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by djaque 6y ago
The point is that as a scientist your code is a tool to get the job done and not the product. I can't spend 48 hours writing unit tests for my library (even though I want to) if it's not going to give me results. It's liter
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by djaque 6y ago
I am all for open science, but you understand that the links in your post are the exact worry people have when it comes to releasing code: people claiming that their non-software engineering grade code invalidates the results of their study
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by djaque 6y ago
It's also inconsequential when people say that planes are a lie from the fake news media. Science works whether or not you believe in it. Elections, not so much. If people just decide not to believe the results of an election, then d
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by djaque 6y ago
You're making a bold claim without evidence. Do you have any reason for me to believe that?
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by djaque 6y ago
> I’m honestly baffled why people are against mail in voting. President Trump has explained that the GOP is hurt when it's easier to vote [1]. There are political incentives to make voting difficult. [1] https://www.washi
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by djaque 6y ago
> Those who declined were physically assaulted. Anecdotes aren't the same as data and that story certainly doesn't characterize the general practice of mail in voting. Do you have any data on your claim that organized voter in
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by djaque 6y ago
> I’m willing to believe that there could be an actual reason for doing this At this point, there's no excuse for even the appearance of attacking the postal service before our record mail in election.
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by djaque 6y ago
Let's not sit around and speculate. Do you have any data to back up your claim that sorting machines undermine election security? If there's any truth here then surely states that have been voting by mail for decades would have
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by djaque 6y ago
There are only 78 days until the election. At this point, even the appearance of meddling with the mail before a record mail-in election is unacceptable.
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I am genuinely concerned for the November election. Even putting the dismantling of the USPS in the most favorable light, president Trump has managed to convince a chunk of his base that this year's presidential election will not be le
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by djaque 6y ago
And the solution is to dismantle the USPS?
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> no one seems to be writing about the utilization of the existing machines First off, that's wrong. Like three of the top comments here are talking about it. Second, if it's about efficiency then it needs to wait until after
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by djaque 6y ago
No, at least in my circles nobody thinks electronic voting is a good idea. I think Tom Scott has the best argument: you can't build a system that requires you to have a PhD in computer science to fully understand why you should trust i
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by djaque 6y ago
Considering giving twitter a try again. How easy is it to stear clear of all the politics side of things? I tried a few years ago, but killed my account when I realized that having all of the posts literally designed for maximum outrage sh
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by djaque 6y ago
We use them because they are particularly well suited for multi-objective optimization. They are also a global techniqe as opposed to gradient based methods and have great scaling properties. Important because each evaluation of the objec
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Postal Service Warns Mail-In Ballots in 46 States May Not Be Delivered in Time(forbes.com)
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by djaque 6y ago
This is what frustrated me the most with some of my friends "free market" arguments when net neutrality was in the news. I am also a believer in the invisible hand, but it doesn't work when I can literally only choose from o
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by djaque 6y ago
DEAP is the well known framework in python.
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by djaque 6y ago
Particle accelerator physics. They are used in the optimization of charged particle optics.
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by djaque 6y ago
What do you mean a massive GA? Just using a huge population? The issue is that in a GA, time is dominated by evaluation of the fitness function. For my applications every time you do that takes ten minutes. More individuals just means m
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by djaque 6y ago
They've been quite popular in my field for the past decade and I am doing some work on them right now.
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by djaque 6y ago
The idea of choosing partners based on fitness is implemented in most GAs. It's called selection and a basic form looks like choosing two individuals for each parent and only breeding the fittest in each pair (tournament selection). M
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by djaque 6y ago
Not just murdered. He held his knee on a mans neck for eight minutes and forty six seconds! He held it on there for minutes after he became unconscious and other people yelled at him to stop! There is no excuse.
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by djaque 6y ago
Trust me... I understand how important the presidential is. My point was that politics in the US rolls uphill. You have a much bigger impact on local elections than on federal elections. That one vote has a bigger impact than on trying t
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by djaque 6y ago
Please don't take this as an attack because I really am curious: Did you watch the full Axios interview with Swan and what were your thoughts on it?
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Setting partisan politics aside, I don't agree with the idea that you committed a felony == you're mentally unfit to vote. Once people have served their time they deserve to rejoin society. They are imperfect human beings, but hu
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by djaque 6y ago
It's because there are political incentives to make voting difficult. President Trump has even said that the GOP is hurt when it's easier to vote [1]. [1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/03&
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by djaque 6y ago
I would be fearful of polls considering the 2016 presidential election. Plus, there's more than just the president and your state rep. Local positions like judges, DAs, etc are also important. In some sense probably more importany t
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by djaque 6y ago
Same. We can talk about security all day, but nobody should just be against (either openly or with thinly veiled excuses) getting everyone who wants to vote the easy ability to vote. Personally I think that the US should go the route of a
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by djaque 6y ago
Seriously, send your application in now. I sent it in a while ago and it took a solid week longer than it has taken in years past.

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