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Its not that bad, I took public bus to school as a thirteen year old. It was as crowded as an MTA bus. Except there is no Air Conditioning, otherwise it is not that bad. Trains how…

While I wouldn't go as far to call it BS. I agree with your argument. I believe we need better laws that will ensure the freedom rather than modifying the system. In all other aspe…

I have tried using both Hadoop (55 node cluster at Cornell) and a single AWS High Memory double extra large instance with 32GB memory. I have found that since the Twitters social g…

I believe that the benefits of a social network such as Facebook outweigh the risks. The problem is that, it is very hard to quantify the positive effect which arises from small in…

its load shedding (which means that electricity is turned off for few hours everyday) which is quite common in the subcontinent.

another guy https://twitter.com/#!/smedica

http://venturebeat.com/2011/05/01/twitter-user-live-blogged-about-raid-on-bin-laden-without-knowing-what-it-was/

Rather than using Google scholar, I would suggest looking at papers in ICML, NIPS and Journal of Machine Learning Research. For vision based research I would suggest CVPR and ICCV …

link to the paper: http://aje.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2011/04/19/aje.k... I guess that a paper won't get accepted in Am. J. Epidemiol without proper consideration of such …

I completely agree with you! As someone who has dysgraphia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dysgraphia ), I have faced this problem so many time in school. Luckily in India esp. in m…

I tried it and found it really useful. It is especially useful for people like me who aren't very well versed in CSS. I guess you should market it as WYSIWYG CSS template builder.

You are comparing Garage Band to A High End Medical device? Technically, they had the feature but the feature didn't help the doctors be better doctors. Features don't automaticall…

Interesting article! A lot of commenter here are scared of using Magik code. However note that Search/Information Retrieval is a hard problem. Unlike other problems, developing a g…

Think of it this way, it is easier for anyone to write code for solving simple problem. however this does not makes you stand out from the crowd, also at the same time there is no …

Following are the counterpoints to their argument: 1. decreasing ROI on a college degree: They are confusing between supply and demand. While it is possible in future that a colleg…

what is even more interesting is that books are also much cheaper e.g. Algorithms by Cormen, et. al. cost only 6$. It would be interesting how eBooks are priced in India, as compar…

If you are a good dev/student and some bank is willing to lend you 40,000$, it is far easier to join a good US university for a masters degree and then get a job in Silicon valley.…

Not true, "most" of the research gets funded by NSF, NIH, DARPA, ARPA, Naval Research. Of course there are companies such as IBM research, Microsoft research but they are few. By m…

"Hammerbacher looked around Silicon Valley at companies like his own, Google (GOOG), and Twitter, and saw his peers wasting their talents. "The best minds of my generation are thin…

https://www.amia.org/files/workforthesecondaryuseofhealthdat... provides a good discussion about the subject. Then what are your thoughts about http://www.practicefusion.com/pages/…

Do you imply that services that sell anonymyzed patient data are unprofessional? Medicine has progressed because of sharing of information, and I dont see any harm in anonymyzed in…