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Your exterior says a lot about how your home is maintained both inside and out. When a buyer drives by your home or views photos on line this will create a lasting impression, so show them that your property is well cared for. When buyers see an attractive exterior they will be eager to stop and excited to view the interior as well.
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This a very old and very good school. 'Illuminato' was the word
that founder William Waynflete had in mind back in 1480 when MCS
started out as 'a school of the university and within the
university'. And illuminato is definitely still the thing, as
pupils score so spectacularly well that the school consistently
appears in the top five of the league tables and a third of pupils
leave for Oxbridge each year. It is academically tough here but
parents commend the teachers for committed nurturing. Head (known
as master) Timothy Hands says the school 'celebrates independent
thought and enquiring minds' and these days the pupils are
enlightened through extracurricular lectures and independent
research projects overseen by an Oxford don. MCS's theatre is being
overhauled and in the meantime it has joined up with the Oxford Playhouse, which means students
get to work with professional directors and producers. A recent
collaboration was The Aeneid, part of the school's annual, nine-day
arts festival - a serious (and impressive) enterprise. They have a
host of ex-pros coaching the sports teams (Phil De Freitas for
cricket and Tongan Tevita Vaikona for rugby) and the school's rugby
captain was selected for the England Independent Schools
College School in Tatler Schools Guide 2012
Dr Timothy Hands, DPhil, since 2008; previously head of Portsmouth Grammar School
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Common Entrance or school's own exam; interview and at least 25 points at GCSE (where A* = 4, A = 3, etc) for sixth form
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3. Social security tax is placed on ALL income.
4. The Attorney General must be a member of the party not in power.
5. All conversations between members of Congress and lobbyists are taped.
6. All political parties have TV time based on percent of vote obtained in last presidential election.
7. Congressmen must submit proof each week that at least ten meals were eaten at home.
8. Each week at least one lunch time meal must be eaten together by members of the Republican and Democratic party.
9. A nomination submitted by the president must be acted upon within ninety days, yes or no.
10. In each state a non-partisan group decides congressional district boundaries.
11. "Rule of Ten" means no member can delay a vote on a bill for more than ten days.
12. Wives of members of Congress have a weekly luncheon with discussion about politics off limit.
13. The president of the US must have a private meeting with each member of Congress during the year.
14. At least ten percent of the Cabinet must be under the age of 30.
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Recently I have been releasing a few preview builds on twitter for my followers, but I thought hey why not let everyone in on the action! This is built from source, 4.0.3r1. Please DO NOT report bugs yet, as I know what and what does not work. Some people are actually using this as their daily, tho it is not ready for that imho. Once we get into an 'alpha' or 'beta' state, i will redo the thread will all the good stuff and more information. Please only flash this if you know what you are doing for the time being.
*What works*
Most everything is working, although you may encounter a few FC's here and there and find some other bugs on the way.
*Whats new*
USB mass storage mounting.
Some Cleanup.
Waaaaay too much to list.
Camera. (no video or panoramic modes yet)
Lots and lots of backend work.
As always, thank you toastcfh and the cm team for various things here and there, preludedrew and evervolv for various things here and there and also the kernel, and everybody else that contributes to this community. This will also be updated as the rom progresses.
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Donations are VERY much appreciated and go towards new devices for support.
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installing a hanging propane heater
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I picked up a 60,000 BTU propane heater at an auction for $10. I don't know much about them. I find hanging clearances and lighting instructions specified on the cabinet, so there's not much left to know.
Just a couple questions, the tag says it must be mounted 8' above the floor. Any particular reason for that? That will be rather difficult in my garage, seeing as how the ceiling is 8' high.
Also, how hot can I expect the vent pipe coming out the back to get? As in, will it be hot enough where I run it through the ceiling and the roof to where I need to buy insulated vent pipe, or will the standard single wall vent pipe suffice? The tag specifies 6" clearance to the ceiling and sides, so I will mount it very close to the ceiling.
