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by baconner 10y ago
I didn't say that though...
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by baconner 10y ago
> 1. scientific method is not a good fit for 'mental health' research What exactly is a good basis for mental health research then in your opinion? twisi the scientific method is basically all you've got even if it doesn&#
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by baconner 10y ago
viscm is also worth checking out: https://github.com/matplotlib/viscm interesting background on the project as well https://bids.github.io/colormap/
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by baconner 10y ago
I think there's significant evidence that socialized healthcare does not increase medical costs vs a system like the us has. Quite the opposite. In the us our costs grow dramatically compared to the rest of the world yet our outcomes
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by baconner 10y ago
Not only that but a lot of the time you have no reasonable way to know what a medical service will cost you until it's already done. You can't even reason about shopping around for a better price much of the time. Insurance covera
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by baconner 10y ago
There's certainly a correlation between necessities and government regulation, but I think that's an oversimplification. A more nuanced way to look at it is to consider the context in which a consumer needs to decide what to spend
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by baconner 10y ago
Yeah I don't see why you would want any kind of orm for olap, not just EF.
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by baconner 10y ago
OK, but what I didn't see (maybe I missed it) in the article is any knowledge of that by the New Zealand authorities ahead of this action. And even if that were the case this would be an incredibly heavy handed response to this kind of
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by baconner 10y ago
Sure, but is the smell because of OData or is that smell mostly coming from the messy old enterprise cruft that an OData veneer has been applied over? I can't really speak to how Dynamics did this in detail, but on my crusty enterprise
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by baconner 10y ago
This is clearly true, but legally speaking I think it's time we start reevaluating as a society how far we let this swing. Technology has changed the meaning of no reasonable expectation of privacy dramatically. 100 years ago you could
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by baconner 10y ago
Also to add to this great advice when you do have workplace harassment prevention, response training one of the things that will emphasize is that the response can't be purely up to the victim. A good training on this will help you exp
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by baconner 11y ago
Or of course, just move on! Could be that's the best advice most of the time.
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by baconner 11y ago
I've been through 3 acquisitions one very badly done, one well done, and one several years in that im still on the fence about. This is great advice in any case. Even in the case when say one of your side is brought into the c suite it
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by baconner 11y ago
Tooth root sensitivity is a well know cause of headaches as i recall. You aren't alone. I had years of terrible headaches spawning from an enflamed area above one of my molars (not wisdom tooth though). After finally getting a root can
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by baconner 11y ago
I was mainly thinking about food supply and medical testing but I think the rest apply as well. For instance I think it's generally considered more ethical to perform lethal medical testing on rats than gorillas. I think that's go
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by baconner 11y ago
We don't know that one way or another since such a machine doesn't yet exist. I'm suggesting that perhaps high level reasoning and sentience go hand in hand although I can't say that with any certainty.
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by baconner 11y ago
Except that (right or wrong) we most certainly weigh that against their intelligence.
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by baconner 11y ago
See I think that's exactly where it becomes complicated. Can an entity with reasoning capabilities far beyond that of humans have its agency suppressed successfully? And is it ethical to do so or is that internally designed suppression
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by baconner 11y ago
"We believe AI should be an extension of individual human wills..." I realize that today machine learning really is purely a tool, but the idea that ai will and should always be that doesn't sit quite right with me. Ml tech a
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by baconner 11y ago
Sure if you want to be pedantic about it... In reality though there's a reason there are many different OSS licenses - many devs want options around attribution and yes, around use in limited ways. A please don't use this for abje
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by baconner 11y ago
Yeah I still can't believe how scummy sourceforge is. I wonder how new oss projects can protect themselves against this type of behavior. Anyone know if any oss licenses include a restriction against this kind of repackaging or any k
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by baconner 11y ago
Still though you could write it another way - 60% of millenials support the rights of free speech even when it is offensive to minorities. It's not so dire. That's a solid majority.
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by baconner 11y ago
So, how is this different from an in memory olap queryable column store like vertipaq?
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by baconner 11y ago
It was totally charming and i scrolled through it with a smile. But you know what - didn't really read it, it's pretty hard to read actually. Not sure that's what you want to be going for as a news organization.
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by baconner 11y ago
I'd also add that the big problem in mental health treatment in the US is not identifying people with mental illness. The big problem is that we're not equipped (funded or institutionally prepared) to treat the huge number of peop
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by baconner 11y ago
Would I spend $100 to save myself an hour over a couple of months? Probably not, no. Not as an individual dev who could spend 100 bucks and get much more value for it. I could buy intellij for for the same price for instance.
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by baconner 11y ago
Something that I feel does not get enough attention wrt using machine learning is proper consideration of the downsides when there are false positives. There are always false positives and you have to weigh the harm of a false positive ag
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by baconner 11y ago
Alive looks super cool, but the $99 price for individual devs feels pretty steep to me. It's basically just a different way to interact with the debugger during test right? So im not doing so much pause, edit, continue activity? Or am
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by baconner 11y ago
I think that is a lot better because it implies that each player has to work for it to the best of their abilities, we're just establishing fair rules for the game. There's another term I'm seeing misinterpreted earlier in th
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by baconner 11y ago
Ah no actually its totally valid to talk about the distribution of ability at basketball over a population. Distribution is just a mathematical concept - it doesn't care what type of variable you are looking at.

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