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by david_ar 8y ago
I believe GP was using "market failure" in the sense that the market is not allocating resources in a (Pareto) efficient manner, because of said externalities. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_failure
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by david_ar 8y ago
https://github.com/mozilla/readability
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by david_ar 8y ago
Google groups still follows the deprecated AJAX crawling scheme: https://groups.google.com/forum/?_escaped_fragment_=topic/re... Edit: note that URL redirects back to the JS-only version if you have JS enabled
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by david_ar 8y ago
This is my attempt at applying the recommendations, but with an updated style: https://texify.davidar.io/WebTypography/
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by david_ar 9y ago
I have a similar system, but using pandoc to output markdown https://github.com/davidar/peruse
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by david_ar 10y ago
See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=630181 My understanding is that the main problem is incompatibilities between the CSS and TeX layout models. That's not to say that there isn't still plenty of room
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by david_ar 10y ago
http://uds-datalab.github.io/PDBF/ also does this
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by david_ar 10y ago
https://matrix.org and https://vector.im
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by david_ar 11y ago
https://github.com/ipfs/notes/issues/51
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by david_ar 11y ago
Note that rocket chat can federate [1] over matrix [2], and I believe mattermost can as well. [1] https://matrix.org/docs/projects/as/rocket-chat-federation.h... [2] https://matrix.org
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by david_ar 11y ago
Like Liquid Haskell? http://www.haskellforall.com/2015/12/compile-time-memory-saf...
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by david_ar 11y ago
It wouldn't be the first mental illness possibly caused by an overactive immune system http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2919277/
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by david_ar 11y ago
The problem is not so much about whether predictions are biased. It's a problem of whether the algorithm is reinforcing pre-existing biases . In other words, it's about taking short-term losses in return for long-term gains. Supp
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by david_ar 11y ago
> After 1971 he also took amphetamines, despite the concern of his friends, one of whom (Ron Graham) bet him $500 that he could not stop taking the drug for a month.[18] Erdős won the bet, but complained that during his abstinence, mathe
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by david_ar 11y ago
I think the reason this is effective is not so much that you've given yourself permission to fail, but rather realising that failure isn't as big a catastrophe as you initially felt it to be. https://en.wikipedia.org&#x
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by david_ar 11y ago
That page isn't a complete listing, but you're right, only ~100 of the books seem to be properly open access, unfortunately. I guess Springer can decide to revoke access to the rest at any point in the future. Edit: looks like the
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by david_ar 11y ago
From http://www.springeropen.com/books > SpringerOpen books are published under the Creative Commons Non-Commercial (CC BY-NC) license, so they can be reused and redistributed for non-commercial purposes as long as the o
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by david_ar 11y ago
Yes, (most) linguists seem to be unique in treating this as dogma. It's not the only possible explanation consistent with current evidence. Edit: by "innate", people mean that it's something you're born with, rather
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by david_ar 11y ago
> What would a satisfactory "why" even look like exactly? Before deep learning happened, neural networks used to be popular for regression and interpolation problems. For a long time, our understanding of how they worked wasn&#
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by david_ar 11y ago
IPFS doesn't run natively in the browser yet https://github.com/ipfs/ipfs.js
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by david_ar 11y ago
That's true, but Bayesian methods were handicapped by a lack of computational resources for quite a long time. Modern Bayesian methods, although fundamentally the same, are in practice quite different today compared to a century ago. F
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by david_ar 11y ago
Also read chapter 37 "Bayesian Inference and Sampling Theory" of http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/itila/book.html
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by david_ar 11y ago
It would be interesting to see an analysis of the models inferred by this method, to see what kinds of approximations they're learning.
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by david_ar 11y ago
Obligatory pedantic comment: "base-2 decimal" is an oxymoron https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repeating_decimal#Extension_to...
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by david_ar 11y ago
Replace the word "theory" with "abstraction" or "interface" then. All the article is saying is that there's a bunch of common things (Unix pipes, function composition, procedure sequencing) that all follow
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by david_ar 11y ago
Indeed. http://nixos.org/nix/
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by david_ar 11y ago
You'll soon be able to store arbitrary data structures on IPFS [1], and we're discussing how to perform merging in a decentralised manner [2]. I'm actually quite interested in having a persistent data storage system (like Irm
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by david_ar 11y ago
I'd argue Haskell has the best support for this: http://safehaskell.scs.stanford.edu
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by david_ar 11y ago
TeX itself is quite fast, it's loading all the extra packages that slows things down.
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by david_ar 11y ago
I'm currently working on a project [1] that aims to tie together a number of existing tools to make "TeX on the Web" as painless as possible. It's still in the ( very ) early stages, so there's still a number of fea

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