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by gipp 9y ago
The point is that _rights_ ought to be things that, in the absence of a society, you already _have_. (Life, liberty, right to property, etc) They are things that a just society is obligated to not take _away_ from you. Things that a just an
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by gipp 9y ago
I can't make heads or tails of your comment. What is "walk into an open pit" here?
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by gipp 9y ago
Not a contradiction, it's a statistical certainty.
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by gipp 9y ago
This applies to any recipe, though? It's not hard to just read the next step, especially when every ingredient name is in bold. Hell, it never even actually says to put things in individual bowls.
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by gipp 9y ago
Isn't that true of any of the major "interpretations" of QM? Copenhagen etc.
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by gipp 9y ago
Hey man, it's the Internet, anything's possible.
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by gipp 9y ago
I don't see how that's clickbaity, or unrelated to machine learning. No, it's not a technical post, but it still raises an interesting point about what recommendation systems are actually optimizing for and what's missed
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by gipp 9y ago
I can't tell whether or not you realize that isn't the point.
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by gipp 9y ago
Yeah, I agree completely, I just don't think that the hype of the role is coming from practitioners. I know this isn't really your point, but I've met Josh Wills, for example, and listened to many of his talks. I don't t
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by gipp 9y ago
Oh, not familiar, looks good! Ordered.
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by gipp 9y ago
I think you're thinking of Josh Wills, Cloudera at the time, now Slack: https://twitter.com/josh_wills/status/198093512149958656?lan... > Data Scientist (n.): Person who is better at statistics than any so
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by gipp 9y ago
When the author says: > However, that assumes that someone presenting an analytical presentation will be viewed more favourably than someone presenting something softer. Basically, I had assumed a data-driven culture exists, when in real
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by gipp 9y ago
> Well, it certainly isn't helped by data scientists claiming to be better than ANY programmer and ANY statistician. I don't really think that's much of a thing? I've been working in the field for several years now, a
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by gipp 9y ago
He's never actually been involved in _working_ towards any of those things, and has no specific expertise to do so. He just follows developments closely and talks about them a lot. Basically he's just a fairly smart guy who's
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by gipp 9y ago
I've been reading HN for a couple years now and can't recall there ever being a consensus positive opinion about Go. All the discussions pretty much looked like this one.
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by gipp 9y ago
So, what, ethical government is a nonsensical idea and we all just accept autocracy around the world? You're also putting a lot of words in people's mouths. Many or most of folks who have a problem with things like this are also t
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by gipp 9y ago
Ad-tech, fin-tech, marketing analytics firms all hire data scientists in huge numbers. Media companies as well, increasingly. This is probably NYC-biased.
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by gipp 9y ago
Having never been to a data boot-camp -- what _do_ they teach there, if those wouldn't be covered?
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by gipp 9y ago
Video games require relatively long sequences of coordinated actions to accomplish anything, though. In trading, every action is fairly self-contained in a few important ways, e.g. the ordering of actions doesn't matter much.
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by gipp 9y ago
> This is not composition. That's basically the author's point. > Once I understood what they meant by “composition”, I was even more surprised to find that I agreed with this assertion.
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by gipp 9y ago
It would perhaps be more accurate to say "Health news stories about medical studies are almost always bogus". There are several steps between those two things, and university PR departments, funding agencies, researchers, reporter
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by gipp 9y ago
That's JFK. Considerably easier, despite being considerably further away.
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by gipp 9y ago
This is patently false. There are no fixed constants at the level of social behavior. Nothing about society is "purely genetic", and even if it were, the human genome changes all the time.
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by gipp 9y ago
> I think Dan Ariely has the right attitude towards all of this [3]. When we design things like buildings and bridges, we take physics into account. We know that we can't build a bridge a certain way because it'll collapse. Sim
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by gipp 9y ago
Isn't there also a $130k salary cap on a Roth IRA?
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by gipp 10y ago
Article seems to have little relation to the title.
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by gipp 10y ago
Yes, that's exactly what the parent was referencing -- bloggers in the CS space looove referencing that one and the "Goto Considered Harmful" paper, and it's been really, really annoying and not clever at all for years
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by gipp 10y ago
I had a big IF phase back in high school. I still don't think anything has topped Curses for me. There's still tons of good content coming out of that community but they seem to have shifted away from the puzzle-heavy paradigm,
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by gipp 10y ago
Kelvin, De Broglie, and Brahe come to mind as well.
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by gipp 10y ago
This is a major reason, though certainly not the only reason, that the NYT has moved toward a primarily subscription-based business model for their online offerings. It's actually been very successful to date, and I think it's a g

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