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by CrazyStat 10mo ago
Huh. This is an interesting post but the author’s usage of Lindley’s paradox seems to be unrelated to the Lindley’s paradox I’m familiar with: > If we raise the power even further, we get to “Lindley’s paradox”, the fact that p-values in
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by CrazyStat 10mo ago
The Secretary Problem tells us that once you’ve lived 1/e (~37%, 30ish years) of your life[1], the next time you see something that’s stupider than everything you’ve seen before there’s a 1/e chance that’s it’s the stupidest thing
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by CrazyStat 10mo ago
Ok, but that’s not what the post I replied to was saying.
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by CrazyStat 10mo ago
To what extent is productivity a sign of the system getting imbalanced towards capital? That relationship is not at all clear to me.
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by CrazyStat 11mo ago
I haven’t seen this representation before—I suppose the vertices of the graph are the chessboard squares, the edges are adjacency (white squares can only be adjacent to black squares and vice versa, which gives the bipartite-ness), and cove
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by CrazyStat 11mo ago
Knowing that the solution is unique makes this trivial to solve in a couple minutes just by scribbling on a piece of paper (I just did). It does not seem more subtle than the original. Proving that the solution is unique may be more subtle.
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by CrazyStat 11mo ago
Colonoscopies, involving inserting instruments into the body, are definitely an invasive medical procedure. > An invasive procedure is one where purposeful/deliberate access to the body is gained via an incision, percutaneous punctu
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by CrazyStat 11mo ago
> Do you have any evidence that it wasn't? Most types of cancers are not routinely screened for. The post says that the cancer was in her liver and lungs, and neither liver cancer nor lung cancer are routinely screened for (lung can
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by CrazyStat 11mo ago
Do you have any evidence that the cancer is a type that would have been caught by a screening regime currently in place in other countries which is not in place in the US? Without such evidence your post reads more like propagandizing a dea
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by CrazyStat 11mo ago
When I was in Sweden many years ago I was very surprised that you could just call a phone number and they would tell you the name and address of the person or company a vehicle license plate was registered to.
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by CrazyStat 11mo ago
Round it for SNAP debit cards too.
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by CrazyStat 11mo ago
Hmm, I'm not sure about the link to lower birth rates. Birth rates have been falling in e.g. Western and Northern Europe for a long time, despite strong social safety nets.
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by CrazyStat 11mo ago
The author’s company appears to be at least partially in competition with Sketchfab.
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by CrazyStat 11mo ago
The author claims that the model importing incorrectly in Blender is Sketchfab's fault: > Why? Because of …Sketchfab. But he also admits that Blender's USD importer has issues: > Sure, you can say that Blender’s USD importer
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by CrazyStat 11mo ago
People might be interested to see what was said last time.
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by CrazyStat 1y ago
As noted near the end of the article, an Apple employee had already contributed a fix to the bug: > Checking the latest version revealed the bug was already fixed in v2.4, patched by an ML engineer at Apple last year using almost the exa
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by CrazyStat 1y ago
I also played the map game, and in addition to getting the same article several times I got two articles that had some of the same photos but whose locations were ~100 miles apart. After nine rounds it suddenly ended and I was confused.
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by CrazyStat 1y ago
Not just EVs, the entire car market was insane. A friend of mine sold his minivan for $10k over what he had bought it for a year or two before.
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by CrazyStat 1y ago
Amyloid plaques are protein.
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by CrazyStat 1y ago
Maybe so, but omitting them on ё is standard practice in Russian. A language learner who doesn't learn to deal with the ambiguity of the omitted diacritics will struggle to read real-world texts.
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by CrazyStat 1y ago
Last year they replaced all the recordings of native speakers with ML-generated recordings, in both Russian and Ukrainian (probably other languages too but those are the two I have). The ML-generated recordings are terrible, for example the
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by CrazyStat 1y ago
I give Gelman a lot of credit for popularizing hierarchical models, but you give him too much. Before Stan existed we used BUGS [1] and then JAGS [2]. And most of the work on computation (by Neal and others) was entirely independent of Gelm
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by CrazyStat 1y ago
> And you can derive an easy upper bound from that as 50x8x8x2 (basically each 50 moves you make a pawn move) This is not high enough, because the 50 move rule also resets when a piece is captured.
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by CrazyStat 1y ago
> If you’re a good guy, you’d leverage this data to empower farmers. If you’re an asshole, you’re looking to see who has planted your crop illegally, or who is breaking your insurance fine print, etc. How does using it to speculate on cr
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by CrazyStat 1y ago
I’m glad you specified you were going to train it homomorphically, for a minute there I was worried about the privacy implications.
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by CrazyStat 1y ago
Rural areas have higher fertility rates than urban areas in the US [1], EU [2], and Japan [3]. [1] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db297.htm [2] https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat&#x2F
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by CrazyStat 1y ago
The purpose is to focus on the process of building the habit by exercise of will. Having the habit be something that is useless makes the daily repetition an expression of pure will, rather than e.g. a sense of obligation or desire for a ce
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by CrazyStat 1y ago
My wife and I toured our neighborhood public elementary school a couple years ago. Almost every classroom we passed the kids were staring at their chromebooks, even in the art room—digital art, I guess [1]. In the music room the kids were s
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by CrazyStat 1y ago
> The undergrad academics at T10 universities really aren't anything special. This surprised me when I went from my decent but not great-by-ranking (generally ranked in the 50-70 range) undergrad university to a top 10 ranked univer
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by CrazyStat 1y ago
That doesn’t follow at all, but I guess don’t pass up any opportunity to bash LLMs.

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