Hope your garage is bigger than a one car or that thing is going to be overkill. If you'e only got an eight foot high ceiling then you will mount it only as high as you feasibly can maintaining at-least the six inch clearance between the ceiling and the top of the unit. You will need an insulated vent pipe for sure.
You could install a heat shield above it and likely reduce the clearance needed. Definitely use the proper vent pipe.
I would set it up and test fire it before I would put much effort into mounting it to the ceiling.
The garage is detached, 23' x 23' - a two car unit. Yes, I expect this thing will warm it up pretty fast. It's also not insulated. I know, it needs insulation, but it's just not in the budget right now. The house need more in the attic before the garage needs any. Meanwhile, I'm trying to restore a car in there, and it's winter time.
The thought of firing it up before installing it has crossed my mind. I should do that.
ask around to some local remodeling contractors- I insulated parts of my
basement with insulation removed during nrenovations which was going to
be thrown out they were happy to save the dumpster space. Jim
isn't that the air conditioner that Al bundy bought ? i think it was a kiser .lol
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Ha ha. Yeah, I think Al's Kaiser was a cardboard box with a couple tubes and a crank sticking out of it and painted black. It did put out more hot air than cold air.
I know, this thing is pretty old. That's part of what I like about it. That, and the fact that I got it for $10. I like old cars, old tools and old equipment. Take a look at my mill. It's ancient, but hey, tooling is still available for it and it has a power feed on the X axis. It's massive and heavy and does what I need to do. It was cheap too. No one else wanted it.
8 ft min is probably an ul listing requirement for grounding or an electrical thingy, lucky for you that doesn't pertain to you, you just need to remember to duck. the only problem i see is you need to vent up to draw the fumes out. if you can vent it throught the roof to get more draw on the flue. if you can't go through the roof, turn the pipe up and a couple feet over the highest point in your roof. either way buy a roof or wall thimble that is used for gas heaters, to keep your garage from burning down. good purchase price, but i think thirdmouse got a better deal on his rube goldburg mill.
That thing looks like its about 3' high or so, I would use it like a wood stove in the corner if possible. Build a stand out of block wall cinder blocks mortared together about 1 or 2 corses off of the concrete floor and somehow fasten the heater to it. You only have an 8' ceiling, it would be a lot easier that trying to hang it.
I would hang this in a corner, facing out toward the front of the shop, if possible. wonder board with a one inch spacer between the wonder board and the wall or ceiling should give you a good shield to prevent pyrolysis, if this was to be a concern. Sheetrock is dang near fire resistant, but heat with time can be a concern to the structure behind the sheetrock. Test fire it for sure before hanging.
Use the pipe recommend, should be something like hot water heater vent. Go as straight up as possible, use a thimble or flashing through the roof.
There's not a whole lot to these units, a valve, an igniter, a thermocouple, thermopile or 2. Much like a gas dryer, they are easily repaired. Good luck, let us know how this works.
had a similar natural gas reznor brand heater in my garage up north you could work in a t-shirt while it was snowing outside. same thing 1 1/2 car garage free standing. hung mine in the corner double wall straight up thru the attic and . use thecorrect roof flashing and vent cap should be no problem . used what we called gimlet rods threaded metal shaft with wood thread on one emd 3/8" thread on other end to mount a piece of unistrut to the roof joists. then the top of the heater usually had a few female threads to insert threaded rod in the top to hang it. you may need more then 1 unistrut setup. you can also use lag boolts to hold the unistrut
You must use a B-type venting pipe for your vertical venting. It is a double walled pipe. You will need at least 5' of total vertical venting with 2 1/2 to 3' above the roof. B-type vent pipe requires 1'' of clearance to combustibles.
I would stick to the 6'' of clearance above the unit these units do get hot.
DO NOT mount this on the floor of your shop!!!! Fumes will ignite and you will have a toothpick factory where your shop used to be.
DO NOT run the venting out the side of your shop horizontally. It must go vertical.
MAKE SURE the unit has not been converted back to natural gas and is still propane fired before you hook any gas to it.
DO NOT connect your propane tank directly to the heater.
