This keyboard could be a boon to Emacs users. pressing a key "lightly" could mean to run the lisp function bound to the "light press" of the key. Many common operations would no longer require Control or Meta chords.
The code is not shared unless they wanted it to be. You can't take the current leader's code and make an improvement unless the team gives you their code. This was not how the contest was run.
Basically impossible. The teams cannot compute their improvement. Netflix computes the improvement. The improvement is computed on a "secret" test dataset that only Netflix has access to. The models are developed on a public dataset available to everyone.
Merely adequate is not really correct. R's basic "graphics" package is not bad, but you simply must look at the "lattice" and "ggplot2" packages. There are entire books written on the two latter packages by their respective authors. Also see the book "R Graphics" by Paul Murrell, which will introduce you to the "grid" package, a low-level plotting package in R (upon which lattice and ggplot are based). I've made some pretty interesting graphics with it using minimal code, and combined with R's data manipulation and statistical methodology, it's a very useful combination.
Second the NC-10, best thing I've purchased in the last five years. Completely agree about it on flights, and the keyboard is actually not bad to type on. The battery life though, awesome.
For the most part, you're right. But I think most people accept a causal model based on randomization and blinding. For instance in a double-blind, randomized control clinical trial.
For high school students, I think the Gelfand books listed here are some of the best books available to really understand the subjects they set to teach (note that I have absolutely no experience with the program at Rutgers, that's one of the few pages I can find referencing this great collection though). I certainly find them better teaching guides than the typical mammoth text books for geometry and trig. I would seriously consider basing classes off of these books if I were allowed to.
I almost got the HP Mini 1000 but decided on a different netbook due to the proprietary VGA cable needed to connect the HP to a larger screen. I went with the Samsung NC10 instead, and I am not disappointed in the least. The first thing I did was to install Ubuntu on the Samsung, and it works just fine for the most part (the function keys to control brightness being the only thing I had to work around). I got a 2GB stick of RAM for it, and honestly don't find it underpowered in the least. I think it's a great machine to bring on the road to get some coding done; I don't think it's limited to simply web browsing and email.
Hey, since yours is the only comment modded 4 or higher with any technical knowledge, I have a question for you. We got my mom an HDTV a couple years ago, and she was only paying for basic cable, no digital boxes in the house at all. When we set it up, I did a "channel scan" and the TV picked up some HD channels with numbers like 121.1 (as an example). Many of these were just the big networks HD feeds, like ABC, CBS, etc. But there was a block of channels even higher up that were HD movies. And we'd be watching them, and then all of a sudden they'd flip to a different movie, or rewind itself and play again. I guess we were 'intercepting' some neighbors' on-demand movies. Could this be what happened in AZ during the superbowl? For all I know, that's what you just described, so pardon my ignorance.
You have absolutely no idea what you are talking about. Statistics are, to the contrary, one of the best ways to study things such as these. Your hypothetical experiment is of course ridiculous. However, imagine that we had many subjects *randomly* assigned to eating oranges, and many subjects assigned to eating placebo oranges. They did not know which one they were eating, nor did whoever was evaluating their "stress levels". Now, what if the group assigned to eating oranges had a statistically significant lower stress level? Then our conclusion would be that oranges cause lower stress levels. Now, I did not read this experiment, but if mice were *randomly* assigned to different treatments, a causal conclusion could certainly be warranted.
Many studies, such as this one, are well aware of the 'defect'. The point isn't to show causation always, proving correlation can be a very valuable result in a study, it helps us understand structure of data and generates hypotheses for future studies. And for the record, there has never been a randomized, blinded, clinical trial that shows smoking causes cancer.
OK, so what about if you believe there's one pink unicorn with the Pillsbury doughboy riding it in the fridge: delusional or not under your definition?
I'm sorry, you seem to know what you're talking about, and can express yourself clearly and effectively, could you please find another web site to post on?
Well I'm glad that worked for you. I did a math major, and can't imagine having to teach myself everything I learned in four years. I don't think I would have known where to start to be honest, or have the discipline to work out so many problems on a nightly basis. I don't know anyone who didn't have a job prior, during, and after college either though, so we are probably from very different places. I never looked at my degree as a 'piece of paper' either, I think in a completely different way now. I really don't think I could be where I am now without having had the professors, classmates, and experiences I had in college and grad school. If you didn't learn anything in school, you're either really smart, or maybe should have done a more challenging program or university.
For example C-h f RET kill-rectangle RET gives me:::
kill-rectangle is an interactive autoloaded Lisp function.
