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I find it frustrating why statisticians can't just give us something we could indeed use with confidence that it actually tells us what we think it tells us... This is on a slightl…

It would be helpful if you named the other ones -- always useful to hear examples of what works and doesn't.

"Terrible" is a little harsh. I found the benchmark to be interesting because it's similar to many NLP-style analysis tasks I have myself. Of course reproducible ones would be grea…

If you bet on the right platform, code can live for a while. For example: this classic paper on compression http://web.stanford.edu/class/ee398a/handouts/papers/WittenA... was publ…

It's very, very rare that PhD students pay tuition in any reasonable science or engineering program.

This book is great and designed for exactly this type of audience: http://www.stat.cmu.edu/~larry/all-of-statistics/

This is a hard problem -- there's a bunch of research in NLP on it, where it's sometimes called temporal tagging. HeidelTime is a system that does this; some examples on their webp…

Also see Heideltime: https://code.google.com/p/heideltime/

Yeah, that's the main PTB-style tagset resource for tweets (that I know of). Our tool can also be run to produce tags in their form (we just retrained our software on their annotat…

Part of it is genuine differences between online conversational language versus standard written English, like emoticons, Twitter-specific discourse markers, and hard-to-segment co…

Also, see Cosma Shalizi's excellent review of "Red Plenty", which includes a mini-introduction on the application of linear programming to economic policymaking. http://crookedtimb…

It would be helpful to know what KaTeX can and cannot do.

What does derivative work mean? Why is a graph or data summary not a derivative work?

1 - why can't I import a directory full of jars? eg --classpath ./lib/jars/* or better yet, recursively descend --classpath ./lib/jars/** I usually do this as (in zsh): -cp "$(prin…

Here's a positive report on teaching "back to basics" first-semester programming with Java. They only teach procedural concepts and no OO at all. The point is, while Java itself is…

plain old data

You can get some of this from Google Scholar's metrics pages, which list, for each venue, the most-cited papers since 2008. These indeed seem to be different than the best-paper se…

Thanks for the information. Sorry I was misinformed before...

Ah, wonderful! So if I understand this correctly, this doesn't give C/Fortran access to Java-native primitive arrays; but instead, it's specific to NIO byte buffers (and then the m…

The programming language analysis is pretty interesting, but you have to ask, what's the point of a brand-new Java implementation? R isn't just a programming language, but it's a s…

It may not be necessary for all those people to give LinkedIn access to their email address books. Say you're A and you see a suggestion for B. Maybe a mutual friend C uploaded the…

Eventually I realized that the only reason the companies pushed so hard, why they insisted so strongly on rankings and scores over information and analysis, was because it made it …