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by bradreaves2 4y ago
Claude Shannon[1] claims he did something similar in the early 60's, proving it worked in Vegas. He and his collaborator Ed Thorpe quit playing well before the legitimate businessmen who ran the casinos could realize they were winning
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by bradreaves2 4y ago
Really interesting experiment! To answer "how do the bad guys find them so quickly" the answer is "judicious queries to the GitHub API." My research group describes how this works, and what we could see with it, in this
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by bradreaves2 4y ago
Do they know that March 31 is actually a real day?
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by bradreaves2 4y ago
I worry about publication bias with these studies. If a researcher finds the counter-intuitive results that working less leads to equivalent or better outcomes, it will be a headline. If a researcher finds that working less leads to getting
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by bradreaves2 4y ago
Sounds like you want the Army Ranger’s Field Guide to Infant Civilians, which sadly doesn’t exist. The kind of people who write books about parenting can’t help but put in anecdotes and cute stories. That said, the most helpful resources fo
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by bradreaves2 4y ago
This is off the beaten path, but consider Abu-Mostafa et al.'s "Learning from Data". https://www.amazon.com/Learning-Data-Yaser-S-Abu-Mostafa/dp/... I adore PRML, but the scope and depth is overwhel
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by bradreaves2 4y ago
There is a big difference between flashing a card at point-of-sale and having to register for a permanent record with the state. When the database leaks — and it will - we know what it will look like: the AshleyMadison leaks. People died. T
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by bradreaves2 4y ago
I have been reading tech folks lament the disappearance of dumb screens for years. I finally bought my first new TV in 2020, a Sony with Android TV. I have never connected it to the Internet. Instead, it displays an AppleTV or a gaming mach
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by bradreaves2 4y ago
"Privately-owned platforms [that] do as they please" but call themselves “free speech” are dishonest. This isn’t partisan hypocrisy — it’s applying an objective standard to a bad-faith argument.