cosmic_ape

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by cosmic_ape 8y ago
More like how to do a cheap philosophy PR stunt.
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by cosmic_ape 8y ago
How did it happen that default funds of the clearing houses had to be accessed? Did the spread change in one day from normal spread to 17 times normal? Otherwise the margin should have depleted only his own money.
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by cosmic_ape 8y ago
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by cosmic_ape 8y ago
I certainly agree re:high dimensions. This is because to integrate, you don't need to approximate the function everywhere.
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by cosmic_ape 8y ago
Just to make sure, the uniform grid on n points will also lead to O(1/n) convergence, right? I get that the uniform grid is not an open sequence, just want to understand which kind of convergence do you have in mind. For which class of
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by cosmic_ape 8y ago
Another happy DDG user here. But I always wonder - DDG is basically an aggregator, it doesn't have its own general index. Isn't there a danger that Google and Bing will just close the faucet to it one day?
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by cosmic_ape 8y ago
Just to remove any doubt, I have a lot of respect for nurses. But the question was more about, say, should we close now all the MD schools and replace them by the alternative path you describe?
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by cosmic_ape 8y ago
Imagine a hospital where a new initiative is taken. Nurses follow doctors during their daily patient rounds for 6 months. Then the nurses are expected to do the rounds instead of the doctors. No doctors are left on the premises. Its not ver
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by cosmic_ape 8y ago
I hoped to see there an elaboration of what a "Japanese Dream" is, but there isn't much about that in the article.
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by cosmic_ape 8y ago
The particular behavior you mention can be modeled by a Semi-Markov Model. In these, the time you stay at a given state can be an arbitrary fixed distribution. In a regular chain this time is geometric, so memoryless. But other distribution
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by cosmic_ape 8y ago
I see, thanks. I think they should have just said distributions are skewed, and skewed differently, if thats what they mean.
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by cosmic_ape 8y ago
Can anyone give an example of how the "common view" could be true at culture-level but not at individual-level? This editorial spends a page and a half talking about it without a single example.
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by cosmic_ape 8y ago
There are other methods, no doubt. But last time I was involved with the field, software verification was still an experimental thing, that kind of worked in some niche cases, while SAT based verification was applied to every new arithmet
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by cosmic_ape 8y ago
Its not perfect, but optimization problems are usually solved with SAT as follows: Suppose you have some X that you want to maximize. You encode a constraint X>=5, and see if there is a solution to that. If there is, you try with X>=6
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by cosmic_ape 8y ago
For those hearing about SAT solvers for the first time, its worth mentioning that they are the basic component of hardware (and software) formal verification systems. This is probably the largest practical application domain, which also dri
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by cosmic_ape 8y ago
But keep in mind this, as another comment here mentions: > Accustomed to meeting the highest of standards, he saw his dissertation as mediocre. Quietly, Venkatesh started eyeing the exit ramps, even taking a job at his uncle’s machine le
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by cosmic_ape 8y ago
yep. That was my point, $59,000 seems too high.
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by cosmic_ape 8y ago
According to the source given in the article [1], median worker wage is 44,564 (for a 40-hour workweek). edit: It could get to 59,000 if these people actually worked 53 hours a week. >>>According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics
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by cosmic_ape 8y ago
The description says: >>>This list focuses on notation as "a series or system of written symbols used to represent numbers, amounts, or elements in something such as music or mathematics." This is distinct from a langua
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by cosmic_ape 8y ago
I don't think there's a contradiction. My comment was about what it means to understand the model, or perhaps about what it means to do science, but not about what is necessary or sufficient for applied work. But if we do talk abo
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by cosmic_ape 8y ago
Its funny, and characteristic of that part of the field, that mathematical provability in not even mentioned explicitly. A model (and a learning algorithm) should be interpretable if we can clearly state the assumptions, and prove that unde
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by cosmic_ape 8y ago
Its an issue. But if all the code is open and audited, there should be a way to ensure only aggregates are used, and the reports are anonymous. There would also be a related issue of bot accounts who would try to sabotage the statistics for
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by cosmic_ape 8y ago
For offline navigation there is data, the OpenStreetMap, for most places on the planet. There is no very good app though, which would have seemed to be the smaller problem. For real time navigation, Waze type solution could work -- aggreg
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by cosmic_ape 8y ago
>>Employers will also have to be more open to attracting international talent to fill the jobs created outside its oil and gas sector, she suggests. On the other hand, young Norwegians “used to being able to work wherever they like” m
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by cosmic_ape 8y ago
Adam may be not the clearest example. I'd say the clearest example is the original GAN paper, where "theorems" where completely unrelated to what they were doing and trivial at the same time. >>and even if it risks pub
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by cosmic_ape 8y ago
I should say its very easy to construct synthetic datasets on which it is very clear that the only role of large layers is to supply more opportunities for the initialization to get it right. So, not much surprise there. But they claim they
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by cosmic_ape 8y ago
There are books that are full of bells and whistles. And there are books where the writing is not necessarily most polished, and does not follow the most recent hypey style, and they still easily thrive for centuries on the shear power of t
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by cosmic_ape 8y ago
A bit different, but something similar does happen already, when people rate taxi drivers, cashiers in a store, or people commenting on airbnb hosts. These reactions often get personal rather than being based on an objective evaluation of
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by cosmic_ape 8y ago
and not enough coupling arguments.
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by cosmic_ape 8y ago
I agree with what you mean. But do you read all the medical literature before going to a doctor when something just feels weird? Or, somewhat differently, do you read the source code of all packages on your computer to ensure there is no ma

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