MAKE SURE you get you get the proper pressure regulator and mount it near the tank. YOU will need about 13 inches of water column of gas pressure going into the gas valve 10 inches at the manifold, any more and it can be dangerous.
Leave about 12'' of space behind the unit to any wall for proper air flow.
Mount the thermostat under the unit on the wall.
The 8' rule would be for fumes and dust combustion. Also because people like to use gas fired units for handy storage, papers on top of them cardboard boxes next to them, VERY BAD IDEAS. Most code only reguire 18'' to the burners on newer appliances, But you have no duct work to route the air flow. Go as high as possible!
You are installing a pressurized gas appliance in an enclosed space, use common sence and be carfull if you are unsure of anything call your local gas company or HVAC shop.
Don't want to get you scared of this just be carefull. Just a small reminder of this.
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Floor mounting is not even an option in my garage. Space is at such a premium in here. The garage is 23' x 23' with two cars and two motorcycles in it, and one of the cars is completely disassembled for restoration and all the parts of it are in here. Both motorcycles are easily accessible. When I think about all the large tools and equipment and workbenches and stuff in here, even I am amazed. This garage is an exercise in how much stuff can I get in here and still do anything. I can't walk in a straight line in here anywhere. It's very claustrophobic. You do with what you have.
The gas valve states that it's for propane, as well as the tag on the cabinet. I don't think I can miss there. It came with a regulator on the line. All I have to do at this point is connect it to the tank. The wiring will not remain as it appears here. This is the way I got it. I've used kerosene heaters for many years and I'm conscientious enough to not set combustibles around them. I'd use the one I have out there now, but I can't spare the floor space for it.
The unit stands 28" high. Here is the corner where I will hang it. It won't be 8' off the floor, but there's no way anyone will be walking underneath it. I will have to relocate my sandblast cabinet, probably over in front of the window, and cut some shelving back a little to open up the corner. The camera angle makes it look cramped up there, but there is plenty more than the six inch clearance all the way around that is specified on the cabinet. Being in the corner will allow plenty of room behind it. It will angle out and put most of the hot air right where I usually work. I hope to at least test fire it this week. My brother and his family are visiting next week and he could help me hang it. There is only dial up available where we live and I can't watch anything on utube. I take it that someone's garage is blowing up.
Again I was not and am not trying to get you scared of this unit.!
I'm sure you are more than capable of installing this. When I read your post a couple of red flags went up for me, sounded as if you were "going to plug and play" so to speak. I've been in the heating and air conditioning trade for 12 years, and so I thought I would speak my mind.
These are very simple units, hook up gas, venting, electric and a thermostat, light the pilot light and your cooking.
I don't think hanging it lower than 8' feet would be bad, it happens all the time, But just something the manufacture must put in writing.
I would guess that your good with the propane gas feed, But I have seen mobile homes that are marked for propane running natural gas. This is hard to tell usually the propane orifices are smaller and run at slightly higher gas pressure. So if you hook up your propane tank and get it running, it should light fairly smooth (if the unit has not been serviced in a while it may light rough) BUT if there is any flame spilling out of the burner tubes, or the flame is very blue SHUT IT DOWN, and have a hvac guy look it over. Check your pressure regulator it should have either have a pressure of IN. WC. or PSI cast into it or on a rating plate. If it does not have one marked or is over 14 in. wc. (or 0.48 psi) do not use it.
The youtube was just one video of a big natural gas explosion we had not quite a year ago. It took out 3 100 year old buildings in the middle of our downtown, just a little reminder that it really can go BOOM.
So i'm sure you can do this safely, your on the right track. Any questions just give me a buzz. Good luck and enjoy your heat!
So after I read the post I looked into the wiki, and found a good start to garage heating, but lots to be written. So I did add some, I will continue to add as time allows.
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Eyelid Surgery Q&A
Age 17 Or Under + Eyelid Surgery
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Located in the heart of Lexington, this hotel is within 6 mi (10 km) of Louisa May Alcott's Orchard House, Burlington Mall, and Bentley College. Walden Pond and Brandeis University are also within 9 mi (15 km).
