January 2010
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How Google tracks clicks for backpropagation
I was wondering a few nights ago: How does Google track clicks for their backpropagation algorithms? So I cracked open Firebug, did a search and watched the Console tab while I clicked a link. I was expecting to see a nice little XMLHttpRequest go across the screen… and didn’t. Upon further inspection, I found that the links in search results all had inline onclick handlers: A...
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peter norvig: models and theories →
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You're not one of the boys until you're one of the...
That was said by my college football coach at WPI, Ed Zaloom, on my first day of football camp — and it really stands up there as some of the best advice I’ve ever received. He was speaking to the entire freshman football class in the stands overlooking the field. Coach Zaloom — aka Zoomer — was trying to tell us that although we were members of the team from day one, we...