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by Tarq0n 5y ago
Scientific cameras are all like that. You get a half-baked SDK if you're lucky, then you have to implement and integrate everything yourself.
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by Tarq0n 5y ago
This is a great summary, though I'm not a fan of the emotional commentary around it. What surprises me is that commenters in this thread seem to expect anything different. In a democracy, the leaders we end up with are necessarily ones
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by Tarq0n 5y ago
Diseases with higher death rates spread less fast. You can't just imagine a disease with one characteristic changed, because that would completely alter it's epidemiological characteristics.
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by Tarq0n 5y ago
If you erase all identifying parts it stops meeting the definition of personal data. That should be sufficient.
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by Tarq0n 6y ago
On the contrary, a psychiatrists primary role is to prescribe psychoactive medication.
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by Tarq0n 6y ago
This is called a zaibatsu in Japan and a chaebol in South Korea. The Korean ones in particular are simultaneously fascinating and disturbing due to their interwovenness with the state.
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by Tarq0n 6y ago
That's a very harmful assertion to make without supporting evidence. Police go on strike in other developed nations occasionally without major issues. In countries with healthy labor relations the union and employer sometimes negotiate
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by Tarq0n 6y ago
Method dispatch and pipes get you both type driven autocomplete and left to right execution order without all the cruft. One thing I do appreciate about objects is the natural namespaces and the way methods naturally tend to be located with
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by Tarq0n 6y ago
That means you also gave permission for them to identify you, store and process that data. And with things like canvas fingerprinting it doesn't matter that you deleted the cookies, they have a persistent identifier for you anyway.
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by Tarq0n 6y ago
These discussions often revolve around introductory or 'first' books. What are some good followup books to HtDP, or books for an intermediate audience?
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by Tarq0n 6y ago
The same thing applies to MIDI music from the same era. Though I'm not sure how much of it was related to the technology and how much was the culture or aesthetic influences of game makers at the time.
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by Tarq0n 6y ago
The article is a lot better than the headline lets on. In particular: > Crucially, she said, we should place blame on the human individuals behind the creation and use of the algorithm rather than reify the technology as being the main d
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by Tarq0n 6y ago
This is a typical collective action problem. If you believe individual change in behaviour can fix it you're centuries behind on your sociology.
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by Tarq0n 6y ago
Archive link as the article seems to be down: https://web.archive.org/web/20210308114008/https://chrisvonc...
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by Tarq0n 6y ago
Thomas Pedersen is one of the less well known contributors to the R ecosystem. His work on fundamentals like graphics rendering is the kind of thing that can be pretty thankless and I think he deserves a ton of credit for his combination of
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by Tarq0n 6y ago
Are you bundling dependencies? In the R ecosystem you can just make users download libraries themselves.
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by Tarq0n 6y ago
Wasn't McCarthy-ism basically proto-cancel culture?
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by Tarq0n 6y ago
While there are some interesting points in this essay, the accusations of wrongthink it leads with are very offputting. In general, the position that some topics may not be argued is not a strong one if you want to criticise someone for the
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by Tarq0n 6y ago
I would disagree with that characterization. In fact, SSC's essays often involve emotionally colored language, some are even parables/fiction that clearly engage in more than rational argument. Ideally what it tries to do instead
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by Tarq0n 6y ago
There's a whole field of software built around this called statistical disclosure control. Most national statistics bureaus have datasets like the one you describe (usually referred to as microdata), kept in pseudonymous form and with
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by Tarq0n 6y ago
Differential privacy if I understand correctly has an upper limit on how many analyses can be performed before there is a privacy risk and the data must be destroyed. For official statistics and scientific research this is often not an acce
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by Tarq0n 6y ago
Forbes is a blogging platform nowadays, something being published there should be given about as much weight as a medium article.
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by Tarq0n 6y ago
As far as I know witnesses submit their testimony in written form ahead of time.
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by Tarq0n 6y ago
And the attention mechanism should take care of "sentence, paragraph, section" level context. Attributing this to tokenization is a weird mistake to make.
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by Tarq0n 6y ago
This is really not a thing for your average civil servant, only for department leaders in highly visible agencies.
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by Tarq0n 6y ago
If the last few years should have thought us anything it's that stock prices don't matter. The only time they become material to the business is if they urgently needs to raise capital, and are for some reason unable to access cap
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by Tarq0n 6y ago
Poverty is not the only metric we should care about when it comes to inequality. For instance there's also financial resilience, what percentage of people will be strongly affected if they suffer an adverse event i.e. a surprise medica
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by Tarq0n 6y ago
I'm not really seeing the increase you're talking about[1]. A source would be very much appreciated as this comment chain barely has any sources. [1] https://www.bra.se/bra-in-english/home/crime-and-stati
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by Tarq0n 6y ago
Honestly jank and bad ergonomics pervade the Python data science ecosystem. The pandas API is kind of bad (multi-indexes anyone?) matplotlib is way too low level, tensorflow is a shitshow. I think the R community got lucky with a greater fo
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by Tarq0n 6y ago
"The correlation between price and sound quality is close to zero and, slightly negative: r = -.16" This seems absurd on its face and should really cause the researchers to re-evaluate their model. Just because their research show

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