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jerad··on Where Sci-Hub Is
same in san francisco
jerad··on Marching neural network
This is pretty cool. It seems impossible to mouse away while maintaining the orientation. I want to be able to perturb the weights and watch from different angles. Very cool though, nonetheless.
jerad··on Microsoft Concept Graph
Wow, those are rather interesting "concepts". It's surprising most of the top results are all totally subjective (and yes highly opinionated): 'unrepentant liar', 'gas bag', 'ruthless and totally corrupt politician'...

Clearly those associated concepts didn't come from the nytimes or wikipedia, so how can they ensure accuracy when scraping these unauthoritative sources?

jerad··on Graph-Powered Machine Learning at Google
Wow, there's something funny going on with HN search there. There's a quite a few discussions about ConceptNet. https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Ahttps%3A%2F%2Fnews.yc...
jerad··on Movie and TV recommendations using doc2vec
Here's the training data and code for training doc2vec embedding on a corpus of imdb reviews.

https://github.com/jeradf/bookspace/blob/master/example/doc2...

jerad··on That’s What She Said: Double Entendre Identification (2011) [pdf]
Looked interesting, but it was sooo long.
jerad··on The arrival of man-made earthquakes
As the article states, up until 2008 Oklahoma averaged 1 earthquake per year of magnitude 3.0 or greater. In 2014 there were over 500.

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/states/oklahoma/image...

jerad··on Ask HN: How to get freelance work in academic projects?
I've worked as a research assistant in several labs in NYC. About $30-35k/year was typical. A new post-doc would make about $40k/year.
jerad··on GitHub blocked in Russia
The migration rate rises sharply in late 2011/early 2012. Putin was nominated for re-election as president in September 2011, elected March 2012