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I don't understand why using mturk is against Dropbox's TOS. Surely from Dropbox's pov, the privacy (or loss of privacy) is identical in both the case of mturk and adwords.

I will be moving to the bay area once I graduate in a few months. One of the big plus points for me to move to the bay area will be to try to interact and learn from a bunch of sma…

Maybe my point wasn't clear enough: 1. I am comfortable with using someone else's library without having to reinvent the wheel but I want to know exactly what I am getting into wit…

Dunno about weka but my last experience ( 5 months back) with Mahout was not good. There still are quite a few bugs and the fact that entire code base is in Java makes it extremely…

This makes a lot of sense. I was working through a couple of the assignments last night when I realized that a lot of the questions seemed to test reading comprehension rather than…

Can anyone clarify if song data is dense? If it is dense, I am not even sure if Mapreduce is the right paradigm to use mainly because you will eventually get to a situation where t…

2) "Publishing" (Blogging about this) will help. I am not too sure what you mean by "know the techniques well enough". In my case, I cracked a few books on LA/Stat and worked throu…

I do machine learning and would consider myself a data scientist. I was an engineer who decided to do an advanced degree in statistics and computer science just because I liked thi…

I am mainly writing code for Hadoop. I find that I learn better when I actually physically write the code which is why I am trying to find a more vim like editor but the problem is…

I am new to the world of Java. I have written a ton of code in C++/Python but somehow I find my usual tool Vim not as usable for writing Java code. Since I cant get away without wr…