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by cultus 8y ago
I had a doctor be dismissive and rude for coming in with a huge crater blister (from climbing) on my foot that had become infected, hot to the touch, and too painful for me to walk. This was in America, and I had good health insurance. As c
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by cultus 8y ago
The Living Computer Museum is probably one of my top three favorite museums I've been to. I remember playing with dot-matrix printer teletype terminal connected to a PDP. That was really a trip.
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by cultus 8y ago
Yep. Baye's theorem is actually a generalization of contrapositivity (if A implies B, then "not B" implies "not A") to stochastic settings. It's not usually taught in an intuitive way.
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by cultus 8y ago
Skimming this, it mostly focuses on Bayesian probabalistic models. I think these are underutilized in machine learning tasks, especially since it can be so easy nowadays with tools like PyMC and fast variational methods. If you have a reaso
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by cultus 8y ago
As the other poster said, this is a standard Quillete article. Incomplete information and faulty reasoning dressed up to discredit progressive causes, and science surrounding these issues. Yes, it should be incredibly obvious that fewer wom
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by cultus 8y ago
No one bases their lives around Star Trek moral messages besides a few nerds. Also, you may want to read what I wrote again. I said "Star Trek is not pretending to be a moral philosophy." Ayn Rand claims that Objectivism is the ba
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by cultus 8y ago
Star Trek is a tv show. Unlike Objectivism, it is not trying to be a philosophy.
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>She died in her Manhattan apartment [1], not some government funded facility. I believe the parent was referring to government institutions such as social security, which Ayn Rand wound up using after being signed up by a social worker.
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by cultus 8y ago
>As I said, the issue is statistics based "knowledge". What you just said just continues down that path, so of course it does not solve the problem, actually makes it worse because now we throw more randomness at randomness and
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by cultus 8y ago
This whole saga with Eddie Lambert is a great example of how the rich fail upward.
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by cultus 8y ago
Objectivism really is a vacant and pretty incoherent "philosophy." It's no surprise she presented in in the form of tedious novels with wooden characters rather than engaging with actual philosphers. I think its popularity i
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by cultus 8y ago
Most all knowledge is "statistics based." Anytime you are not 100% sure about something, then your knowledge about that thing is inherently probabilistic. There is absolutely no way around it. You can't get away from statisti
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by cultus 8y ago
>That's always the problem: When you don't have a very good understanding of the mechanism and all the consequences you have to be lucky that the population you study is more or less the correct one. You don't even know wh
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by cultus 8y ago
Medicine is being hit almost as bad. In general, fields where a lot of studies have low statistical power(usually due to noisy data and/or small sample sizes) are the hardest hit. Statistical power is the chance that a significant resu
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by cultus 8y ago
Not so much in engineering, but in science, approximate perturbation techniques are still a big deal.
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by cultus 8y ago
Forensic science doesn't need to be good science. It just needs to impress juries.
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by cultus 8y ago
There’s been a lot of work showing mental benefits of exercise in general. It also seems to line up with my experience. Of course, this isn’t a particularly high quality study, and exercise science is as bad as social psychology with regard
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by cultus 8y ago
Eff is a language based on algebraic effects. They show some good examples. It's pretty cool. https://www.eff-lang.org/
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by cultus 8y ago
I have walked and accidentally driven in such areas in Europe, but the street layout and dynamics are very different in the US. The problem is that in the US we have wide, straight streets. We don't have the same kind of built-in traff
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by cultus 8y ago
>Algebraic effects basically mean that you live in a single monad that can be either widened or narrowed via new effects or new handlers respectively. Yep, it is a restriction as I said. Algebraic effects basically live inside the free m
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by cultus 8y ago
You said that your dad's anti-BART habit is hard to break, but elderly should really be encouraged to use public transit. It is safer and healthier. I get that transit sucks in suburbs, but that is something that should be fixed. Peopl
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by cultus 8y ago
I should have indeed said algebraic effects instead of effects system. Algebraic effects are a restriction on monads, but a restriction that still allows for the vast majority of use cases. In return, you get composability and a clear separ
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by cultus 8y ago
It sounds like your father has a good support network in case he can no longer drive, but that isn't really so common nowadays. Most elderly folks in his situation would either: A. Continue driving past the point they they are safely a
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by cultus 8y ago
I hear that. In King County (Seattle), we desperately need more public transit and funding for the homeless problem. The county decided that giving a $135 million handout to the Mariners to build a bigger beer garden (among other things) wa
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by cultus 8y ago
I'm glad to see effect systems getting so much attention lately. I think they are a far better alternative to monads (and monad transformers) in terms of cognitive load. They commute, for example.
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by cultus 8y ago
I've never used it, but it does have far, far lower abuse potential than traditional stims such adderall or other amphetamines. I could definitely buy that psychological dependence could occur pretty easily, though.
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by cultus 8y ago
I sometimes smoke a small bowl of cannabis if it's getting late in the day and I'm becoming frustrated over a problem. It helps me continue working without throwing my laptop out the window. It can also aid my creativity, which ca
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by cultus 8y ago
It's the rule rather than the exception with border guards these days, both US and Canadian. It's a job where bullies get to bully. It attracts a certain kind of person.
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by cultus 8y ago
It's not entirely just a heuristic, but does have a Bayesian interpretation in many circumstances. Looking at the study on judge's sentences before and after meals, you wouldn't expect to see a giant effect, but seeing some k
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by cultus 8y ago
Cancer was pretty much a death sentence back then. I would have made the same call.

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