NumberCruncher

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by NumberCruncher 5y ago
> They seem to have written contracts that say 'you get what your dedicated manufacturing produces'. It came a couple of weeks ago in the news that 29M AZ shots, hidden in an Italian harbour, waiting to be shipped out of Europe
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by NumberCruncher 5y ago
I remember the exact values, at least the ones published on public media (German ZDF): The negotiation wasn't about the purchasing prise of a shot, but about the price to "reserve a shot". Germany spent ca. 4€ per capita on &
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by NumberCruncher 6y ago
I should re-read the article because I can't see what kind of problem they try to solve with MAP, NDCG and "invented here" Pagerank what couldn't be solved with tf-idf and out-of-the box Elasticsearch functionality. It&#
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by NumberCruncher 6y ago
German language books. Thanks to them I don't have to live in a sh*thole country turning into a dictatorship and I have a decent life.
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by NumberCruncher 6y ago
Or this is going to be one of those events that everyone tries to sweep under the carpet when Tesla and it's investors have to be bailed out for the first time, because it's too big to fail...
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by NumberCruncher 6y ago
I am surprised what a discussion an article can kick of which sole purpose is generating views for people.ai...
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by NumberCruncher 6y ago
Sounds good, until the next bail out comes and private companies and their investors has to be saved.
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by NumberCruncher 6y ago
> In the 50-second video, Ma, wearing a navy pullover, spoke from a room with grey walls, a large painting and floral arrangements. It was not clear where the room was. [...] Alibaba’s Hong Kong-listed shares jumped to finish 8.5% higher
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by NumberCruncher 6y ago
At first I thought this article is just totally wrong, but than I have found this: > Possibly illiterate dilettantes on the internet... At least this one point is correct.
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by NumberCruncher 6y ago
Not wanting to protect the company, but it's called the National Gambling Company, so it's pretty obvious for everyone what its products are, the participation in the games is anonymous, the customers have the opportunity to opt o
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by NumberCruncher 6y ago
I used to work at a lottery company and I can confirm your hypothesis. Numbers below 31 and magical numbers like 7 or 13 are picket more frequently. In a game where we draw 5 numbers out of 90 the combination 1,2,3,4,5 was played 4-5000 tim
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by NumberCruncher 6y ago
> The title is transformed it into an array of numbers between 0 and 1 (each character is a number) and this data is fed (along with the number of points) to the neural network. This sounds strange. But after looking at the authors bio,
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by NumberCruncher 6y ago
https://cvcompiler.com/ high ROI investment
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by NumberCruncher 6y ago
Some sources say they were spying together: https://www.techzine.eu/news/security/52178/danish-intellige... Danish politician about having cheap flying taxis by 2030, we only have to give up our privacy: htt
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by NumberCruncher 6y ago
> Only the richest ancient Athenians paid taxes And only the richest ancient Athenians had the right to vote. There may be some causation...
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by NumberCruncher 6y ago
This doesn't hold in the age of slavery where you could get sold by the curt to slavery and serve on a galleon until you payed back your obligations.
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by NumberCruncher 6y ago
> ...China, which leads the world in published scientific papers... Try to publish in China a scientific paper with real COVID numbers and you will see how democratic the country is. > ...the Soviet Union, which definitely assigned a
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by NumberCruncher 6y ago
It's not about whether people sitting in the "committee meetings" of the "Code of Conduct Enforcement Team" are dickheads but it's about how you deal with it. Not acknowledging their legitimacy and walking away
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by NumberCruncher 6y ago
> What if people with lower cognitive ability are more likely to falsely report having had it. And that's why we generally shouldn't base studies on self reported data. If you had the opportunity to compare self reported data t
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by NumberCruncher 6y ago
> I find the question really odd. It is like asking why people create new recipes This analogy missed the point. It's about recipes written in a new language barely spoken by anyone, like elvish or klingon. Writing Romulan ale recip
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by NumberCruncher 6y ago
> I am not entirely sure that we would learn those lessons from dealing with covid-19. Just as much as we learned those lessons from dealing with the spanish flu. As one of my friends said, people doesn't learn, unless one of their
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by NumberCruncher 6y ago
"To forgive and forget means to throw away dearly bought experience.” - Schopenhauer
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by NumberCruncher 6y ago
I use a HAG Capisco and pretty happy with it. 800€ well invested...
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by NumberCruncher 6y ago
> Maybe developers stop learning because they realize that that to learn how to do the same thing with 167 technologies is not a real development. And maybe because they realize that the majority of those 167 technologies only exist beca
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by NumberCruncher 6y ago
Someone wrote on HN that you can not make all of your employees happy at the same time. Identify the 20% who gets done 80% of the work and make sure they will want to work for you in the future and follow you if you jump ship. How? Build a
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by NumberCruncher 6y ago
Next time I have to interview someone for an analyst position I will pick this article and say "find 5 mistakes within 5 minutes"...
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by NumberCruncher 6y ago
Fair enough.
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by NumberCruncher 6y ago
I guess you pay her a US salary or something comparable.
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by NumberCruncher 6y ago
> Let’s be clear: this software is specifically designed to help employers read workers’ private messages without their knowledge or consent. By any measure, this is unnecessary and unethical. I am too European to understand how this can
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by NumberCruncher 6y ago
> An example of this is in a library we have open sourced, and you can find the fix here This reads for me like: As an example of this I go to the shooting range every Friday, just for fun, as you can see it on this picture I published o

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