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by Blahah 7y ago
retracted based on feedback
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by Blahah 7y ago
After two screen-scrolls I was not comfortable that the author could have obtained consent for all of the captures. Did they? I don't think this is appropriate for HN honestly, it's probably not legal in most jurisdictions. Viewin
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by Blahah 7y ago
My point about the Spanish flu was that this is a complex comparison. Statistically it's similar so far. But with very different social parameters (massively increased global travel, vastly better understanding of epidemiology). We are
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by Blahah 7y ago
That's a pretty cavalier attitude even if we take your assumptions to be true. If it's a virulent flu, the last time we had a pandemic with comparable stats was 1918, when we had much less global travel but much worse medical infr
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by Blahah 7y ago
In the context of a thread about the precision of quantitative language, I feel obligated to raise an eyebrow (and type a comment about the raising of said eyebrow) at your use of "astronomical".
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by Blahah 7y ago
No, I use software, digital reading and audio to study. I don't need a surface or to handwrite. Served me well through undergrad, PhD and 7+ languages :).
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by Blahah 7y ago
I don't think it's strange. I often prefer to work or study in the car compared to using busy (library) or expensive (cafe/coworking space) alternatives. Home is reserved for relaxation and family, and I learned when I used t
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Show HN: Storex – A modular and portable database abstraction for JavaScript
52 points by Blahah 8y ago|21 comments
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Show HN: Memex – annotate and instantly recall any website
52 points by Blahah 8y ago|25 comments
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Memex – your photographic memory for the web. Open-Source. Private(worldbrain.io)
3 points by Blahah 8y ago|0 comments
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by Blahah 8y ago
You're both violating the community standards here (by calling people idiots) and really reaching by suggesting that a methodological paper about inferring information from C. elegans literature is somehow a clear rebuttal to the par
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by Blahah 8y ago
The Mozilla Foundation is a US 501c3, all their finances are public record. I believe the most recent filed financial statement is for 2016 [0]. See also the summary document, the 2016 State of Mozilla Report, for higher level information [
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by Blahah 8y ago
Taleb is intellectually dishonest and quite probably a terrible human being. His strategy of making money exploiting anti-intellectual movements to do with agriculture and human nutrition is just abhorrent to me. He transparently and carefu
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by Blahah 8y ago
Cool, but other people have found ways to solve problems (often leveraging large amounts of other people's money) without personally enriching themselves. Personally, I found that having a lot of money myself brought more problems than
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by Blahah 8y ago
We really don't all want to get rich. Some of us just want to solve problems, help people, or alleviate suffering. Some people want to achieve that by getting rich first (not me). A large proportion of even those who want to get rich f
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by Blahah 8y ago
Yup, this. There's almost always a way to represent the data that allows clearer interpretation.
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by Blahah 8y ago
I have many examples in mind. Here's an old article with good examples: https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2010/6/92482-a-tour-through-t... In general I'd say that for any dataset, the ideal visualisati
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by Blahah 8y ago
If you present an example of high-dimensional data I'd be happy to help you reason about how to visualise it (although this is perhaps better suited to StackExchange). edit: if you feel you need 3D, you've already failed to repres
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by Blahah 8y ago
I can't see anything in the tutorials or examples that makes this a good library for visualisation of high-dimensional data. It seems somewhat equivalent to base graphics in R, which is much less useful for visualising high-dimension
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by Blahah 8y ago
Good visualisation of high dimensional data is almost all about the mental model and mapping of dimensions, barely ever about the library. ggplot2 is excellent for displaying high dimensional data in R if you can reason well about your own
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by Blahah 8y ago
Indeed, all the examples appear to be showing datasets that would benefit from good data visualisation and in some cases dimension reduction, but all of them are terribly represented. I don't think this necessarily a problem with the l
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by Blahah 9y ago
Respectfully, the fact that we're having this discussion means some participants aren't adhering to the technical definition. There's a meandering, geographically and socialogically heterogeneous definition that is non-techni
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by Blahah 9y ago
I really do not think this is accurate. I have been in a courtroom when a file was described as 'deleted' and then an expert witness 'recovered' the 'deleted' file, which was entered as evidence. Delete is a te
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by Blahah 9y ago
Many wild bananas have flowers that grow downwards, and have seeds (source, I've worked in two botanical gardens and lived next to one in Kenya, and have seen thousands of banana plants and grown many in my own garden). The lack of see
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by Blahah 9y ago
OP can't delete it because they can't log in, as they explain in the post.
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by Blahah 9y ago
Just want to commend you on an outstanding comment. This kind of comment is why I keep coming back to HN. Careful thought and an intellectual commitment to relatively obscure aspects of a topic, that ultimately clarify the entire situation.
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by Blahah 9y ago
Personally I've settled on ExpressVPN, largely because about 50% of their endpoints work with Netflix. They are also very popular, meaning more protection of anonymity, and I have never seen any evidence to counter their claim that the
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by Blahah 9y ago
The only other comment right now recounts a negative experience that is surely not common. I offer a balancing positive story of my recent experience. Between 2012-2016 I was studying for my PhD. I kept all my files in Dropbox (as well as s
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by Blahah 9y ago
Can you elaborate on what additional rigor you would like to see, or in what way you think this is cavalier? The parent said that qualitative and quantitative analysis will be used, and that technology is not the only solution. That is hard
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Why pigeons deserve respect(theaustralian.com.au)
2 points by Blahah 9y ago|1 comments

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