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Now we can start guessing what futures they are betting on: these, in which open-sourcing the whole thing commoditises critical complements. --- https://www.gwern.net/Complement

Seriously, why?

You can get very good improvements over Spark too. I've been using GNU Parallel + redis + Cython workers to calculate distance pairs for a disambiguation problem. But then again, i…

'Some conclusions' section reminds me of a short piece PG has once written on regrets of the dying. I find it amazing how consistent some of the points are -- happiness is your cho…

Judging from the prevalence of email obfuscation out there the problem appears to be far from solved. Does it hurt?

Grep for the internet. What I often want is not a search engine, not a recommender, but a filter. Something that would allow me to look at the distributions of content on the Web r…

I struggle to see how data-driven bias is unexpected.

This is already an issue in many areas, perhaps most troubling with regards to scientific data (e.g. http://www.sciencemag.org/content/331/6018/694.short )

If you're going to perform a comprehensive scan (i.e. not just to sample alexa's 1M), there's a lot of crap waiting for you in the long tail -- you may want to use my subset of ale…

Dropbox is still my favourite: http://dropbox.com/404.html