy does it save as a whole?
It could have been 80% less energy of the front end when the Back end contribute more then 90% of the total energy usage in the Display panel.
You can still keep the email if you cancel (it's free!)

Maybe send him this easy guide on how to save the $20 / month

http://www.businessinsider.com/how-to-cancel-aol?op=1
Counterfeiters presumably won't have access to the specialized equipment required to print the label.
You make a "Drop" with a message, a title, and a future timestamp. Before the reveal time, anyone can see the title. Once the time you specified is reached, the message will be revealed to everyone.

Do I understand it correctly?
It could just be that the Scrabble AI is not sufficiently advanced to explore the entirety of the decision tree. For all board states X, there are many deep trees that increase in complexity at boards X+1, X+2, etc (though it's arguable that it decreases in complexity in the late game, or can a game can be played "closed" to reduce the chances of bingos).

It may not be purely metagaming that causes the difference between AI and humans; the algorithm probably plays a far-from-perfect game.
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I can't exactly feel what you feel but I share my story anyway as I think it's related albeit less cruel.

I was offered a job in Singapore by a start-up. I filled all the legal documents required including the employment pass application that I sent them back. Weeks later I got a standard email from HR saying they offered the job to another candidate. I was shocked they eventually withdrew their offer.

The problem was I talked about my friends, family, that I'm moving to Singapore (from Europe). My girlfriend who is living in Singapore was happy, along with me, till the point I told her the offer has been withdrawn.

It is interesting to mention that the CTO of the company is the one who had approached me first whether I'm interested in exploring positions with them. However when it comes to withdraw the offer he never turned up.

I'm happy I didn't make business with them. I found a much better company to work with and moving to Singapore next week.

I wish the best to you, it's for sure you'll overcome this with favorable outcome.
That looks pretty good, thanks for the share.
> The only reason it is not occuring more often is because most people are honest, that's all.

Well that, and the fact that it's fraud, which is a crime, and if you get caught then you will get in trouble.

> I demonstrated to you that accepting bitcoins is safer than accepting CCs in most scenarios [...] when the merchant waits for enough confirmations

Even waiting for 1 confirmation can still take 10 minutes, which is a long time to wait for a lot of transactions, especially in-person transactions. That alone makes it extremely difficult to use Bitcoin for "real-world" transactions as opposed to online transactions.
How about a boxcutter and access to discarded empty bottles that used to contain the real medicine?
This is fantastic and a resource I wish I had growing up. Very beautiful design too.
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Just like counterfeiters today don't have access to credit card hologram stickers oh wait.
You seem to think that the "economy" in its (mostly or completely) unregulated form is some kind of ideal. Why? Such an economy is dependent on rational actors and perfect information, neither of which are present in human society.

It seems more reasonable that each human in a group will try to maximize their own economic outcomes as well as to assist the other humans that they personally care about in maximizing their economic outcomes. In the modern world, it's often expected that humans are able to extrapolate that the people that they don't know are similarly worthwhile human beings. So while it's generally considered acceptable to try to maximize things for themselves, doing so while knowingly making other humans worse off is seen as morally detestable.

It's important to remember that humans generally care much less about abstract ideals than they do about themselves, the people they care about, and their social standing. The "economy" as it exists in reality does in fact exist for the benefit of one class of persons: those persons who are willing to tolerate it and have the power to change it. When this real-life economy is no longer tolerated, it is changed, in ways like antitrust legislation, class action lawsuits against companies that participate in wage collusion schemes, and the French Revolution.
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It doesnt make sense to me either. How would any one know this label should be there? Unless it was required to be on all drugs maybe.. But then thered still be other issues
It is very annoying to see more and more pages that say use chrome to look at this page.

However this page seams to work fine in Firefox anyway.
And it looked very cool :)
That obviously rate limits the amount of counterfeiting they can do.
I remember seeing this somewhere at Startup School NY. Very very impressive. I'm not a regular chess player myself but I have visited Chesscadamy a few times out of interest since then.
Yes, I read up on it. That's quite insane that there is no automatic way of having the exact versions required when installing something with bower.

Of course there will be lots of pain, it just takes one package to slightly violate SemVer and you'll have to hunt down the culprit.

What surprises me is that in the article they seem to think that switching to another versioning scheme will help with this problem. Especially as better tools would mitigate most of this problem.
ah okay, but what's the pricing for that? https://www.fortheon.com/pricing looks like it's just for servers
At least in terms of starting salary and job prospects, Hack Reactor grads are significantly ahead of typical 4 year CS grads, even those from great schools. That said I think there's a huge difference in variance in CS degree holders.

Somehow, a lot of people graduate with CS degrees from respected programs without actually being able to solve typical software engineering problems. I don't know if this is due to cramming and forgetting, leaning on stronger classmates or something else. Nobody gets through Hack Reactor without doing a lot of problem solving and a lot of jumping into unfamiliar code bases and frameworks. Don't forget that due it its extremely intense schedule, Hack Reactor is actually 900+ hours of instruction.

Some CS undergrads go far beyond their course assignments. Much like Hack Reactor students, they regularly stay up until late into the night learning new things, working on open source and building projects. After four years of that kind of student life, these students have truly impressive technical skills.
Reminds me of yesterday's chrome vs firefox debate ;)
Lisp Machines had hardware support for GC. That does not mean the GC was a hardware function.

RISC machines were faster than the Lisp processors, but not at the time when both were actively developed and mostly for the smaller benchmarks. At the time RISC processors were appearing, several Lisp chips based on RISC were developed (SPUR, Symbolics, Xerox, ...). They never reached the market, mostly since the AI Winter already set in. Lisp Machine software was then ported as virtual machines to SUN SPARC (Xerox) and DEC Alpha (Symbolics).
Great stuff. Beautiful feeling to the site, though the 'Train' section could do with an explanation as to what you're meant to do on the exercises ('tactics'). I'm tempted to suggest integrating this with en.lichess.org, a similarly awesome chess-resource.
I clicked on one of the ones which said "Time's up!" and it asked me for a password. So perhaps they are also password protected.