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By Zach Balside
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BAKERSFIELD, Calif. - Seeded sixth for the second consecutive season, the Rams (10-16, 5-5 Western Water Polo Association) will be looking for success at the Western Water Polo Association conference tournament starting Friday at the Hillman Aquatic Center.
CSU opens with a 4:20 p.m. MT matchup on Friday against Cal State East Bay (21-11, 9-3 WWPA), which is seeded third in the tournament.
The Rams lost a close contest to East Bay on Valentine's Day by an 8-7 score. It was the only meeting between the teams this year. CSU did beat East Bay in two tight matches last season.
Coach Mike Moody believes that the key to success this time is attacking early and often.
"We need to put it out of reach in the first half," Moody said. "We need to push the tempo of the game. We need to play a smart and controlled offense.
"If we can control the ball and take high-percentage shots, and do that early in the first half, that's our gameplan."
As always, Moody also hopes the team can remain disciplined. When the two teams played earlier in the season, CSU was given 11 ejections to East Bay's 4.
"That's going to be the key, staying out of foul trouble," Moody said.
Good discipline can be a product of experience, and the Rams will bring three active seniors to Bakersfield who will be playing in their fourth, and final, WWPA tournament. Katy Armstrong, Kailin Custy and Sarah Ostling hope to provide leadership this weekend.
"I really believe for the three of them, that it will be their time to shine," Moody said. "I think they're going to put the team on their backs. I think what will really come out this weekend from our seniors is their spirit and their heart and their drive and determination.
"I'm excited to see what they can do. I can't believe it's their last conference tournament. It's gone by fast. They've done a good job."
It won't just be the strong seniors leading the attack and defending the goal for the Rams, however. Strong performances are anticipated from junior Ali Pavlik, who led the team in goals for the second straight year with 46, freshman goalie Melissa Fisher, who has recorded 203 saves, and sophomore Kallie Berry, who was named second-team all-conference this week.
Berry has scored 34 goals and tallied 33 steals this season. She also has 9 field blocks.
"She's got a great outside shot and she moves the ball well," Moody said of Berry. "She's a presence on the offensive end and she gets other players involved."
Moody also stressed that it was Berry's all-around play that got her the nomination.
"Defensively she's a very physical player," Moody said. "She does a good job in her position and she's a tough competitor. She's very, very solid."
If CSU defeats East Bay, it will play the winner of the matchup between No. 18 UC San Diego-Chapman and Sonoma State. The Rams defeated a then-No.17 UC San Diego team 8-4 on April 11, the first win against a ranked opponent in school history. CSU dominated Chapman on March 19, 15-4, in its only meeting of the year. It was the largest margin of victory for the Rams since they beat Chapman by 12 goals in 2008. CSU did not play Sonoma State during the regular season, and lost in its only contest last year, 13-7.
Moody strongly believes that the Rams can compete with anyone in the conference, and this weekend will be CSU's chance to prove it.
"After all the sweat they've had in the weight room, the chalk talks and the film, it comes down to this weekend," Moody said. "I truly believe this team is as prepared as they're going to get. They've done all the hard work. They've met the challenges of travelling and playing top teams. It's been a long road, but the girls know what it was all for and now we're there and we're excited."
2010 WWPA Women's Championships
April 30 - May 2
Hillman Aquatic Center Bakersfield, Calif.
