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Comment #7850534
Actually it's interesting that you mention this. Technically, you can also make it atoma-ku, (like ato like in later, and ma-ku as in mark). I wonder if the dip-tone was intentiona…
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Comment #6231887
Too bad it's a queue and not a stack. I'll show myself out now.
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Comment #6031064
meh, just use sum instead of counter sorted([(i,sum([i==j for j in s.split()])) for i in list(set(s.split()))],key=lambda x:x[1],reverse=True)[:10]
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Comment #5095887
I don't know what Japanese programmers use for social network, but try making a mixi group for hackers and see if you attract any people.
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Comment #4760292
I've been wanting people to post their eigenvector/value on facial recognition training for a while. Imagine a crowdsource trained facial recognition database!
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Comment #4760269
Yea, it sounds a bit mechanical. With that said, based on the priming he's given with the talk on waveform, I'm guess they are simply breaking the English speech into the waveform …
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Comment #4536505
and yep
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Comment #4536504
yep
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Comment #4323321
My buddy at Microsoft tells me that in terms of automation, they use the dogma that if you need to do it once or twice, you just do it by hand. If you need to do it more than that,…
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Comment #4072293
Oh no, you did not contradict it at all. It is one of the vital point that was pointed out in the paper, and I wanted to make sure anybody else who don't having interest in reading…
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Comment #4070269
The elaborate on the Schultz paper, dopaminergic reward feedback mechanism is for unexpected reward only. Repeated stimulation depreciates the neuronal signals. A take home message…
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Comment #3954993
Feel free to comment, I want to hear what other people think on this issue. I think there is nothing inherently wrong with unpaid internships. If the market price for your work is …
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Comment #3954777
Regarding to the second quote, the statement just shows how the analyst doesn't get the situation at hand at all. Traditional firms uses IPO to gain cash and expand, true. That is …
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Comment #3858943
Just a thought that popped into my head. Assuming that the product issued in the end is going to be the same for everybody. And assume that the highest contributor that gets to put…
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Comment #3818074
This is precisely the problem, and I'm glad you mentioned it. If the cost to produce a calendar-grad image is so cheap that an amateur can produce it, perhaps the force of creative…
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Comment #3584678
This reminds me of the recent book review on the Economist. http://www.economist.com/node/21545983 To quote one passage: "Mr Collini is moved by Newman’s insistence that a liberal …
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Comment #3519891
That's certainly true. Many models of social enterprises exist and some of them are no more of a regular business that so happens to deal with "social" issues. I guess the point I …
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Comment #3517723
To a certain extent, I agree with you. But to play the devil's advocate, I must say that having a open-whatever test is inherently dangerous in creating inequality in terms of info…
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Comment #3517684
This is the famous tragedy of the commons problem where where the increase of members participating the in game (in an game theory sense), any individual is more likely to become a…
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Comment #3517657
Although non-profits has good tax breaks, it's much more difficult to get funding since it's "non-profit", hence no return for the investor capital. Why not try to create a social …
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Comment #3493141
Copyrights is the same as creating a legal monopoly to a particular item/idea. Hence, from a pure economic perspective, it creates deadweightloss, or over all less for the economy.…
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Comment #3493078
Although video game is not meant to be created as a passive entertainment, I think it is going that direction. With the combination of plot and amazing graphics, I don't see why a …
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Comment #3480744
I guess I really should stress my sarcasm more lol
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Comment #3478930
One might say that it's a super computer. What's the question again?