Random forests have always been a nice classifier to use when working with really wacky data types. This is due in part to how easy it is to customize them; a lot of the ways they can be tweaked and tuned and customized have fairly intuitive effects on the outcome and behavior of the classifier. In my experience, while neural nets can also be pretty powerful, they are often much harder to work with as the parameters you have for tweaking can be really non-intuitive. We sometimes joke about neural nets being "black magic" because the training and tweaking can be really uninterpretable.
However, the biggest reason random forests were used is probably because they are extremely fast on current chips, probably a couple orders of magnitude faster than neural nets when the trees are hard coded.
FYI: I also got a 560ti this week, but I have had almost no problems with the 270.26 beta nvidia driver (running kubuntu 10.10). It took a little tweaking -- namely, make sure the settings on things like vsync match up between that and kde (both in the settings menu), don't install the 32 bit compatibility libraries (which do seem to cause problems), and blacklist noveau (which the installation process did for me automatically). With those things, everything is amazing.
So... not sure if that's evidence for or against, but hey, I'm happy.
If you RTFS, the dummies here are used to train soldiers in field medicine, not target practice. They represent an injured comrade. In such situations, you really don't want to be emotional, as that soldier's survival depends on you thinking clearly, and that's where lifelike training is exactly what is great -- when confronted with such a situation, you do what you're trained to do. Of course, afterwards, processing things can be tough.
After I RTFA, it seems the summary is more FUD than anything else. I have no clear idea how the blogger pulled it out of the main article, and I didn't really feel like RTFB to find out. Perhaps, then, the unintelligibly of the summary is a backwards way to get hits.
Seems that in general, environmental problems in other countries simply go by "out of sight, out of mind." Solar panel production is another example of this.
Unfortunately, it's hard to tell what these days marketed as environmentally friendly is genuinely good for the environment and what is a marketing ploy by corporations getting on the latest bandwagon. Kudos to watchdog groups like this one that have a hope of exposing groups who are simply going for the bottom line.
if its being directed by the people of Answers in Genesis, it will be direct on with the Bible and not far from it. If you've been to the Creation Museum or read anything by Ken Ham you would know this.
Actually, it would probably be quite close to a reading of the Bible using late-1800s interpretation techniques from the revivalist evangelical tradition, which birthed a lot of the fundamentalist brands around today. It doesn't represent what Christians have thought for most of history or do now in most other denominations -- in fact, the whole idea that the earth is only 6000 years old started during the mid 1800s.
...your lack of self-control, willpower, and independent thought makes you....
It's true! I saw "news for nerds, stuff that matters" and signed up without thinking. After countless... welllllll, long story short, I am now a convert to your strategy.
everyone knows that Microsoft doesn't like its current life and wants a new one. Unfortunately, second life only allows actual people to play, so for Microsoft to be able to play as a corporation, they would have to buy it first and change the rules. Isn't that obvious?
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More important products.... yes....
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/microsoft/8287610/Xbox-Kinect-helps-Microsoft-beat-Wall-Street-profit-forecasts.html
Random forests have always been a nice classifier to use when working with really wacky data types. This is due in part to how easy it is to customize them; a lot of the ways they can be tweaked and tuned and customized have fairly intuitive effects on the outcome and behavior of the classifier. In my experience, while neural nets can also be pretty powerful, they are often much harder to work with as the parameters you have for tweaking can be really non-intuitive. We sometimes joke about neural nets being "black magic" because the training and tweaking can be really uninterpretable.
However, the biggest reason random forests were used is probably because they are extremely fast on current chips, probably a couple orders of magnitude faster than neural nets when the trees are hard coded.
FYI: I also got a 560ti this week, but I have had almost no problems with the 270.26 beta nvidia driver (running kubuntu 10.10). It took a little tweaking -- namely, make sure the settings on things like vsync match up between that and kde (both in the settings menu), don't install the 32 bit compatibility libraries (which do seem to cause problems), and blacklist noveau (which the installation process did for me automatically). With those things, everything is amazing.
So... not sure if that's evidence for or against, but hey, I'm happy.
http://xkcd.com/447/
Well, I don't have the Barney song stuck in my head anymore.
Information overload and a vague sense of ill-defined obligation leads to stress...
Really, any reason this is surprising?
Or was "4.7" already taken by KDE and thus they had to use "4.8"?
Or the fact that my tired eyes swapped "to" and "from".
Sigh... Back to working under my government grant...
NIST has also cut the number of labs it runs to 6 from 10...
Shhhhh... don't let congress get wind of what "cut" means ...
If you RTFS, the dummies here are used to train soldiers in field medicine, not target practice. They represent an injured comrade. In such situations, you really don't want to be emotional, as that soldier's survival depends on you thinking clearly, and that's where lifelike training is exactly what is great -- when confronted with such a situation, you do what you're trained to do. Of course, afterwards, processing things can be tough.
"Yes, the TSA will see you naked, but the image is digitally altered so you look 200lb heavier, and, well, chunky."
This proves, objectively, with 110% accuracy, that software piracy does negative economic harm and is actually beneficial to everyone involved.
My favorites for 11.10:
Oatiest Ogre
Orgasmic Okapi
Organic Oyster
Orthogonal Ocelot
Osculating Octopus
Ornery Otter
Ogling Owl
Obedient Orc
Opulent Ogre
And so on...
After I RTFA, it seems the summary is more FUD than anything else. I have no clear idea how the blogger pulled it out of the main article, and I didn't really feel like RTFB to find out. Perhaps, then, the unintelligibly of the summary is a backwards way to get hits.
Seems that in general, environmental problems in other countries simply go by "out of sight, out of mind." Solar panel production is another example of this.
Unfortunately, it's hard to tell what these days marketed as environmentally friendly is genuinely good for the environment and what is a marketing ploy by corporations getting on the latest bandwagon. Kudos to watchdog groups like this one that have a hope of exposing groups who are simply going for the bottom line.
if its being directed by the people of Answers in Genesis, it will be direct on with the Bible and not far from it. If you've been to the Creation Museum or read anything by Ken Ham you would know this.
Actually, it would probably be quite close to a reading of the Bible using late-1800s interpretation techniques from the revivalist evangelical tradition, which birthed a lot of the fundamentalist brands around today. It doesn't represent what Christians have thought for most of history or do now in most other denominations -- in fact, the whole idea that the earth is only 6000 years old started during the mid 1800s.
Do you live in Texas?
Hamcode, hamcode, where you been? Around the world and I'm going again...
Sorry, noone agrees with you.
Just use NeverCookie -9.
I think politics has its own brand of crowd sourcing. This sums things up nicely.
...your lack of self-control, willpower, and independent thought makes you ....
It's true! I saw "news for nerds, stuff that matters" and signed up without thinking. After countless ... welllllll, long story short, I am now a convert to your strategy.
"Why the $#%$ is the 834,734,123,233rd digit of pi wrong in my code?"
Then 6 weeks of debugging by a grad student...
Or, as likely, Rick Astley lyrics, which might be worse.
everyone knows that Microsoft doesn't like its current life and wants a new one. Unfortunately, second life only allows actual people to play, so for Microsoft to be able to play as a corporation, they would have to buy it first and change the rules. Isn't that obvious?