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by elcomet 5y ago
You can prove causation with an experimental study. You take a random population, split it in half and modify something for the first half, then look at the effects.
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by elcomet 5y ago
> I'm almost sure 100% vaccination rate with the vaccines currently available won't change much. How can you be almost sure ? Are you an immunologist or a contagious disease expert ? Do you have data to back this up ?
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by elcomet 5y ago
That's not what the article is talking about. They are saying that data biases are a problem but not the only one: other things can amplify biases such as the model's architecture. So when working to remove biases, fixing the data
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by elcomet 5y ago
This does not match the intuitive notion of randomness though. I would say for a given variable to be random, it must not be predictible, given any other variables that humans can know. I don't think it makes sense to say that X is ran
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by elcomet 5y ago
What you're describing is not randomness, it's independence. It's hard to define randomness. I think non-determinism is better than your definition.
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by elcomet 5y ago
Forces are just models to predict interactions between particles. It's only a model (a very accurate one though) so nothing is "really" a force. They are not material objects. But for gravity, something even more accurate was
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by elcomet 5y ago
what was the software ?
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by elcomet 5y ago
The issue is that young people can die of covid, even if it's rare, also they can have some comorbidity that they do not want their employer to know about. Also, you can transmit covid and be asymptomatic. Finally, death is not the o
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by elcomet 5y ago
I don't think that's gonna be a real problem after a short adaptation time. Managers will learn the limits of the tools. Of course, if a product made by bubble is sufficient to solve the problem, than the engineer did a bad job wh
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by elcomet 5y ago
That's the point. They managed to get a product out quickly. Rivian did not.
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by elcomet 5y ago
> bonus points: can you spot the missing correlate?) Concussions ?
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by elcomet 5y ago
Well there is much more to do than coding... They should be doing sales and marketing and other stuff. If they're doing nothing, that's a bad sign
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by elcomet 5y ago
I don't agree about the level of abstraction. It is often recommend to not write a function if you call it only once or twice. So most functions will be called multiple times in your code. Copilot can be useful here as it will autocomp
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by elcomet 5y ago
When you use libraries or frameworks, you often write the same or very similar lines.
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by elcomet 5y ago
That's the definition of aleph-1. The continuum hypothesis is that 2^aleph-0 (number of sets of integers or number of reals) = aleph-1.
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by elcomet 5y ago
Could you develop your thoughts ? I found it pretty convincing
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by elcomet 5y ago
The parent was being sarcastic.
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by elcomet 5y ago
It works well for completing lines one by one. I just write a few characters and it can often complete very well the lines. Of course it will not write complete functions correctly.
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by elcomet 5y ago
Maybe government should invest in companies instead of giving grants. So if the company fails, it is money lost like a grant, but if there is success, then the government can get its money back.
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by elcomet 5y ago
Because you profit from those inventions ? You might be saved by the drug discovered by Alphafold
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by elcomet 5y ago
But what matters is the output, no ? Also, some people explicitly avoid reading codebases to avoid duplicating by mistake some copyrighted code. Not sure if this is true but I heard that it used to be forbidden to Microsoft developers to re
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by elcomet 5y ago
It's not as simple as that... It's not clear to me how it is copyright infringement if the generated code is truly new. Of course, if some code output is very similar to existing code, then it is obviously copyrighted. When you re
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by elcomet 5y ago
Oh thanks, this was not clear from your other posts: the whole table is used as a data point, not the line. Much clearer now, why you would compare this to point clouds
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by elcomet 5y ago
Then as parent said, almost all datasets are like point cloud, except time-series datasets.
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by elcomet 5y ago
What if someone's work makes them subject to more diseases, like a factory worker ? Should they pay more ? What about people that are not as well educated as you are, and thus don't know that too much sugar is bad for them ? Shoul
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by elcomet 5y ago
But don't you believe it encourages innovation ? That's the main argument in favor of patents
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by elcomet 5y ago
That's an argument for "progressive" support, and against the threshold effect, not for basic income. There should be no hard threshold, social support should be linear, and be reduced with the more money you earn. Like taxe
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by elcomet 5y ago
I think they should both pay based on their income, not their lifestyle.
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by elcomet 5y ago
And slower (to start) than both of them. I tried julia to write some scripts that were previously in numpy, but the slow start threw me off. I hope they solve this because it's a great language.
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by elcomet 5y ago
Yeah, that's why I think everyone should pay, not based on their age, but on their ressources.

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