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by glup 8y ago
One of my favorite books I read last year was "Photography for Everyone: The Cultural Lives of Cameras and Consumers in Early Twentieth-Century Japan," which traced the development of the Japanese middle class in relation to photo
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by glup 8y ago
I feel like I've been looking into this every 6 months since the mid 2000's and there's still little progress. I would be thrilled if someone made a 20" - 27"screen with a simple HDMI connection; I don't care a
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by glup 8y ago
Jared Diamond (author of Guns, Germs, and Steel) worked as a field ornithologist in his twenties. The samples (=dead birds) he collected from New Guinea are notoriously poorly labeled and poorly prepared (e.g. bits or flesh, missing feather
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by glup 8y ago
Also that they cite fatigue / circadian low as one of the core causes. I thought they might avoid it because of the potential cost implications for the airline industry.
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by glup 8y ago
A doctor friend was telling me the other day that he doesn't know of an instance, in contrast to the nurses' unions.
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by glup 8y ago
I’ve noticed that the Aspen Institute is a sink for these sort of individuals across a number of fields. So far as I can tell, it functions as a sort of a bullpen for talent at the political / economic interface for a number of large c
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by glup 8y ago
I'm not -- the article is making this mistake. Your second sentence is precisely my point.
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by glup 8y ago
Median adult wealth in the UK is almost double the US ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_wealth_pe... ). This article is somewhere between methodologically lax economics and UKIP drivel.
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by glup 8y ago
What is unnatural is that the rate of extinction associated with human growth is comparable to other mass die-offs, like an asteroid hitting the earth. Given how little we understand these systems, we could easily end up among the casualtie
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by glup 8y ago
Respectfully, I think analyses like this (there are many going back to the 90's at least) miss the -1st and 0th assets offered by elite universities: signaling power of the institution itself, and the opportunity to live among---and in
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by glup 8y ago
Maybe granularity -- there's only one front page for HN? I usually find that I want to read 10% of articles on the front page, but I'm often surprised by which 10%.
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by glup 8y ago
There's also a ton of academic lurkers -- I've always though that this due to the facts that 1) the border between academia and industry is pretty porous in technical fields (super obvious in ML research, but I think holds more ge
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by glup 8y ago
It seems like there is a perfectly reasonable middle ground here — where households have the flexibility to rent out part of their primary residence, on a limited basis (either temporal or just part of the house), subject to clear and evenl
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by glup 8y ago
Very amusing that this is the same as the common practice in carnivorous mammals of maiming prey so that their offspring can practice hunting.
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by glup 8y ago
Same -- 90 minutes. Not complicated enough to warrant paying for PaaS.
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by glup 8y ago
Yes, definitely. Only the GUI for Jupiter is in the browser — the computation is on a workstation, server, or an iPython parallel cluster, so you can use proper HPC resources. Another common pattern (because socket-based communication can d
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by glup 8y ago
Their work can be perfectly scientific. My problem with it is is the redundancy — imagine someone claiming to be a "food chef."
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by glup 8y ago
Hadley Wickham, Andrew Gelman, and maybe Pete Warden are who data scientists look up to, but I think Nate Silver is the first data scientist to be a household name (admittedly, NYT-reading upper middle class households, but still).
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by glup 8y ago
Unless the privileged few choose to build institutions to limit the accumulation of capital or power, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabian_Society . To call it a universal constant is a convenient abdication of res
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by glup 8y ago
I totally agree with the assertion that it doesn't fall into existing asset type (or-- maybe that it can move between asset types in a novel way), but what do you mean by "programmable"? Isn't the simpler explanation or
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by glup 8y ago
No mention of Jupyter notebooks — I think that's a critical part of this change, in that it provides a sharable human-readable analysis format. Also for the original poster (whose psycholinguistics work I am familiar with), it's e
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by glup 8y ago
Seconded. Have run thousands of participants over eight years. Ya there's crap, but that's true whenever you ask any random sample of people about anything.
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by glup 8y ago
Do you have recommendations on resources for learning 1)? I'd add a possible 5) of Jupyter notebooks (or some dashboard framework) + some visualization library for learning to juice actionable analyses from whatever data
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by glup 8y ago
What do yo mean by "least amount of abstraction"? Unless I am misunderstanding what you mean by that, suggestions by user drej entail less abstraction than Spark / Hadoop etc. Also there's a difference between familiarit
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by glup 8y ago
This pattern is fairly common when there is karstic geology, but also happens in other cases: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subterranean_river I don't know how common seasonal variation is (per the other comment a
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by glup 8y ago
Agreed. Excited to try it but I want to know a teensy bit more about why I should switch to this over an in-house DeepSpeech based solution. The custom models part in particular seems like it could be a step forward, but right now there are
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by glup 8y ago
It is for author identification tasks like the methods they use here. People aren't super sensitive to the relevant language statistics.
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by glup 8y ago
I think you are misinterpreting the quote. He meant that experts (computational linguists and statisticians) had a firmer grasp of the task of inference in language than linguists, who tend to care more about formal structure (i.e. Chomsky&
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by glup 8y ago
In grad school it made me so sad to know brilliant undergrads with progressive political views go to work in corporate tech/finance afterwards because they perceived that was what everyone else does, and to afford their aspirational li
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by glup 8y ago
Similar sentiments here. This is a venture fund that sees individuals, rather than companies, as ventures. Not sure if that's a good idea, my gut feeling is that it isn't. But in any case it isn't finding "lost Einsteins

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