JPKab

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by JPKab 6y ago
Looking at your comment, I have to conclude that you think you are smarter than 95% of the population and that they need to be treated like children. You aren't dumb enough to drink rat poison if you see a video telling you to do so, a
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by JPKab 6y ago
Obviously, YouTube has the right to do whatever they want with their servers. My point wasn't that YouTube's policy was the end of democracy, but that the ethos espoused by the parent commenter, if shared by a majority of the ele
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by JPKab 6y ago
I see this project get posted to HN regularly, and I upvote it every goddammed time, because it's that good. The creator has a great blog as well. https://simonwillison.net/
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by JPKab 6y ago
Obviously I would agree if you're talking about Alex Jones. A thing that worries me is when people are banned or videos are removed when the facts in question are in dispute. I was a very big proponent of wearing mask in the beginning
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by JPKab 6y ago
Authoritarians always justify silencing speech for the greater good. You can reject lies with counters to those lies, or do it your way, and end democracy.
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by JPKab 6y ago
They have the right to do it, and it will make the world worse off. Taibbi always has had a great guy instinct for normal Americans and how they react to elite condescension, and he's right here. My idiot brother got twice as radicaliz
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by JPKab 6y ago
I've been a on several "tiger teams" (super cheesy, i know!) that were parachuted in from a consultancy to bail out Federal Gov projects that had gone bad. I've been tasked to state governments as well, and was always b
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by JPKab 6y ago
Your correct, but she became a useful tool for MSNBC and the Democratic party in the effort to turn any GOP governor who wanted to open their states up into evil, callous villains. As a result, any attempt to inject the reality of her bein
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by JPKab 6y ago
Lol. So basically, AccuWeather wants to have their cake and eat it too. What's the nature of their lobbying? Are they basically trying to defund any kind of front-end, consumer facing services from the NWS/NOAA, while keeping the
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by JPKab 6y ago
Have you ever worked in a Federal Government agency? Edit: Why is this question being downvoted?
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by JPKab 6y ago
I'm not arguing with this view, but I want to emphasize, that as someone who once worked in the Federal sector in numerous different agencies, that they waste tremendous amounts of money on things that have nothing to do with their cor
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by JPKab 6y ago
As a person without a facebook account, I feel locked out of many things I shouldn't be. Oculus is a small example, but I shouldn't be forced to have one to be notified of my town council meetings, for instance. I realize now tha
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by JPKab 6y ago
I've personally mentored dozens of women in my career, and hired just as many for technical roles. The first startup I ever joined was founded by a woman, who was also the CEO. I joined when it was her and 4 other people. I'm i
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by JPKab 6y ago
She was a GIS major who got a job running drag and drop BI software for Florida state govt. She's been called a data scientist by journalists who don't know what data science is, but think it sounds cool and bolsters their narrat
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by JPKab 6y ago
She used a drag and drop tool to build the dashboard, and it's not gatekeeping, it's calling out an incredibly biased news source for trying to fluff up the credentials of their chosen hero to support their narrative. She specific
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by JPKab 6y ago
"If Texas voters will finally vote in someone who is more like Ann Richards than Greg Abbott, I will believe the mindset is changing." I think the problem with this is that it rests on a fundamental assumption that someone's
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by JPKab 6y ago
Your onto something, and I think another crucial detail is that the small, southern town I grew up in is more tolerant of gay folks now than the vast majority of big cities were 20 years ago. There's been such a massive shift in toler
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by JPKab 6y ago
NPR as usual gets it wrong. She's not a data scientist. Here's a direct quote from her: “Hacking is not something I ever thought they would accuse me of because I have never displayed any capability of doing that,” she said. “I’v
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by JPKab 6y ago
https://www.tampabay.com/news/health/2020/12/07/florida-poli... Taken from the article: She claims to be a data scientist. Her quote: “Hacking is not something I ever thought they would accuse me of
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by JPKab 6y ago
She made an assertion that Florida was hiding covid hospitalizations. Where was the bar of proof then? That which can be asserted with no evidence can be refuted with none as well. So tons of people in Florida died, and they hid it? Beca
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by JPKab 6y ago
Again, this fits the pattern of half-truths and lying by omission that she uses to fuel her sensationalism. Her tweets conveniently leave out the fact that she ignored the police for 20 minutes and was uncooperative. My brother, a Portland
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by JPKab 6y ago
She made claims that Florida was hiding hospitalizations in May. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebekah_Jones#cite_note-17 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Csvzt6kGzHw This was patently untrue, and sens
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by JPKab 6y ago
As I recall, she first became famous claiming that the dashboard was deceptive and hiding cases and deaths. That turned out to not be true, at all. It was just a very convenient story for journalists who, weirdly, have been obsessed with h
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by JPKab 6y ago
Your platform looks interesting. Definitely going to check it out. I've recently been working on a project for my employer to turn jupyter notebooks into deploy anywhere, run anywhere functions.
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by JPKab 6y ago
Saul needs to spend a little less time on these projections, and a little more time on Makani Power, because it's not looking good. (I'm a big fan of the concept of airborned wind turbines FYA). I'm an open-minded person, an
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by JPKab 6y ago
Such an excellent point. Hiring activists is fine, unless your ACTUAL mission is profit vs whatever utopian vision (sometimes worthy, usually delusional) the activist is going for.
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by JPKab 6y ago
Agreed, but I highly recommend checking out nbdev. It's used to build all of fastai's libraries, and with nbdev, the notebooks ARE the docs and tests. I use pytest and standard IDE for most projects, but have used nbdev/jupyt
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JAMA: Overdose Related Cardiac Arrest events observed during Covid-19 pandemic(jamanetwork.com)
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by JPKab 6y ago
I can't answer your question, but I do happen to know that there has been a large increase in drug overdoses and suicides according to the data I've seen for a specific region I was looking at recently. No idea if it's a nat
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by JPKab 6y ago
I love how my parent question is being downvoted for politely asking a scientific question, in good faith.

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