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Sent to Prison by a Software Program’s Secret Algorithms(nytimes.com)
3 points by aqsalose 9y ago|1 comments
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Bayesian data analysis for newcomers(osf.io)
2 points by aqsalose 9y ago|0 comments
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Fibonacci and Golden Ratio Madness(devlinsangle.blogspot.com)
3 points by aqsalose 9y ago|0 comments
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by aqsalose 9y ago
>With mathematical homework, aren't you spending significant time ensuring that what you typed into Latex rendered correctly? >[..] >I could see it working for a lab report. I think here is your answer: much depends how much y
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by aqsalose 9y ago
I very much like the idea of markdown-pandoc-latex-pdf toolchain (I use markdown for all non-math stuff), but setting up a math LaTeX template that works for anything other than the most basic documents was a pain, so I gave up. Is there so
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by aqsalose 9y ago
err, no. The model is a "black box" if the only thing we have is the input and the output, and only little intuition how the model produces output from the input. We have spent at least a couple of thousand years studying geometry
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by aqsalose 10y ago
>Just the fact that the address bar font is the same size as the rest of the UI gives me the impression that they didn't think it through. >.. >Chrome had search integrated in the address bar from version 1, every time I open
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by aqsalose 10y ago
I'm surprised that people would assume that emails you send would get an immediate response. I'd assume that very important stuff that absolutely can't wait would relayed with an SMS / phone. I use Thunderbird, have disa
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by aqsalose 10y ago
I agree that the first part was the strong part of the paper (and was the reason I decided to link it on HN), and e.g. statistics about differing word usage in different fields isn't what I'd call conclusive evidence. But are you
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What’s so bad about Scientism?(philpapers.org)
31 points by aqsalose 10y ago|88 comments
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by aqsalose 10y ago
>the lines you meant as absurd will be proudly paraded by the same people you were mocking You can cite centuries old examples of this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yankee_Doodle#Early_versions >Traditions place