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by egocodedinsol 8y ago
great touch: changing the time keeps the old contour and plots a new one in a different color automatically.
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by egocodedinsol 8y ago
> in general correlation doesn't imply causality. Yes, we know. But it's often a sign that something interesting is going on.
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by egocodedinsol 8y ago
Yes! And that paper is a fantastic example of making clear criticisms with actionable fixes and the code to perform the comparisons properly. Preferential attachment is such a beautiful theory because it gives power law distributions of nod
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by egocodedinsol 9y ago
Forgetting about “official” rankings for now, Iirc uchicago has had more nobel prize winners passing through in some capacity than anywhere else, and its graduate programs have been among, or the best for a long, long time. It may not have
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by egocodedinsol 9y ago
Set up an eyetracker and give them juice when they maintain fixation at a dot on a screen.
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by egocodedinsol 9y ago
Some aspects of the signals are individual-dependent, some are consistent across individuals (for some definition of individual-dependent and consistent). I know that's vague, but it's accurate.
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by egocodedinsol 9y ago
For a good review of the the brain learning to use BMI's, see: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S095943881...
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by egocodedinsol 9y ago
I don’t understand the second part of the title. I don’t see anything in the essay to suggest it can or should go away. The first part is probably solid: peer review is new. But older scholarship was performed in a very different context -
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by egocodedinsol 9y ago
This is an important point, but the comparison is difficult. Past advancements occurred in a drastically different time period - few professional scientists, for instance. I don’t defend current peer review as optimal, but I can’t see an ea
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by egocodedinsol 9y ago
What's the best way to a) structure the credit system so this doesn't happen and b) incentives to ensure compliance with that structure? I suspect most people here find the CEO's explanation lacking (and most people who read
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by egocodedinsol 9y ago
The hard part isn’t getting it basically right. The hard part is knowing where subtle bugs are. I remember my numerical computing textbook had one major takeaway: almost always write your own matrix algorithms; almost never use them. An ext
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by egocodedinsol 9y ago
I was a little surprised as well. I'm opinionated: I live here, after living in NYC, Chicago, and Portland, and spending a lot of time in Toronto. Philadelphia doesn't have tech scene like SF or Seattle, but it's well positio
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by egocodedinsol 9y ago
My wife is a pediatrician who recently wrote a letter to the Washington Post about this. While she routinely recommends breast feeding, she pointed out that the many costs, or even just personal preference, can justify formula instead. For
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by egocodedinsol 9y ago
Extreme premature births are the leading cause of infant mortality in the US. Even if the infant survives, they often have incredibly complex consequences that cause lifelong issues because, e.g. the lungs have not fully developed but are r
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by egocodedinsol 9y ago
It is an amazing place - it has been consistently ranked as the best children's hospital in the US, though at that level it ends up depending more on specialty and who's doing the rating.
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by egocodedinsol 10y ago
Opinionated take about costs and benefits that doesn't make strong statements about whether remote work or onsite is better: For context: I moved from NYC to Philadelphia, to finish my thesis and be with my wife who works at the world&
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by egocodedinsol 10y ago
This could be interesting, but without pointing out what's wrong, or knowing your experience it reads like a vague military dismissal of an intelligence leak. What's wrong with the article? This is not a dispute but a request for
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by egocodedinsol 10y ago
When you've convinced people to come to your side and donate money to it, demanding an apology for not coming sooner is a great strategy for revenge, but not a great one for your cause. From an activist friend: "Hearing leftists b
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by egocodedinsol 10y ago
> that is like saying drivers with licenses have a monopoly on driving. The critical difference is that there's no limit on the number of people who can get standard driver's licenses, but there is on medical licenses. It'
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by egocodedinsol 10y ago
Sent this to my father, a control systems engineer. He responded with his own story: "This is a true story which I saw with my own eyes. In Arkansas... It was in the afternoon, at a boiler plant. Boilers have an induced draft fan that
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by egocodedinsol 10y ago
This isn't an incorrect comment, but I'm not sure it's a good one.
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by egocodedinsol 10y ago
Yes. Although I suppose the probability you're a malicious actor given that you've produced a vulnerability rise substantially (though still remains quite small).
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by egocodedinsol 10y ago
Don't attribute to malice what could easily be attributed to stupidity. I'm no fan of pitchforks, and I don't doubt plenty of people might make this mistake. But lots of malicious actors hide behind this response.
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by egocodedinsol 10y ago
This essay left me confused - it starts by suggesting that tipping is bad, and that raising prices, possibly above the cost of tipping, will bring a net win. I was very curious to read about why. But then the essay shifted to two seemingly
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by egocodedinsol 10y ago
I don't think he made that case, either. But it doesn't stop some of his observations from being thought provoking. I do agree that a science professor would likely have an entirely different perspective.
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by egocodedinsol 10y ago
I don't mean that people at elite institutions are mostly shitty, or even those who've said these things are shitty - I have great friends from my time in school. I hope I did not paint a picture of snobbish assholes who do nothin
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by egocodedinsol 10y ago
Before this gets flagged to oblivion, I have one criticism and two defenses of the article. As a criticism, this article doesn't address the sciences. The availability of research money is a major reason to go to an elite science insti
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by egocodedinsol 10y ago
Can you name something that's a better approximation to the brain's computational processes than a neural network?
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by egocodedinsol 10y ago
You're not technically wrong, but I think this is a bit pedantic. Most people realize this. Convolutional networks don't actually seem to be a totally bad approximation of feedforward visual processes in the brain at a computation
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by egocodedinsol 10y ago
the red king theory is actually what's discussed in the article. RK hypothesis is sort of an opposite hypothesis to the RQ hypothesis, and that's what's being addressed in this work.

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