(all times MT)
Friday, April 30
Game 1 10 a.m. No. 7 Sonoma St. vs. No. 10 Chapman
Game 2 11:20 a.m. No. 8 CS San Bernardino vs. No. 9 CS Monterey Bay
Game 3 2 p.m. No. 4 CSU Bakersfield vs. No. 5 Santa Clara
Game 4 3:20 p.m. No. 3 CSU East Bay vs. No. 6 Colorado State
Game 5 4:40 p.m. No. 2 UC San Diego vs. Winner Game 1
Game 6 6 p.m. No. 1 LMU vs. Winner Game 2
Saturday, May 1
Game 7 10 a.m. Loser Game 3 vs. Loser Game 1
Game 8 11:20 a.m. Loser Game 4 vs. Loser Game 2
Game 9 2 p.m. Winner Game 5 vs. Winner Game 4
Game 10 3:20 p.m. Winner Game 6 vs. Winner Game 3
Game 11 4:40 p.m. Winner Game 7 vs. Loser Game 6
Game 12 6 p.m. Winner Game 8 vs. Loser Game 5
Sunday, May 2
Game 13 10 a.m. Loser Game 8 vs. Loser Game 7
Game 14 11:30 a.m. Loser Game 12 vs. Loser Game 11
Game 15 1 p.m. Winner Game 11 vs. Winner Game 12
Game 16 2:30 p.m. Loser Game 9 vs. Loser Game 10
Game 17 4 p.m. Winner Game 10 vs. Winner Game 9
2010 WWPA Women's Championship Seedings:
2. UC San Diego
3. Cal State East Bay
4. Cal State Bakersfield
5. Santa Clara
6. Colorado State
7. Sonoma State
8. Cal State San Bernardino
9. CS Monterey Bay
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"supervised learning" , via nnets or whatever, perhaps CART decision trees. find f() to minimize |y - f(X)|.
categorizing/clustering. related to DT problem. how to find planes or rules to split a huge set of N-d points into related groups that minimize some overall cost function.
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I now seem to be getting around 0.920 and there still a million little areas for improvement. Every time I check off one "todo" I add five more as more questions are opened up (the vast majority of which are dead ends but need to be explored).
One thing's been troubling me lately - I've tried various schemes and thrown out the ones that weren't as good. Perhaps that's wrong though? They aren't as good over all the data, but maybe they're better on portions of the data, and if I could choose that portion of the data, they would help overall. This was part of the surprise of Volf's compression work - adding in predictors that are much worse overall can still be a huge win if they are selected on the portions they do well on. With CF it's intuitively obvious that you have these similar-item based predictors and similar-user based predictors. In general similar-item does better. However, on certain queries you might be able to guess that they will be more user-correlated than item-correlated, so you can user your similar-user predictor on that case and win.
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Consider two vectors A and B. The "MSE" of their difference is just |A-B|^2, the "rmse" is |A-B|. You can define a scale-invariant version of MSE as (|A-B|^2)/ab (where a = |A|, b = |B|). I'm not sure this scale invariance is a good thing or not, in practice is does weight things to the weightings, but people seem to like it because it's "elegant". Anyway, the Cosine law tells us that :
Cos(theta) = (a/b + b/a)/2 - (|A-B|^2)/2ab
The second term is familiar, the first term is this weird sort of ratio average. In the special case of unit vectors a = b = 1 this reduces to
Cos(theta) = 1 - (|A-B|^2)/2
So for unit vectors a "cosine" similarity and an MSE similarity will produce identical orderings. For non-unit vectors, we have this ratio term. The ratio term is minimized when a=b, so it gets bigger for length differences. In a sense it cancels out the length difference from |A-B|. Consider two parallel vectors of different length. The MSE metric considers these very different, but cosine says they are the same.
In practice with movie ratings there are some very weird things that happen here. The "A" vector is the vector of user A's ratings over N movies *subtracted by his average rating*. This subtraction is important, but it does a weird thing. It makes the vector of random direction (by definition of average), and generally makes it close to zero. If you look at a subset of movies that he rates close to average, his vector will be very close to zero and very random. The "B" vector is the same thing. If you now consider two vectors that are close to {0}, the MSE error between them is of course tiny, but the cosine between them is completely random. Obviously that's not a very sensible weighting. Similarly, consider the "scale invariant" version of MSE. You're dividing by the vector lengths. What that does in practice is make the error much larger for vectors near zero. (dividing by length does sort of work for Cosine because larger cosine = better, the opposite for mse)
Despite all this the "Pearson" correlation for user-user similarity does in fact seem to perform well.
