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Because of the federated nature of mastodon, experience on one instance might be quite different than another. If the instances that are not "barren wasteland" are difficult to find, it's a problem.
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Counterpoint: True, there are many "niche" instances available, but on the other hand, finding the one that aligns with your interests may be difficult.
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I believe it's quite random whether a link trends on HN or not, even if other links about same topic had got a quite large number of upvotes in past. Cool visualizations and engaging title helps, but isn't a guarantee. Maybe also
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by aqsalose 9y ago
Yeah, I'm going to politely disagree that one can do multidimensional statistics and understand what one is doing without rudimentary understanding of linear algebra and probability and basic concepts of calculus (derivatives, integr
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Some links on previous discussion that I'm aware of: - Barany's original post on Scientific American Guest Blog: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/mathematicia... - Thony Christie's respons
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Math: Still Not Everywhere(mathbabe.org)
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I throughly enjoyed the webcomic Digger [1]. I didn't realize the author had so many other works published on the internet and in print. Thank you for this pointer! [1] http://diggercomic.com/
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What are universities for and how do they work?(devlinsangle.blogspot.com)
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Caveat: I'm not a professional statistician. My impression as a student, however, is that among statisticians , Bayesian statistics is viewed as a part of the mainstream way of doing statistics. So it has perfectly okay reputation in
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One problem that can't probably solved by simply "focusing on the UX and better service" is that the service provider (medical professional) is both responsible for evaluating what's wrong with you (and what services y
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Oh, that isn't scary yet. My most troubling experience regarding Brave New World concerns a short community review of Brave New World on GoodReads I read not long time ago. (The only review in Finnish.) It consistently kept calling it
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Finland participated in the WW2, moreover, also on the side that lost the war.
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I'm not sure if I'd buy a vehicle with promised "self-driving capabilities" (especially if we are talking about full replace-human-pilot watch-movies-instead-of-driving capabilities) in mind until the manufacturer has
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The obvious caveat: this is quite far away from my field of expertise. Doubly so, because I'm not an expert in neural net ML and neither in cognitive science. So take this with spoonful of salt. But anyhow , I don't like the word
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"Screen time" is also a great motivator to learn any language, if the fancy entertainment on the screen you'd like to understand is in a language you don't yet understand. (Similar effects apply to the written communicat
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They are comparing their genetic programming results with a deep learning paper published in 2015. [1] [1] https://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v518/n7540/abs/nature1...
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On Crimes and Punishments and Beccaria (2013)(exurbe.com)
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>Plus, it misses the point: in the event of something able to take out something crucial to the entire US library system for any appreciable length of time, the librarians themselves would most likely have far more pressing concerns in t
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I do a feel a bit silly about not considering this. (Okay, the feasibility of solar depends on the local climate. But alternative local methods to generate electricity exist.) It even also provides some form of resilience that I was calli
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I second this, sounds like very good idea: Feedback for the algorithm so that it can update its internal model in supervised / reinforcement learning fashion. Further ideas: users can suggest totally new tags for a given article, if th
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>If the electricity is out for a very long time I imagine that's not isolated to the library and people will have much larger problems to worry about. Well, yes. But a library rendered unusable is also a major problem, in the long r
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>For it to be destroyed, you need to cause physical damage However, I'd like to have redundancy. Backups . Library catalogs are quite critical when it comes to using the combined amount of information the humankind has amassed: It&
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One problem with digital databases: What if the electricity goes out for a very long time? Or a nefarious hacker manages to destroy the database? (Or all librarians' terminals are locked by NotPetya...) Library without catalog is, whil
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Science and Science Fiction: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly(torforgeblog.com)
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The Complexity of Rubik's Cube(blog.computationalcomplexity.org)
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Thanks for pointing this out. It's still fascinating to see how after running the simulation for some time, the ranked histogram appears to be geometric (? [1]) at any given time point, while the wealth of each individual players will
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Counterintuitive problem: People in a room keep giving dollars to random others(decisionsciencenews.com)
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What are some useful but little-known features of the tools used in mathematics?(terrytao.wordpress.com)
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Do GANs actually do distribution learning?(offconvex.org)
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Okay, so what about this: Students rank their course preferences in an order and submit it. For each course, free seats are first allocated to the students who ranked it as their first choice, then what is left to the students who ranked

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