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pure python is legit! excellent documentation

Why not ML? Our programming languages course had a unit in ML and the transfer to Haskell after that was not trivial but still a smooth learning curve -- I could read not just gett…

Would the Amazon turk population, which ive been told is dominated by non-native english speaking users, skew results in an interesting way? Also, in my experience, my most intense…

Mining canonical papers/text to generate standardized tests (SAT/GRE) might be a further step. My guess is that both tests and commercial prep-material are produced by committee.

Any proofs, reference papers, visuals showing the experimental runs? I've dug around the databases department at my uni and I've heard this exact application of ML to query optimiz…

Agreed. You could pick a historical thinker at random and spin the same article making leaps into the future. Being self-identified as religious and influenced by God was the norm …

This was my immediate idea for a comment as well. His "Darwin's Dangerous Idea" book also has an extended discussion on the "Library of Mendel" which I forgot if he included in int…

I thought this was about videos on YouTube. Maybe this isn't new but my suggestion box gets flooded by videos that are segments of longer content (Louis ck shows/appearances, Zizek…

I noticed the establishment v. non-est. behavior as well. How much of this network property is really a predictive signal more than an explanation for "shock" at the results? What …

Is there a more detailed paper describing the algorithm? The description is very vague in the article. When they pick the two points, is there an evaluation on how much "diversity"…

I don't necessarily sympathize with postmodern studies as much as you, but threads like this really don't contribute much to HN and should be more tiresome for people across the bo…

>In other words people are mostly fine with any entitlements to the poor & disadvantaged as long as it doesn't threaten their way of life or become a competitive element to the com…

I used this to teach myself to code for the first time. It felt very natural just exploring and getting immediate visual feedback with the images I generated. I still use it to gen…

I'm 17 and started teaching myself Python last year when they told me the course at my school was cancelled since only 5 people enrolled. I was incredibly disappointed. I wanted to…