Like you would give the password to someone who you wanted to read it?

The most glaring flaw is that this service isn't necessarily going to exist in a month, year, decade or century.
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The author, Suzanne Sadedin, doesn't fit the typical profile of a Buzzfeed writer: http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~suzannes/

Also, if your assertion is that this article (which I admit I found fascinating) causes misunderstandings about evolution then your counter statement - "in reality, it was the embryo that needed to adapt itself to its environment" - is guilty of even greater oversimplification.
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Yeah.

Macroeconomics is almost entirely faith-based and people generally just believe the version that meshes with their overall political view.

It is pretty easy to see this just watching the back and forth that occurs after someone (whether a random internet forum poster, or a Nobel Prize winner in economics) makes some claim about how policy should be modified (or not) to meet an economic goal. Approximately 50% of people (again, both including random internet people AND those who are highly educated in the field) will nod and the other 50% will be convinced the person who made the claim has no idea how economics works.

While this seems ludicrous when you compare it to "hard" sciences like physics or such I'm not sure it is a repairable situation, because outcomes of different macroeconomic models and policies rely heavily on the perception of reality of people, which is frighteningly close to a random number generator at scale.
I believe those could be very valuable. It's practical and doesn't have to be too complex and touches a number interesting topics.
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Tinsey nitpick: It's Spammers. There is no apostrophe before the plural 's'. The graphic has it correct.

Sorry, that bothers me :-)

The rest of the article was fascinating.
The video is really cool!
I teach a lot of Haskell [1] and observe a lot of people teaching Haskell. Write Yourself a Scheme is not representative of how the Haskell community teaches Haskell.

I can't even remember the last time it was cold-suggested to somebody.

The last person I knew to do so, did so knowing they were going about it the "hard way". They also did it with the intent of actively upgrading/updating the code WYASI48H as they went into a more modern style. They gave a talk on it after.

It's a good way to firm up your knowledge if it's the sort of project that interests you, but needs love and isn't a good introduction for most.

[1]: https://github.com/bitemyapp/learnhaskell
You keep propagating the myth that it's all Amazon's doing.

"Amazon took unilateral action to punish authors" ?

The contract between Amazon and Hachette expired.

They started negotiating a new contract. They can't agree to terms hence Amazon limiting Hachette's stok because, well, they no longer have a contract to sell Hachette's books on Amazon.

There was nothing "unilateral" about it. Amazon doesn't agree to Hachette's term. Hachette doesn't agree to Amazon's terms.

Amazon didn't "punish" authors. It didn't even "punish" Hachette. 2 giant companies failed to agree on distribution terms.

It's regrettable that authors are collateral damage here but how do you put the blame fully on Amazon and none of it on Hachette?

Especially given that Amazon is the party that proposed a way to compensate the authors during negotiations. 3 proposals, actually, all of which Hachette rejected. Because Hachette cares about their authors so much.
It couldn't create a tree in all instances because it allows full regexes in the routes. It could create a hybrid (split into trees for anything with a known static prefix), or go the full hog to a finite automata, though. But at least the latter is suddenly a big complexity increase.
Yup, it's been shown that the accuracy of a set of poor classifiers together can be greater than a known 'good' classifier.

The implication is that there's no single 'perfect' classifier for a problem, engineers have used this notion for many years having multiple systems vote for fail-proof operations.
yes, against a weaker player you can play a more "risky" game - that is, risky in theory because it leaves potential vulnerabilities, but not very much in practice because you can be fairly confident your opponent won't capitalize on them. Nigel actually did that to me once; in a game that he was already winning he deliberately left a difficult lane open to give himself a chance at one last bingo, knowing that I would not see what he was up to, and had the satisfaction of bingoing out in a spot with four of his seven tiles constrained, and picking up a nice bit of extra spread.
Awesome idea and implementation!

But: it seems to pre-populate the username from fb login on signup, but forbid characters that allowed in it (i.e. "."), causing a messed up situation in which you are half signed up.
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Wedding invitations?

Though it seems a better fit for marketing automation systems: i.e. if you supply software to a car dealer, then you can use them to send reminders to people for their annual checkup or services.
Identifying the best turn in any one play should be fairly trivial I think, but the strategy with keeping some letters in hand for a big play later on while still optimising for score is probably fairly complicated within the time limits.

Or alternately the AI could just be fairly mediocre, I don't have enough expertise to judge.
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This is good work. If you are doing this, thanks.
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Of course the higher tax would only be for the middle and upper class. Real wealh is easily 'hidden' using perfectly legal offshore bank accounts or constructions like the 'Dutch Sandwich' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Irish_arrangement#Dutch_...
Hard to see how else to read hachette's actions, unless amazon is straight out lying about the proposals they made and hachette's response (not likely).
More like http://xkcd.com/385/

Although the Dilbert strip (with a "sexist imbecile" punchline) sums it up perfectly.

I'm trying hard to find a relevant context where "your mother" phrase would be appropriate, but so far I'm failing. It's poor marketing at best.
So, It seems like No Human Player could beat Nigel, time to take over the challenge of building a better Scrabble AI than Nigel is!
Improve and even heal your shoulders by hanging
Just curious if any of you fellow keyboard warriors might be interested in hanging for a total of 7 minutes a day for 30 days? I'm sure many of you ( me included) have suffered from shoulder / back issues from time to time.
The post didn't accuse him of being a pawn of corporate interest. It just said he came out against a cheaper book format, as indeed he did, notwithstanding his later change of heart.