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I was thinking that to have any chance of winning I need to get some team-mates / helpers & use the power of the internet. I don't want to deal with signing people up & working out contracts where we'd have to negotiate shares & so on. I was thinking I'd do something like just give away my app, but make people agree that they won't do their own submission or something. Then I at least might attract some hobbyists who want to play with the problem and they might find some improvements or try some ideas that are beneficial.
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1. They all use this "cosine" similarity measure. The cosine similarity is basically the dot product of the normalized vectors of ratings. What that means is that two movies with ratings like {2,2,2} and {4,4,4} are considered to be identical by this measure. Now, that's an okay thing assuming you're compensating for movie average, since if you subtract the average off both they are both {0,0,0}. However, the standard way of making an item-based prediction does NOT subtract off the average! It's reported in the literature as
Pred = Sum{other items} Weight(this,other) * Rating(other item) / sum of weights;
If you were to correct for averages it would be :
Pred = Average(this item) + Sum{other items} Weight(this,other) * (Rating(other item) - average(other item) / sum of weights;
But that's not what they report.
2. The exception to this (not correcting for average) is the "Similarity Fusion" paper (sigir06_similarityfuson.pdf) which DOES correct for averages, however, they specifically claim that their method in the case of item-only weights reduces to the standard item-based predictor which it in fact does NOT. It reduces to the 2nd term above which is the average-corrected item based predictor, which is quite different.
It seems to me the cosine weighting is very bad if you don't correct for averages, and yet the standard in the literature is to use the cosine weighting and not correct for averages. WTF. The standard "Item-Based Collaborative Filtering" paper (www10_sarwar.pdf) does try using a linear slope+bias to shift ratings between items, but they find that it hurts performance with lots of neighbors or dense data. Weird.
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Some of the current leaders have finally spoken up in the Netflix forum. They seem to all be using some sort of standard academic bayesian/neural net learning system. This could be hard to beat if they're good & have powerful server clusters to do the training, which they presumably do at universities.
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So, I've read through a bunch of the literature. It seems like I independently invented most of the same techniques. Some interesting tidbits : I'm currently using 2 similar movies & 2 similar users, while the accepted good # in the academic community seems to be 30 (!!). (using more doesn't increase my run time at all since I'm looking at all of them anyway to pick the best 2). Also, the way they're comparing vectors is generally a dot product, while I've been using like a Euclidean distance. I'm not sure if that will make much of a difference. They also do fudging on the similarity to penalize small intersections and such; I have similar fudging and I've found that the details of those fudge factors are enormously important in practice. I can't tell in the literature if people have really investigated different similarity functions, or everyone is just using the one that was published first and has become standard.
One cool approach is the "Context-Boosted Collaborative Filtering" paper, though it seems completely unusable on large data sets because the first step is turning the sparse matrix into a full matrix by filling in the gaps with content-based predictions. That is, it would fill in the full 17k x 480k matrix of ratings, which is 8 billion ratings, which aside from taking about 8 GB of storage (not bad), would take around 1,000,000 hours to compute.
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Having the probe data contained in the training set is actually really annoying, because it means I can't fairly precompute very much based on the training set. For example, if you precompute the "most similar" other movie for each movie, you will be using the probe data as part of that, and that helps a *TON* which totally throws off testing on the probe.
There's one case maybe y'all can give me ideas on. It's surprisingly common to have a movie for which I can't find any good "similar" movies. These "red herring" movies wind up contributing a lot to the RMSE score because they tend to be predicted badly. Right now I'm just using the average rating of them as their prediction, but there must be something better.
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One thing I'm surprised at. 25% of movies fall into a category of "super predictable" cases. In these cases, I gave the same rating to the two most similar movies, and the most similar user gave the same rating to the query movie. The RMSE of these queries is still 0.85 ; I would have thought these cases would be more predictable.
Part of the problem with making a really amazing predictor is that the ratings are so discretized. If somebody felt like a "3.5" about a movie, they will sort of randomly shove it to a "3" or a "4" depending on how they feel, but the difference is a whole 1.0 which is big.
