billf1953

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by billf1953 7y ago
I must be missing something, I buy Bitcoin with a USD bank account, I send to another address and then this address sends to a known drug dealer. How do they establish the second address's identity?
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by billf1953 7y ago
It reads like no one had any sense of how well they would do on the test. So people guessed they'd be slightly above average which is a good prior for a group of Ivy league students. This lead to the lowest being "overconfident&qu
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by billf1953 8y ago
Degree of change would be nice. These traits could all be very flat over time and therefore small peaks make things statistically significant.
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by billf1953 9y ago
Slightly snarky cliffs SWE did good work, got passed over for promotion several times, got mad and quits cushy software job to freelance. Everyone sympathizes because everyone thinks they do promotion-worthy work.
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by billf1953 9y ago
I'm actually not surprised that journalists overestimated Hillary's chance of winning. As a group, they are predominantly coastal and almost uniformly college educated. Both of those groups broke disproportionately toward Hillary.
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by billf1953 9y ago
You could also die and have zero spending dollars. Or less fatalistically see high inflation eat away your lower than expected returns
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by billf1953 9y ago
The real issue is that the converse statement is rarely true. Providing less value to your customers is a way to be paid more. Obviously as the entire thread points out, the outcomes are probabilistic in nature and certain job titles have
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by billf1953 9y ago
This is like describing a painting to a blind person. Describing "a dust-covered sunflower" as a "yellow flower" doesn't much help the blind person and certainly doesn't help the sighted.
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by billf1953 9y ago
You realize that saving half your income is actually living on a sixth. The government always get a third.
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by billf1953 9y ago
Seriously leftist plot to solve unsolved statistical problem? Is reality breaking down?
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by billf1953 9y ago
The simple answer is that this blog post tells us nothing about her skill level aside from the clear resume brags. Google I/O presenter on Tensorflow said something along the lines of "why do we use RELU? Because it works better..
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by billf1953 9y ago
Really it's debatable that people work together? I get bias but seriously this is like saying I have a Left bias because I think the Earth is round.
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by billf1953 9y ago
This has to be some sort of logic fallacy. With multiple offers you are guaranteed to be able to get higher pay, more time off, and/or better working conditions. You can't see the opportunity cost for one job offer, but tradeoff
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by billf1953 9y ago
Yeah what a dog argument. Basically either shows the author has little comprehension of ml or he happened to design a terrible demonstration of small data issues.
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by billf1953 9y ago
The article isn't wrong. I count 15 words that are CS specific jargon in the Hello World statement. Couple this with some big lecture and mediocre professor who explains poorly, it's pretty painful intro experience.