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adi92

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About adi92

Hi, I'm an ML engineer who currently works at Airbnb. http://stackoverflow.com/users/25990/adi92

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    HBX Core http://hbx.hbs.edu/hbx-core Its a paid online business course by Harvard Business School with 3 modules - Business Analytics, Economics for Managers, Financial Accounting …

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    Comment #8345999

    :( Been using this service for 4 years.. have grown so much thanks to it. Everybody seems to be recommending Day One as an alternative, but that looks way more complicated than a s…

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    Comment #3999522

    I had the same problem a year ago. For the apartments you really like, send in a cover letter with your application explaining your situation and offering more references and a lar…

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    Comment #3997513

    Thanking you for showing me the 'dis' module. Dis is going to be fun to play with!!

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    Comment #3861317

    I learnt Go by watching this anime on Netflix called 'Hikaru no Go'. Its pretty kiddish, but fun, and really inspires you to learn the game!

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    Comment #3439342

    Don't worry too much. Life is like that. Had you taken care of this problem beforehand, I am pretty sure some other major problem would have turned up. When you create something ne…

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    Comment #3169937

    I have been to 9 grubwithus dinners so far and loved every one of them.. this is a really awesome concept!! Eventually they should come up with 'Grubwithus Now' where people can jo…

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    Comment #2512850

    They are talking about Latent Dirichlet Allocation which was made by Blei in 2002 ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latent_Dirichlet_allocation ) Here is video by him where he explain…

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    Comment #1486789

    1) People had fewer distractions earlier 2) Thanks to the Flynn effect, people are growing smarter, so need less time for the same content 3) Thanks to the internet, its a lot easi…

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    Comment #1480231

    it seems like to much of a risk, in terms of the controversies that might get raised every time the recognition software screws up.. imagine the system tagging somebody's ex girlfr…

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    Comment #1476044

    Awesome! Really excited about this.. Stackoverflow hasn't been that great of a place to ask ML/IR/NLP questions and expect good answers Maybe this site will bring together all the …

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    Comment #1336989

    i don't know much about how this works, but why cant people just bypass this by creating a separate account for every game they purchase and then pass on that account's details to …

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    Comment #1311187

    http://panchatantra.org/ http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/jataka.html

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    Comment #1265481

    How are they making money from this? They need to run fast servers that cater to each and every phone that has their app installed anywhere in the world.. won't that be pretty expe…

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    Comment #1244009

    This might be a pretty good PR move.. Most of the filtered reviews I have seen so far are, in fact, pretty spammy or blatant advertising.. This will definitely make people apprecia…

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    Comment #1239039

    https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AgCvDTyBjHdOdDFfMEN...

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    Comment #1231089

    people with more friends could quickly down-vote each other's negative reviews and write scathing reviews for whoever they wish to bully unless they explicitly bar people below a c…

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    Comment #1231033

    I mostly share Google docs these days.. the user can download it in any format he likes, if we he wishes to download it at all. .odf may not win over .docx, but in the long run, bo…

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    Comment #1216913

    Somebody could nuke that small area and effectively kill of the entire country..

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    Comment #1203032

    While dwm probably does deserve to have a wiki page.. most pages do not.. If every OSS project, anime character, street gets its own page, the whole thing will grow too large for a…

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    Comment #1195230

    Should Yelp just tell people how it decides what is spam? This would alleviate some of its reputation problems but, then adversaries would know exactly how to game the system.

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    Comment #1195144

    Tiling a vim-dow beside a REPL-window in a GUI works for me

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    Comment #1081826

    You could ssh onto a cloud/unix server and write all the scripts and tools you want. I used my iphone once to code small scripts and start/stop batch jobs on a work server while on…