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BTW I find the whole "Prize" aspect sort of annoying because it means no one is talking about their approaches publicly. Of course, even in fields where there is no prize, people are still super-secretive, because they always think they have some brilliant idea which is going to make them famous in the academic world, or get them patents and make them rich, blah blah blah.
Oh, I still could use some volunteers to run the heavy process if you have a fast machines that are idle.
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RMSE for guessing each movie gets its average rating : 1.051938
RMSE for Netflix' Cinematch : 0.9474
RMSE for simple one-movie predictor : 1.037155
So, that's not very encouraging. Obviously I knew it wasn't going to be close to Cinematch, but the improvement over just using the average for each movie is microscopic, and cinematch is like light years ahead.
I'm starting to think that beating Cinematch by 10% is all but impossible. It's a lot like data compression where the closer you get to the true entropy the harder it is to make advances. The Netflix Prize FAQ justifies their 10% criterion by saying the difference between the "average" predictor and Cinematch is about 10%, so they want 10% more. That fails to address two major factors : "average" is actually not an awful predictor at all, and the next 10% is way way harder than the first 10%.
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Anyone know anything about Memory mapping? Is there a reason I should memory map instead of just reading the whole file into big buffers?
Also, does anyone have a powerful machine that I can run a heavy process on for a long time? I estimate it will take about 200 hours of CPU time, 2 Gigs of RAM is necessary.
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Postman. Apparently very hard to get. I like walking around
Parks worker. Similar situation, I like planting plants and such, being outside
Apprentice Carpenter. I've seen some adds for this; I have no skills but would like to learn. I could offer to work the first few weeks with no pay
Bike shop retail or repair. Again my bike repair skills are only passable not expert, but I'd like to learn.
Cook. I'd love to be a chef but that's a long hard road and being an entry-level prep cook or something is pretty brutal
Other ?
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Anybody who knows Windows - what's the best way to hold an 800 MB data structure on a machine with 1 GB of RAM ? I'm assuming if I just hold it in RAM I'm going to page like crazy and get killed, cuz Windoze is Stoopid. I guess I could write my program in basic C and boot to command line Linux or something ridiculous like that but that's not fun.
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At the moment the site seems to be a mess. The documentation sucks. The forums are full of people who don't know how to program asking nonsense questions.
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The new bill was tacked on the "SAFE ports" bill by Bill Frist primarily. It will soon be signed and go into law. Basically what it does is makes it illegal to provide online gambling or transactions to online gambling. It does not make it illegal for an individual/consumer to partake of said online gambling. Offshore sites will continue to operate. It will be illegal for US banks or other funding instruments to provide transactions with them, so the hard part will be getting your money in & out of them, but of course there will be ways. Another problem is that major publicily traded gambling companies will be shutting off their US customers because of this. This is a bit of a funny thing, because they're foreign companies they aren't directly affected by this law, but they have to comply with it if they want their stock traded in US markets, and so on and complicated stuff I don't really understand. Anyway, it seems all the major publicly trading companies will soon be shutting off US customers. That includes PartyPoker/PartyGaming, PokerStars, 888 (BetonSports), etc. There are other major private companies which will continue to allow US customers, the biggest being Full Tilt, Ultimate Bet, etc. While the law will go into affect immediately, the bank transfer prohibition won't go into affect into the bank regulatory body draws up the detailed regulations, which will take a while.
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BUT the titles are all wrong instead of stopping at the </title> tag the results are showing some of the text from the page in the title of the result.
Anyone else seeing this on their newly added supplementals?
site:www.example.com "widget" returns odd sup. results say including red widget.
site:www.example.com "red widget" shows no sups.
Some of these odd sups erronously has "red widget" text appended to end of title display.
Title tag coded correctly now, perhaps html errors in past such as missing </title>?
And also for my site search google shows 9645 pages, but the fact is I dont have anything more than 900 plus pages on my site, can any one explain why and how can i fix it? My site has a pr of 6. Thanks.
And also for my site search google shows 9645 pages, but the fact is I dont have anything more than 900 plus pages on my site, can any one explain why and how can i fix it? My site has a pr of 6. Thanks.
