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Dunno, I think the raw frequencies work fine in your case, because there aren't really any themes that all (or many) authors across your selections keep returning to. But, thanks :…

The exact details are out of my hands -- I'm just a tech guy -- but we're active members of the music information retrieval community and always have been. No-one even knows if it'…

Don't worry, we do intend to share the data publically once it's all in.

It's actually pretty debatable whether this year's KDD Cup will really help the science of music recommendation: http://musicmachinery.com/2011/02/22/is-the-kdd-cup-really-m... Bec…

Yes, and graduates with an interdisciplinary background and strong reasoning skills are more likely to get the interesting jobs than pure software engineers who know JUnit inside-o…

As a counterpoint, I like this quote from Twitter's Nick Kallen: This smacks of the oft-ridiculed Java AbstractFactoryFactoryInterface. But let me put it bluntly: AbstractFactoryFa…

If you're also on gmail, you can manually set up a filter to 'never send to spam'. I've had to do this for friends' emails before, e.g. someone whose domain has a letter->number su…

It may be a 'great' name ideologically, but the fact that there are three other comments in the thread giving three different ways it's pronounced, shows a certain degree of name f…

Dear gods, please, someone give it a better name. Sadly, superficial things like names are important if you want to compete with better-known products. I can't even pronounce Libre…

"Our servers are over capacity and certain pages may be temporarily unavailable. We're incredibly sorry for the inconvenience." Posting an apparently controversial rant to HN when …

Have you tried it with Firefox pre 4.0? Doesn't seem to work on 3.6.13. I can select the section of code but not actually edit it. It's just plain, unadorned text in a regular div.…

That's not slow. In 20 generations, humans hardly change at all.

But many interesting problems can't be solved by throwing more RAM at them, because RAM isn't the bottleneck.

That's terrible advice, I hope you're being sarcastic but I fear not. There's plenty of useful stuff outside of CS which isn't liberal arts. Maths, stats, electronics, physics coul…

If I could go back and do it all again, I'd definitely do more stats courses. Also if you're interested in data science in general, some basic linguistics (syntax/semantics) would …

Did anyone else assume that headline was about a big argument breaking out between some startups?

I went to an article on Facebook which starts off by explicitly discussing the portrayal of events in a movie I haven't seen yet (and intend to). How's that not a spoiler?

Exactly. Something else scary that doesn't resemble a spider.

SPOILER ALERTS please.

"It is fundamentally different from the ad platform that is Google. People go to Google to find something they need, possibly ready to buy, which a good percentage of the time can …

a). They didn't link to the study. Or if they did, not anywhere I could see. Inexcusable in 'science' journalism! b). Any control group on the babies to see if it's actually fear o…