vang3lis
Re:BelKor has allegedly won Netflix Prize despite being second on the ...
on Monday July 27, 2009 @05:45AM (#725632)
Yes, the difference is negligible, but you obviously can't change rules of the game when it has already finished.
Re:On the Linear Time Algorithm For Finding Fibonacci Numbers
on Tuesday July 07, 2009 @08:36AM (#691346)
That and the fact that computing the closed form expression still needs log(n) steps (as exponentiation).
Re:On the Linear Time Algorithm For Finding Fibonacci Numbers
on Tuesday July 07, 2009 @08:32AM (#691341)
The title mimicks the common misunderstanding that naive calculation for Fibonacci numbers is done in linear time, which is not true when cost of arithmetic operations is not negligible. The whole point of the article, as I understand it, was to show that not taking such details in account will lead to flawed analysis.
Have we failed to cure cancer by playing it too safe?
Re:Pragmatic Theory, Commendo, Yahoo and AT&T hit the Netflix grand prize
on Friday June 26, 2009 @11:07PM (#676543)
> but they're obligated to license them to Netflix
Technically they are obliged to license them only if they are about to receive the prize.
ε-Red Riding Hood and the Big Bad Bolzano-Weierstrass Theorem [pdf]
"Using Prompt Commands" a Sign of Criminals? Supreme Court Begs To Differ
Google Searches Used To Convict Hit-And-Run Driver
Re:How I Spent A Million Bucks And Ended Up With These Two Chairs.
on Tuesday May 12, 2009 @02:12PM (#605885)
404
A new benchmark of browsers with cool 3D. Results? Safari beats them all.
Warren Buffett and his attempts at self-control
Re:Oracle to buy Sun
on Monday April 20, 2009 @03:08PM (#571201)
can you elaborate, please?
Re:Mathematical trick wiki Terrence Tao blogged about is now live - Tr...
on Saturday April 18, 2009 @06:35PM (#568830)
I can't edit that anymore, but thank you!
Re:BMW Checkmates Audi
on Saturday April 18, 2009 @04:53PM (#568727)
clever ads == good public image == exploiting bias of people == profit!
Re:Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach
on Saturday April 18, 2009 @12:19PM (#568443)
Don't get me wrong, I like Elizier's posts on Overcoming Bias, but I disapprove of name calling when doing one sentence book reviews
Re:IE 6 Update
on Saturday April 18, 2009 @11:23AM (#568376)
a nice one, because it doesn't even suggest any particular alternatives when an update would suffice
Mathematical trick wiki Terrence Tao blogged about is now live - Tricki
Re:Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach
on Saturday April 18, 2009 @09:16AM (#568299)
My name is vang3lis and I'm an alcoholic. So what?
Re:Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach
on Saturday April 18, 2009 @06:33AM (#568242)
what would you recommend to supplement Russel&Norvig?
Boston College Campus Police: "Using Prompt Commands" May Be a Sign of Criminal Activity
Video + presentations from BlackHat US 2008
Re:Ask HN: what linear algebra do you use most often for practical pro...
on Friday April 10, 2009 @01:44PM (#556427)
maybe you could opensource your dataset? ;) (no, no, I'm after votes not images)
Ask HN: what linear algebra do you use most often for practical problems?
Linear algebra comes up in almost every area of modern research, but what applications have you made most often? Is it SVD for latent semantic analysis or computing eigenvector for PageRank or something else? Discuss.
Re:IBM On The Verge of Buying Sun for $7 billion
on Friday April 03, 2009 @04:17AM (#544655)
But everyone in select industries (telecoms?) wants Linux on mainframes or DB2, which still beats crap out of Oracle for some workloads. And don't forget the IBM Research
Re:Sources: Google In Talks To Acquire Twitter
on Friday April 03, 2009 @04:13AM (#544652)
> This is Google we are talking about, their main move has always been to release their own version of the service, hope to win, and only if that fails, do they open up their pocket book.
But it failed! See what happened to Jaiku
Re:Deutsche Grammophon launches giant, DRM-free classical music store
on Monday March 23, 2009 @02:35PM (#528978)
but what a label! deutsche grammophon is the finest classical music label out there
Re:Lisp after Python after Lisp
on Wednesday March 11, 2009 @04:57PM (#512607)
on python - not anymore, since 2.5 (probably earlier) you can do:
(x if cond else y) which is essentially (cond ? x : y)