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http://hbx.hbs.edu/hbx-core

Its a paid online business course by Harvard Business School with 3 modules - Business Analytics, Economics for Managers, Financial Accounting

Material is not super challenging (maybe except for Accounting), but its still a lot of work and very rewarding. There is a strong social element to the course because they incentivize students to ask and answer each other's questions. At the end of it, you have to go to a testing centre and give a 3 hour exam on everything they have taught you. I finished this course a few months ago and really enjoyed the material and all the people I met through it. Highly recommend!

Edit: I take that back.. day one looks pretty awesome Found https://twitter.com/kylesethgray/status/513476424955482112 which let me import all my OhLife data into this.. and this is backed by my DropBox account which makes me feel safe about my data

Your app is tricky because I can derive value from not when I install it, but when all my friends install it as well. This implies you guys should make it really really really easy for me to get my friends on it as well. Perhaps you can take my phone contact list and show all those users as my friends within your app the moment I install it, and send the other users an SMS (using twilio) or email if I try to interact with them using your app. This way you can disguise your cold start from the user and make it more useful to him from day 1.

Here is video by him where he explains the basic model as well timeline-related hacks the article talks about - http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3077213787166426672#

You can very easily play with LDA yourself with this toolkit - http://mallet.cs.umass.edu/

2) Thanks to the Flynn effect, people are growing smarter, so need less time for the same content

3) Thanks to the internet, its a lot easier and faster to learn something than it was earlier (more cliffnotes type resources)

4)People today can probably make much better assessments to what things will actually help them in their professional lives, and what things are random rites of passage i.e. hoops they have to jump through to get their degree

Maybe this site will bring together all the ML people and do a better job.

Visually, the site is not that great. The logo is unreadable at first attempt

http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/jataka.html

Most of the filtered reviews I have seen so far are, in fact, pretty spammy or blatant advertising..

This will definitely make people appreciate the filter more

OTOH people, not machines (thanks to the captcha), could read tons of filtered reviews and come up with cleverer ways to beat it

unless they explicitly bar people below a certain age, this site will wreak havoc in children's social lives

.odf may not win over .docx, but in the long run, both will lose to the cloud.

On a related note, I hope we eventually have some sort of cloud-transfer legislation, that makes it easy for people to move all their docs from Google to say, Zoho without any hassles.. this would foster more innovation in the online office suite space

If every OSS project, anime character, street gets its own page, the whole thing will grow too large for any group of people to effectively maintain..

The deletionists are also probably the people who end up deleting spam, prank edits, etc .. which is a pretty thankless job with no end in sight, and I can understand their sentiment, when they advocate for a smaller but higher quality wikipedia.

This would alleviate some of its reputation problems but, then adversaries would know exactly how to game the system.

I used my iphone once to code small scripts and start/stop batch jobs on a work server while on the go.

I am a Junior CS Major in the US looking for internships related to Machine Learning / NLP

Increasing the numerator tends to cause the denominator to increase as well

Craving for fewer things i.e. working on the denominator is usually more effective