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by anothermachine 14y ago
""Most authorities feel that current intelligence tests are more aptly described as 'scholastic aptitude' tests" Hence the S, A, and T in "SAT".
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by anothermachine 14y ago
This is constantly overlooked in debates over IQ, SAT, etc. In most cases where these tests are used, it is far more mportant to separate the above median from below median, or +2 STDDEV from median, etc, and not to pick winners in the Krel
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by anothermachine 14y ago
Bayesian uses a broader prior -- a distribution over possible prior distributions of facts, instead of assuming a single possible prior (Gaussian). In that sense you could sort of squint and say that that's the contrast.
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by anothermachine 14y ago
Anyone at an Ivy League law school might have more lucrative opportunities than teaching LSAT classes.
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by anothermachine 14y ago
Javascript can send hash tags to the server.
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by anothermachine 14y ago
"Are you hiding your DNA because you know it matches a crime scene, perhaps? Let's have you down to the station for some more detailed interrogation." That's why.
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by anothermachine 14y ago
Interestingly, Swisher's spouse is a VP at Google.
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by anothermachine 14y ago
Hackage2 has been around the corner for years. The "public testing instance" doesn't exist. http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/wiki/HackageDB/2.0 If someone's actually working on it again, that would be delightful.
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by anothermachine 14y ago
It's not novel work. It's an toy implementation of standard technology. It's impressive for a young person to understand and synthesize the components, but it's an engineering practice project, not an innovation.
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by anothermachine 14y ago
Could be software in the driver layer that doesn't care about logical orientation, and data structures that are reset when the screen is reset.
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by anothermachine 14y ago
Cost of living varies by a factor of 3x or more across the USA. This fact is ignored every time the meaningless "$75,000" figure is trotted around.
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by anothermachine 14y ago
Why is this HN thread the only Google result for "LR gyro" ?
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by anothermachine 14y ago
No, Social Security wins that title.
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by anothermachine 14y ago
This is why Hackage is full of junk and Haskell is unapproachable for real-world projects. Everyone's throwaway toy file is published as a package, and the useful well-documented packages get lost in the mix.
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by anothermachine 14y ago
Having children is not the same as having time for children, as plenty of children can attest.
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by anothermachine 14y ago
If people stop buying things, they won't get the 33%-off savings. Don't double-count. Middle class people don't spend enough in a year ($40k per person, tops?) to be rich even if they spent NONE of it. And if they "got rich" saving money, w
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by anothermachine 14y ago
same story in the Atlantic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4209205
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by anothermachine 14y ago
Source: http://www.aon.com/attachments/human-capital-consulting/The_... 10 pages of analysis for the conclusion that if you want to maintain your lifestyle for 23 years after you retire, you'll need 23 * 0.65 (no income tax on savings) *
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by anothermachine 14y ago
When did The Atlantic get so dumbed down? > We're obsessed with the number 9. Up to 65 percent of all retail prices end in the number 9. Why? Everybody knows that $20 and $19.99 are the same thing. But the number 9 tells us something si
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by anothermachine 14y ago
> So, really, you need something like car insurance, where everyone (and here I also mean every country) is required to buy in. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patient_Protection_and_Afforda...
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by anothermachine 14y ago
Why can't you predict crimes of passion? People with poor impulse control are easy to predict: they react violently or opportunistically to common situations.
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by anothermachine 14y ago
Interesting notion.... https://www.google.com/search?q=The+Age+of+the+Algorithm
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by anothermachine 14y ago
http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2010/09/counterintuiti...
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by anothermachine 14y ago
It turns out that abetting criminal activity is a crime. The app would have to be much more circumspect to get any farther than speed trap apps.
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by anothermachine 14y ago
You can't just assume future success to justify a course of action.
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by anothermachine 14y ago
Do you think random police proximity is a factor in stopping premeditated crimes? Moving police around will have a much greater effect on non-premeditated "mob" misbehavior than on criminal masterminds.
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by anothermachine 14y ago
There were no fitness trails in NYC before this? Wow, the City really does have no conception of the rest of the world. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitness_trail#United_States_of...
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by anothermachine 14y ago
For smoothness, I presume, to avoid a sudden change in the rate of time passage at the start and end of the day.
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by anothermachine 14y ago
You should rebut Greenspun's arguments, not slander him by words in quotes and pretending they paraphrase what he wrote. How is this paternalistic or uninviting to women? > A lot more men than women choose to do seemingly irrationa
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by anothermachine 14y ago
If an outage in one zone causes a brownout in the other zones, then the aren't independent "availability" zones in any logical sense. They may as well be on the same power supply.

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