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For chaos to manifest itself you need at least two things. First, the equations of the dynamical system have to be nonlinear. Second, the dimensionality of the systems has to be gr…

You suggest up/down sampling rare cases. Can you please elaborate on the standard approaches for this kind of problem? For both linear and nonlinear classifiers. Thank you.

"The Next Cryptocurrecy" is correct and is the phrase that tells you everything you need to know. The proponents of Bitcoin try to pass it off as being "As Good as Gold". However, …

Not so. If it's a 4 digit combination, it's already n!, so 24 combinations, which is enough for a good system to lock up and automatically call the police. If it's more, then it's …

Well, viva human brain versions of Monte Carlo Search Tree algorithms. Your game was at least solvable deductively in practice. If you were talking about solving something like the…

A lot of these companies, like Beamr, with extraordinarily technological claims tend to be preparations for stock pump and dump schemes. Usually their parent company will eventuall…

Hey, we should be thankful that primes have cardinality aleph_0, so we can have reasonable algos for exhaustive search at all! ;)

Well, this is cool, but it would be cooler if they wrote an open source cell tower for GSM phones running on Raspberry Pi.

I'd say also read "Seeing What's Next", the third book in the disruption series. There he deals with a lot of stuff like structuring your business to take advantage of Asymmetric M…

Whenever they tried giving me this test, my score just went off the scale. In the end, they had to assign me a new type: SEXY. ;)

Looks like the techniques of the world of High Frequency Trading are migrating into the wider universe. Except now the customers may benefit if the prices are lowered by someone wh…

Wow! A HUGE market that escaped everybody’s attention! There are a few comments that come to mind: First, this Modj.io company provides free testing ground for car companies to see…

Don't worry about it, man. He can patent it all he wants, but thing is not gonna fly. It's called a "tie-in sale", and the United States Anti-Trust law prohibits it. McDonald's tri…

That's what you think. A good friend of mine is 6'2 and used to be a part time male fitness model. He's a software engineer at a large bank and all the girls hit on him and never b…

Good read. This coincides with my own impression after reading HN for a while. I suppose the problem of "Feature, Not a Company" sets in for any maturing market. But aside from "pl…

Not to nitpick, but the logical inference in the title is backwards. What they want to say is "Copying is not necessarily Stealing", because "Stealing is not always Copying" is obv…

So, can we please separate facts from fiction? The Forbes article states that TTAGG's back-end downloads all photos that users post on their Twitter accounts and then tries to reco…

PEOPLE!!! Are you hackers or not!?!? Download the Excel spreadsheet and look at the raw numbers. The numbers in columns A,D and E have 2 significant digits after the decimal point,…