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by gbrown 7y ago
Your terms have already been corrected below, but eating moldy bread is a good way to get ergot poisoning.
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by gbrown 7y ago
> Don't R people have Jupyter notebooks? Yes, though I prefer Rmarkdown documents.
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by gbrown 7y ago
Dismissing more interesting architectures, and ignoring the different approaches to fitting makes this seem very incomplete. I've long thought that neural networks are principally useful when the architecture can be chosen to exploit s
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by gbrown 7y ago
You're making a huge number of assumptions, both about gardening and about farming. 1. Not everyone uses those pots, and there are lots of alternatives. Many serious gardeners start from seed. Also, you provide no actual analysis of ho
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by gbrown 7y ago
Yes, I was just picking out one example I've seen where even if people do what they're taught, they'll end up doing bad statistics. As you say the problems don't end there.
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by gbrown 7y ago
That's not generally about outright fabrication, but instead due to invalid statistical procedures. Many students are still taught, in 2019, that the appropriate way to conduct a multiple linear regression analysis is to: 1. Fit univar
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by gbrown 7y ago
I see, you want to (poorly and incompletely) reduce my points to a syllogism, and point out that I'm not formally proving the physical nature of the mind (which is more appropriately addressed by the last few hundred years of science t
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by gbrown 7y ago
You've either failed to understand, or you're being intentionally obtuse. > Not quite Yes quite. > The analogy I offer shows It does not, for reasons I explained. You're observing physical phenomena, and concluding ther
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by gbrown 7y ago
Yes - your computer analogy conflated me (a human person, existing in the physical world) with a nonphysical intelligence, of which we have no evidence and which isn't even characterized in a meaningful way - it's just a placehold
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by gbrown 7y ago
If I smash my computer to atoms, I've destroyed it entirely - not severed a mysterious connection to its incorporeal self. Your assertion is essentially: "I am conscious, therefore consciousness is non-physical". The conclusi
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by gbrown 7y ago
Consciousness is clearly nonphysical? No offense, but that's simply nonsense. Why is consciousness modified by drugs? Why can consciousness be damaged by physical trauma? When you can interact with something in the physical world, that
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by gbrown 7y ago
No matter how small? What about one in a million? One in ten million? This is literally what statistics is for - randomness is a powerful tool against fraud, not some weak cop-out.
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by gbrown 7y ago
The above poster was making magical assertions as if they were well established without presenting evidence.
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by gbrown 7y ago
[Citation Needed]
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by gbrown 7y ago
Not everyone operates at that scale, and not every data science workload is DNN based I agree with your general point, however, but the role I'd hope for with Rust is not optimizing the top level, but replacing the mountains of C++ wit
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by gbrown 7y ago
If solar panel roads cause more waste and carbon emissions, while supplying less actual power, I certainly hope we give up on them. The ecological calculation requires science and engineering, not vague feelings about what's probably g
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by gbrown 7y ago
It's literally economics 101: externalities, but for some crazy reason in the US it's seen as a leftist anti-capitalist issue.
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by gbrown 7y ago
As stated, this is simply fallacious - "Supporting some regulation means you must support all regulation."
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by gbrown 7y ago
I'm betting many flavors of Linux running on many flavors of laptop.
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by gbrown 7y ago
An equally fun thing would be filling them with hydrogen, which is really not that dangerous.
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by gbrown 7y ago
Because it's a big upfront cost.
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by gbrown 7y ago
We have a CSA with a vegetable farmer. It's crazy how many government programs are just unavailable to her, which she'd have access to if she grew corn. For example, this spring we had tons of really heavy rain and she lost a pota
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by gbrown 7y ago
In principle, the adversarial system of justice in the United Systems is supposed to sort of work in this way (though the judgement is by a third party). Even though each party is focused on winning, the structure is supposed to give rise t
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by gbrown 7y ago
I humbly suggest that you dig deep and examine whether your opinion has more to do with the anger and frustration you experience while driving than objective fact, or any measureable harm you receive.
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by gbrown 7y ago
To answer your question about selectively blocking, just put the wifi router inside the cage. To the point though, feature phones didn't have WiFi generally. I'm also not sure how doing so would fix the issue, unless you could blo
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by gbrown 7y ago
Ouch, a punch right in the fourth ammendment.
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by gbrown 7y ago
In hot climates, even when the air temperature returns to tolerable levels, radiant heat from the various surfaces is no joke.
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by gbrown 7y ago
Well said.
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by gbrown 7y ago
That would be some super interesting co-evolution. My guess is "no", but only for armchair reasons - way outside my area of expertise. My understanding is that mouth and throat cancers are realy uncommon before middle age, so the
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by gbrown 7y ago
I'm very sorry for your loss. As I read it, the report does not provide any evidence that some brands are better or worse than others. There's not much data, and what we have is subject to reporting bias. Both larger and more expe

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