Tycho

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by Tycho 8y ago
I think the data scientist hiring frenzy may soon collapse as large companies run out of patience with their recently formed data science departments that struggle to deliver ROI (for many reasons, often not the fault of the data scientists
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by Tycho 8y ago
It is indeed mean to shame people for their counter-productive lifestyle choices but if it warns off others from going down the same path maybe it’s worth the cost on a societal level.
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by Tycho 8y ago
Surely this is the expected outcome of supply shortage and diversity commitments.
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by Tycho 8y ago
Fun thought experiment is to think what would happen if you told ____s to replace ____s. What would happen if you took programmers and told them to fill the roles of teachers? What would happen if you took teachers and told them to replace
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by Tycho 8y ago
Seems pretty simply? All those things exist in greater quantities than yesteryear. There's more farms, more houses, more power plants and accessibe energy sources.
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by Tycho 8y ago
How much of a population’s DNA needs to be mapped before you can reliably triangulate the the identity of any individual by comparing to known DNA profiles? For instance if I have two cousins on different sides in the database, can they loo
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by Tycho 8y ago
Can someone explain to me why we have very highly paid medical staff working crazy hours, as opposed to simply having more medical staff working normal hours and getting paid proportionally less? Is it because we can’t train enough of these
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by Tycho 8y ago
A lot of jazz, if you were to take an excerpt of the notes being played and listen to them in the cold light of day, is just objectively bad. A bit more sophisticated than, but similar to, over indulgent rock guitar soloing.
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by Tycho 8y ago
Doesn’t look that bad, frankly. Everyone looks healthy at least.
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by Tycho 8y ago
I find it very obnoxious how the Netflix app for Apple TV autoplays previews of titles when you’re browsing and doesn’t let you disable that behaviour. As a result I rarely open Netflix except when I already know what I want to watch.
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by Tycho 8y ago
To be honest, my impression of modern journalism at established news organizations is: * business model crashing, so experienced staff laid off * smart millennials don't opt for a career in journalism * the ones who do emerge
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by Tycho 8y ago
I used to get bad acne as a teenager. I remember thinking it was some kind of cruel joke that I’d look in the mirror on Sunday night and see a fresh spot emerging, just as the others had cleared up, just as the school week was about to be
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by Tycho 8y ago
It’s a video featuring people pretending to rescue someone who is pretending to be injured. I call that fake. Why are they engaging in this sort of activity? The BBC are standing by their footage, but it looks mighty fake to me, I suppose i
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by Tycho 8y ago
The snopes page has them admitting in an official statement to making a fake video but, you see, that’s ok because they were intentionally making a fake video, it was an exercise , and they never meant for it to be distributed. Right. Th
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by Tycho 8y ago
I suspect these 'misinformation campaigns' are completely ineffectual and the main effect we are seeing is factual information routing around mainstream media outlets and successfully embarrassing subjects that the mainstream medi
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by Tycho 8y ago
Maybe there could be some good proxies though.
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by Tycho 8y ago
Does anyone have a plot showing % of population that is Muslim over time for different countries?
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by Tycho 8y ago
Any good analogies for eigenvectors and eigenvalues?
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by Tycho 8y ago
What is their real purpose is to filter out candidates who are not agreeable enough to just shut up and take the test?
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by Tycho 8y ago
Yes, it is possible that Browder is a noble soul, a "CEO turned human rights activist" tirelessly campaigning against corruption. I think we (or more importantly, the press) should at least entertain the possibility that Browder&#
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by Tycho 8y ago
The documentary was funded by a Norwegian production company and directed by an anti-Putin filmmaker. The initial intention was to work with Browder to tell his story and raise awareness of the fate of his lawyer, Magnitsky. But the directo
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by Tycho 8y ago
Ah yes, Bill Browder, man who made his fortune making investments in Russia in the 1990s. Absolutely the sort of background that merits uncritical extolment in the prestige press. A likelier champion of freedom and justice you will not find
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by Tycho 8y ago
I suspect there’s a strong selection bias here: nobody likes to admit they are a slob who doesn’t rise till noon, whereas people will gladly tell you they follow a Spartan regime and rise before dawn (even if they only manage that one week
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by Tycho 8y ago
Pretty amusing to read this on Bloomberg of all places. Practically the definition of innovator turned rent-seeker. One of the most entrenched incumbents in technology.
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by Tycho 8y ago
My father started suffering from ME/CFS about 20 years ago. Fortunately it is not so severe that he can’t enjoy life, but he had to stop working (and the authorities didn’t support early retirement because it’s not a well understood co
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by Tycho 8y ago
Being in the class was detrimental to her social status.
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by Tycho 8y ago
I’m talking about somebody forcing their hand, for instance a government agency or a particular stakeholder or a media organisation, not the normal calculus of weighing a myriad of factors to make a business decision.
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by Tycho 8y ago
The real question is, was there external pressure applied to the hosting company or was this entirely their own decision?
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by Tycho 8y ago
That's like 20k a year. So you'd need something like a 30k salary (before tax) just to break even. How much income would you be foregoing if one parent just stayed at home?
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by Tycho 8y ago
The workplaces you listed aren't a very diverse set though.

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