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by davorak 14y ago
When I made that statement I was think about how there have been blood spatter experts, bit mark experts, bug forensics experts that have all been discovered to frauds and cast doubts on to large swaths of forensics techniques that were acc
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by davorak 14y ago
I currently can not distinguish trusting them about stats vs about blood spatter, bit mark, DNA, evidence. Why should I trust them less for stats? Math does hold a honorary position in society while also being often being disliked(USA here)
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by davorak 14y ago
If I remember correctly the correct action is not to directly refute an incorrect claim but rather tell a story of your own with it's own details and twists.
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by davorak 14y ago
Interesting, thanks for the pointe > What mattered, in the view of the Lords, was what could be verifiably said to have actually happened. It would be interesting to see how "verifiably" and "actually happened" would be refined to produ
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by davorak 14y ago
>People doing the job poorly should be banned. But the nurse case is interesting because poor statistics became self-fulfilling. >"We have some deaths, and this nurse is present when they happen, and so they are all suspicious", bec
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This is the case with any domain area knowledge though not just math and statistics, it is true for most any expert that gets up on the stand. That is why both the defense and the prosecutor can bring forth their own expert witnesses. How i
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by davorak 14y ago
>> and so I must now tell them that the entire philosophy behind their course has been declared illegal in the Court of Appeal. I hope they don't mind. >Is what reveals the misunderstanding. Judges don't "declare" things illegal
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by davorak 14y ago
I do not think I understand your argument. In the case as you describe it the statistics are done incorrectly and cause a potential false conviction. How is this different then an expert on autopsies incorrectly does the job which leads to
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by davorak 14y ago
You can always post this as a question to http://patents.stackexchange.com and then add the answers you have collected already as an answer. I encourage you do so since I do not know a better place to document prior are for patents.
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by davorak 14y ago
Why not post to one of the other stackexchange.com sites like http://programmers.stackexchange.com , there is a wide variety now one probably fits the kind of questions you want to ask.
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by davorak 14y ago
It seems like this type of question should fall in to http://programmers.stackexchange.com/ domain as well or at least much more so the StackOverflow.
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> Finally, I'm not a physicist, but from what I've read, even physicists now have a lot of trouble defining "matter" as such. As someone with physics training I do not see physicists having this trouble. > I don't think they even us
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It is sometimes useful for me to break down this type of problem into: * enough memory to remember the identities * fast enough recall of identities from memory @ * fast enough exploration of possible solutions @ @ Fast enough is when you c
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Downsides to conversations with more then two people: * It is harder to build mental model of opposing view as the number of people on the opposing side increases do to inconsistances in their view points, experience, and reasons. * It can
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by davorak 14y ago
I guess my impression was that you can not go to far down that road starting with only $60,000 in the bank unless you have a good lawyer take you on for free which is uncommon. Meaning these options are not realistically open to large perce
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by davorak 14y ago
> Notably, stateful filesystem I/O is also an area where Haskell tends to fall down. Can you give an example? I do not understand what you mean. The filesystem is stateful, but I do not see that impeding Haskell.
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It is linked from the main page to answer the question "What is Haskell?" It is not supposed to an example driven page at all. The title of the wiki page could be changed to fix this though. The very next link is http://tryhaskell.org/ t
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That is not the best introduction to the programming language by means of practical examples, but it does not look like it is supposed to be either. At least from Haskell.org it links from "What is Haskell?" Which is a very different quest
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At least in the USA, prison rape statistics were not pleasant last time I checked. Nor is the rate of encountering or being around violence and/or intimidation. Not all prisons are as bad as others but non-violent offenders do always get op
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The impression many people have is that MIT has or is getting worse on these types of issues hence why it is a big deal to them.
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I thought they lost that domain and the forbes author was just made a mistake. All of the recent links have pointed to kim.com or kim.com/mega
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by davorak 14y ago
Worse in Firefox then in Chrome for me. I can not get a continuous jitter in chrome at all but easily get the button and hand to jitter continuously in Firefox if I leave the mouse at the right spot.
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by davorak 14y ago
Thanks for give detail and frank answer. > Witch hunts only create a quick fix to our need to rationalise our anger and pain. They are, at least sometimes, more then just that though. They can arise out of desire to make the world diffe
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I am confused on how you think the information should be used to change ones opinion and future actions. Do you think there should be zero influence? > but that doesn't make you correct. My aim was not to be 100% correct about Arron, bu
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> YOU STILL DON'T KNOW THE DETAILS. No we do not, but everyone still needs to decided if and how they will act differently going forward with this new data point regardless of what we do not know. Jumping to conclusions is bad not chang
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It is more a statement of probabilities, do I know thats what pushed him of the edge of course not, is likely to have played a significant role, I think yes. It does not have to be all or nothing to change my opinion and my future actions.
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How should people who though like you and ed act differently now? Aaron did not receive enough help on his defense bills. This likely part of the reason he is now dead, but only part of it. Given this how should actions change, if at all? I
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> I am surprised people have taken issue with the words man up. It's only connotation was that Aaron should pay for his own defense, a reasonable statement. I think it only becomes reasonable after you present a well thought though argu
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edw519 comment 119 days ago on TC, does not present an argument for why it is better if Arron pays his own bills vs society helping pay his bills. >Aaron should man up, take responsibility for his actions, and pay his own bills. This co
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by davorak 14y ago
> Finally, just because a network is open does not mean you have permission to use it. If it looks like a store and the door's unlocked their are unsettling consequence when it is considered appropriate to charge trespassing when someon

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