esalman

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by esalman 8y ago
Interestingly, biological beings seems to defy the second law by working to reduce disorder, or surprises, in the sensory system. This is the meat of Karl Friston's Bayesian hypothesis of the brain.
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by esalman 8y ago
Another example but not related to statistics: "convolution" in machine learning is not exactly the same thing as in signal processing.
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by esalman 8y ago
I guess we are talking about different topics :)
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by esalman 8y ago
Resting-state functional MRI (fMRI) based studies are not used to make clinical assessment yet, and the researchers themselves will admit that it is not ready for application. The prediction accuracy in most replicable studies hover around
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by esalman 8y ago
Sorry about the late reply, I've replied here- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18277994
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by esalman 8y ago
Sorry for the late reply, I went road-tripping with the new dashcam. I went with Viofo A119. I think it's pretty reliable and good value for about $90 (plus an SD card). Also ordered a CPL filter got one of the cams, it's not arri
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by esalman 8y ago
I was recently researching car dashcams. On Amazon the top brand has thousands of reviews but the most critical one accuses the seller of offering free mounts in exchange for 5* reviews. The second most prominent one is featured heavily in
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by esalman 8y ago
I basically try to combine Baldwin's formula and the concise table from Kording's paper when I write.
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by esalman 8y ago
I have found the following articles quite useful in this regard: * Konrad P Kording, Brett Mensh, "Ten simple rules for structuring papers", https://www.biorxiv.org/content/early/2017/05/23&#x2
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by esalman 8y ago
I agree with you on that we shouldn't assume that we know what's best for every user. But how big corporations behave is driven by greed more than anything else. Companies like Google and Facebook are becoming more greedy for data
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by esalman 8y ago
> What exactly is the value of privacy besides the satisfaction that big tech companies aren't making as much money from me? How about knowing that someone is not being deported from a port of entry based on what they posted on Face
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by esalman 8y ago
Isn't it? It's sad that this wave of nationalist and right-wing mentality is taking over the world, Brazil being the latest example. My worst fear is that someone like, or worse, than Hitler will have to come along until this tren
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by esalman 8y ago
It's funny because just this morning I came across and read through an article on how hard it has become for progressive minded people to run for, let alone actually get to the office. Here's the link if anyone is interested: htt
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by esalman 8y ago
The problem is that people who understand the value of privacy are probably less than 1% of the total population. The rest don't understand or don't care and they are the target consumers of the said corporations. So simply loggin
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by esalman 8y ago
I switched to Firefox developer edition couple weeks ago before this incident. Reason: my laptop temperature goes up to 80C+ with about 10 tabs opened in Chrome, whereas with Firefox it stays around 60C. But with this sync and cookie fiasco
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by esalman 8y ago
I think internet is not meant to be regulated. But (US) companies like Google and Facebook dominate how people use the internet. It is all too obvious that these companies are greedy. Their goal is to maximize profit, and they will do anyth
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by esalman 8y ago
https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/2765944?hl=en&co=GE... Let Chrome scan your computer for malware? I wonder what is the cost for a free malware...
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by esalman 8y ago
> you can either make the software meet some greater threshold That will, on the other hand, increase false negatives. I think that will defeat the whole purpose of putting the sensor in the watch. > medicine hasn't studied wh
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by esalman 8y ago
My machine learning professor used to say that people tend to sensationalize self-driving car fatalities, without realizing that if every car on the road was self-driving, deaths would go close to zero. I think the hard part of the problem
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by esalman 8y ago
I was in a statistics class where the Professor was teaching likelihood, then asked if there are cases when we don't want to maximize the likelihood ratio. The answer is when you want to put a limitation on false positive (or negative)
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by esalman 8y ago
This argument is invalid. Even more so after what happened in the 2016 US election. Silicon valley companies created the beast(s), they have an ethical obligation to tame it.
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by esalman 8y ago
I was searching for apartments on zillow.com yesterday and a login pop up came up- which included another box giving me option to sign up with my Google addresses. Here's a screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/dYtg5u6.png I
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by esalman 8y ago
> Increasingly I see barely literate people being passed through the system. I pass people who don’t deserve to pass because I’m hounded by administration on the importance of having a high passing rate. This is exactly how higher educat
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by esalman 9y ago
I should say boilerplate career objective statements ;)
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by esalman 9y ago
I agree with you. If it is a part of the resume submission system then that's fine. I just mean that personally photo and personal information are irrelevant to me.
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by esalman 9y ago
I understand. I mean that some candidates create a github profile and upload a couple of projects- just to be able to link that in the resume.
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by esalman 9y ago
Yep, you'll be surprised how many candidates list this.
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by esalman 9y ago
I used to hire at a startup. Following are the things I usually looked at. These are not sorted by severity, some are red flags but others are just irrelevant. * not following instruction in the job advert * CC resume to many recipients * w
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by esalman 10y ago
Xbox one can be controlled remotely with Xbox mobile app, you might find that useful. I didn't get the Kinect by the way.
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by esalman 10y ago
Cortana requires a mic attached to Xbox or the controller. But I never use one. It would be nice to have a mic built into Xbox, which would act like Alexa or Google home.

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