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by dbecker 13y ago
Can anyone here comment on whether there is enough energy in the infrared spectrum to make this useful?
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by dbecker 13y ago
Take the heartbreaking story about a phone getting stolen away That part is pretty integral to the story. You might as well say "Take away the part about the pictures and you're just left with a story of a stolen phone."
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by dbecker 13y ago
How many people still write assembly, and for what purposes?
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by dbecker 13y ago
The fact that the Marshmallow Test predicts life quality doesn't mean that genetics do not. The marshmallow test may (or may not) simply reflect underlying traits that are genetically determined.
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by dbecker 13y ago
This is an old problem. Cameras also let others monitor your sex life. Of course, that's only true if you take pictures while you are having sex and then share those pictures with others... just like with wearable fitness devices.
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by dbecker 13y ago
If they are net consumers of the staple, they must be net producers of some other crops. If the price of the staple increases dramatically, can't they shift towards eating other crops (that they were previously net producers of)?
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by dbecker 13y ago
How does the dichotomy between Python 2 and 3 affect your productivity or coding experience? I'm using 2.7, and I can't recall the existence of 3 ever causing a problem.
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by dbecker 13y ago
The Zen of Python states that "practicality beats purity." And the authors of numpy, scipy, pandas, etc seem to agree that it would be impractical to rewrite these libraries in the way you are suggesting.
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by dbecker 13y ago
If you take that point of view, than all of this advice about how to dress in a professional environment is irrelevant to most of us.
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by dbecker 13y ago
I personally haven't met anybody who, given the choice, prefers looking like a disheveled slob. I prefer wearing gym shorts to slacks. If that preference qualifies as "wanting to look like a disheveled slob," then a large
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by dbecker 13y ago
In Ben's defense: The original article declares random forest a "winner" over neural networks. Ben's comment is a cautionary note that this result only applies to a specific class of problems. This was a nice post, but i
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by dbecker 13y ago
He may know about PyPy, but need to use libraries that only work with CPython. Numpy is an example of this type of library, though there are many others. Unfortunately, PyPy isn't a viable alternative for most scientific computing prob
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by dbecker 13y ago
No one wants to sell cars that consumers won't buy. There are a few diesel car models available in US (e.g. the VW Passat TDI and Jetta TDI). But Americans don't buy enough of them to cause more manufacturers to sell diesel model
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by dbecker 13y ago
This seems so common, but few people can admit it (or even recognize it). Congratulations on having this level of self-awareness, and I'm sure your future will be bright.
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by dbecker 13y ago
The Colorado Department of Transportation does essentially this with "pace cars" at high traffic times coming back from the ski areas.
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by dbecker 13y ago
Are the users who liked the navigation bar and the sidebar using quartz in a different way from us? For example, are they using quartz primarily to browse rather than following a link to a specific story? I found these page elements very a
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by dbecker 13y ago
I wouldn't rule out the possiblity that your participation in a thread about this is in your file.
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by dbecker 13y ago
I'd like to see more my whole file instead of just the phone records, because I'm curious how accurate their information is.
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by dbecker 13y ago
I don't see the great similarities between iOS 7 and any microsoft interfaces. Can you say more about which product they "copied" and what design features specifically make you think that?
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by dbecker 13y ago
Must be a little bit like having Google enter your niche. Interesting analogy... given that Google is already in this niche (with their prediction API)
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by dbecker 13y ago
I haven't used OP's service, but the results from Google's prediction service are surprisingly bad (in both my tests, and in the experience of others I have talked to.)
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by dbecker 13y ago
I'd agree that the claim "feminists wish to see men suffer" is equivalent to the above quote. I'm surprised to hear that this is a common sentiment in serious conversation. The claim "women and men should be treated equally", even with an
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by dbecker 13y ago
A lot of men (and sometimes women) ... [say] “So you’re saying that in order for women to get ahead, they have to pull men down?! That’s not fair!” I have never heard anyone say anything like this quote. Maybe I'm in an unusual workplace
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by dbecker 13y ago
I don't think you have to be very cynical to take that view. I'm a data scientist, and I'll readily admit that your definition describes me well.
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by dbecker 13y ago
F# has been successfully used by some of the most advanced machine learning teams in the world, including the Microsoft Research Machine Learning and Applied Games groups at Microsoft Research These may be some top-notch groups... but, it
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by dbecker 13y ago
One of the main reasons it doesn't work is that people don't ask questions to clarify. They jump to conclusions It's funny to see Winer complaining about commenters being too quick to criticize from a limited background... when the whole
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by dbecker 13y ago
I'd love to give you a small code snippet to look at. Can you drop me a line at dansbecker (on the email domain run by google).
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by dbecker 13y ago
I'm sure numba is an impressive product. But I keep seeing examples on the continuum blog with an obscene number of for loops, and correspondingly great speedups. My only response is: "My code doesn't look like that." I'd be more impressed
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by dbecker 13y ago
The common misconceptions of p-values make them appear more relevant than they really are. I'm skeptical they would be used nearly as much if they were properly understood.
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by dbecker 13y ago
There's a well known saying by statistician George Box that "All models are wrong, but some of them are useful." Economic models are like maps, physical models, and every other type of models in that they are gross simplifications of realit

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