It is bound to C-x r k.
(kill-rectangle start end &optional fill)
Delete the region-rectangle and save it as the last killed one.
When called from a program the rectangle's corners are start and end. You might prefer to use `delete-extract-rectangle' from a program.
With a prefix (or a fill) argument, also fill lines where nothing has to be deleted.
If the buffer is read-only, Emacs will beep and refrain from deleting the rectangle, but put it in the kill ring anyway. This means that you can use this command to copy text from a read-only buffer. (If the variable `kill-read-only-ok' is non-nil, then this won't even beep.)
1)First, ESS, Emacs speaks statistics, found at http://ess.r-project.org/ . This lets you interface interactively with R, SAS, Stata, etc., all from the common Emacs interface. As a statistician, it's the one piece of software I could not do very well without!
2) The 'ido' package, with flex matching, in my.emacs,
3) Make the mouse jump away when you type over it. (mouse-avoidance-mode 'cat-and-mouse)
4) Open two windows side-by-side (C-x 3) one with LaTeX code, one with a pdf, then use this in your.emacs, (add-hook 'doc-view-mode-hook 'auto-revert-mode), when you compile the.tex file into PDF, the PDF automatically updates in Emacs, I used that a lot while working on my CV.
5) The thunderbird extension that lets me compose replies in Emacs using emacsclient.
7) preview-latex, now part of AUCTeX, this lets you see preview versions of formulae and graphics inline in your.text file, *while you edit*. Your formula is replaced by what it will look like when compiled.
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This keyboard could be a boon to Emacs users. pressing a key "lightly" could mean to run the lisp function bound to the "light press" of the key. Many common operations would no longer require Control or Meta chords.
The code is not shared unless they wanted it to be. You can't take the current leader's code and make an improvement unless the team gives you their code. This was not how the contest was run.
Basically impossible. The teams cannot compute their improvement. Netflix computes the improvement. The improvement is computed on a "secret" test dataset that only Netflix has access to. The models are developed on a public dataset available to everyone.
Merely adequate is not really correct. R's basic "graphics" package is not bad, but you simply must look at the "lattice" and "ggplot2" packages. There are entire books written on the two latter packages by their respective authors. Also see the book "R Graphics" by Paul Murrell, which will introduce you to the "grid" package, a low-level plotting package in R (upon which lattice and ggplot are based). I've made some pretty interesting graphics with it using minimal code, and combined with R's data manipulation and statistical methodology, it's a very useful combination.
Second the NC-10, best thing I've purchased in the last five years. Completely agree about it on flights, and the keyboard is actually not bad to type on. The battery life though, awesome.
For the most part, you're right. But I think most people accept a causal model based on randomization and blinding. For instance in a double-blind, randomized control clinical trial.
Yah, my dad told me that joke, too. Except his punchline was "You were the only one stupid enough to pull over".
For high school students, I think the Gelfand books listed here are some of the best books available to really understand the subjects they set to teach (note that I have absolutely no experience with the program at Rutgers, that's one of the few pages I can find referencing this great collection though). I certainly find them better teaching guides than the typical mammoth text books for geometry and trig. I would seriously consider basing classes off of these books if I were allowed to.
I almost got the HP Mini 1000 but decided on a different netbook due to the proprietary VGA cable needed to connect the HP to a larger screen. I went with the Samsung NC10 instead, and I am not disappointed in the least. The first thing I did was to install Ubuntu on the Samsung, and it works just fine for the most part (the function keys to control brightness being the only thing I had to work around). I got a 2GB stick of RAM for it, and honestly don't find it underpowered in the least. I think it's a great machine to bring on the road to get some coding done; I don't think it's limited to simply web browsing and email.
Hey, since yours is the only comment modded 4 or higher with any technical knowledge, I have a question for you. We got my mom an HDTV a couple years ago, and she was only paying for basic cable, no digital boxes in the house at all. When we set it up, I did a "channel scan" and the TV picked up some HD channels with numbers like 121.1 (as an example). Many of these were just the big networks HD feeds, like ABC, CBS, etc. But there was a block of channels even higher up that were HD movies. And we'd be watching them, and then all of a sudden they'd flip to a different movie, or rewind itself and play again. I guess we were 'intercepting' some neighbors' on-demand movies. Could this be what happened in AZ during the superbowl? For all I know, that's what you just described, so pardon my ignorance.
I'll wait for the large, double-blind study after they've isolated what exactly in the marijuana, if anything, reduces the risk of Alzheimer's.
