HN user

alceufc

341 karma

Data Scientist at Itaú, São Paulo, Brazil

Posts20
Comments29
View on HN
www.ft.com 1y ago

It pays to use AI on the sly at work

alceufc
2pts1
news.cnrs.fr 9y ago

Nero’s Rotating Dining Room [video]

alceufc
94pts19
well.blogs.nytimes.com 10y ago

Computer Vision Syndrome Affects Millions

alceufc
1pts1
thegreatfredini.com 10y ago

There’s Something Fishy About the Other Nefertiti

alceufc
11pts0
www.nytimes.com 10y ago

El Salvador's Advice on Zika: Don't Have Babies

alceufc
2pts0
www.geekwire.com 10y ago

Startup refuels your car while you work

alceufc
1pts0
www.technologyreview.com 10y ago

Map of the World’s Neutrinos Exposes Nuclear Activity Wherever It’s Happening

alceufc
3pts0
dat-data.com 10y ago

Dat: a tool for managing datasets

alceufc
3pts0
www.nature.com 10y ago

Genetic evidence for two founding populations of the Americas

alceufc
20pts4
www.bloomberg.com 11y ago

U.S. Says 4M Federal Employees Affected by Data Breach

alceufc
2pts0
www.wsj.com 11y ago

Apple iTunes Sees Big Drop in Music Sales

alceufc
34pts56
www.businesswire.com 11y ago

TAG Heuer, Google and Intel Announce Swiss Smartwatch Collaboration

alceufc
2pts0
www.cmu.edu 11y ago

Uber, Carnegie Mellon Announce Strategic Partnership

alceufc
1pts0
www.theverge.com 11y ago

How Google scans your Gmail for child porn

alceufc
3pts0
www.cs.cmu.edu 12y ago

My Half Workday as a Turker

alceufc
245pts94
www.nature.com 12y ago

Nature is launching a journal for datasets

alceufc
1pts0
www.alceufc.com 12y ago

Texture classification

alceufc
4pts0
rt.com 12y ago

Brazil passes 'internet constitution' ahead of global conference on web future

alceufc
2pts0
www.jasondavies.com 12y ago

World Airports Voronoi

alceufc
11pts1
www.cmu.edu 12y ago

Model Predicts Growth, Death of Facebook and Other Membership-based Websites

alceufc
2pts0

"Mining of Massive Datasets" by Leskovec, Rajaraman and Ullman is very good.

Although the post gives a link to the Amazon page of the book, PDFs of the chapters are free to download at the official book web site[1].

[1] http://www.mmds.org/

Very interesting approach.

I have worked with image feature extraction in the past. Although using DCT coefficients has been used as a way to analyze texture features, the idea idea of generating the hash (step 5) seems to be new.

I am curious however on why you are discarding color information. Usually for reverse image search this kind of information can be quite useful.

Log-binning can be useful. However it has some disadvantages.

I think that in your case your data (server response time?) looks good because you probably have a log-logistic or log-normal distribution.

Suppose you were working with values that are exponentially distributed which is also a reasonable hypothesis for your data. In that case the log-binned histogram would like a plateau with the exception of the beginning and ending bins. In this scenario a linear-binning approach would probably be better.

Unfortunately, I think that there is no approach for bucketing that is good for all situations. Usually the best approach will depend on your data and also on what you are trying to analyze.

Euclid: The Game 12 years ago

Very nice game.

One problem for me is that by default the comments from other users are shown, sometimes with the solution for the level.

Dear FFC, 12 years ago

I like the idea, the problem would be the let my address publicly available to everyone.

Is there any style or guidelines for citing code (e.g. as we have APA for citing papers)?

Usually when I want to give credit to a software or code that I have used I cite the paper that describes the that software or code.

Another point: if you attribute a DOI to your code, that could result in it "stealing" the citations from a paper that describe that code.

I really like the idea of the Web site as a whole: explaining concepts from computer vision in a simple way.

When I was starting my masters course I was interested in learning what the concept of bag of words in computer vision was all about. Although it is straightforward technique, there are few examples on the Web explaining how to implement it (clustering the feature vectors and etc.)

Flood Maps 12 years ago

At 60m a considerable portion of the Brazilian amazon would be invaded by the sea.

Did they reduce the price or is glass still $1,500? I could not find this information on the web site.

I am very curious about what will be the final price for glass and more specifically, if it will be more expensive or cheaper than an iPhone or equivalent Android phone.

WebGL raytraced eye 12 years ago

Maybe it is really ray-traced. Notice that the simulation allows you to control camera focus and aperture.