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Does Linux frighten off Hackers? attempts on Apache vs. IIS (2008)(gse-compliance.blogspot.com)
10 points by cba9 11y ago|0 comments
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by cba9 11y ago
How pleasantly surprising to see an official link which is the fulltext as well. I'll just quote the abstract to entice people into reading it: "The anthropological record indicates that approximately 85 per cent of human societie
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by cba9 11y ago
As so often with Dali - /not sure if serious or trolling
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by cba9 11y ago
Twitter: https://twitter.com/cmdrtaco/status/670424137282777088
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by cba9 11y ago
Generative models strike again.
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by cba9 11y ago
What I learned from this: modern copyright is so bizarre that to just post a copy of a prorgam online legally requires superhuman levels of patience, willingness to jump through hoops, unusual levels of corporate continuity for the tech fie
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Oral B Toothbrush security advisory (2008)(gse-compliance.blogspot.com)
7 points by cba9 11y ago|1 comments
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by cba9 11y ago
Do you often shop at an American grocery store and then immediately at a Mexican or Brazilian grocery store?
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by cba9 11y ago
> That said, merely being in the top 1% of intelligence doesn't seem to be worthy of the genius title. Especially considering that the population average in many places and times is far below the current population averages normed i
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Making a pencil from scratch (2013)(gse-compliance.blogspot.com)
93 points by cba9 11y ago|39 comments
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by cba9 11y ago
I was thinking that myself. Sperm, eggs, embryos - are these not vitrified routinely? Probably they mean youngest legal human, or youngest post-birth vitrification.
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by cba9 11y ago
That is... an unusual use of regression, to say the least. When I see something sufficiently off the wall, I always wonder how the authors happened to think of that. It also raises a lot of questions like, how much of physics can be usefull
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by cba9 11y ago
I would love to see how they managed to justify this to the IRB, and how the IRB failed at its only job, inasmuch as the only possible purpose for turning over the IPs to the FBI is to inflict harm on people, harm which happened. Given how
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by cba9 11y ago
> cmix has surpassed the winning entry of the Hutter Prize (but exceeds the memory limits of the contest)...cmix uses a similar neural network architecture to paq8l. cmix uses a four layer feedforward network with 414,273 neurons (paq8l
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by cba9 11y ago
Also worth noting that this can't explain a lot of the parapsychology findings even if true: these pulses don't go back in time like eg Bem's findings, there's no obvious way that they would modulate a radioactive number
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by cba9 11y ago
> "The beauty of the market is that we allow people to be Bayesian" Yes, this is the critical piece. The results of the Reproducibility Project were not remotely a surprise to Bayesian observers. People like Gelman have been po
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by cba9 11y ago
Or more concretely, since these projects are typically running on a hypothesis-testing paradigm, you can do a hybrid power analysis: compute a fully Bayesian analysis of the original experiment using other experiments and informative priors
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by cba9 11y ago
> There would have to be 10 million albums released per year to get to a billion in a lifetime. Sorry, I left out that part of Kelly's estimate of 1b songs is that album rates will also continue to increase at the historical rate. I
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by cba9 11y ago
> And yet, 300,000 new books were published in 2013. Wow! Doesn't that seem like a lot? Isn't it amazing? And about that rate has been sustained for decades, as well. Can you imagine hundreds of thousands of books being publish
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by cba9 11y ago
> To use your myostatin mutation example, the increase in muscle mass does not lead to significantly faster animals as the supporting structures are not there to utilise this increased muscle. It leads to significantly stronger animals.
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by cba9 11y ago
> More importantly, people have looked for such alleles in the Ashkenazi population and have failed to find them. They have? I'm not aware of any GWASes targeting intelligence using Ashkenazi samples.
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by cba9 11y ago
No. In a bubble, everyone believes something is undervalued and is desperate to get in. 'I need to buy Pets.com at $100 because in a month it'll be $1000!' Or 'I need to buy Bitcoin at $350 because it's taking off t
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by cba9 11y ago
> This is what you would expect for any complex system under multi genetic control Not necessarily. This is something you might expect if intelligence is a net fitness advantage and it is in a mutation load situation where rare variants
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by cba9 11y ago
But he didn't; he stuffed the entire meat of the paper into 'By analyzing the genes of twins and other close family members'. To actually try to explain the design here: we think intelligence is caused by thousands of commo
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by cba9 11y ago
If you clickthrough to the Sleep link: http://www.journalsleep.org/ViewAbstract.aspx?pid=30292 , you can download the fulltext through Sci-hub https://www.dropbox.com/s/sqq41vhyji9pjws/2015-finan