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by alimw 10y ago
> 1. We are taxed on income heavily in the US. I was surprised at this so I looked it up. From the article [1] it looks as if income tax in the US is lower than in most of Europe. But yes, higher than Russia, Saudi Arabia or Mexico. [1
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Many women are not attracted to work in fields populated 90% by males. I believe this to be a more subtle problem that you suggest; you might eliminate all sexual harassment and it would still be the case. EDIT: not calling anyone a liar.
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The author backs up his assertion that mathematical genius is fragile by ... listing a bunch of people whose genius was apparently rather robust.
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by alimw 10y ago
> The prof's definition begs the question. It was good enough for Russell so I doubt that. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Set-theoretic_definition_of_na...
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Medical researchers (who mostly lack the skills) have problems and data sets in this field that could very effectively be worked with the newer statistical analysis and machine learning techniques. For example this is a project that I almo
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by alimw 10y ago
cut their teeth! I'm surprised there are hardly any PhDs specifically in "deep learning", given the youth of the term. Would a PhD in some related area of statistics count for something?
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by alimw 10y ago
It's funny how there's glamour attached to the idea of being a BBM. It's not like it tends to end well in practice.
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by alimw 10y ago
There is nothing wrong with it. Rather question the judgment of someone who has used the words "witting skills".
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by alimw 10y ago
It's been a while since I used J, but as I recall it's more idiomatic (though sometimes trickier) to write a function that works directly with arrays than to write a function that works with scalars and then to map it over an arra
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Renegade Academia(k-punk.abstractdynamics.org)
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by alimw 10y ago
From your write-up, it seems like you had only one reason in advance to doubt the assumption of Normally-distributed returns, and that was the existence of short-sellers in the market. Is that fair to say?
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by alimw 10y ago
It doesn't take long at all to teach the basic tricks of how to draw. Maybe find a short course of evening classes at your local college? And have fun :) Edit: I hope that doesn't sound patronising, I am assuming you are a begi
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by alimw 10y ago
That's crazy talk. How good would you have to be before your work was "worthwhile" enough to make you happy?
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by alimw 10y ago
It's not clear what you are referring to. The section on Selfish Routing begins with Braess's Paradox but swiftly moves on to a Generalized Routing Problem which appears to address your concerns.
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by alimw 10y ago
This contributor to the talk page will appreciate no such thing: this whole article is poorly veiled propaganda by the current communist administration to justify government ownership of roads. After all, who but the government could remove
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by alimw 10y ago
This is the so-called Pigovian Tax. Also named for Arthur Pigou is a road traffic thought experiment much like Braess's ("Pigou's example").
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by alimw 10y ago
You're assuming there's still a human audience in a position to demand human entertainment.
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by alimw 10y ago
Is this what happens when self-healing code starts to post on Hacker News :)
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by alimw 10y ago
I've always wondered at how few comments they get, maybe that makes them sad...
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by alimw 10y ago
And here you see why one should be wary of hires who are too close to the computer, e.g. most CS graduates.
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by alimw 10y ago
"When Backus studied and publicized his function-level style of programming, his message was mostly misunderstood, as supporting the traditional functional programming style languages instead of his own FP and its successor FL." Y
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by alimw 10y ago
The article seems to be describing something more like traditional computer memory (encoded in an electrically stable configuration of switches) than the memory of a recurrent neural network (encoded in the pattern of underlying connections
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by alimw 10y ago
Until very recently, $100k was worth more like £60k.
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by alimw 10y ago
That's a bit vague. "Can be read in an exaggerated British accent" (whatever you're imagining there) is not an ideological position.
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by alimw 10y ago
FroshKiller is right, a good search feature would make this device much more useful. Regarding that I do have a 'tip' for you. There is no need for an intermediate textual representation. If a sequence of pen strokes is what you
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by alimw 10y ago
I too struggle (and fail) to keep physical papers organised. But I'm not sure why electronic papers should be any easier? Unless there's some amazing software that can recognise content automatically...
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by alimw 10y ago
Just because I have never been made aware of one, it never caused me to doubt the existence of these circles ... just the existence of my own genius :)
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by alimw 10y ago
From this page http://www.crisis.org.uk/pages/homeless-def-numbers.html : "Local authorities do not have to provide housing for all homeless people. Instead, they have a duty to house 'statutory' homeless
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by alimw 10y ago
This is amazing! I'm particularly pleased to see how it comes out because I remember wanting to do precisely this (generative model plus porn) back in 2000. I had recently seen Geoff Hinton give a talk, and back then I had half my fo
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by alimw 10y ago
I'm not sure about the start-up analogy here, but it seems a good idea to me to encourage your mother-in-law to pay a visit to her supposed romantic interest.

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