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by dxbydt 3y ago
> Mechanically computed from random numbers, no Even random numbers are copyrightable. Below is an implementation of Marsaglia's invention, from p348, courtesy infamous NR[1]. Its a MWC (multiply with carry) random number generator,
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by dxbydt 3y ago
Very fast turnaround. Kudos! Works very nicely now. Try this: https://hn-recommend.julienc.me/?q=sf%20crime With the Newest filter vs the Oldest filter. ( btw the default Relevance filter gives only tangentially relevant re
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by dxbydt 3y ago
Pls sort by recency. Otherwise you see 13 year old articles most of them obsolete/irrelevant to the current situation.
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by dxbydt 3y ago
33-46% of students in the local high school used LLMs in a text production task. I mean, they actually did. [1] https://www.fastcompany.com/90841387/gpt-3-chatgpt-high-scho... [2] https://www.theatlantic.com
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by dxbydt 3y ago
> there shouldn't be any master in the team who holds the keys to the knowledge kingdom that's exactly what i'm disagreeing with. It sounds like a good feature on paper. In reality, it seldom is. Most east coast companies
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by dxbydt 3y ago
> having the company's livelihood depend on one developer, you're dysfunctional at best This is the sort of banal nonsense that seems to be obviously true on its face but bears no semblance to reality. In fact, it illustrates t
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What we know about the health risks of ultra-processed foods(npr.org)
4 points by dxbydt 3y ago|1 comments
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by dxbydt 3y ago
Martin, I really enjoy your posts & feel compelled to respond. I think the pushback is primarily on process, not results. Like, you do these 18 hour stints & get the millions & then land up, like you say, in the hospital. Or you
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Bees on Delta N339NW Wingtip(twitter.com)
11 points by dxbydt 3y ago|2 comments
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Is my book that dangerous?(gregmankiw.blogspot.com)
11 points by dxbydt 3y ago|0 comments
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by dxbydt 3y ago
>At the time a very famous statistician (Fischer?) maintained that we couldn't actually tell whether it was causal or not. It was Fisher, here's a fantastic summary of the whole episode: https://priceonomics.com&#x2F
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by dxbydt 4y ago
(Sorry, am not a science person). Why does the temperature go down until 11000 metres, then stay at -70F until 20000m, then starts going back up to 28F until 50000m, then starts going down again 83500m, stays at -119F until 90500m, rises up
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by dxbydt 4y ago
> Can it come up with...when it has no idea that such a concept exists? I was curious to see if it could. === Q. Invent a new statistic that mixes hessian and likelihood with score. gpt: One potential new statistical concept that mixes H
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by dxbydt 4y ago
> If you look inside this repo I actually looked in the repo & I believe some of it is incorrect. For instance, the signature insert(value, rawIndex) in [1] makes no pedagogical sense. Quoting from [2] - "There is no real concep
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by dxbydt 4y ago
From the horse's mouth - ===== Q. is hackernews used as a training set for chat gpt ? A. ...it is possible that some of the data from HackerNews and other online sources may have been used in the training of my machine learning algori
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by dxbydt 4y ago
suburb 2 hours from chicago. i have a few friends i visit in illinois, also in indiana and in columbus,ohio. its all very similar here, hard to tell apart. full of corn fields, windmills, large homes with giant basement, poorly funded schoo
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by dxbydt 4y ago
Speaking as an immigrant - Worked in SF most of last decade. Left in 2018. Crime was on a steady uptick while I was there. Once in the Bart, a young man grabbed a cellphone from the guy seated right next to me & bolted out of the train.
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by dxbydt 4y ago
You clicked on the "Descriptions" tab. Instead, if you click on the "Data" tab, it says: Murder Rape Robbery Assault UNREPORTED UNREPORTED UNREPORTED UNREPORTED If none of these stats are being made public, how ar
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by dxbydt 4y ago
This is very nicely done. I run a training group and I will use this for my students. Thank you for posting this resource.
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by dxbydt 4y ago
It is a big issue in India. We have a few Bollywood celebrities with "trademark voices" - voices so distinct you would instantly associate it with that celeb. There is a Huge mimicry culture with 100s of extremely talented mimics
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by dxbydt 4y ago
Not 100% sure but I believe this is how we landed the lunar module on the moon the first time...tan/arctan/both were too hard to compute on the processors of those days so they discretized into half angles & stored the tangent
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by dxbydt 4y ago
> 위록지마(謂鹿止馬) wii rok ji ma > To point at a deer and call it a horse. Very common South Indian proverb. Of course, our version goes - To point at a donkey and call it a horse. I guess because donkeys are way more common than deer in So
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by dxbydt 4y ago
Total agreement. As a longtime anglophile, I believe the UK governance literally conforms to Yes Minister.There exists a strong bijection between any ongoing UK crisis and a corresponding Yes Minister episode. I have discovered a wonderful
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Noam Chomsky on ChatGPT: A Way of Avoiding Learning(openculture.com)
1 points by dxbydt 4y ago|0 comments
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by dxbydt 4y ago
> The mediant inequation is: a/b < (a+c)/(b+d) < c/d The equality is more fun & shows up frequently on the Nationals. It states: a/b = c/d => a/b = c/d = (a+c)/(b+d) For example - On t
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by dxbydt 4y ago
"a picture of One WTC as conceived by Ansel Adams and photographed with a Hasselblad" is still an idea, because One WTC opened in 2014 & Mr. Adams died thirty years ago in 1984.
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by dxbydt 4y ago
Taleb says the turkey lives happily for 364 days. Then, there's Thanksgiving.
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Layoffs broke big tech elite college hiring pipeline(wired.com)
40 points by dxbydt 4y ago|16 comments
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by dxbydt 4y ago
There was a merchant who said - Buy my sword! It will pierce through any shield !! So the gullible people bought the swords and soon the merchant ran out of swords to sell. So the merchant said - Buy my shield! They can defend against any s
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by dxbydt 4y ago
First time I watched Emperor's Club, I was like hey isn't this just Ozymandias ? It turned out that's a very common confusion, mined by English highschool teachers https://www.buffaloschools.org/site/defa

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