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by gbrown 9y ago
Awesome! I love the recent trend of making these books freely available.
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by gbrown 9y ago
Not analogous,because attacks relying on coordinating large numbers of people (with a high rate of detection) simply doesn't scale. We should be worried about electronic attacks on voting infrastructure, political attacks on districts,
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by gbrown 9y ago
Quantifying uncertainty is one of the main points of statistics. Don't confuse the limitations of point estimates provided by machine learning techniques with all of statistical practice.
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by gbrown 9y ago
The point is, statistical prediction is definitely a thing, and is not "mathematically invalid" - it's mathematically well defined, with predictable consequences (increasing variance as the extrapolation becomes greater). Cer
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by gbrown 9y ago
What??? Prediction is certainly a type of extrapolation, but to claim that it's "mathematically invalid" reveals a severe lack of knowledge on your part. In fact, under parametric assumptions about the data generating mechani
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by gbrown 9y ago
If you're primarily worried about attacks which can modify the result of elections, your threat model is broken.
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by gbrown 9y ago
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by gbrown 9y ago
I think national emissions standards would also be nice. My state doesn't emissions test vehicles (not even commercial vehicles), and it's obvious when you're driving or biking behind someone with a clearly malfunctioning car
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by gbrown 9y ago
You could scrape something like this: https://www.reddit.com/r/whatsthisbird/
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by gbrown 9y ago
Wow, you're in pretty serious need of some perspective - historical, cultural, sociological, you pick.
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by gbrown 9y ago
https://github.com/clMathLibraries
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by gbrown 10y ago
Mathematically, you're correct. Unfortunately, real world systems have bugs, and even multiple parties can be compromised. Back doors are a bad idea.
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by gbrown 10y ago
Exactly. These arguments seem to be coming largely from people who don't actually use much math in their programming.
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by gbrown 10y ago
Languages like Julia allow you to use greek letters. Just saying.
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by gbrown 10y ago
That would create incredibly verbose code, which would be very hard to parse (IMHO).
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by gbrown 10y ago
If you're talking about mathematically rigorous programming, conciseness and readability go hand in hand. It's actually easier to read a formula with single letter components than a complex one with long descriptive names in many
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by gbrown 10y ago
It's the kind of feature that should honestly be required for most applications.
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by gbrown 10y ago
Well, I try to for most applications, but I'm actually moving my wife's laptop back to windows. Linux was fine for most things, but when something breaks or doesn't work, I have to fix it - and I don't have the time. Get
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by gbrown 10y ago
Only if every package and letter I sent was securely sealed so they couldn't get in.
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by gbrown 10y ago
That would be great, but privacy policies are unreadable and ISPs tend to be total or partial geographic monopolies anyway. This is a classic case for regulation.
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by gbrown 10y ago
This is like FedEx or a privatized USPS being able to open your packages and read your mail without telling you. I pay you to carry my damn packets, keep your filthy hands off my data.
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by gbrown 10y ago
Except (maybe) all of quantum mechanics
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by gbrown 10y ago
Not to mention whether exercise is substituted. What about a driver who runs on a treadmill, or does some equivalent amount of exercise without getting transportation in return? Plus, did I miss something, or was food not counted as a renew
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by gbrown 10y ago
Sure, but there's nothing which would prevent you from addressing that from a Bayesian perspective. In fact, Bayesian particle filtering techniques would probably be a great tool for "on-line" quality assurance.
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by gbrown 10y ago
Well, there are philosophical arguments for preferring one over another. On the other hand, I've got to get work done and both tools do the job. I'd say I'm philosophically Bayesian, but frequentist techniques are often mor
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by gbrown 10y ago
Meh, most Bayesian techniques still assume a model. It's more like: Assuming a model M characterized by parameters T and giving rise to data Y, what is P(T|Y,M) To be sure, you can compare the probability of models as well, and there a
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by gbrown 10y ago
Well, maybe I'm an exception since I am a statistician, but Bayesian techniques allow me to do things which are simply impossible with frequentist tools. To be fair, I use both approaches just about every day.
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by gbrown 10y ago
Well, if you're looking for a TL;DR to describe all of the differences between Bayesian and Frequentist statistics, while also giving you a history of the theoretical development of each, and you want it to be self contained... you&#x
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by gbrown 10y ago
At a guess, probability.
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by gbrown 10y ago
I started out by doing that, but now I just ignore it and drive as usual. The 42 mile range is enough to get to and from work (my wife and I actually carpool, and she can charge it for free at work).

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