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Both derby and meteor don't support relational databases. Give me a realtime graph or relational database.

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It's coming soon and much more: http://angel.co/sense , http://www.senseplatform.com . Three of us, full time, for over a year.

Both are correct but they target different things. The disagreement is around what is the target should be and the advantages and disadvantages of choosing these targets. Bayesians…

Impressively fast. Is the voice recognition being done exclusively on Google's servers or is there a local component?

They are creating decentralized mechanisms for free individuals to find individually and socially beneficial outcomes. The free market organized by the U.S. legal system is one suc…

I'd recommend using as many real examples as possible. Things like forecasting, product recommendations, topic modeling, etc. While you can conceptually explain how Bayesian statis…

My problem with books like this is that they have almost no connection to why Bayesian statistics is successful: Bayesian statistics provides a unified recipe to tackle complex dat…

You could come work at Sense ( http://www.senseplatform.com ) or email me tristan@senseplatform.com. Not Google scale, but the same technological challenges without the legacy baga…

I'm really not sure this is true. I'd like to see evidence of it because certainly the people I know who buy android do it for features. That's also how they evangelize. It seems t…

This would be very interesting to lots of people. There are lots of half-baked sandbox solutions so seeing what you guys did you be interesting.

A lot of comments suggest that Apple and maybe even Google are deliberately keeping HTML5 performance subpar. I think this misses a key fact: Google has struggled for years to make…

Unfortunately it still feels broken on ios.

Unfortunately no, but you're welcome to email me at tristan@senseplatform.com.

Another key fact is that "big data" is actually not that common, especially when it gets to the analysis stage. The median job size at Microsoft and Yahoo is only 15GB. And 90% of …

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As far as I can tell derby has zero story for datastores outside their json racer implementation. There's too much focus on realtime sync in all these frameworks. Even a realtime a…

So far it seems like Meteor is focused on data syncing and live UI elements. That's neat when done well, but the main pain points for client-side heavy apps is the mismatch between…

It's absolutely a step back and the Node community is way too harsh on those that point this out. But they are probably making the right call by not forking JavaScript. If you want…

It's too bad Windows support is not a priority. Half the point of Dropbox is to keep files synced across all computers.

What prevents you from doing this with ajax post on every existing website?

Obviously epsilon-greedy is not optimal. But I think the point is it's surprisingly effective and probably better than A/B testing in most applications. Most alternatives get very …

This is the most important critique of A/B testing. It far outweighs the traditional hoopla about simultaneous inference and Bonferonni corrections. Epsilon greedy does well on k-a…

Frequentist statistics is about determining the repeated sampling properties of a procedure/statistic/estimator. It's about evaluation not estimation. "Optimizing \theta" or whatev…