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Imagine I want to send a letter to someone, but I am worried that it may be intercepted (by the government, for the sake of argument). So instead of sending it directly to my recep…

While not free, 'Machine Learning: A Probabilistic Perspective' ( http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/0262018020 ) is the best book I have found so far. I also second the recommendatio…

There is an IM in Boston who routinely gives people, mostly without regard for their rating, 30 seconds to 5 minutes odds with no increment. I have seen him win these controls agai…

That is simply incorrect. A GM can perhaps give a strong amateur (2000+) 1 to 5 time odds, maybe 1 to 7, in under a minute time controls. Larger odds would be arrogant, foolish or …

Fair use or not, if you could do it I would buy it :) Fine, forget conference papers. If you can demonstrate fast NER in multiple languages, across domains, with competitive precis…

Thanks, that's somewhat helpful. I am not particularly interested in the summarizer plugin itself (mostly because we have one, built in house), but I would love to talk about the u…

What precisely makes this particular engine 'the most powerful in the world'? Does it do domain independent named entity recognition with an F score better than 0.8? For what class…

Very interesting discussion

It's actually 1/6 * Sum_n (5/6)^2n = 1/6 * 1 / (1 - 25/36) = 6/11. The first move provides a small advantage, as intuition dictates.

It tells me if they can at least minimally apply their knowledge and reason about a problem. It's a filter question. If a person with a college degree in math cannot solve this, wh…

I have been using this when interviewing people with math degrees: Two players play a game with a single six-sided die. The player that starts can only win by rolling a 1. If he or…

We do (Bloomberg), but on equities, not commodities. We are working on it though :)

Now, how hard would it be to design a sort of minimal virtual machine that can run this in parallel with e.g. a Windows host OS? Distribute it via some existing delivery vector, et…

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That is not entirely correct. If you have already acquired credibility (somehow, doesn't matter how for the purposes of this exercise), your estimate or advice can (and frequently …

29,500, non-native English speaker (but studied in the US). Retook the test and omitted all the words I could not define with total confidence on the spot; the original score was 3…

Cold War 2.0 China edition.

I think this is the original article: http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa0802905

Not bad at all as far as interface goes, but their timer is buggy. In 5 0 it ate 15 seconds of my time, apparently due to lag. A thought I had for a while: do analysis on games as …

http://senseis.xmp.net/ is not bad

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Is nobody bothered by the prices of the actual books?