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Connect it to Fresh Direct (and understand the quantities things are actually sold in?) and I'd be in love...

This is awesome if you actually want to understand the linear algebra behind it.

A useful paper is also Bryan and Leise's The $25B Eigenvector, The Linear Algebra Behind Google.

Yes, you should probably buy it if you're serious about the company.

Some measure of privacy & control.

Of course, if you care enough about that you shouldn't be using any exterior service.

No, that's exactly the problem the post is complaining about. It still results in credentials being sent in plaintext in the original request.

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I play SC2. I'm on an iPhone. Your site is broken for me, and made it do I didn't download the app.

The FEC mandates many political groups detail all transactions in publicly available databases. If the relevant laws cover you, you can use that to see what other people in your organization make.

I never found it too upsetting, except as additional evidence for why people I thought were incompetent should go.

God that sounds awful.

YouGov does online polling, which allows them to get very large sample sizes for national polls. I believe they had on the order of 36,000 for their final poll. Compare that to others with just ~1000.

Oh Jing Jing... So kinda tasty..,

They are, and continue to. However everyone needs to be able to talk and work together. It's like hiring a programmer to write genome sequencing software. They need to know some biology! In this case the stats people need to know some CS, the CS people some stats, and they both need to know some business.

BitCoin has a pretty serious stigma as an unreliable, hacker friendly currency/scam for trying to buy illegal shit. I think embracing it on a platform that's already niche will make it harder to be seen as a legitimate platform for earning a living.

The School of General Studies is entirely separate from the School of Continuing Education.

GS awards bachelor degrees (mostly BAs, some BSs) and a post-baccalaureate certification in premedical sciences. It has rigorous admissions requirements including test scores and transcripts. It is not open enrollment, and you must be working toward a degree (or the postbac premed certificate).

The School of Continuing Education doesn't award undergraduate degrees, and general classes are closer to open enrollment. SCE does have some professional masters degrees, like actuarial science, that I believe do require admissions.

My understanding is that Gac has been at Columbia for 20 years. The first ~7 were taking English classes through the School of Continuing Education. After that he was admitted to GS to pursue a bachelor's degree. However that wasn't automatic for him, or anyone.

Interesting problem for those who've worked with record linkage or any fuzzy string work before.

Yesterday the mac version was 2.8, so I think that's a bit of hyperbole.

Excellent video. Does a great job of explaining how it actually works.