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by dannypgh 13y ago
I doubt the CPU costs will be measurably different. I suggest watching: https://class.coursera.org/ml-003/lecture/36 and you can jump to 7 minutes if you don't want to watch the whole thing. The only differen
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by dannypgh 13y ago
I think I see the source of the confusion. Linear regression does not imply any specific method for solving for your coefficients. You can solve a linear regression by inverting your matrix or you can use gradient descent, to give two mech
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by dannypgh 13y ago
Curious- why would you ever use linear regression for binary classification? Logistic regression can be implemented as linear regression predicting the input to the logistic function.
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What about slavery? What about robber-barons paying strike breakers to shoot organizing workers - or for that matter, the missing Coca-Cola union organizers in Columbia? What about businesses that made their money from violations of treatie
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by dannypgh 13y ago
Things look different removed from context. In this case, the relevant context is the history of marriage as a property agreement arranged between the husband and the father of the bride.
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by dannypgh 13y ago
If your spouse is helping contribute to the business on that level, you should hire them. Otherwise you're really doing a disservice to everyone by having your spouse work without compensation or recognition.
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by dannypgh 13y ago
Alan Turing would be 101 and Claude Shannon 97 if they were alive today. Our field has an ageist reputation in no small part due to comments such as yours, that think that age alone is somehow an indicator of competence.
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by dannypgh 13y ago
I don't know about you, but my employer owns my work product via an intellectual property assignment agreement, that I signed as a condition of employment. In addition, our operation requires very expensive datacenters, which they cle
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by dannypgh 13y ago
We're talking about the profits generated by the business. The worker sells their labor. There's no reasonable way of valuing what their labor "costs" to them, as it's ultimately the opportunity cost of being able t
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by dannypgh 13y ago
A defining characteristic of capitalism is that profits go to the owners of the means of production, not those who actually produce. It's not the person who uses the machine that multiplies their effort that make ridiculous amounts of
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by dannypgh 13y ago
Ah, yes, what an accurate depiction of the "tribe." Seriously, if you want to go the accurate route, probably best to pick a specific people where that's what actually happens. Not having done that, the problem as stated adva
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by dannypgh 13y ago
I think the reality that needs to be confronted is that many, many neighborhoods were harmed significantly by a large range of occurrences over a good chunk of history. Redlining, first and foremost, if we're discussing neighborhoods.
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"Without a cheap, reliable storage medium, solar is useless or extremely expensive. All the more so at power plant scale." Really? Why is it more so at power plant scale? When you're connected to the grid you have the benef
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by dannypgh 13y ago
This is not my understanding. If you volunteer information not in response to a question, the lack of Miranda is not important. All the more reason to not say anything.
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And that's a silly comparison. Copyright law already excludes work created by official duties of officers of the federal government from copyright. That's not this work, but arguably the original motives and intent of the law is
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by dannypgh 13y ago
"although if the main cause was radiation you wouldn't expect a few specific types to increase significantly and not others." How do you figure? I don't think all of the causes of cancers are well understood. But, I kn
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by dannypgh 13y ago
Calories aren't bad for everyone. Consuming more calories than you're expending causes you to gain weight, and for most (but not all) people that's probably bad for you. I often supplement small meals with large amounts of n
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by dannypgh 13y ago
You're both wrong. Rape is not merely defined by someone saying "no." Sexual assault/penetration needs to occur as well. Maybe you shouldn't have sex with people if you have any doubt as to whether it's cons
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by dannypgh 13y ago
That seems like a pretty unfair approach -- if it's valid to have a patent, seems like you shouldn't penalize someone who doesn't have the resources to "actively participate" in the market by preventing them from li
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by dannypgh 13y ago
Ugh, I didn't see that post. Implying that the probability that the US government engaged in COINTELPRO is significantly below 1 requires far more paranoia than belief to the contrary, given that the program was exposed, studied and pu
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by dannypgh 13y ago
Analyzing income distribution is a lot less telling to the kind of persistent inequalities that exist in our society than wealth distribution. See http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/17/measuring-the-t.
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by dannypgh 13y ago
I think his point was that $10M of apple stock was a proportionately larger portion of his holdings; had Woz kept all of his shares and donated $10M worth of stock today, he'd have far less. But, cue the recent discussion of wealth add
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by dannypgh 13y ago
I think your scale is a bit off; you're looking at how far you or others are from a cushy life near the top, but you really should be looking at the distance from the bottom. Take, for only a small example, stop and frisk, and disparat
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by dannypgh 13y ago
A very large percentage of infections are viral and antibiotics would be of no use. Hence the reason antibiotic abuse in humans is so common. I suspect antibiotics in livestock/food supply are an even greater contributor to resistance,
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by dannypgh 13y ago
I don't think it's a question of how much of the energy is converted to heat (which is clearly going to be near-100%), but rather what you're heating. If you're dumping energy into the room until you reach some temperat
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by dannypgh 13y ago
But then your comment reduces to "paying for your own healthcare is more expensive than getting someone else to pay for it for you" or perhaps even "it's nice to have people give you money." Not that it isn't t
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by dannypgh 13y ago
I'm not sure what you're asking. The victim of robbery is present for it, of course. I'm pointing out that unless you're seeing something that I'm not, there's no element of a robbery that implies there's
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by dannypgh 13y ago
I think part of this disconnect has to do with the kinds of crimes that people actually end up in prison for. One of the largest single sources of arrests and convictions are the drug war -- I will not call the police if I see someone buyin
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by dannypgh 13y ago
You're confusing robbery and burglary. The common law definition of robbery is assault + larceny (theft) - that is, it's taking something that's not yours combined with making someone fear imminent harm.
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by dannypgh 13y ago
Indeed. PHP is often criticized for having inconsistently named or patterned libraries, and the response is usually "PHP is a relatively light wrapper to a bunch of C libraries" -- In fact I saw 3 versions of strstr in PHP core -

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