It is an html site. Can anyone update me on this?
This is a real problem for the site if the top body text on all pages is a standard 'page header.'
Geez, it like I�ve always said. Google just creates way too much work and worry for webmasters. Somebody ought to explain to those geniuses at Google that spam is more related to quantity than anything. Spam isn�t a few pages within a domain using similar type navigation or excerpts. But in dealing with many Phd�s absolutely none can admit they can make a mistake.
And also for my site search google shows 9645 pages, but the fact is I dont have anything more than 900 plus pages on my site
Any suggestions on what is causing Google to do this and what we can do to get it to stop?
Its gotta be a bug that they will fix, surely?
{clicks heals together and says the magic words} Adam Lasnik, are you out there? This is too weird for words!
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InternalLink1 InternalLink2 InternalLink3
In the SERPs for a "site:www.mysite.com" search it brings up "My Page Title InternalLink1 InternalLink2 InternalLink3" as the title of the page when it should be just "My Page Title".
I haven't found anything at all to connect the dots as to why it's happened with some pages but not others. It's most certainly a bug even if it's by design. There's simply no reason to list page titles in that manner.
Looks like my cms site's heavily penalised for having identical meta descriptions. I'd gotten lazy with these: seemed they were from the past, and my pages were being indexed fine w google taking snippets to put in descriptions - so when adding content, rarely bothered with descriptions, which meant that used default for the site.
Now, even pages with considerable content are in supplememtals; to human eye would be clearly different to other pages on site, but no longer to google, after great step(s) backwards. While, of course, SERPS include pages with nothing novel bar the search terms.
Google now seems limited to using meta description for the site.
Supplementals for my site include way too many "pages", many of which should not be indexed by any search engine: some from during creation of forum threads, even with "pages" as enter new posts.
Why should google bother keeping supplementals anyway? If judged not good, surely could remove to free up space for supposedly ok content.
Pages that now have no links would then disappear from index (like many of my supplementals, which return "page not found" errors should google care to someday check).
Pages with links may make it into index should google deem them worthy in future.
[Are there notions in Google that they're cataloguing the web, even keeping parts for posterity as web pages and sites disappear?
Seems more like someone who just keeps every scrap of everything, maybe in the attic; to what extent accidentally here, who will say.]
To me, the supplemental hell problem recalls my sometimes clumsiness with cms - do the wrong thing (even minor change), make it live, and can have problems site-wide.
But in this case, the goof-ups have gone global.
I'm afraid I only really noticed w my sites lately; yet reading posts inc Matt Cutts should have been fixed some time ago.
This wasn't true in all cases, but it was true in enough cases that I strongly suspect that it's one of the factors exposed by this interesting supplemental index bug.
Another one is the already-well-known non-unique meta description factor.
Looks like tomorrow's going to be a busy day at the 'plex...
(And I thought it was bad when they overwrote my carefully crafted titles with the titles the morons at DMOZ thought up!)
What sane reason would there be for reverting to an older version of the site for results?
Hardware failure and poor backups? I don't believe it!
Oooh, thats interesting - I'm still seeing corrupt titles at the very end of the site: results, for pages which are now 404ed (the pages that exist have reverted to correct titles from non-current versions)
Actually, at least one of those results has a 301 on it.
Bad, bad, bad :(
But I guess they are working on it?
Anybody can explain this similarity concept of google? Since all my pages are as unique as other pages, just different articles.


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A new study is believed to have resolved a major debate about when oxygen began to be produced on Earth and how long it took before oxygen levels were enough to support the growth of life.
Winthrop Professor Mark Barley, from The University of Western Australia's Centre for Exploration Targeting, and colleagues from the University of Alberta led by Professor Kurt Konhauser, made the discovery by examining key elements in banded iron formations through time.
The study, published in the journal Nature, has identified how links between tectonics and ocean and land chemistry combined to give rise to life on earth about 2.5 billion years ago, during a period known as the Great Oxidation Event (GOE). The GOE changed surface environments on Earth and ultimately made advanced life possible.
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