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811.
by cowpig 12y ago
The rating system for problems seems like it needs to add in some kind of variance factor, or at least a provisional period. I'm altering problems' ratings by 20+ points with my default 1200 rating despite having less than 10 prob
812.
by cowpig 12y ago
> With schools that are unable to perform their education task, one wonders why we have them in the first place. > One potential solution to these problems is to aggressively segment students into winning and loosing groups based on a
813.
by cowpig 12y ago
Can someone alter the link so that it's no longer a paywall?
814.
by cowpig 12y ago
Treating data as a distribution in high-dimensional space is at the core of machine learning, and differentiating across those dimensions is typically how learning is done. I don't know if this is true, but at a glance it looks to me l
815.
by cowpig 12y ago
"Economists aren't stupid" is a "stupid" thing to say. The study makes clear mistakes, and how stupid or smart the economist is is completely irrelevant. Anyway, trying to control for variables like the influence of
816.
by cowpig 12y ago
This article could be a case study in misinterpreting data. Americans from "advantaged backgrounds" are enrolling way more in schools, graduating more, and making more money afterwards. Is this evidence of college being worth it?
817.
by cowpig 13y ago
It's just sexist, no semi about it. "this is how men are, this is how women are, this is how black people are, this is how gay people are..." it's a harmful way of thinking about the world
818.
by cowpig 13y ago
The games I've played the most are Chess, League of Legends, Scrabble, Poker, the Civ series, and Diablo 2 (when I was younger). Any game with a lot of strategical depth tends to pull me in.
819.
by cowpig 13y ago
If you're good with math and interested in machine learning, I'd recommend checking out Theano's Deep Learning Tutorials: http://deeplearning.net/tutorial/ Theano is a python library that basically compi
820.
by cowpig 13y ago
I don't really understand the motivation behind spamming twitter with vague messages. If you care about problematic treatment of women in tech, this seems completely counter-productive. Why not talk about what happened, how it could be
821.
by cowpig 13y ago
I think this comment, and the article's assertion about age ranges, show that neither you nor the author know any middle aged women addicted to candy crush.
822.
by cowpig 13y ago
I find it annoying that making incendiary accusations about political leaders has become commonplace and acceptable. It encourages people to think of things in terms of good vs bad people instead of good vs bad policies.
823.
by cowpig 13y ago
That president Obama's name is in the title of this article seems incredibly irresponsible and misleading. Obama is not the FBI and the fiasco didn't even begin during his presidency.
824.
by cowpig 13y ago
" In reality, Wolfram Alpha queries are more often for the sake of fun than for the sake of discovery" For me, this is because WA starts asking me for money when I try to use it for useful things. I suspect an open-source version
825.
by cowpig 13y ago
Some alternative titles: "People with a bitter taste for life are not making money" or "People who make a lot of money tend to be pretty pleased with themselves" or probably most accurately "People with a lot of mon
826.
by cowpig 13y ago
I don't read articles that require me to click through a slideshow.
827.
by cowpig 13y ago
do while (alive) { work() }
828.
by cowpig 13y ago
Once upon a time, racist white upper-class men ruled the United States honorably and without corruption, and Ronald Reagan was the greatest president... I wish the author provided some examples or evidence to support his rather outrageous c
829.
by cowpig 13y ago
This is the best piece I have seen on this issue, by an immeasurable margin, of the dozens I see pop up on HN every day. Thank you for sharing this.
830.
by cowpig 13y ago
This is incorrect for all but one (maybe two) of the questions. The one you specifically mentioned, about literacy, is totally wrong. The answers are just about evenly distributed between 40% and 60%, with far more choosing 20% over the cor
831.
by cowpig 13y ago
What are you good at?