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Comment · 14 years ago
Both derby and meteor don't support relational databases. Give me a realtime graph or relational database.
Comment · 14 years ago
Sense (http://www.senseplatform.com, http://angel.co/sense) - San Francisco
Sense is a next-generation platform for data analysis, statistical modeling, and business analytics. We're building amazing technology and need help at all parts of the stack.
We're a tiny company of three. You will be a core team member building amazing technology in a fast paced, drama free, intellectually stimulating, environment. Competitive salary and equity.
= Lead Full Stack Web Developer =
* Experience building highly interactive, client-side, web applications (Backbone/AngularJS/Ember/etc).
* Deep knowledge of JavaScript / NodeJS.
* Experience building large systems on AWS.
* Highly productive and independent.
= Lead UI Designer =
* Fluent in Adobe Creative Suite.
* Pixel perfect design for print, mobile, and web UI.
* Ability to lead entire UI design and branding effort.
* Knowledge of JavaScript/HTML/CSS a plus but not required.
* Interest in data visualization a plus.
= Senior Technical Developer =
* Deep knowledge of numerical and statistical computing and familiarity with existing tools R/Matlab/SAS/SPSS/Stata.
* Experience building big data systems.
* Fluent in C++.
* Knowledge of JavaScript/V8/NodeJS a plus.
* Love of Bayesian statistics and MCMC samplers a plus.
* Experience with OpenCL and LLVM a plus.
* PhD a plus but not required.
Email: [email protected]
Comment · 14 years ago
It's coming soon and much more: http://angel.co/sense, http://www.senseplatform.com. Three of us, full time, for over a year.
Comment · 14 years ago
Both are correct but they target different things. The disagreement is around what is the target should be and the advantages and disadvantages of choosing these targets. Bayesians are interested in p(unknown|data) and frequentists are interested in p(data|unknown = H0). Inference can be framed either way but means different things.
Comment · 14 years ago
Impressively fast. Is the voice recognition being done exclusively on Google's servers or is there a local component?
Comment · 14 years ago
They are creating decentralized mechanisms for free individuals to find individually and socially beneficial outcomes. The free market organized by the U.S. legal system is one such mechanism, but certainly not the only one.
Comment · 14 years ago
I'd recommend using as many real examples as possible. Things like forecasting, product recommendations, topic modeling, etc. While you can conceptually explain how Bayesian statistics is a unified recipe, it's incredibly hard to have this sink in with toy problems. This is especially true since many people using traditional tools are actually using advanced methods to solve real problems, so when they start reading about urns or doors it all comes across as rather academic. That's sad because the benefit of Bayesian coherency is mostly that it leads to a highly productive mode of practical data analysis.
Definitely shoot me an email at [email protected] if you're interested in the computational side of this area. At Sense (http://www.senseplatform.com), we're working on making applied Bayesian analysis as amazing as it should be.
Comment · 14 years ago
My problem with books like this is that they have almost no connection to why Bayesian statistics is successful: Bayesian statistics provides a unified recipe to tackle complex data analysis problems. Arguably the only known unified recipe.
The Bayesian book I want should emphasize how Bayes is a recipe for studying complex problems and teach a broad range of model ingredients. Learning Bayesian statistics is about becoming fluent in describing scientific problems in probabilistic language. This requires knowing how to express and compose traditional models and build new ones based on first principles.
An unfortunate reality is that you still need to know computational methods too, but that should change soon enough.
Comment · 14 years ago
You could come work at Sense (http://www.senseplatform.com) or email me [email protected]. Not Google scale, but the same technological challenges without the legacy bagage.
Comment · 14 years ago
I'm really not sure this is true. I'd like to see evidence of it because certainly the people I know who buy android do it for features. That's also how they evangelize. It seems to work. Apple has a great marketing strategy but that doesn't mean the best competitive response is to mimic it.
Comment · 14 years ago
This would be very interesting to lots of people. There are lots of half-baked sandbox solutions so seeing what you guys did you be interesting.
Comment · 14 years ago
A lot of comments suggest that Apple and maybe even Google are deliberately keeping HTML5 performance subpar. I think this misses a key fact: Google has struggled for years to make native Android apps match iOS performance, even for simple things like scrolling a list. The fact is Apple set a standard with iOS that is incredibly hard to meet regardless of the technology.
The conclusion is sound though. Companies that build mobile apps using HTML5 in 2012 will almost certainly face the fate of companies that built web apps using Java applets in 1998.
Comment · 14 years ago
Unfortunately it still feels broken on ios.
Comment · 14 years ago
Unfortunately no, but you're welcome to email me at [email protected].