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The paragraph was a chronological account of when techniques were introduced with accompanying citations. The 1998 paper in the preceding sentence would lead the reader to believe …

I'm sorry you took such offence to my comment. I guess I should have quoted the statement that I was replying to within the overview section: "Recently, the use of low discrepancy …

Shirley published a paper in 1991 showing that low discrepancy samplers worked well in a ray-tracing context. So I wouldn't say that's particularly new.

Now subtract 3 (or 6) percent to account for what money does under inflation (or market growth). If you don't geometric average a growth that outpaces at least 3%, you are working …

http://causality.cs.ucla.edu/blog/index.php/2016/02/01/works... Is this sufficiently applied for you? Pearl may not apply his work on causality often, but there are a lot of people…

By Ctrl+F'ing, I find 5 mentions of the word "master", none of which are the master theorem. I prefer this to CLRS as, while it's a neat trick, it tends to result in a bunch of peo…

I agree as well. Maybe it serves to alert the reader to when they are missing a piece of prerequisite knowledge, but there are ways to do this that don't create as much friction.

This has always bugged me: what reasons outside of convention do we have for preferring O(V + E) to O(E) on algorithms that only make sense in the context of a single connected com…

I think that the distinction that dustingetz was trying to make is related to the fact that trees are graphs. Many applications naively nest data in tree structures with links from…

That happened in 2012.

They are in the units "greenhouse gas emissions" which corrects for the extra potency. The sad thing is that people often double-correct for such things.

Could someone explain what differentiates the Google Knowledge Graph from a Markov Logic Network implementation? Is that what it is? For reference: https://sites.google.com/site/sl…

I'm pretty sure that Quadratic Voting is a way to assign prices to votes, whereas this theorem is about the features of a system in which the results are determined by vote. So the…

You never answered the question.

There video could stand to be a little less unsettling.

1. Axiomatic Set Theory by Suppes 2. Solar Lottery by Philip K. Dick

I may be the only one who learned it this way, but here goes: Square Brace (BPEMDAS with a silent B) Parenthesis Exponent Multiply & Divide Addition & Subtraction When I learned PE…

Oh god why? I thought this was going to be something cool like something to filter nude image submissions with ML or something along those lines. But No. It had to be this.

I don't want to come down on you because I too dream big, but having a goal without knowing at least vaguely how to accomplish it is stupid. It's this kind of "pull yourself up by …

Are you (dare I say it) trolling? :)

As a user, I can say that I do not like social login. Also, page views is meaningless as is number of mins spent on your site.

I'm of the opinion that MtG (magic the gathering) disproves the basic premise of this post.

Not sure if sarcastic or way over my head...

tl; dr Email that abstracts away device distinctions between mobile and desktop, letting them share what email's open so that when you sit down the email you were looking at on you…