Crye

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by Crye 6y ago
I don't know what your experience with Bayesian modeling is, and I'll admit mine is limited, but STAN can solve linear regression by defining up a linear model and then setting the dimension parameters as a normal distribution to
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by Crye 6y ago
There's risk of folks foregoing other precautions because they believe they can mitigate the effects of COVID with other treatments.
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by Crye 6y ago
This, I wonder, is the issue. As far as I understand, when polling occurs you subsample a population and then extrapolate it based on the existing demographics of the polling area. Infamously in 2016, the polls did not take into considerati
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by Crye 6y ago
The word you're looking for I believe is efficacy.
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by Crye 6y ago
It shows for me too and I don't have the PubPeer add on
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by Crye 6y ago
Do we know if the small business "loans" that were a part of the CARES act would be counted in those figures?
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by Crye 6y ago
It's not clear it's a bastion for free speech. According to this tweet, folks are getting banned for imitating politicians. https://twitter.com/RespectableLaw/status/127659055637488025...
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by Crye 6y ago
It's not apparent that the protest caused this sort of growth in infection. Plus you'd expect to see growth occuring simultaneously in places like New York and Seattle, which just isn't the case like Florida, Arizona, and Tex
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by Crye 6y ago
I raised my eyebrow as well when I read that. What I've read is that deadlier viruses tend to not spread as efficiently because it kills the host. So there is a pressure on the viruses to create symptoms that help spread the virus with
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by Crye 6y ago
Would you like to be driving the car when it veers off the road, or in the passenger seat. Passively waiting for the disruption of climate change to ravage normalcy, is probably going to be worst then trying to dealing with it aggressively.
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by Crye 7y ago
I was just imagining the same thing, and it's not hard to relate it to similar stories conspiracies happening today. QAnons belief that there is an underground network of famous child pedophiles. Of which are secretly being arrested by
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by Crye 8y ago
Anyone who found this line of thinking intriguing, I would like to recommend a book by Ursula Le Guin, The Dispossessed. It's a story that follows a mathematical genius who lives on a primitive and poor but utopic anarchic planet. His
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by Crye 8y ago
Doesn't this argument break down fairly quickly when you take into consideration information asymmetry between actors. Let's imagine you are providing future options to Congolese farmers, but you know you can poison the water supp
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by Crye 8y ago
> Because democracy only works when the voters are good. If a large majority of voters were Nazis then a Hitler would be elected. Similarly, I wouldn't want people who are proven to do something criminal to influence who becomes my
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by Crye 8y ago
I get your sentiment, but people can still close their eyes if they don't want to pay attention. I would imagine most people find VR more engaging, and when it comes to safety, that is an important feature.
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by Crye 8y ago
Or we can look at it the way it really is. Equity is just a point system which gives people the ability to make decisions and influence our world. They could earned the equity, been given it or just been plain lucky and found it. It literal
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by Crye 9y ago
You are thinking of markets. Capitalism requires the state. Property rights do not enforce themselves.
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by Crye 9y ago
Here's my two cents. Is it a fad and a bubble? Most likely. But do not discount value that the token creates as a network effect. Think of the currency as an investment vehicle to reward people who jump on to the network first. Conside
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by Crye 9y ago
I was hoping this was the top comment. Linear algebra would have been much more interesting if I had watch those videos first. He 3B1B such an amazing teacher!
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by Crye 9y ago
Or, we can accept that ideologies are how we all make the majority of our decisions and then work to create a convincing ideology which combats the systems of power/corruption we're currently dealing with. None of this going to go
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by Crye 9y ago
A product made possible by endless amounts of money being poured into state funded R&D for missile defense.
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by Crye 9y ago
Externalizing costs is one of the larger problems with capitalism. If I can pollute the environment with out that cost being captured, then I can essentially extract value from others indirectly. If moving people from their homes causes psy
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by Crye 9y ago
Maybe they take a view of a certain area. If it's filled it's a 1 if it's empty it's a zero?
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by Crye 9y ago
I'm not sure what you're referencing, but Chomsky has typically not been aligned with state socialism. I think typically it's viewed as another structure which uses it's position to maintain power.
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by Crye 9y ago
You would have to figure out how to score each build. Some would be more expensive then others due to compile time.
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by Crye 9y ago
Buckie, I'm in the process of reading your white paper on Kadena smart contracts, so it may answer this question. What is the purpose of a private block chain? Doesn't it become vulnerable due to available resource to out pace the
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by Crye 9y ago
Except you get the same amount as leas as you have gold. In fact, now you have gold and lead. One will turn out to be a storage for value.
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by Crye 9y ago
Seriously? You think you receive every single packet or that there isn't any filtering done for technical purpose done at your computer? It's the same principal. You are bad at analogies.
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by Crye 9y ago
I'm tired of these articles. Seriously. Government has funded hi-tech through the military for the last 70 years. That's not a secret and we wouldn't have what we have now with out it. The government knows this and the large
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by Crye 9y ago
I understand you just through out a number but you're at least an order of magnitude off. This is an article which is about 7 years old. I can guarantee you the prices have not lowered since then. https://arstechnica.com&#x2

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