LetThereBeNick

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by LetThereBeNick 6y ago
>I’m so sick of people on either “side” faking data to prove their presuppositions on this. I don’t think this research is carried out with ulterior motives. Scientists make mistakes, and are prone to biases whenever they have a hypothes
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by LetThereBeNick 6y ago
My Citi card comes with a desktop app that can generate new numbers for online payments all the time. Beyond one-time use, I can generate a number that will work only with ‘x’ company for ‘x’ number of months. When I saw that, I assumed Cit
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by LetThereBeNick 6y ago
Filtering the noise: "ScreenShot & Screen Capture Elite", “Weather forecast for Chrome™", "GTA 5 Grand Theft Auto", "Sports Cars", "Suga", "Avengers Endgame
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by LetThereBeNick 6y ago
“contentment content,” i.e. stuff put online just because it makes the creator happy
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by LetThereBeNick 6y ago
A common human fallacy is to pick a single misstep and over-generalize it into a larger pattern of... oh God, I’m doing it now, aren’t I?
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by LetThereBeNick 6y ago
I agree. The only incentive to write neat code is to save yourself the pain and suffering of having to go back through it yourself to fix or add things. I am currently doing data analysis in MATLAB for my PhD, and I know nobody will ever us
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by LetThereBeNick 6y ago
“Euthanize” implies an often tough decision to end a condition of prolonged suffering that has little hope for improvement. “Kill” does not imply any such decision
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by LetThereBeNick 6y ago
Does “uses the Bing API” mean that the search results are all fetched from Bing? As in DDG doesn’t have it’s own search algorithm? I’m surprised
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by LetThereBeNick 6y ago
> The ASD and ADHD diagnostic criteria are still too broad and imprecise. One analogy has stuck with me. Defining mental disorders is like drawing up the constellations. The individual behavioral traits are the stars, and the constellati
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by LetThereBeNick 6y ago
With that attitude I would like to pledge my undying allegiance to you
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by LetThereBeNick 6y ago
Neuromorphic chips could lower the computational costs and make continuous retraining feasible
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by LetThereBeNick 6y ago
It sounds like you are ready to program an NLP to generate these articles
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by LetThereBeNick 6y ago
Unlike in the past, it’s impossible to read every paper in one’s field. Since tools like PubMed, ISI, and Scopus all use a proprietary algorithm to rank search results, I appreciate any alternative channels for bringing relevant papers to m
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by LetThereBeNick 7y ago
I’ve been happy with the “ReviewMeta” chrome extension, which evaluates the product reviews on any amazon site, and displays a score indicating how likely it is the ratings have been manipulated. It shows examples of flagged reviews which c
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by LetThereBeNick 7y ago
“Ctrl+Alt+P” does it for me. Right click a paint shortcut > Properties > Shortcut > type “P” :)