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by CapmCrackaWaka 5y ago
I would say about 90% of the posts / articles / comments I see on the internet which discuss R are usually of the "meta" format. They talk about R's strengths or weaknesses, about the difference between R and Python
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by CapmCrackaWaka 5y ago
You and the parent comment are in complete agreement. They even said, in the first sentences: > Yes, ivermectin is an anti-parasitic, and yes that's probably why there's anecdotal evidence of it working. The reason people are t
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by CapmCrackaWaka 5y ago
If you go through all this trouble, you have essentially added another business line to your company. This may or may not be where a company wants to spend their resources. Rolling your own XYZ will always be cheaper than paying a 3rd party
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by CapmCrackaWaka 5y ago
"Nobody saw me do it" and "I didn't do it" aren't mutually exclusive. In fact, if I don't do something, then by definition nobody saw me do it.
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by CapmCrackaWaka 5y ago
This line is actually used in one of the linked articles[1], "Argument in the alternative", which apparently does not constitute kettle logic. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_in_the_alternative
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by CapmCrackaWaka 5y ago
I would like to believe this is true, because it's where I want to be in 10 years. I would love nothing more than to sell my house in the city and build a custom house in the country, especially since you can get most luxuries these da
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by CapmCrackaWaka 5y ago
I'm not convinced by this[1]. It is true, if all municipalities suddenly let anyone build wherever they want, we would see prices fall. But that isn't the cause of the current price surge. The _cause_ is a surge in demand, not a r
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by CapmCrackaWaka 5y ago
I’m not sure what this means. Getting a mortgage and a car loan was easy, a car loan approval took no time at all. Does working at FAANG speed this process up somehow?
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by CapmCrackaWaka 5y ago
I've seriously considered removing some of the older semi-popular projects from my github solely because I would be embarrassed to show them to a prospective employer, or even other developers. In the end I think it's actually kin
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by CapmCrackaWaka 5y ago
In the US, you get what you pay for. Housing being as expensive as it is, basically all new builds are being built as cheaply as possible while builders cash in on the market. The fact that all inspections (at least in the areas I know of)
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by CapmCrackaWaka 5y ago
> I don't believe in reincarnation, but it's not hard at all for me to see how it can be used as a moral tool that helps people think long term. At first glance things like this can sound good. However, religious ideologies lik
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by CapmCrackaWaka 5y ago
> No sir, the systems in place work flawlessly for those who put them there Well, if you define "work" as benefiting as many people as possible, then no they don't work. That's obviously the point the author was makin
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by CapmCrackaWaka 5y ago
Interesting that the user has to think of specific letters to spell out a word. I guess the 26 distinct English letters are much easier to parse and separate than the untold thousands of words, especially when those words could be used in d
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by CapmCrackaWaka 5y ago
I played around with different methods of interacting with these websites and found one that works for me. With Reddit, I deleted my account and simply visit the site on the mobile browser. I just have the subreddits I like bookmarked. Even
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by CapmCrackaWaka 5y ago
Reminds me of the sci-fi book Children of Time. It follows the cultural evolution of a species of intelligent spiders. When they're angry, they vibrate and shake the web a certain way. In larger meetings, the spiders all share a single
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by CapmCrackaWaka 5y ago
As someone who actively contributes to Python packages using the setuptools cli interface, this is jarring. I had no idea. I guess I'll move my build process to some other tools. I started contributing to Python about a year ago. At th
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Show HN: Multiple Imputation with Lightgbm(github.com)
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by CapmCrackaWaka 5y ago
> This isn't a better use for data collection, we're just getting paid for the loss of privacy instead of giving it away for free. Name one single better use of my driving habit data than directly saving me money.
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by CapmCrackaWaka 5y ago
In my mind the is absolutely the right kind of data collection we should be encouraging. Do I want Tesla to sell my driving behavior to 3rd party vendors? No. Do I want them to plug it into an algorithm and give me an insurance (hopefully)
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by CapmCrackaWaka 5y ago
Everyone comparing this to minority report needs to calm down. Believe it or not, more accurate insurance premiums are a good thing.. if you are a good driver. And if there’s one thing that everyone agrees on, it’s that “I’m a good driver”.
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by CapmCrackaWaka 5y ago
Yeah that all sounds nice until you start to budget it. No way I could keep myself busy with the money I have. I guess this question really depends on if you have the financial means to retire _and keep yourself entertained for the rest of
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by CapmCrackaWaka 5y ago
Do you know this person? Because I actually love my job, and I feel like if I retired right now it would suck. I would definitely be bored.
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by CapmCrackaWaka 5y ago
This is the book that reignited my love for sci-fi after college. It’s the only book I’ve ever read twice.
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by CapmCrackaWaka 5y ago
On the second point, to claim you do not know about this story is... surprising: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27388587 Just because you heard about it, doesn't mean there weren't attempts to censor these d
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by CapmCrackaWaka 5y ago
I take it to mean damaging to democratic countries or, in a more abstract sense, damaging to the credibility of the democratic form of government in general. A good example of this is the current effectiveness of disinformation in democrati
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by CapmCrackaWaka 5y ago
That’s my point, by bringing it up in the article you can deflect most of the comments that would _try_ to turn the discussion towards race. Whether the author genuinely feels like that or not... who knows.
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by CapmCrackaWaka 5y ago
I feel that throwing in little quipits like that are an easy way to keep the discussion about your article as non-political as possible. It seems counter-intuitive, but if someone comes along and actually brings up the race issue, and it is
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by CapmCrackaWaka 5y ago
I would probably use this if I wanted to find interesting blog posts/websites about a topic I want to learn more about in general. It seems less useful for returning exact answers to specific questions.
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by CapmCrackaWaka 5y ago
I recently ran into this issue as well. Serialization of sklearn random forests results in absolutely massive files. I had to switch to lightgbm, which is 100x faster to load from a save file and about 20x smaller.
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by CapmCrackaWaka 5y ago
Basically all of my friends (myself included) met their significant other online. We just got married last weekend. When you look at the statistics, it clearly works for a very large portion of the population.

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