BeniBoy

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by BeniBoy 7y ago
Well, publisher and advertiser made it a joke, by trying for the last ten years to extorcate unappropriate consent from users (and bothering them as much as possible in the process). And regarding the option to set your preferences at the b
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Major French Paper Drops All Ad Trackers(translate.google.com)
4 points by BeniBoy 7y ago|0 comments
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Analysis of the French Gouvernment Digital ID App(fs0c131y.com)
3 points by BeniBoy 7y ago|0 comments
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by BeniBoy 7y ago
The ground. Paris's ground is not strong enough to support high rise building especially in the southern part, where a lot of it have been excavated in the last 500 years (and filled with dead bodies, ie the catacombs). Of course with
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by BeniBoy 7y ago
The crux of the ruling > [...] that operator is not required to carry out that de-referencing on all versions of its search engine, but on the versions of that search engine corresponding to all the Member States, using, where necessary,
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European Court limits right to be forgotten to E.U.(curia.europa.eu)
124 points by BeniBoy 7y ago|75 comments
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by BeniBoy 7y ago
That would be the reversion to the mean[1]. This is a term I really dislike because it makes it sounds as if there is some sort of equalizing force making over-performers under-perform later. This is more the following: if you overestimates
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by BeniBoy 7y ago
This is true, though I don't know how many edge funds operate. I guess some people really have working strategy! The example I gave was more of a word of caution regarding past performances as indicator of expertise, but I guess I made
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by BeniBoy 7y ago
Well, if you get 30 persons to flip a coin six time, there is good chance one of them will get all tails or all head. Now ask him his strategy for such amazing coin flipping skills! (example taken from the book "statistics done wrong&q
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by BeniBoy 7y ago
True, my point of view might not take everything into account, but for trains, the ability to add capacity is limited, mostly constrained by tracks leased time. For the train I take to go back home, the price varies between 35€ and 220€. Th
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by BeniBoy 7y ago
I hope they wouldn't use those agressive algorithm for dynamic pricing. This is a public service, have a static pricing! This turns the train into a luxury, at times almost three times as expensive as air travel.
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by BeniBoy 7y ago
I love that train! I must have took it around 20 times. But by French standard, this is a terribly long one (around 6 hours).. And sometimes much more expensive that taking the one-hour flight. Hope this tax will tilt the balance.
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by BeniBoy 7y ago
I found this EconTalk episode [0] quite interesting. The takeway was the idea that all scalper-like transaction had something in common. Most of the time, the law would forbid it, but the underlying "moral" part was that the trans
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by BeniBoy 7y ago
"GDPR has been the death knell for small and medium-sized businesses [...] Here is a partial list: [...] Unroll.me, inbox management app" Don't know for the other companies, but for this one, good riddance, they had a notorio
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by BeniBoy 7y ago
I found this blog post quite interesting[1]. The author is optimising rack positionning to minimise cabling. However, trying to use his method to optimise a linear typewriter[2] proved unsuccessful, as projected solving time was around 13 m
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by BeniBoy 7y ago
You might be interested by Ivan Illich's analysis in "Energy and Equity". The basic idea being that you need to factor in the cost of a mean of transportation into the speed of said mean. The relevant part is cited in this ar
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by BeniBoy 7y ago
At a local LP shop, they had a sign saying "If you misshelve a LP, you might as well steal it, at least someone will listen to it" (approximate translation). Shelving in instead central to many specialty shops!
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by BeniBoy 7y ago
Thanks! Very interesting instrument, I love the expressiveness of the ribbon pitch controller! I was thinking about adding an inertial unit to create a pitch "vibrato" effect, which can really liven up a digital instrument.
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by BeniBoy 7y ago
Very interesting, I didn't know there would be that many experiments around the ergonomics of musical keyboards! My own personal experiment: an hand-held keyboard-like device[0]. I am fascinated by the Harmonic table note layout. It re
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by BeniBoy 8y ago
A relevant episode of EconTalk[1]. If I remember correctly, Philip Tetlock is running a continuous betting project to try to determine what characterize good forecasters. [1]: https://www.econtalk.org/philip-tetlock-on-super
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by BeniBoy 8y ago
Location: Paris, France Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: For a good opportunity maybe! Technologies: Python (Data science ie numpy, pandas, scipy..), nodeJS and IOT/hardware design. Resume/CV: see benjaminpoilve.com Email: see CV
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by BeniBoy 8y ago
People forgot about the quality of those stereo systems. Each time I go back to my family house, the first thing I do is to sit for a couple of hours in front of the system my dad bought in 88. Still works perfectly. No modern setup comes
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by BeniBoy 8y ago
I found this recent study[1] very interesting as well. Their conclusion: 'In 2016 online advertising consumed 106 TWh of energy and the infrastructure 1059 TWh'. So around 10%. My view is that adblocking is an environmental neces
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by BeniBoy 8y ago
I'll chime in with some French songs: * Les milices by Jean-Roger Caussimon ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8vKeLAfiBs ), a song as necessary now as it was in the 70s * Parachutiste by Maxime Le Forestier ( https:&#x2
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The Environmental Impact of Online Advertising(sciencedirect.com)
1 points by BeniBoy 8y ago|0 comments
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by BeniBoy 8y ago
A charitable reading of this would be that the grandfather is sharing Voltaire's view: "I may disagree with what you have to say, but I shall defend to the death your right to say it."
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by BeniBoy 8y ago
It is available on sci-hub if anyone wants to have a closer look: https://sci-hub.tw/10.1021/acs.est.8b04180 From my understanding n is the number of microplastic fragments.
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by BeniBoy 8y ago
Definitely true! But as in the precise situation you described, this can leads to discrepancies in result. So if you're coming from Matlab of R (or even Pandas), this can help to know that in Numpy the default is not the usual statisti
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by BeniBoy 8y ago
Nitpick, but shouldn't you set the ddof of np.std at 1 when you estimate the variance in your plot_confidence_interval? If I recall correctly, the default is 0, which makes it a biased estimator. Weird default by the way! Great articl
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by BeniBoy 8y ago
Same in France. Standard care is free, extra can be taken care of by your private insurance.

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