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Hey, I agree with a lot of what you are saying here, but it seems unfair to cherry-pick a single method like you are doing here. There's a lot of confusing JavaScript out there, to…

In case this comment dissuades others from checking out Dr. Koller's class, I will add that I found her class challenging and well-constructed. I recommend it.

Google's Closure Compiler

I've taken Andrew Ng's Machine Learning class, Daphne Koller's Probabilistic Graphical Models class, Dan Jurafsky and Christopher Manning's Natural Language Processing class, and c…

A year ago, I would have no idea what this was about. I'm very thankful that I live in a world where I can take high quality classes from Coursera that have given me the foundation…

If I have learned anything from ml-class, pgm-class, nlp-class, and now neural-nets, is that becoming a data scientist is one of the hardest things I'll ever eventually succeed in …

Yeah, I did a few trial runs on the cluster gpu instances maybe 4 months ago. I found that, while the gpus themselves were really quite fast, moving data in and out of gpu was not.…

"The numbers are, of course, averages. So parents may spend much more time, say, caring for children, while people without children will spend no time at all." Stuffed at the botto…

I don't think that would be a classifier, or at least not reasonably. You could have "In Soviet Russie X Y you" for each X,Y as your classes, but that would be unreasonable. Yakov …

It's in a very early stage (not production ready), but some colleagues and I have been working on a automated testing DSL built on top of RSpec that lets you generate API documenta…

Just upgrading to rspec 2.8 made my test suite run 10x faster. You might have David to thank for a lot of that speed up. :)

For me, one of the biggest obstacles to understanding lots of Haskell code is opaque infix operators.

It would require an Internet connection, but GPS + some weather API would do.

I am just learning some of these machine learning tools and am rapt, so forgive me for asking, but would you be able to explain a little about what you are doing? How are you gener…

I would happily use G+ as my blog for programming related things, but I would need to be able to make posts public and not spam my non-technical circles. Is that possible?

There's a lot of room to grow here. Mostly the choices in channels are limited. I think that if people could write and share channels through some API, a ton of use cases could pop…

It's so important to evaluate whether you need range queries before picking a tech like Riak. They are coming, though. That's what I hear, at least.

You are right about query languages being a good for for monad comprehensions. See Torston Grust's dissertation[1], specifically "Combinators from Monad Comprehensions." 1. http://…

Last week I spent 17.5 hours in MacVim, 7 hours in a shell, and 2 hours on Github. That's out of 42 total recorded hours. On a related note, I love RescueTime.

There is a great post on the macports mailing list that identifies and explains some issues installed software might have after upgrading: http://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/mac…

1. Ad hominem 2. Begging the question 3. Unsubstantiated generalization 4. Mis-quote 5. Misunderstanding the original comment I don't necessarily agree with Myhrvold, but I don't t…

I've been playing with some clustering stuff in my free time for the past few months. What I've found is that the problem seems to get a lot more reasonable if you know how many cl…

I didn't meant to say that Donut was itself a mapping from data to representation, just that there is some kind of mapping somewhere. I absolutely agree that Donut should not be co…

Contrived examples like this have a problem, where the code example is too complex compared to the very simple task, in this case keeping a HTML list populated with items from a JS…

I find that it can be valuable in a GUI toolkit. If I want to change a small part of a UI component, I can subclass it, change what I want, keep the rest, and classes that used the…