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by gbrown 7y ago
There are already cameras everywhere though.
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by gbrown 7y ago
Man, I wish we had that here. I've slowly replaced about 30% of my lawn with native prairie beds, added clover to the rest, and never spray.
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by gbrown 7y ago
> Somebody who is doesn't know the answer isn't going to be any more nervous at any of those questions in particular, but someone who does is often going to have a nervous spike as, or just before, the correct question is asked
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by gbrown 7y ago
Yeah but if you break down...
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by gbrown 7y ago
Asking because I legitimately don't know: was the FAA failure here more attributable to the agency, or the funding (and therefore manpower*expertise) available to it?
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by gbrown 7y ago
How is excess carbon in the atmosphere a free market opportunity in any meaningful sense?
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by gbrown 7y ago
[citation needed] There are many equally plausible assertions, like existential fear/despair over the various ecological and climactic disasters, increasing alienation as the nation and world move towards authoritarianism and nativism,
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by gbrown 7y ago
They'd also fit with anything else that changes over time.
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by gbrown 7y ago
In short, corresponding methane emissions.
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by gbrown 7y ago
While the relationship between orbit and climate is well documented, I'm unaware of any credible science to suggest that "much of this" (taken to mean the current observed warming) is due to this factor.
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by gbrown 7y ago
1. Each biomarker has to be validated independently. 2. There's a huge difference between something used for testing, and something used for intervention. Grey hair is a pretty OK test for aging, but clearly dying it isn't going t
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by gbrown 7y ago
That's orthogonal to the point you're responding to - the point is that while this is a promising avenue for research, it does not provide evidence of a meaningful effect on the actual outcome of interest: aging/longevity. Th
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by gbrown 7y ago
Firefox mobile on Android with uBlock origin is currently a vastly superior experience to Chrome.
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by gbrown 7y ago
Not everyone has to actually be constantly surveiled for the effects to be the same, a-la panopticon.
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by gbrown 7y ago
The gravity likely isn't strong enough to hold the atmosphere. Also, that's a lot of material. A large white solar sail style diffuser might work, or even easier a really really powerful flash (probably explosive based).
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by gbrown 7y ago
I'm less familiar with them - I've certainly seen many plausible frequentist arguments, but I've never been exposed to any unifying framework which would require that one make decisions based on type-1 error rate controlling
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by gbrown 7y ago
Also, a corporate structure shouldn't shield you from criminal prosecution. The company pled guilty to multiple felonies... why aren't the executives facing criminal action, given that event the judge thinks they're not takin
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by gbrown 7y ago
I agree, although I respect those who look for deeper justification for the methods we use. Bayesian statistics/decision theory does have axiomatic foundations after all.
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by gbrown 7y ago
Sometimes, but even simple trees are high variance given that they're estimated using greedy algorithms rather than some more global optimization. Overfitting in RF does not occur as a function of the number of trees.
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by gbrown 7y ago
Nope, RF works very different to boosting. RF trees give unbiased fits, but they're high variance. Bootstrapping is used to reduce the variance of the parallel tree fits. Boosting is sequential, and relies on early stopping to control
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by gbrown 7y ago
Is it irrational?
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by gbrown 7y ago
> So I am not opposed to them feeling some heat (no pun intended) for their actions. I hear you, but you have to remember that these are averages. Even in the deepest red parts of the country, there are large minorities of progressives.
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by gbrown 7y ago
Exactly
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by gbrown 7y ago
I'm not saying we shouldn't fix our response to disasters: I'm tired of subsidizing luxury houses on the Outer Banks, for example. My point was only that getting rid of FEMA outright will harm people living in floodplains etc
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by gbrown 7y ago
The science doesn't support a sugar tax harming vulnerable people - really quite the opposite. Getting rid of FEMA without a lot of care is an entirely different proposition.
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by gbrown 7y ago
I was thinking more about floods and hurricanes.
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by gbrown 7y ago
The problem is that vulnerable populations would be hurt the worst. It's an ugly issue that will be hard to deal with, and I think we need to start looking at more widespread preparedness regulation as well as systems for moving people
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by gbrown 7y ago
If #3 happens I'd be shocked (and pleased).
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by gbrown 7y ago
The difference is that empty spaces really are a good place to plant strawberries.
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by gbrown 7y ago
Case in point: Google Play Services on Android.

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