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   by dcl 7y ago

   Depends on the jurisdiction? In Australia, I believe it is illegal.
2. 182.▲
   by dcl 7y ago

   Same with contractors working for banks in Australia.
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   by dcl 7y ago

   Those earlier articles made educated guesses that the greenhouse effect would eventually come in to play. Exxon attempted to model the effect to work out the possible impact.
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   by dcl 7y ago

   I had worked for a big bank doing financial modelling, reporting, random ad-hoc stuff for about 3.5 years before getting fairly bored. I quit and went to work for a small AI/ML* consulting firm whose biggest client turned out to be the
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   by dcl 7y ago

   They glide on the paper? I have a Lamy 2000, Pilot Vanishing Point and some other highly recommended pen (can't remember the name, it was a few years ago) and they are all scratchy as hell. Absolutely not as nice as even a cheap ball p
6. 186.▲
   by dcl 8y ago

   > Outcomes are the only holistic way to measure opportunity. Additionally, this is also affected by Simpson's paradox. Without conditioning on the correct causal effects, you may end up at exactly the opposite conclusion to the trut
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   by dcl 8y ago

   Indeed. It's the good statisticians that use good statistical methodology and theory to identify out errors and falsehoods. Honest mistakes occur because what looks like a simple problem cannot always be analysed very easily (or in an
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   by dcl 8y ago

   This is a widely underappreciated fact when it comes to comes to comparing the 'training experience' of humans versus bots. And it extends far beyond processing 'sense data' - A human likely has some level of understandi
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   by dcl 8y ago

   I'm not going to pretend to understand the physics at play, but is there perhaps lens coatings or materials that reduce the chance of detection?
10. 190.▲
    by dcl 9y ago

    A gigantic inferiority complex
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    by dcl 9y ago

    But doesn't this sort of bypass the true scarcity of the actual bitcoins?
12. 192.▲
    by dcl 9y ago

    Is there anything out there comparable to ggplot2 for high-quality plots?
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    by dcl 9y ago

    Not ridge, that was popularised by Hoerl and Kennard (1970). However, the method of augmenting the diagonals of the X'X matrix (ridge regression) was studied by Tikhonov in the early 40's as a method for solving ill-posed problems
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    by dcl 9y ago

    I can thoroughly recommend Elements of Statistical Learning. It won't teach you much about theoretical statistics, or even things like experiment design, but you will learn a LOT about regression, classification and model fitting which
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    by dcl 10y ago

    I'm guessing it doesn't 'fall' up instead of down?
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    by dcl 10y ago

    I recommend Elements of Statistical Learning, free @ https://statweb.stanford.edu/~tibs/ElemStatLearn/ This book covers everything from simple regression and classification from the statistical side to things like
17. 197.▲
    by dcl 10y ago

    An algorithm for updating parameters is patented?
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    by dcl 10y ago

    The player hitbox's aren't defined by what the player can see though right? So having those chunkier pixels will be less representative of what your bullets will actually hit no? Back in the CS < 1.3 days everyone used 640x480
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    by dcl 10y ago

    Correlation doesn't even imply correlation! http://andrewgelman.com/2014/08/04/correlation-even-imply-co... "That is, correlation in the data you happen to have (even if it happens to be “statistica