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by glial 7y ago
My life has gotten easier since I started using ShareLatex (now Overleaf). It's kind of like Google Docs for LaTeX, and it checks your code for errors as you type.
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by glial 7y ago
The paper states: > By focusing on grant proposals that fell just below and just above the funding threshold, we compare “near-miss” with “near-win” individuals to examine longer-term career outcomes. This is an example of a 'regres
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by glial 7y ago
For what it's worth, I read Goodwell's book cover to cover and loved it. It answers "why" questions rather than "how" questions, but those are the questions I had, and you can find "how" questions an
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by glial 7y ago
Like everything else in mathematics, the definition of 'prime' which excludes 1 is a convenient convention. If we don't let 1 be a prime number, then by the "Fundamental theorem of arithmetic"[1] we can say that ev
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by glial 7y ago
I have used Audible for a long time, but have recently switched to Libro.fm. Pricing is the same as Audible, and my local book store gets a cut.
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by glial 8y ago
That's a narrow perspective - the root case is the broader expectations about packaging, from both producers and consumers. Lots of food comes wrapped in single-use plastic, too. It's one way to keep food shelf-stable. We need a
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by glial 8y ago
Meditation, and prayer. Excerpt from 'The Summer Day' by Mary Oliver[1] I don't know exactly what a prayer is. I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass, how to
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by glial 8y ago
Maybe it's just me, but I find the Pandas method of joining on row indexes rather than column names unintuitive and frustratingly complex. You have to set indexes, join, and reset indexes after the join. Seems like that could be done
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by glial 8y ago
I don't think people use these to deny themselves. Rather, they use these to achieve goals they've otherwise had a difficult time achieving. In some way they gain freedom - freedom to achieve important long-term health goals, an
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by glial 8y ago
If anyone's interested in learning more, the clearest explanation I have ever seen of convolutions is here: http://www.dspguide.com/ch6.htm Pedagogically speaking, that book is one of the best technical books I have ev
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by glial 8y ago
Yes, but that's not necessarily bad. You want a model that effectively captures the structure present in your dataset. There are currently only rules-of-thumb in model architecture, and it makes sense to explore the model space to de
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by glial 8y ago
While we're all complaining about the state of current games, what I really want is for games (especially RTS games, but really any game) to come with an API so I can build and test AIs. For example, I love the game Planetary Annihila
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by glial 8y ago
>> U.S. Steel's 2018 profits shot up to $1.12 billion, from $387 million the previous year. >> the city and state offered the firm a $47 million tax break package. How is this different than the city being held hostage by t
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by glial 8y ago
Australia does this too, at least in the ACT. It’s fantastic.
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by glial 8y ago
"Science and Sanity" by Alfred Korzybski was a good one for me. It's where we get the phrase 'the map is not the territory.' It's been a decade since I read it so I really need to pick it up again. It's a
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by glial 8y ago
Perhaps we have fewer children to make our ongoing existence sustainable.
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by glial 8y ago
Under the Bayesian school of thought, probability represents our degree of belief and is ultimately subjective. There is no a priori reason I can't assign a probability to the existence of God, since the probability reflects my belief
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by glial 8y ago
The problem with Pascal's Wager is the infinities in the loss function, not the use of probability to represent uncertainty.
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by glial 8y ago
Exactly. That's why I think people fantasizing about Mars instead of investing in fixing our current social/media/political situation is a severe misapplication of resources. I'm looking at you, Jeff Bezos.
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by glial 8y ago
There's no understanding it because it doesn't actually make sense. Lasting solutions to earth-scale issues like climate change must ultimately be social solutions (regulations, taxes, treaties, and ultimately alignment of incent
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by glial 8y ago
I recently started using this and love it. It may sound silly, but I've found that the most effective way to stick to my budget is using a checking account for expenses that is separate from my direct-deposit account. Simple tells you
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by glial 8y ago
The average of the American worker is probably also roughly 45. Not sure what this adds.
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by glial 8y ago
Seems to me that this is almost dangerous unless the uncertainty (and therefore confidence) of the prediction can be quantified.
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by glial 8y ago
Mitra - Cool idea! I was always a bit envious of my Indian and Bangladeshi friends in college who came to campus on Monday with a Tupperware container full of food. Now I can try it out myself. Just ordered some. FWIW, I really like the we
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by glial 8y ago
It says a lot about humanity when getting off the planet is easier than having a conversation.
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by glial 8y ago
And Rogers had his own related message: "Love your neighbor and love yourself."
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by glial 8y ago
Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism (pt 3)
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by glial 8y ago
I like the usability of Apple Maps a lot, but just this weekend it took me to the wrong part of town. I put the same address into Google Maps and it took me to the correct place.
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by glial 8y ago
Given that this was created 4-5 years ago, I'd say it aged perfectly.
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by glial 8y ago
Aristotle (Nicomachean Ethics): For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them, e.g. men become builders by building and lyreplayers by playing the lyre; so too we become just by doing just acts, temperate by

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