ImaCake

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by ImaCake 6y ago
I like your conclusion here. I've never needed an ad blocker for a PDF. But I also don't have a good pdf reader for all of my devices.
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by ImaCake 6y ago
Neilsen group has clearly chosen their opinion and then found evidence that supports it. It is a shame too. If they discarded their bias, maybe they could take some of the real problem points about PDFs and make a solid persuasive argument
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by ImaCake 6y ago
I hope for the latter! But I suspect the usual cyclical nature of human fashion and culture.
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by ImaCake 6y ago
Maybe the pandemic and associated social revolutions are the endpoint of an evolution towards public acceptance of comfort clothes that begun with angry, poorly dressed, peseants in 1790's france.
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by ImaCake 6y ago
I recently got a macbook after having never owned an apple computer (besides a 2nd hand iphone 5). The improvements compared to windows and linux are really impressive. This device does exactly what I want it for; unix native shell support
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by ImaCake 6y ago
I have had excel change date formats on me several times because of this "feature". I noticed it no longer does this sometime in the past year.
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by ImaCake 6y ago
Excel technically has a type system where you can change the type of value a cell has. In my experience it is difficult to convince excel to actually change the cell's data type sometimes. Doing so can often change the underlying data
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by ImaCake 6y ago
I would be in the same boat as you a year ago. But I since found myself in a job I was definitely not good at. It sucked very badly. Amusingly enough, most of the reason it sucked was because it was completely dominated by bad faith actors
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by ImaCake 6y ago
Someone downvoted you for this comment, but that was the wrong action. I am personally skeptical you are right about digital change exposing bad leadership. But I value your ideas here and think it is a shame to see them obscured because th
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by ImaCake 6y ago
I don't know. Even if it is ultimately unviable it does something no one in the US has dared to do for a long time. Which is to actually go after the wealth accumulated by the rich. I think the US will see more of this kind of thing ov
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by ImaCake 6y ago
You talk about these things like they are the future. But western cities are already much much cleaner than 40 years ago. The move to electric cars and more livable cities is just the continuation of a fight that has been going on at least
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by ImaCake 6y ago
I went into a GMP company (i.e. medical goods manufacturer subjected to regulations) with the attitude that I could impress with my tricks for efficiency. But GMP is so insane that there is simply no way to do anything efficently at all. I
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by ImaCake 6y ago
My firefox just remembers what sites I visit frequently, so when I start typing my bank's URL, that's what I get when I press enter to autocomplete. This seems robust to me; either I get my bank's website every time, or I wil
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by ImaCake 6y ago
A good perspective! People find fiction novels to be enriching and filled with learning despite the fact they are just entertaining lies.
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by ImaCake 6y ago
This seems like a great tool for certain statistical applications. I am learning a bit about the controversey surrounding extremely small p-values in Genome Wide Association Studies (think a million n ANOVA) and machine precision. I guess
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by ImaCake 6y ago
This can't be real... are you serious? It sounds like one of those silly buisness parabels!
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by ImaCake 6y ago
I suspect the problem is that firefox sometimes performs poorly. But most power users don't see this problem because they either have firefox when it performs well or because they have a powerful computer. For reasons I cannot understa
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by ImaCake 6y ago
But the potential was there. I was providing an all to likely possibility of someone hacking twitter in the way that happened here. Not sure why I have been downvoted for stating something sensible to the question that was asked.
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by ImaCake 6y ago
Think of what this teenager could have done if he had hacked Trump's twitter, or any other current head of state. The best case scenario then is a diplomatic incident, the worst is war or genocide.
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by ImaCake 6y ago
I doubt it is personal. I live outside of my state's major city (Sydney) and feel no personal dislike to anyone in Sydney. It is just difficult to understand why someone would want to live there. And I think people outside major urban
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by ImaCake 6y ago
Similar views can be found between Sydney and the rest of New South Wales, and also between Auckland and the entirety of New Zealand (the kiwis affectionately refer to Aucklanders as JAFAs - Just Another F$%king Aucklander, because half the
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by ImaCake 6y ago
Someone downvoted this, but this is a real and legitimate thing. It is happening continually with conservation; people don't notice the decline in animals and decrease in plant diversity because it happens over generations. In fact we
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by ImaCake 6y ago
I like your explanation a little better than mine because it is more true to the actual behaviour of the bloom filter. Mine maybe simplifies more than is needed for a clear explanation.
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by ImaCake 6y ago
As someone totally unaware of bloom filters, I appreciate the click bait title because it made me aware of them, and then almost immediately understand what they are thanks to the clear explanation and visuals :)
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by ImaCake 6y ago
To clarify why this is the case. It is because bloom filters effectively group everything in set X that you want to check for into a much smaller "approximated set" (the bit-vector). You can then check elements of set Y against th
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by ImaCake 6y ago
Yeah the visual really helps with explaining the concept. I read the wiki article on bloom filters first, which was great for understanding the motivation for a bloom filter, but I subtly mis-interpreted how the hash functions were used to
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by ImaCake 6y ago
I think it's a good lesson to learn, in general, that intuition and popular choices are often wrong or at least sub optimal. But I suspect that the popular sub-optimal path is taken for pragmatic reasons. More specifically to teaching,
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by ImaCake 6y ago
I want to quickly plug TWIV here. It is an incredible podcast. I have listened to it for several years, along with its sister podcasts, and have found it incredible useful as a professional scientists and also just for the wonderful stories
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by ImaCake 6y ago
I have seen this happen in a medium sized coastal city on Australia's east coast. The major employer shut down in the early 1990's and the once vibrant inner city did indeed become a cesspool for a decade. But begining in the earl
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by ImaCake 6y ago
This is a good question to ask and I am not sure why you are being downvoted. The answer is that p-hacking was a real problem back when these kind of large multi-gene frequency analysis studies were just starting out. Not intentionally, min

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