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by citrablue 8y ago
The argument against more monitoring is one of false positives. Suppose the Apple Watch has a 5% false positive rate, and detects problems with 1% of 100 million users.* That's 50k extra patients going to their doctors, thinking ther
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Private interests and public have always interacted. Whether this fact matters is open to debate, but I find dealing with current reality more useful. As someone unfamiliar with Australian politics, is The Guardian AU a reputable source fo
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TV and print media went through a period of regulation when they had a similar market share. We may be able to learn from that time.
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by citrablue 8y ago
I think of engineering as the practical counterpart to science. Science is finding patterns/uncovering truths/building and testing models; engineering is the deployment of technology to fulfill an objective.
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by citrablue 8y ago
I use (and pay for, ~$50/mo.) an awesome plugin called Gmelius. It really upgrades the gmail experience to a professional-grade system. Also lets you strip out a ton of the unnecessary gmail web chrome.
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by citrablue 8y ago
I would be impressed if a company had 100 employees today and planned for exponential headcount growth (say, 50% growth per annum). And had taken $440 million in funding. And had a product that wiped the floor with the competition.* * YMM
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by citrablue 8y ago
The numbers quoted here[0] are soft and from a year ago, but at that time, Stripe claimed to handled handles tens of billions of dollars in internet transactions annually. If you were doing 10+% of that, kudos to you! [0 ] https:/&#x2
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by citrablue 8y ago
To take it one step further, I'd say that it's more of a probability function than a 2d chart. I think of it more as your chart, plus a 3rd dimension of "context", then a density cloud. Put another way, people have prob
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I think it's likely, having just harnessed the power of the atom after growing up w/o electricity, Teller assumed the problem of fallout was a simpler one to solve than what he'd just worked on. We see the standstill, where
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by citrablue 8y ago
Sacred usually means something that is above questioning. If that's the common definition, there's not a lot of value in that assignment.
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by citrablue 8y ago
I'll advance a more American/Individualist comment for perspective. Government should be limited in what it can control. Let the people and social norms make the decisions. The problems with government are worse than those of th
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by citrablue 8y ago
The hypothesis that hunter-gatherers spent more time getting food does not seem to be supported or accepted in academia. Lots of research out the past few years that indicate the HG lifestyle had much more leisure time than agrarian. This
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Approach compliance like security -- it'll never be 100%. Except with HIPAA compliance, your goal is both to prevent data leaks as well as document to cover yourself legally. Ignorance is no excuse, so it's important to take the
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by citrablue 8y ago
The different between "traditional" A/B testing and Multi-Armed Bandit has nothing to do with the number of treatments. A/B is really shorthand for A/B/n. In an A/B test, the probability of selecting an &
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by citrablue 8y ago
Google Optimize offers MAB testing, which is awesome. Personally, I don't see it as a "when do results become reliable" problem -- it's a "what is the cost of a false positive, false negative, or 'do nothing&#
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by citrablue 8y ago
Some pretty easy rules of thumb, assuming you have a decent grasp on your economics. Look at it as a "low hanging fruit" optimization problem -- do you put resources into running a test (+ opportunity cost for lost sales), or int
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by citrablue 8y ago
The super fascinating thing is the difference between how the brain experiences time and how the brain remembers itself experiencing time. It seems possible that intense experiences cement more details in your memory, which your brain inte
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by citrablue 8y ago
I'd include Hindsight Bias or perhaps Survivor Bias as well. But excellent list!
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by citrablue 8y ago
Have you tried putting yourself out there for work? As patio11 recently said, try to fail out of 20 interviews. It's un-possible -- the hiring process is so broken, you'll get an offer. Then it's up to you to catch up to th
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by citrablue 8y ago
I can empathize with this. Add in the fact that the older I get, the more impressive my project needs to be in order to impress myself. It's a form of self-sabotage, but by realizing that I don't have to build something great in
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I don't think this follows. Insurance profit margins are restricted, but they're a percentage of overall payments to hospitals. If the total charge goes up, their total profit also increases.
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In my experience, people shopping for solutions will latch onto one that claims to do what they need. They then build a vendor comparison matrix that results in selecting that technology, but makes it look like they considered alternatives
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by citrablue 8y ago
I disagree, I think the military exists for the purpose of advancing American interests at home and abroad. Think of ships like the USS Mercy, or other humanitarian efforts. What makes you think those innovations would have been created wi
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by citrablue 8y ago
Agreed, what you say reflects my own growth as I've gotten older. I'm hesitant to call it wisdom, but it's served me better than the outlook from my youth.
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Similarly, people who survived the system should have just as much access to remedies as people currently in their own difficulties.
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3 questions 1/ Are there solutions on the table where the cure isn't worse than the disease? That money has been spent, it came from somewhere. Can it just be vanquished without repercussions? 2/ Objectively, what is the li
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As a counterpoint, biological systems grow stronger when stressed then allowed to recover. Routines are great when interspersed with periods of non-breaking stress. Growth is dependent on stress . I refer to a more general term of stress
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Of course not, it's our own biases that lead us to think we are the gods through the expression of a creative process. Because we are human, and cannot see past what's in front of us, we mistake our tools for creating. The first
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by citrablue 8y ago
> utilities love to just install more generation because it's in their playbook and they don't want to innovate. I'm curious, how did you reach this conclusion?
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A desal plant is a useful thing and can be run around the clock off traditional energy sources. The "free energy" hours would help lower the costs. I can even imagine a SETI-like application where people who over-generate power a

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