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fuzzmeister

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About fuzzmeister

Contact: wjohnson at askcloudy dot com

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    Comment #4154559

    Has anyone seen a similar comparison for medium-sized document classification tasks? I'd imagine LibLINEAR would perform far better for document classification than it does in thes…

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    Comment #3585349

    With WWI or WWII era technology, it would take a great power months, even years to destroy the population of another. Now? Less than an hour.

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    Comment #3422949

    The download page could still be served via HTTPS, even if the download itself isn't.

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    Comment #2874216

    "closed systems/walled gardens and proprietary stuff will always lose out against open systems that does not restrict users and developers." Do you have evidence for that?

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    Comment #2859154

    Might be worth checking Rackspace's policies on hosting proxies - you want to make sure you're not responsible if users use your proxies for illegal activity.

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    Comment #2818144

    Perhaps you should read the white paper and the patent application before writing off a decade's worth of work as bullshit?

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    Comment #2809391

    That is rather disingenuous. While the Fed can make decisions outside the purview of the government, its power is derived from Congress, and its governors are appointed by the Pres…

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    Comment #2800191

    Perhaps "secretive unit" was in reference to "Amazon doesn't disclose AWS results"? Still seems rather odd, though.

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    Comment #2782958

    Might want to check out StarStreet ( https://www.starstreet.com/ ), which uses real money. They frame it as a sports stock market, to avoid running afoul of online gambling laws.

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    Comment #2771281

    PHP function to perform a basic cURL request and return the result. Got a little bit tired of writing "curl_setopt(...".

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    Comment #2760033

    While I agree that he should pay for a commercial plan if he has a commercial use case, having one provider is certainly not the way the market should work.

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    Comment #2759820

    I would agree with your argument if the broadband market were actually competitive. The author has no legitimate options for broadband besides Comcast, meaning Comcast can do essen…

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    Comment #2757255

    #1 makes no sense. Facebook/Google/Zynga/etc pay hires more because they can no longer offer hires significant equity, like an early startup can. A startup is never going to beat a…

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    Comment #2708064

    I use it, but really only for the "intelligent snooze" feature, which decreases the length of the snooze each time until it starts refusing to snooze. If anyone knows of a simpler …

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    Comment #2641923

    This is incredible. The lowest price advertised by Clickatell is $0.012/msg, and that price can only be reached by paying for 500,000 messages or more - that is, paying $6000 or mo…

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    Comment #2639706

    Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson.

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    Comment #2632055

    Square's goal isn't to make a profit off of transactions. They're a data company - that's where the real money is for them.

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    Comment #2618282

    "There is only one human right: the right to kill yourself." That would seem to be more easily taken away than, say, the right to think.

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    Comment #2609238

    I use the default GMail filters - perhaps I'm just lucky and receive easily filtered spam. I get hundreds of spam messages per day, and none break through on the average day.

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    Comment #2605829

    Multiple of my email addresses posted online unmasked multiple times, so I certainly get spam. My point is that filters are quite effective.

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    Comment #2604962

    How is spam an existential threat to email? Spam filters have gotten exceptionally good, to the point where I find it hard to believe that anyone using a decent filter receives eno…

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    Comment #2550353

    Given how hard Google is working to earn the trust of businesses with regard to Google Apps, I highly doubt they would be stupid enough to risk getting caught spying on individual …

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    Comment #2479805

    This link leads to a summary page if you don't have iTunes installed: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/swapshot/id432027349?mt=8