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Copenhagen’s New Traffic Lights Recognize and Favor Cyclists(wired.com)
2 points by dthal 11y ago|0 comments
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What being a journalist in the Middle East taught me about how censorship works(vox.com)
41 points by dthal 11y ago|2 comments
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Making Facebook for Whales(theatlantic.com)
1 points by dthal 11y ago|0 comments
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You've Got Dung Amazon Is Delivering Cow Pies in India(kplu.org)
1 points by dthal 11y ago|0 comments
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How the Internet of Things Limits Consumer Choice(theatlantic.com)
2 points by dthal 11y ago|0 comments
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America's poorest white town: abandoned by coal, swallowed by drugs(theguardian.com)
139 points by dthal 11y ago|44 comments
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by dthal 11y ago
A lot of people are going to dump on this billion dollar valuation, but we don't have the terms. Presumably there is liquidation preference. According to Crunchbase [1], the total capital raised is about $160 million after this money,
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by dthal 11y ago
I wouldn't be so down on vocational training for software...It is a field that has an unusually high requirement for ongoing learning. And when you have to learn some new tech, usually you have to do it now, and in-place, not next Se
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by dthal 11y ago
>>I'm sorry, continuing resolutions are now our ideal? I did not say that continuing resolutions are an ideal. My point was that although budgets are complex, only a relative small part of them changes from one cycle to the next.
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by dthal 11y ago
The ACA wasn't negotiated in secret. Budgets are normally continuing resolutions; they only negotiate the delta from previous years, which is usually small. And again, budget negotiations don't involve years of secret negotiations
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by dthal 11y ago
How are people who are starting from zero on this supposed to understand it in 60 days? This disclosure only a little more than a transparency fig leaf.
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Police Killings Surpass the Worst Years of Lynching, and a Movement Responds(huffingtonpost.com)
4 points by dthal 11y ago|0 comments
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by dthal 11y ago
The point about the late-stage investments being not-really-equity is a great point. So my question is: why do financial journalists just about always miss it when they write about tech unicorns?
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by dthal 11y ago
In the post, PG states that First Round's study is evidence of gender bias in VC financing. But footnote [2] is important: Uber was excluded as an outlier. Now...excluding Uber is reasonable (it is sort of an outlier), but so is not
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The International Energy Agency consistently underestimates wind and solar power(vox.com)
33 points by dthal 11y ago|1 comments
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The Era of Automatic Facial Recognition and Surveillance Is Here(forbes.com)
177 points by dthal 11y ago|155 comments
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by dthal 11y ago
I've played around with this some, and the recognition isn't perfect, but I'm very impressed with how well it can pick up a new pattern from even just one example.
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This “Cycle-In Office” Is a Bike Commuter’s Dream(slate.com)
3 points by dthal 11y ago|0 comments
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Nick Merrill: the man who may unlock the secrecy of the FBI's subpoenas(theguardian.com)
2 points by dthal 11y ago|0 comments
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In Contempt of Bulk Surveillance: It’s Too Easy(lawfareblog.com)
3 points by dthal 11y ago|0 comments
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If we don’t understand both sides of China’s balance sheet,we understand neither(blog.mpettis.com)
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The Limits of Language(slate.com)
36 points by dthal 11y ago|8 comments
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by dthal 11y ago
It seems like they should really call that top-line, $10 bn, number 'bookings' and the second, $2 bn, number 'revenue'.
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by dthal 11y ago
Fair enough... but the issue here is about findings of an effect versus no effect. It's about statistical significance. In order for single-comparison p-values and the like to be valid, there has to be a (one) single comparison. There
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by dthal 11y ago
It seems that the main issue here is that with pre-registration, study authors have to pick a single measure of primary benefit at the outset, whereas before, they might have made that choice after getting results back. The original study
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by dthal 11y ago
Is this dataset available anywhere? I see the code on github, but I don't see the data anywhere.
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by dthal 11y ago
The blog post seems to be getting modified at this moment. When I first saw it, it didn't have anything about the misclassifications, but that has been added now.
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by dthal 11y ago
I've only glanced at her code, but it looks like[1] the predictions are from held-out data. EDIT: All of the data was used in forming the PCA basis, but that isn't (necessarily) an error, depending on the use-case. And the logisti
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by dthal 11y ago
Scroll down to where it says: It even works for dresses that were not in the training set: Yes, that first dress is in the training data, but she did do reconstructions on dresses not used to build the PCA basis. They look decent
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by dthal 11y ago
Nonlinear methods can result in a smaller (lower-dimensional) representation, but they are non-linear so they are harder to use and usually require more data. On the other hand, PCA is easy and having 50 or more principal components is of

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