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Not a troll. The post's point was that for your average web app, NodeJS doesn't solve any problems. If you were building some kind of real time app like the Facebook social stream,…

MySQL gives RDBMS a bad name? What planet do you live on? And how/why the heck would you write a web server in PHP when it was made to run embedded in a web server process? Yes, I'…

Good point. If Arrington and co are that blatantly corrupt out in the open, who'd want anything to do with them when the doors are closed?

You could claim the same about getting high off of glue since that affects the mind too. Seriously, what every day experience /doesn't/ affect your mind? My point stands on its own…

Nowhere did I say I support the war on drugs, prohibition, or any such rubbish. You are free to engage in whatever stupid activity you so choose. Just don't try to claim it was som…

Flawless logic here. I guess I should try crack, heroine, or maybe downing some motor oil before coming to the conclusion they're not for me?

I have no issue with whatever it is you posited after your masturbatory experience. It's just that I don't find your epiphany particularly deep, nor do I see how LSD was even neces…

Instead of doing drugs to experience "enlightenment" (LOL), you could, I don't know... read a book and actually learn something of value.

How is that enlightening? The doc makes you sound like an imbecile.

Are you stupid? Zynga's not a young company at more than 4 years. And this is horribly detrimental for any prospect of IPO.

Same here. I'm thinking ML since it will have programming exercises. I'd likely forget all of the theory otherwise.

The course has some introductory Linear Algebra videos posted. I don't think you'd be able to understand multiple regression without some basic knowledge of linear algebra.

Excellent, many thanks. I've read O'Reilly's Collective Intelligence. It's a great introductory survey, but it was very light on theory. I also own Collective Intelligence in Actio…

And on that note, does anyone have any other good book suggestions regarding ML?

That's partly why I bought it. My university didn't have a statistics department, so I never had the chance to take a statistics course that was worthwhile. Statistics and linear a…

Great book. But I made the mistake of buying this book on Kindle just a few hours before I saw it show up here. :(

Nope. What I said is still true. Here is my code in Java: public List mergeSort(List list) { // Base case // If list has one (or less) element, return list as is int size = list.si…

The article is not "gobbledygook". A well known limitation of NodeJS is its lack of support for parallelism. You have to try to take advantage of parallelism of the OS itself by pr…

It /might/ be faster? What? Do you fully understand the invariant of the algorithm? The left should always be less than the right partition. There's no need to re-merge them each c…

Good thing TechCrunch isn't worth reading anymore, or I'd actually be upset.

The recursive merge sort is not quite correct: function mergeSort(items){ if (items.length == 1) { return items; } var middle = Math.floor(items.length / 2), left = items.slice(0, …

Let me clarify: competing ARM processors :) Chances are it's not an Intel CPU you're using in your smart phone, tablet, or game console.