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by ced 10y ago
You know, I read some of the harsh comments you got from people, and they may have been right to say these things, I don't know. But kudos for taking it in stride and maintaining a positive attitude. Good luck in your projects.
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by ced 10y ago
does vectorization still result in a lot of performance loss compared to loops? Yes, but it should be fixed in the nearish future. https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/16285
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by ced 10y ago
Thank you for the links. It's nice to see cross-pollination. Deborah Mayo is active on Andrew Gelman's blog, and it's also an interesting "two worlds collide".
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by ced 10y ago
Did any of these modern theories come from non-western parts of the world? "Causal theories of reference" looks interesting from an AI perspective. Do you know how it relates to the math discipline, causality (eg. Pearl)?
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by ced 10y ago
Clever solution. Is there a more general principle? I thought that most MNAR problems were hopeless, but maybe not.
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by ced 10y ago
In social sciences, there’s an absolutely massive bias in favor of publishing results that confirm current educated opinion, or that deviate from the consensus in ways that will be seen as quirky or interesting rather than cold or cruel or
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by ced 10y ago
How does it compare with Bokeh?
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by ced 10y ago
Have you tried dataframes? Whether in Julia or Python, they're a good replacement for arrays-of-structs, though they need a lot of getting used to.
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by ced 10y ago
Out of curiosity, assuming that Julia magically had 0-indexed arrays, what would you use it for?
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by ced 10y ago
Is Hydrogen a notebook replacement? The demo makes it look like a fancy REPL. Does it have section headers, latex support, etc.?
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by ced 10y ago
We’re still stuck in some very naive thinking, with the idea that people consuming media means that’s what they want – it’s like, well, we put junk food in front of them and they ate that, so that must be what they want.” Really disappoin
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by ced 10y ago
Are you saying that there is a ceiling to how much methane can be up there, and we've reached it?
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by ced 11y ago
The DDG results are about snopes, or Skincential Sciences CIA, but not both. If you remove snopes, the Google results look fine to me.
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by ced 11y ago
Good point, there are always unmodeled factors and prior information, so the % is to be interpreted in context.
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by ced 11y ago
I'll add my own Bayesian analysis to the fray. Assuming a binomial, in Julia: using Distributions b_old = Beta(66+1, 6392-66+1) b_yel = Beta(83+1, 6362-83+1) N = 1000000 # Sample from both distributions, count t
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by ced 11y ago
I upvoted because it's an interesting perspective, but I'd like to know where you get this information from. Is it a first-hand account? It makes sense that jobs are a priority and that politicians prioritize helping companies. An
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by ced 11y ago
In what way is this article a dehumanization?
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by ced 11y ago
Python has no libraries for interactive visualization in your browser because only JavaScript runs there Isn't that like saying that C has no visualization libraries on Intel processors because only assembly runs there?
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by ced 11y ago
I'm not sure I get his point. Is it that "A member (field) of a class is not a proper interface"? In Python, that's not really true, since he could have used a property and kept his first design. How is that significantl
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by ced 11y ago
having probabilistic guarantees on your out of sample results as well as sample complexity, no matter the underlying distribution What technique are you referring to?
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by ced 11y ago
Work on the debugger is underway, it should be in the 0.5 release in a few months.
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by ced 11y ago
Could you please give an example for someone not up-to-date on Haskell?
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by ced 11y ago
You came up with some genius model and proved it, and after all that work you decided that your name and some greek letter are what people need to think of when they hear about it and not anything about what it is? Fuck you Kronecker! I b
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by ced 11y ago
Yeah, I would use Python for this kind of task, too. Vectorized operations are fast enough in a lot of cases, and the library advantage is important. At this point in time, Julia is a great C/Fortran replacement, but for Python/R&
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by ced 11y ago
Well, what do you work on? Julia isn't for everyone. I use it because it has quite good numerical primitives, and I can quickly make a slow, Python-like first pass at an algorithm, then profile and get C-like performance in the bottlen
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by ced 11y ago
It's not meant to compete with Python as a glue language. The point is that you can start using Julia right now and be productive by calling other languages' libraries to fill in the holes.
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by ced 11y ago
The core language is general purpose, and IMO really good for high-performance work, but the community is focused on numerical code, so there aren't a lot of libraries for non-numerical/scientific/financial work at this point
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by ced 11y ago
> A description of how one gets from Python to a web browser display would be nice. Check out Jupyter notebooks. > Is there a Python web server backend? That's possible for dynamic charts, but for most usage, Bokeh saves all the
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by ced 11y ago
I was looking for a review, and found Gelman's recommendation of Causal Inference for Statistics, Social, and Biomedical Sciences and mention of this book: http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/miguel-hernan/causal-inferen
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by ced 11y ago
This is on everyone’s short list of problems with Bayes. In the simplest interpretation of Bayes, old evidence has zero confirming power. If evidence E was on the books long ago and it suddenly comes to light that H entails E, no change in

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