Does smoking cigarettes cause lung cancer? Could you please cite a large, double-blind, randomized clinical trial that demonstrated that?
Also agree about R. Also, consider hiring a statistical consultant. They do this kind of thing all the time.
Were there any further details? Truly a Klingon icon.
Hating Lisp says more about you than it does about Lisp.
http://www.paulgraham.com/icad.html
You have absolutely no idea what you are talking about. Statistics are, to the contrary, one of the best ways to study things such as these. Your hypothetical experiment is of course ridiculous. However, imagine that we had many subjects *randomly* assigned to eating oranges, and many subjects assigned to eating placebo oranges. They did not know which one they were eating, nor did whoever was evaluating their "stress levels". Now, what if the group assigned to eating oranges had a statistically significant lower stress level? Then our conclusion would be that oranges cause lower stress levels. Now, I did not read this experiment, but if mice were *randomly* assigned to different treatments, a causal conclusion could certainly be warranted.
You can do real-time simultaneous editing with multi-tty mode in Emacs 23. I don't know how useful it is though.
obligatory correlation is not causation post.
Many studies, such as this one, are well aware of the 'defect'. The point isn't to show causation always, proving correlation can be a very valuable result in a study, it helps us understand structure of data and generates hypotheses for future studies. And for the record, there has never been a randomized, blinded, clinical trial that shows smoking causes cancer.
OK, so what about if you believe there's one pink unicorn with the Pillsbury doughboy riding it in the fridge: delusional or not under your definition?
I'm sorry, you seem to know what you're talking about, and can express yourself clearly and effectively, could you please find another web site to post on?
Well I'm glad that worked for you. I did a math major, and can't imagine having to teach myself everything I learned in four years. I don't think I would have known where to start to be honest, or have the discipline to work out so many problems on a nightly basis. I don't know anyone who didn't have a job prior, during, and after college either though, so we are probably from very different places. I never looked at my degree as a 'piece of paper' either, I think in a completely different way now. I really don't think I could be where I am now without having had the professors, classmates, and experiences I had in college and grad school. If you didn't learn anything in school, you're either really smart, or maybe should have done a more challenging program or university.
Yes, multi-tty, check out a video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GL534DarBNw
Simple, C-h f RET RET
For example C-h f RET kill-rectangle RET gives me:::
kill-rectangle is an interactive autoloaded Lisp function.
It is bound to C-x r k.
(kill-rectangle start end &optional fill)
Delete the region-rectangle and save it as the last killed one.
When called from a program the rectangle's corners are start and end.
You might prefer to use `delete-extract-rectangle' from a program.
With a prefix (or a fill) argument, also fill lines where nothing has to be
deleted.
If the buffer is read-only, Emacs will beep and refrain from deleting
the rectangle, but put it in the kill ring anyway. This means that
you can use this command to copy text from a read-only buffer.
(If the variable `kill-read-only-ok' is non-nil, then this won't
even beep.)
1)First, ESS, Emacs speaks statistics, found at http://ess.r-project.org/ . This lets you interface interactively with R, SAS, Stata, etc., all from the common Emacs interface. As a statistician, it's the one piece of software I could not do very well without!
2) The 'ido' package, with flex matching, in my .emacs,
(require 'ido)
(ido-mode t)
(setq ido-enable-flex-matching t)
This lets you open files and switch buffers with fuzzy matching, really nice when you have lots of things open.
See: http://www.emacsblog.org/2008/05/19/giving-ido-mode-a-second-chance/
3) Make the mouse jump away when you type over it.
(mouse-avoidance-mode 'cat-and-mouse)
4) Open two windows side-by-side (C-x 3) one with LaTeX code, one with a pdf, then use this in your .emacs, (add-hook 'doc-view-mode-hook 'auto-revert-mode), when you compile the .tex file into PDF, the PDF automatically updates in Emacs, I used that a lot while working on my CV.
5) The thunderbird extension that lets me compose replies in Emacs using emacsclient.
6) org-mode http://www.org-mode.org/
7) preview-latex, now part of AUCTeX, this lets you see preview versions of formulae and graphics inline in your .text file, *while you edit*. Your formula is replaced by what it will look like when compiled.
8) EmacsWiki: http://www.emacswiki.org/
Cryptography: Unique in computing in that it is a field where the so-called experts, really are experts
--modified from Jack Handy
I don't know the legal issues of P2PTV, but I think TVants does exactly what you're looking for. It does work under Wine, too.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TVants