BickNowstrom

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by BickNowstrom 7y ago
People use the bucket "fringe" to marginalize and ridicule people. To say how they are wrong and that the majority has the right answer. Did you know they are putting chemicals in the water that change the sex of frogs? Did you kn
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by BickNowstrom 7y ago
In the deposition he clarifies this out-of-context (it is not the full sentence and not even a correct quote) statement and puts it into context. At that time, he did not think the whole thing was staged, but that the way the media handled
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by BickNowstrom 7y ago
I am familiar with those lawsuits. Alex Jones did not promote harassment. He did not even factually conclude that Sandy Hook was a hoax, just floated the possibility. He reported on anomalies, on the conspiracy, on using Sandy Hook as a pre
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by BickNowstrom 7y ago
Jones never promoted the harassment of victims of crimes. Can you support your statements with some direct quotes? Or are you promoting the harassment of Jones with unfounded lies? Undermining the public trust of institutions is alive and w
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by BickNowstrom 7y ago
You think Alex Jones is a 100% sane? And no need to guess, all those conspiracy theories discussed on his show had already been talked about by others. The product line is a strawman.
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by BickNowstrom 7y ago
One poll results that over half (54%) of all Americans believe the government is concealing information it has on 9/11. Eminem co-wrote a song about it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polls_about_9/11_c
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by BickNowstrom 7y ago
The government has weather weapons. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_Modification_Con... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_warfare https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x
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by BickNowstrom 7y ago
You are conflating bias (error) with bias (fairness).
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by BickNowstrom 10y ago
Mentioning that you had another offer can be tricky. Did they ask you if you were seeing other companies? Did you just put it out there? Did you put them on a deadline? Mentioning that you have another offer is seen as a negotiating tactic.
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by BickNowstrom 10y ago
There are at least a few Great Meme War veterans who truly believe they made a difference: "I helped meme a President into office, cucks" - Gab.ai CEO Andrew Torba. If any effect came from 4chan /pol/ it was because the
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by BickNowstrom 10y ago
Academia does not have to run the model in production. It has few computational constraints, and most datasets do not have a feedback loop, requiring combating drift, debugging, and retraining. Papers are often accepted when they equal or b
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by BickNowstrom 10y ago
Random forests can be run on the GPU: https://github.com/EasonLiao/CudaTree
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by BickNowstrom 10y ago
http://xgboost.readthedocs.io/en/latest/model.html http://homes.cs.washington.edu/~tqchen/pdf/BoostedTree.pdf https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPqtzj5VZus Trevor Hastie -
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by BickNowstrom 10y ago
The hype for neural networks is deserved. Some major contributions to the field resulted in increases in accuracy for fields like NLP, computer vision, structured data, machine translation, style transfer, etc. XGBoost did not change much f
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by BickNowstrom 10y ago
NFL is probably the worst mis-quoted theorem in ML. The subtle elements of the theorems (both for inference and search) have had huge impact on the field of optimization theory. They touch upon (Kolmogorov) Complexity, Incompleteness, Halti
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by BickNowstrom 10y ago
But websites that don't bother to make their websites accessible without JavaScript have a bad track record for implementing ARIA (correctly). Good accessible design has benefits for everyone, not only the disabled. For instance, that
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by BickNowstrom 10y ago
These days, you can not have Pub Quizes with at least a few teams cheating by using a phone to Google the answers. Knowing trivia of the top of your head seems to have become as useful a skill as calligraphy. A friend of mine was about to f
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by BickNowstrom 10y ago
I am somewhat disappointed with the lack of replicability in the field of machine learning and computer science. I think there is not much excuse for releasing a ML paper on a new algorithm or modeling technique without a link to a source c
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by BickNowstrom 10y ago
> How is it possible to generate seven years of convincing sample data From the article: > These genes are tested by giving them hypothetical sums of money to trade in simulated situations created from historical data. So they simply
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by BickNowstrom 10y ago
Let's assume your algorithm moves the market: 1) This is not a big problem: Lots of machine learning and control theory involves dealing with feedback loops. 2) If it moves the market in a predictable way, you can use this to make mone
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by BickNowstrom 10y ago
Some positive contributing factors are: Crime is decreasing. Violent crime is decreasing. Electronic ankle bracelet house arrests are both a cost saving measure (~50k euro a year per person) and contribute to rehabilitation. These rehabilit
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by BickNowstrom 10y ago
For international laws, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_disclosure_law Specifically for the US, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavabit#Suspension_and_gag_ord... and https://e
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by BickNowstrom 10y ago
Thanks! Though my (dated?) concern is probably not all that common, you could think of adding something like "Split-testing to improve SEO is a perfectly legitimate marketing technique" in your FAQ/technical copy.
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by BickNowstrom 10y ago
My post was in response to the homepage copy: > RankScience sits next to your website, making thousands of experiments to tweak your HTML in order to improve your page rankings. This seems to me an attempt at reverse engineering the rank
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by BickNowstrom 10y ago
Though using A/B testing to improve user experience or conversion rates is fine, I thought using A/B testing to reverse engineer the ranking algorithm was against the guidelines. Has this been updated? From https://supp
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by BickNowstrom 10y ago
Your concern/question is akin to a fallacy of relative privation. Another name for this style of argument is the "not as bad as"-argument. To answer/satisfy your concern/question is impossible without inaction. The
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The writing does not exclude proper backtesting. A more favorable reading would have him/her use a holdout or test set that is in the future of the historical data used for training. Then there would be no problem with that approach in
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by BickNowstrom 10y ago
In ARMA opponent AI is a parameter. When you have a lot of players on one server, you turn down enemy AI so you don't bog down the entire server with pathfinding calculations.
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by BickNowstrom 10y ago
Karl Koch and his buddies were recruited by a KGB spy posing as a casino croupier in exchange for gambling money and cocaine. A hotel waiter or a concierge is in the perfect position to mingle with the rich and powerful. Upper class people
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by BickNowstrom 10y ago
Spies travel under the guise of diplomats. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DC10fyQgNqo

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