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te··on Giraffe: Using Deep Reinforcement Learning to Play Chess
http://www.technologyreview.com/view/541276/deep-learning-ma...
te··on The New Bond Market: Bigger, Riskier and More Fragile Than Ever
https://www.portfoliovisualizer.com/asset-correlations?s=y&n...

Correlation = -0.49 for 2008.

te··on Show HN: Stock recommender system using hedge fund data and machine learning
Pandora's is very good
te··on Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning (2010)
Please keep doing it; you're making the world a better place.
te··on Beginner's Guide to Time Series Analysis
And one more here: http://www.stat.pitt.edu/stoffer/tsa3/tsa3.pdf
te··on Is the average sinuosity of the world's rivers equal to pi?
Maybe the harmonic mean? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmonic_mean
te··on What’s the best way to spend $20K to help the common good?
You might find what you are looking for here: https://www.consano.org/
te··on How Adobe keeps key employees from quitting
... and renamed the annual review as a "rewards check-in".
te··on The real way to generate a list of primes in Haskell
You can get another ~3x speedup by implementing the three lines of code comprising the "simple wheel" described at bottom of page 8 of the referenced O'Neill paper.
te··on Markov Composer – Using machine learning and a Markov chain to compose music
http://www.piano-e-competition.com/midi_2009.asp
te··on Show HN: Get a personal site on your own domain name in just a few minutes
Would like to see "gallery" of what the different sites (ie professional vs creative) look like as well as what is and isn't customizable / configurable.
te··on I Just Poured Water on my Scanner
> Pliny the Elder (23-79AD) describes how glass balls filled with water could set clothes on fire when placed in line with the sun.

Really? Sounds like a job for Adam and Jamie.

te··on YC Stats Winter 2015
This grabbed my attention, also. Anyone know of this entrepreneur and his/her start-up?
te··on Text-only video game shows how genre can be beautiful, innovative and complex
Until I can find my old Infocom Masterpieces CD, which free-to-play IF should I use to introduce my 10-yr-old son to the genre?
te··on Game Theory
Not strictly online, but this course is very good. Unfortunately, a little pricey.

http://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/games-people-play-gam...

te··on Persistent Associations Between Prenatal Exposure to Phthalates and Child IQ
Agreed.

My kids may be too rough on them for glass, so I may tend towards stainless steel. However, this article shows a nice range of options:

http://ecowatch.com/2014/03/13/non-toxic-bpa-free-bottles/

te··on Persistent Associations Between Prenatal Exposure to Phthalates and Child IQ
My kids drink out of plastic water bottles all day long, both at school and then at soccer practice in the evening. What is the safest material for water bottles? Is BPA-free good enough?
te··on Tesla’s electric man
Where does Li-ion plateau on that chart? The two preceding technologies (NiMH, NiCd) also "doubled every ten years" until they didn't.
te··on Volumetric Particle Flow
Really wish there was convention to annotate link titles that immediately bog the CPU.
te··on Ask HN: How to overcome the fear of doing more than your co-founder?
The solution is to recognize that a fair equity split means something other than 50/50.
te··on Trello Spins Out of Fog Creek With $10.3M
How do the option holders in the parent capture their share of the equity in the spinco in a transaction like this?
te··on July 2014 Author Earnings Report
The data only show that DRM is weakly correlated with lower ebook sales; or, if you like, that foregoing DRM is weakly correlated with higher ebook sales. While one explanation would be that the presence (or lack of) DRM is the causative factor, I think it's a bit more likely that thoughtful authors both forego DRM and write better books.
te··on “A little bit of slope makes up for a lot of y-intercept”
http://web.stanford.edu/~ouster/cgi-bin/sayings.php
te··on German tank problem
The frequentist and Bayesian analyses give different answers to the central question. Which one is more correct?
te··on TrueCrypt Volumes are Indistinguishable from Random Data
http://xkcd.com/538/
te··on CarWoo is shutting down
How is TrueCar's model different from what CarWoo was doing?
te··on The Tuesday boy problem, in under 300 words
That GB is twice as likely as either GG or BB. For this reason, reference is made to BG to make this more apparent.
te··on Vehicular manslaughter charge upgraded to murder because of tweets
If youth reduces culpability, the driving age is too low.
te··on Content-based image classification in Python
For this particular problem, how does the proposed solution compare to just classifying based on image size?
te··on OpenCola Soft Drink
~2 kg (!) of sugar to just ~2 liters of water? I know there's a lot of sugar in cola, but that just seems like ... a lot.

After some googling, I'm guessing it's off by an order of magnitude and it should be 0.236 kg of sugar ...

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