egocodedinsol

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by egocodedinsol 10y ago
I'm curious: does a new Walmart increase crime, or merely concentrate and redistribute it? Kind of a tough question, because to define concentration you need some notion of area, and you might just redistribute it across the boundaries
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by egocodedinsol 10y ago
> One university said it had serious concerns about its ability to recruit research fellows for current projects. I have heard rumblings of researchers' reluctance to work in the UK due to concerns about funding availability in 3 ye
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by egocodedinsol 11y ago
>I'd like to do more public outreach but the knowledge gap seems insurmountable You're not giving people enough credit. You can explain DNA from a functional standpoint to children. The problem is bandwidth - there are many thi
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by egocodedinsol 11y ago
how much private car usage is there, actually, in Manhattan?
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by egocodedinsol 11y ago
I remember thinking about this after reading Godel esher bach. The reason I don't believe it's clearly probable is that it's hard to imagine that a system that hasn't been forged under as much natural selection to have m
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by egocodedinsol 11y ago
hmm, I didn't read it as a piece about nyt covering tech, but about covering news posted on the internet, with the ability to rapidly update and change articles without providing a record. E.g. they gave an example of the AP and spoke
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by egocodedinsol 11y ago
> it is not standard practice at the NYT to note rewrites between quick takes and final versions. ... they should acknowledge that it happens constantly. I thought this was the point of the article?
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by egocodedinsol 11y ago
>WIC seemed to me more like a self indulgent brain dump than a work of art or a useful piece of information Good thing the author has you to let him know!
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by egocodedinsol 11y ago
Assuming you do get a 'reasonably priced' lawyer in this situation, how confident can you be in the answer? Put another way, if @ExhibitAClause2 were to end up in court how much would the outcome depend on the quality of lawyer ar
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by egocodedinsol 11y ago
What an ambitious and beautiful piece! A story like this is probably dangerous - it touches on so many ideas everyone will find something to gripe with, and it's hard to make a comprehensive and consistent story. The last time I read s
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by egocodedinsol 11y ago
Nguyen claims that the renaissance in neural networks will provide us with concepts to understand the human brain in an analogous way to how the steam engine allowed us to conceive of entropy. I'm not convinced it goes in that directio
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by egocodedinsol 11y ago
there are various ways, but one is to unroll the network about some timestep and treat it as a regular NN. You might find this helpful: http://minds.jacobs-university.de/sites/default/files/upload...
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by egocodedinsol 11y ago
FWIW, and this is a very common misconception, nonparametic tests in general do make assumptions about the distribution of data. Sometimes quite strong ones.
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by egocodedinsol 12y ago
I'm not sure, but I'd bet that the best institutions actually don't care where their applicants come from. They can afford to just choose the best. It's the so-so places that have to signal their quality by 'hiring
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by egocodedinsol 12y ago
The actual paper is pretty interesting, even aside from the more political implications[0]. For faculty placement, their measure of network prestige outpredicts other network measures and other ranking systems like USNews (but still only pe
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by egocodedinsol 12y ago
but what do you think about the big picture? I don't know much of the specifics about Brown, but I think the wider point is worth discussing, especially with respect to the proposed change in legislation.
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by egocodedinsol 12y ago
somehow this ends up on every thread about SO. I sometimes feel as if there could be a thread titled 'SO pivots into airplanes' and the top comment would be about whether flight attendants would call some questions off topic.
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by egocodedinsol 12y ago
fwiw, he might concede that illegal downloads are theft, but assert that digital property is also theft. In that case, I could see TPB defending those goals, or at least attacking their opposition. (not an endorsement just pointing it out
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by egocodedinsol 13y ago
There are several alternatives to the current funding giants, and I think they'll offer superior returns. If they do, NIH and others will change. My favorite example: Janelia Farm - I believe they expect 50% of their projects to fail.
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by egocodedinsol 13y ago
> Bayesian and Frequentist descriptions are mathematically equivalent That's a very strong statement. Is the class of problems where they both approaches agree well understood (for some definition of agreement)? I was under the impr
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by egocodedinsol 13y ago
I made this account anonymous to see if my comments improved. They're certainly shorter. I suspect it's because I'm not as worried about being misunderstood.
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by egocodedinsol 13y ago
Worth noting is that the median age was 58, and the minimum age was 16. Apparently there were no differences pre-post menopause, but an interesting question is whether gene expression, splicing, and regulatory networks are initiated via ext
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by egocodedinsol 13y ago
Before everyone rushes to the flag button because the author is biased (he is), consider that this article discusses a historical context I've seen missing from a lot of the NSA analysis. I find this article, even in its breathless hyp
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by egocodedinsol 13y ago
But what I don't quite understand is why there aren't 'perp walks'. It seems odd, because I imagine lots of FBI agents would love to take down guys at a big bank. I'm not saying this to point out a huge injustice, i
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by egocodedinsol 13y ago
Without being upset, I'm curious what the difference is between this type of arrest and various traditional banks that were civilly fined for money laundering, but not criminally charged. I doubt many FBI agents would hesitate to pursu
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by egocodedinsol 13y ago
You don't have to be upset to think that this is interesting! Indeed, it's a very different face of "data changes law enforcement" than the NSA story. Whereas NSA has a specific mandate, FBI can use anything seized for
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by egocodedinsol 13y ago
I can't really imagine too many better firsthand accounts than someone who actually worked on a drone program. Would you have the guardian publish only secondhand opinion pieces? Fwiw they also published an op ed by a defence minister
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by egocodedinsol 13y ago
booyaa00: I think it's also funny that some people are under the delusion that sites like this and reddit, are actually controlled by the 'voters', and that everyone has the same power. They're not. They're control
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by egocodedinsol 13y ago
But how do you feel about the story itself? Lots of journalism has inaccuracies, but I'd rather know what you think about such a weird and intriguing phenomenon. Most people here understand quite well that primes are not closed under m
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by egocodedinsol 13y ago
That Charlie Rose refuses to turn his show into "Trash TV: Business Edition" counts toward his credibility, not against it.

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