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by crdb 10y ago
There's a difference. Imagine a simple one dimensional linear regression. A value with x close to the mean, but extremely high y would barely move the line as a whole up or down as you vary y. The gradient would not be much affected. A
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by crdb 10y ago
What do you call high leverage observations then?
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by crdb 10y ago
I'm referring to leverage in statistics [1], and particularly how high leverage observations may affect your model and how people deal with them. Clearer? For context: one of the candidates I interviewed told me that the best way to pi
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by crdb 10y ago
"Trivia questions" are not useless. I've put out job ads only to receive hundreds of applications from all over the world, many not even in English or without even a word accompanying a CV. Of the "proper" applicant
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by crdb 10y ago
> I've found that executives will often try to poke holes in the predictions, especially if the ML solution is risky or potentially threatening to them In particular, automation that reduces headcount reduces their justifiable budge
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by crdb 10y ago
> Conservative ideology is focused around defining progress [...] as a return to a previous state of affairs > To a conservative ideologue, the truth lies behind us. Given the context, I disagree with your interpretation of the "
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by crdb 11y ago
We were building a price comparison company. I was trying to figure out ways to make money after we were turned down by YC and unsatisfied with 4 months of fundraising. Thought we'd try and sell our price lists to businesses who wanted
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by crdb 11y ago
I'll paraphrase Facebook themselves [1] back at the statement of yours that I disagree with ("His logic suggests so"): (A => B) !=> (B => A). That Viaweb was competitive because of blub, does not imply that blub is a
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Singapore PM Lee Hsien Loong's Interview with the Wall Street Journal(pmo.gov.sg)
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by crdb 11y ago
In theory, you can watch anybody, but for this to work, you'd need someone to actually look at the evidence i.e. suspect the person in the first place. Quis custodiet ipsos custodes... And in this case it's the guardians of the gu
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by crdb 11y ago
Oh, I don't mind, personally, and I agree with you. I also think security on these apps is done by the dissuasive power of knowing that you are live-tracked and almost certain to be caught, rather than any pre filtering (which is the t
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by crdb 11y ago
Background checks? I had 2 UberX/Grab (the Singaporean Lyft) drivers who openly admitted to being ex-cons - and that in Singapore too. One even laughed that British prisons were like a 5* hotel compared to Asian ones. If these companie
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by crdb 11y ago
> my dogs eat better food than the majority of the world This immediately reminded me of Viktor Belenko [1] who flew his MiG-25 to Japan and defected. He wrote (I think, in his autobiography, it could have been an interview) of the amaze
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by crdb 11y ago
> My suggestion to reduce property speculation is to reduce income taxes drastically (1/2 to 1/3), raise property taxes to at least 1.5% (5x) and provide basic tax assessment increase controls for owner-occupied dwellings, up t
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by crdb 11y ago
> it is tough to side with capitalism on this subject Assuming you mean "with the philosophy of free markets and individual rights" by the catch all "capitalism", it's not. The foreign buyer is benefiting from st
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by crdb 11y ago
And again this evening! New publication date for Death's End in English: October 2016... it better be very, very good.
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by crdb 11y ago
I think the rules for the sophons are not entirely clear, because he set them up as a plot device for a few of the things he needed (FTL, no more science, omniscience of the enemy) in order to create the special conditions that force humani
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by crdb 11y ago
> I'm not sure if I buy the alien-culture, though. The Trisolarians seemed just as human as ... humans, especially given their introduction in the titular video game, and the Sophons barely seem to have a culture at all. Did you rea
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by crdb 11y ago
I liked this essay on plot holes (and more generally good writing) despite the all caps and rather long winded style: http://birthmoviesdeath.com/2012/10/30/film-crit-hulk-smash-... Personally, I found the st
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by crdb 11y ago
Finishing Dark Forest made me really wish I could speak and read fluent mandarin, so that I wouldn't have to wait another 4 months for the final volume! They pushed the publication date back again...
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by crdb 11y ago
The Trisolarians are coming!
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by crdb 11y ago
> As such, Oracle frequently oversold and underdelivered, but eventually grew big enough that it didn't matter This is an extraordinarily common pattern in so many industries, when incentives are not aligned and it's OPM. And t
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by crdb 11y ago
> people take out tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands in loans to go to college I also do not understand this when there are many cheap or free options [1] in the US, and most private colleges have excellent scholarship progr
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by crdb 11y ago
> while being pitched ads for my brand new vocal studio in the South Bay > took out a loan with 300% interest to move to SF to begin training December 1st at Yelp > pays $2500 in rent (I make 2k a month so YES, my family has to he
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by crdb 11y ago
I'm big specifically on the 787 and the A380 in this order (perhaps reversed if I can get on upper deck on the A380, which almost never happens) because of the noise levels, humidity and pressure, which are MUCH better than the 777 and
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by crdb 11y ago
My wife is Australian, and when we arrived in London from Sydney, I'd pop through the e-gates with my biometric Shenghen passport, and then settle down in the cafe opposite arrivals, and took my time reading the paper and enjoying a (n
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by crdb 11y ago
I fly yearly or more to many of these airports. LHR is down to what you are flying. If you are flying BA, you land and take off in T5 and it will be quick and painless, leaving you time for a nice meal at Plane Food. In one instance, I turn
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by crdb 11y ago
The biggest benefit for me internationally (flying long haul once or twice a month from SIN) is absolutely being able to take a shower between two long-haul flights and, if the lounge is not airside, shave (e.g. The Haven by JetQuay at SIN)
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by crdb 11y ago
It comes down to the marginal utility of your money vs. the upgrade. For example, I fly Singapore to Tokyo about once or twice a year, sometimes more often, always on Scoot, a budget airline run by Singapore Airlines. Upgrading from economy
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by crdb 11y ago
There actually is a formal version of "extreme status" on BA, in the form of a Black Card [1] [2]. Basically, you need to be something like "the guy responsible for the travel spend at big corp" and each membership is ap

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