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by beejiu 12y ago
Well, testing to a fixed sample to run your test and then sending to the other 80% is not an example of early stopping. If you want to send 8,000 emails and conduct a test on the first 1,000, then that is not early stopping. It would be ear
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by beejiu 12y ago
How does a difference between 99.9% and 100% for successful deliveries show as statistically significant? There's surely a bug there?
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by beejiu 12y ago
Having 740 million people represented by 24 councillors is not democratic. Even if they are elected in "second order" by our elected politicians, one person could not possibly fairly represent its country's citizens. We alrea
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by beejiu 12y ago
This reminds me of a story about a TOR developer who suspected her keyboard from Amazon was intercepted and implanted, because the redirection was included in the delivery log. Seems quite likely it was, in light of Glenn's latest slid
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by beejiu 12y ago
I think the problem is that the democracy is largely symbolic. For example, elected representatives are unable to propose legislation, they are only allowed to approve it. Only the European Commission is able to propose legislation, and tha
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by beejiu 12y ago
I think he's referring to an issue with the European Union laws which state that election results must be held back until all member states have finished voting. However, in the Netherlands, it is law that results must be counted immed
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by beejiu 12y ago
Also worth noting that Scotland could realistically become independent of the UK in a referendum this year (opinion polls have a small margin against), which will leave it both out of the UK and out the European Union.
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by beejiu 12y ago
British politicians.
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by beejiu 12y ago
Fair point, but two wrongs do not make a right. In this case, Google is right that the ruling amounts to censorship. It's an attack on free speech.
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by beejiu 12y ago
And they wonder why so many Brits want to leave the EU.
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by beejiu 12y ago
I think you've hit the nail on the head. Scientists are not there to create great software. They are there to create great science. For the small amount of software that does end up in a commercial product, it will probably be rewritte
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by beejiu 12y ago
Well, unless I know there is somebody out to kill me, why would I care about giving away my location?
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by beejiu 12y ago
There's three t's in Automattic.
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by beejiu 12y ago
Mathematics is not a spectator sport. This is why lectures should be there to present, not to teach. You have to teach yourself.
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by beejiu 12y ago
From my experience of professional mathematicians at university, arithmetic was usually their worst skill. They'd quite often struggle (for a short moment) to multiply, say, 12 and 16 together. The public perception of a mathematician
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by beejiu 12y ago
> One of Silicon Valley’s cultural exports in the past ten years has been the concept of “lifehacking”: devising tricks to streamline the obligations of daily life, thereby freeing yourself up for whatever you’d rather be doing Well, to
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by beejiu 12y ago
I think the biggest problem as far as AI and automation is concerned is, what is left for us humans to do? At the moment, we work 42 hours per week (UK full time average), with many millions of people unemployed. Ultimately, our goal as a s
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by beejiu 13y ago
I think you have the wrong perspective of Schema. Although it is sometimes useful to describe what links relate to (both externally and internally), Schema is most useful when content describes itself. E.g., it's not so much saying &qu
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by beejiu 13y ago
On a practical note, has anybody's Adobe Flash stopped working after this update? Any ideas on why it could be affected?
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by beejiu 13y ago
I pay £145 per year for the BBC, and they're too tight to serve me a single webpage. Absolutely shameful.
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by beejiu 13y ago
What do you mean? Goldman Sachs would have owned the copyright, not the employee. (It gets a little more complicated for contractors.) And even if you distributed to a subsidiary, you can simply provide the code to the subsidiary, too. That
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by beejiu 13y ago
I wouldn't necessarily consider the 'bracket notation' a query, and it's very un-SQL like. It's simply three vector operations which returns a boolean vector e.g. (TRUE, FALSE, TRUE, ...), which is then used to sele
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by beejiu 13y ago
How does the voice feature work? Is it computer voice recognition, or does your voice get sent to a person to interpret?
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by beejiu 13y ago
Do you have a sunrise simulation alarm clock? Buying a Lumie was probably the best thing I've done to make myself feel awake. Also, put an alarm clock on the opposite side of the room and leave a piece of fruit by the bed to eat in the
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by beejiu 13y ago
When you are constrained to O(n) methods, you have big data.
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by beejiu 13y ago
The 5 W's is something taught to all school kids at an early age -- who, what, where, when, why (and sometimes, how). Your tagline should address all of these in one simple sentence.
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by beejiu 13y ago
What are you basing "Javascript does not scale well" on? If you are careful about delegating to worker nodes and avoid blocking, Node.js scales quite well for CPU intensive problems. If you have a really CPU intensive problem, you
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by beejiu 13y ago
On the other hand, the only mention of trademarks in the license is: > This License does not grant any rights in the trademarks, service marks, or logos of any Contributor This is unfortunately worded in Dell's favour, as any tradem
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by beejiu 13y ago
The sample size was 55. 15 showed sign of response. I don't know the probabilities, but that's probably greater than the probability of response without treatment, with statistical significance. Obviously, you'd have to know
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by beejiu 13y ago
There are 500,000 CCTV cameras in London, and we are concerned about a few hundred advert-bins counting how many people are nearby...

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