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by formulaT 11y ago
Are you saying this because you believe the HN population is skewed to the left (and hence articles from a different point of view will continue to be rare, while left wing articles continue to flood the front page), or do you plan to activ
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by formulaT 11y ago
I don't follow US elections. I posted it because left wing bullying via social media is a phenomenon that is intimately connected with tech. And this story is unique in that it's the first time I'm aware of a company stand
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by formulaT 11y ago
Yes, the core algorithms do have this tendency (which is the exciting thing about machine learning per se ), but statistics provides the context to understand them. E.g. people used to say "neural networks are a simple, flexible funct
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by formulaT 11y ago
Clarification: probability and linear algebra are the foundations of statistics. Statistics is the foundation of machine learning. If I have not studied statistics I will not have a solid foundation in statistics, even if I have stud
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by formulaT 11y ago
Political correctness is a dangerous tightrope. You try to uncover X'ism in tech by pointing out ways in which common industry practice Y disadvantage people in group X. But to do this, you had to claim that people in group X would pe
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by formulaT 11y ago
My point was that a book with the title "Foundations of Data Science" should be mostly probability and statistics. Undergrad probability and linear algebra is not a solid foundation in statistics. Statistics is a powerful lens th
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by formulaT 11y ago
Skimming the chapters, it seemed to be taking various fields of mathematics that are used in data science, and presenting the foundations of those fields as the foundations of data science. I'm biased, but I think that data science is
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by formulaT 11y ago
If our primary interest is stating what the law should be, then how the law was originally sold to voters is a minor point. Very charitably, it might be argued that my views are different to the average voter, and so in a democracy I sho
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by formulaT 11y ago
Thanks for the reply. I am working on my flexibility. I'm still scared of squats, but I'm seeing real results in my flexibility, and squatting slightly more without discomfort.
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by formulaT 11y ago
I don't support the existence of software patents at all. That said, I also don't think the benefits of patents should be interpreted so narrowly, or that we should judge patents by the single criterion of their "actual&quot
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by formulaT 11y ago
is this a reply to my post or to the original poster?
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by formulaT 11y ago
For me, the process was realizing that my desire to have my own business, and my dislike of an ordinary job, were based on many different underlying motivations, some of which, on closer analysis, I consciously chose to reject. I had always
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by formulaT 11y ago
In case you didn't want to watch the whole thing, here is the punchline: Today tech accounts for only 43% of the idnex, compared with 65% in March 2000 [just before the tech bubble burst]. Its P/E ratio of 22.15 is nowhere near
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by formulaT 11y ago
One application would be the deconstruction of the concept of "appropriateness" in tech. Many people hold an essentialist view, that for example, sexual comments are inappropriate in a professional setting. But a closer examinat
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by formulaT 11y ago
Postmodern philosophy is to progressive social politics as Marxism is to left wing economics. Both are theories that would be easily dismissed if they weren't written in highly obfuscatory language. Both serve the purpose of giving a
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by formulaT 11y ago
What kind of advice did you end up getting? Was it classes, or a personal trainer? I'm in the same situation myself, having a very hard time getting technique down for back squats
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by formulaT 11y ago
If you watch the video, there is nothing that suggests Satya is not talking about the way things are in the workplace, not they way they should be. I just don't see where you are getting this idea from. Do you have a single source fo
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by formulaT 11y ago
My perspective is he was speaking in terms of how tech ought to be for women, but failed to mention that the situation for women was currently different. That's just completely wrong, watch the video again. https://www.you
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by formulaT 11y ago
You must be easily amused then. Satya Nadella was an example of people in generally being required to speak in a politically correct way. Haven't you heard of intersectionality? Nadella could still be accused of having male privileg
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by formulaT 11y ago
What an odd and formulaic response.
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by formulaT 11y ago
I just happen to think it's a bad example because political correctness pervades all of politics, but (unlike say White vs Black or Male vs Female), for the Israel-Palestine issue only in the far left would does political correctness f
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by formulaT 11y ago
I see things the other way around. The generic white males are constantly berated and ridiculed in the mainstream media. People are constantly getting in trouble or losing their jobs for saying the wrong thing, e.g. Satya Nadella for not
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by formulaT 11y ago
The debate is also settled this way in real politics, it's just that outside some universities, Jewish feelings win. EDIT: for downvoters: why is it ok to point out diversity politics in universities and not in US politics?
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by formulaT 11y ago
I didn't see any reason why these differences might not be genetic: genes cause changes in the brain which cause changes in academic achievement which cause socio-economic status. It would be interesting to see studies that isolated th
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by formulaT 11y ago
For me the issue is that Jewish identity is presented as always being good, while Aryan/White/European/Whatever_you_want_to_call_it identity is presented as being evil and racist. Sure, these things exist at a different granu
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by formulaT 11y ago
I agree that the existence of Jews in Israel for thousands of years presents a difference but I think this difference is small for the following reasons. 1. The Jewish connection to Israel has been exaggerated by Zionists. The Jewish peo
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by formulaT 11y ago
My point regarding Palestinians is that only the Palestinians had a right to sovereignty in that area (just like only Aboriginal Australians had a right to sovereignty over Australia). Unlike the old yishuv, the Palestinians were the v
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by formulaT 11y ago
You are still trying to restrict the concept of a nation to a narrow definition that suits your needs. Palestinians have been continuously living in the area for as long as Jews. But their claim to the land is stronger since they were sti
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by formulaT 11y ago
Whether you are extending an existing nation or creating a new one is an irrelevant distinction. The point is that people bring in a group that did not live there previously, and establish a new society in that land. You seem to treat it a
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by formulaT 11y ago
It's instructive to me to compare Zionism with the process of the invasion of the Americas by Europeans. The majority of European invaders of America desired to establish new nations where old ones existed, wiping out, marginalizing or

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