MarkMc

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by MarkMc 5y ago
The problem is deaths are so infrequent that it takes many years to get a statistically representative sample. Perhaps at-fault collisions per mile would be a better metric?
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Women 32% more likely to die after operation by male surgeon(theguardian.com)
1 points by MarkMc 5y ago|0 comments
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by MarkMc 5y ago
I actually tried to implement a neutral network from scratch by following 3blue1Browns videos, and using the same handwritten number data set. But I got stumped when I realized I didn't have a clue how to choose the step size in gradie
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by MarkMc 5y ago
Consider using Java with the SWT library, which gives you native widgets
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by MarkMc 5y ago
McLaren College | Online Teacher | Full-time | REMOTE McLaren College is an online school designed to identify and train people in poor countries for software engineering careers who otherwise would not have such an opportunity. We do not c
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by MarkMc 5y ago
> First Equal Protection clause from the 14th Amendment applies to only states and not federally The Holmes case was merely the catalyst for my thinking. The point remains: Why isn't there a legal push to have blind sentencing, at
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by MarkMc 5y ago
Someone mentioned that Holmes will likely get a relatively light sentence because she is an attractive white woman. I've read there is good evidence that black people get harsher sentences than white people and men get harsher sentence
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by MarkMc 5y ago
Silicone Valley is in LA ;)
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by MarkMc 5y ago
I just switched to Duck Duck Go yesterday and was not impressed. When I searched "define hot take" Google gives me a canonical, prominent definition with bold-font title and button to hear the pronunciation. DDG gives me multiple
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by MarkMc 5y ago
It's interesting to consider how an 'asteroid mining' company could be profitable without ever building a rocket: Suppose SpaceX announced they had (a) identified an asteroid with high percentage of gold; and (b) bought a lar
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by MarkMc 5y ago
Isn't this the fault of EU regulators? GDPR says that a website cannot degrade the service for users who decline to be tracked, yet almost all these popups make it harder to reject cookies than to accept.
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by MarkMc 5y ago
Yes TikTok is a serious threat to YouTube because they have solved the chicken-and-egg problem. Most YouTube competitors don't have enough users to be worthwhile for content creators, but TikTok now has billions of users. Currently Tik
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by MarkMc 5y ago
Bob Dole's passing has reminded me that one of the answers in the greatest crossword puzzle of all time was, "Bob Dole Elected". Worth a read: https://www.dailydot.com/unclick/clinton-1996-election-nyt-c
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by MarkMc 5y ago
No our pay rates are competitive - we have long-term funding in place to cover any shortfall between student fees and operating costs
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by MarkMc 5y ago
McLaren College | Online Teacher | Full-time | REMOTE McLaren College is an online school designed to identify and train people in poor countries for software engineering careers who otherwise would not have such an opportunity. We do not c
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by MarkMc 5y ago
Immigrants generally increase their income, and income is inversely correlated with birth rate. So wouldn't a high level of Australian immigration reduce the total world population, relative to a low immigration level?
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by MarkMc 5y ago
I run an online Javascript course and we have what I think is a better solution than ProctorU: 1. We don’t require the student to install any software - we use the video streaming feature of the browser on their laptop to record the student
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by MarkMc 5y ago
Sorry about that - should be available in all countries now
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Show HN: A Hacker News mobile app with crowdsourced images and subtitles(mclarentimes.com)
6 points by MarkMc 5y ago|3 comments
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by MarkMc 5y ago
> The problem with any education is how do you figure out the actual value added? Answer: with a randomised controlled trial. That is, the school randomly rejects a number of applicants who meet the enrolment criteria, then it follows u
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Show HN: A Hacker News mobile app with crowdsourced images and subtitles(mclarentimes.com)
1 points by MarkMc 5y ago|0 comments
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From addiction to learning to code, now she’s leading a worker uprising at Apple(washingtonpost.com)
13 points by MarkMc 5y ago|4 comments
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by MarkMc 5y ago
Sounds to me like you were only wrong in hindsight. At the time it was a reasonable decision to pass on GitLab in the circumstances.
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Washington takes aim at the booming crypto industry(washingtonpost.com)
2 points by MarkMc 5y ago|1 comments
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by MarkMc 5y ago
> And it’s not as if anyone is clicking Google search ads for Coca-Cola and ordering a 6-pack right there. This is the same problem that these companies have with TV advertising. Supermarkets already have a loyalty card program where you
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by MarkMc 5y ago
"The HSM-based Backup Key Vault will be responsible for enforcing password verification attempts and rendering the key permanently inaccessible after a limited number of unsuccessful attempts to access it" Is this standard practic
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by MarkMc 5y ago
Fascinating that players in VR would not attempt to turn the handle of a latched door, and instead would simply assume the door was locked. And the solution was incredible: simply play the hand-rotation animation when the player grabs the h
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by MarkMc 5y ago
This article is wrong to assume targeted advertising requires complex machine learning algorithms. Here are some personal examples where my ads have been poorly targeted: - I'm actively looking to buy a house for more than a million do
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How the Poly Network hack worked(twitter.com)
11 points by MarkMc 5y ago|2 comments
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by MarkMc 5y ago
It's not pointless - the point is to reduce the number of people who come into Australia. Quarantine is not perfect; fewer arrivals means fewer sources of infection.

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