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PDF & Markdown viewer with intentionally restricted navigation, so you can mash the buttons easily on a tablet while exercising.

Wow 2007 called and wants its Ornstein-Uhlenbeck back.

I added Discworld to TextCraft.

Adding right now.

Hmm, do you have a specific example? (Of the MUD and client?)

That would be slick. However I think Slack keeping up with nice clients on every platform imaginable is a nice way to piggyback.

Great thanks. I'll add links to the homepage.

I've been tempted to send a "look" or "inv(entory)" command to keep-alive a session. Hmm...

Will try to put together some benchmarks for the cooler sketches & summary stats. Doing mutual information across two millisecond streams could be pretty convincing!

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Thanks!

Does anyone know of a service or API for delivering closed captioning of television, either after-the-fact or in real time?

New Ruby module on Github to import & parse the treebank corpus: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6395420

Ruby module to parse & import the new Stanford treebank for deep learning: https://github.com/someben/treebank/

Check out the behavioral finance literature, like the Shleifer book: http://www.amazon.com/Inefficient-Markets-Introduction-Behav...

When people use derivatives to hedge their exposure to "bad things happening" and the market is not very liquid (i.e. BTC), arbitrage opportunities can persist. For example, if the…

Logistic regression and other parametric, non-regularized linear learners tend to do poorly with NLP forecasting -type modeling. (They usually overfit.)

That Twitter paper has been torn to shreds over the last couple of years. Here is me snarking: http://blog.someben.com/2011/05/sour-grapes-seven-reasons-wh...

What is your source for the ole' "derivatives reduce volatility in the spot market" assumption?