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by gburt 11y ago
I took the same course @geedy is speaking of (with him, in fact) and there are two good comparable resources I'm aware of: (1) Ramon's (excellent!) lecture notes themselves are currently (but not always) available on his website:
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by gburt 11y ago
You're not alone. I too, have no idea what it means. These things seem to teach a bunch of buzzwords and then maybe lecture about how cool Ruby is for a few days. It is sort of self-taught programmers turned ... not-self-taught.
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by gburt 11y ago
My reaction time is 25 years worse than my actual age according to this. I am not particularly surprised although I question the variance in their methodology.
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by gburt 11y ago
I'm not a lawyer and definitely not a lawyer in "almost everywhere", but it is surely illegal in almost everywhere with western-style property rights? Especially if it left residue after the fact. On the other hand, who is go
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by gburt 11y ago
You are being unreasonable. The grandparent is correct. Any parker would've left in less than 5 minutes. You would not have even known they were there. If they did not leave and you needed out, you could have simply asked them to leave
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by gburt 11y ago
This effect is called the mammalian diving reflex: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mammalian_diving_reflex
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by gburt 11y ago
By the sounds of it he was standing at the sink in order to do this. That's not "resting" for the sake of a resting heart rate. Edit: for instance, I just tested mine from sitting (at my desk) to standing beside my desk it in
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by gburt 11y ago
For the record, this has been fixed.
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by gburt 11y ago
I use this. Works very well. It is simple enough I'd encourage building it in to the site though.
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Tell dang/HN: <> Title tags shouldn't be escaped twice
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by gburt 11y ago
What he is saying is that it doesn't grow. It is a constant relationship. Cows sequester GHGs from the atmosphere (via the food they eat, mostly) and then release it. I don't have enough data to know if I agree with his point (esp
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by gburt 11y ago
This reminds me of the tiny house movement that avoids building regulations w.r.t. minimize size and grid hookup by putting wheels on their semi-permanent houses.
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by gburt 11y ago
You would need to propose a method to compare the confidence intervals of A1, A2 and B1, B2 without hurting our target coverage probability on the outer confidence interval. This is starting to sound really complicated.
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by gburt 11y ago
The part I don't understand is that the brand was developed in the US. Don't you have to transfer the IP at something approaching fair market value to the tax haven corporation? How could you possibly have the resources (in the ha
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by gburt 11y ago
Good point. My use of the word "strongest" was definitely misleading, but I am not convinced it is always the case that there isn't a relatively low dimensional definition of "strong" in this sense.
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by gburt 11y ago
This is a clear win for "public health", leaving just one strain (WPV1) which is geographically constrained. A question for those well-versed in the biomedical and ecological sciences: Could our attempts to eliminate viruses be a
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by gburt 11y ago
"Surprisingly, Tombragel’s fake fork passed impact testing—but barely. If this had been a real Specialized, it would be re-engineered to pass by a higher margin." This line is when I decided this was probably a PR placement. I gue
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by gburt 11y ago
How could you possibly know this? Where is this comprehensive prescient list of "all the nutrients required for an adult human"?
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by gburt 11y ago
I don't disagree with anything you said. I think the curse of knowledge and Dunning-Kruger describe the same effect (one in a semi-quantitative way and one in a philosophical way).
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by gburt 11y ago
This is more/less the Dunning-Kruger [1] effect in action. From the student's perspective, all of his knowledge is "obvious common sense that everyone has" (this is his error about others). [1] https://en.wiki
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by gburt 11y ago
How reliable/discrete is this process? Can I select particular nutrients and decide I want a plant to have them? Can you tell us more/provide some interesting references?
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by gburt 11y ago
The network effect changes (very expensive) which limit adoption of proof of work also limit adoption of encryption. Assuming encryption is adopted, the vendor(s) involved could simultaneously demand using Hashcash or another email proof of
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by gburt 11y ago
I don't understand. Is there a Linux distro out there with too many combinations?
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by gburt 11y ago
I'm not the OP, but some data here: http://freakonomics.com/2014/05/01/the-perfect-crime-a-new-f...
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by gburt 11y ago
Not if you set the penalty for killing even higher. The problem here is the order of the size of the penalties, not the penalty itself.
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by gburt 11y ago
The language "accident" (and the associated story) implies that one cannot control whether they injure someone with their 2000lb death machines. That is not true.
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by gburt 11y ago
I don't see that as a problem. The circuit breaker size is 10% (5% in some markets, I believe) for 5 minutes. It would take less than 2 hours to completely obliterate a single ticker, and each market participant gets the "same&quo
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by gburt 11y ago
In a space as high-dimensional and full of incorrect intuitions as nutrition science, credentialism is perhaps a worthy signal.
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by gburt 11y ago
Indeed. To me, this article seemed like a PR piece designed to increase HomeAway's stock price.
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by gburt 11y ago
Sorry - I edited my post multiple times after posting it to clean it up and increase quality. Some of your response (especially the first paragraph) is now confusing. That was my fault. I agree with you mostly - especially on the discussion

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