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by groceryheist 7y ago
Here's a non-paywalled version. https://ndg.asc.upenn.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Centola... This is just an example of a well-known recent sociology paper that can appeal to science-minded peopl
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by groceryheist 7y ago
How about https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/521848 ?
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by groceryheist 7y ago
This is a very narrow view of potential applications of facial recognition. I take it for granted that this technology has enormous affordances for social control. "Criminality" may be an out-of date notion of the kinds of behav
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by groceryheist 7y ago
This is hilarious and previous HN commenters are in sore need of political reeducation to free them from the bourgeois counter-revolutionary ideology clouding their senses of humor.
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by groceryheist 7y ago
Totally agree. This is maybe the one thing that could potentially bring me back into the Microsoft ecosystem.
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by groceryheist 7y ago
Seems pertinent to discussions of Facebook's new cryptocurrency pseudo-bank no?
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by groceryheist 7y ago
I think it might just be like a psychological thing to try to prevent mistakes. Like a dialogue box asking "Sure?" before you delete your harddrive.
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by groceryheist 8y ago
To answer your question: ggplot2 : plotnine is quite good ggplot2 clone based on matplotlib. I feel like ggplot2 is a bit better and more complete, but if you want to do something that isn't supported it's harder for me to hack th
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by groceryheist 8y ago
Getting a definition or spelling correction for a word or a list of synonyms and antonyms, maybe a brief etymology, without interrupting my workflow at the command line or opening a slow heavy program like a web browser or office suite.
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by groceryheist 8y ago
And what was wrong with dict?
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by groceryheist 8y ago
> Distribute binaries created in whole or in part from the source code. How exactly is that different from what's happening here?
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by groceryheist 8y ago
I am a little worried about the accuracy of sentiment classifiers, relative to how often I see them used and in applied research settings. They work well for binary classification on Tweets and IMDB reviews and not much else (I guess they d
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by groceryheist 8y ago
Thanks for this effortful comment! I really appreciated your point about how the US system is good for those who push themselves. It makes me curious to consider the myth that the US system produces "creative" individuals in a wa
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by groceryheist 8y ago
Mother of all clickbait titles. I read the first few pages and didn't see any content about R. The first chapter is an introduction to scheme. I scanned it and didn't see any R code all. It's an introduction to scheme that b
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by groceryheist 8y ago
There are also female computer nerds that are not conventionally attractive. It might be worth trying to make friends with someone less intimidating.
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by groceryheist 8y ago
You upvote/downvote results. Crowdsourcing search ranking, what could go wrong? Edit: typo
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by groceryheist 9y ago
Good. We don't need more monopolistic conglomerates.
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by groceryheist 9y ago
| does anyone know if more recent machine learning techniques have made their way into the field? Oh god I hope not.
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by groceryheist 9y ago
While behavioral genetics is claiming victory in the replication crisis, it should not rest on it's laurels. Replicability is a sign that studies can be conducted consistently. However in the case of behavioral genetics, one fears that
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by groceryheist 9y ago
The ideas from this article are really cool, and the design is beautiful. I see these techniques as providing the ability to partially interpret models. While clearly useful to practitioners seeking an intuition for what their models learn,
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by groceryheist 9y ago
Newsblur works great for me. It has some slick machine learning features to help manage complicated feeds.
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by groceryheist 9y ago
Yes, multimodality is often a problem for mcmc clustering or dimensionality reduction. However, if you use the SVD method to estimate PCA you only have a bimodal distribution since SVD is identified up to the sign. Asymmetric initialization
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by groceryheist 9y ago
As someone who just implemented hierarchical probabilistic PCA in stan, I agree that it takes finesse, but it is no means impossible. Doing this sort of work efficiently in stan seems to require a some degree of understanding about how the
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by groceryheist 9y ago
Any reason to use Scala native when Rust exists?
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by groceryheist 9y ago
The "margin of error" reported in opinion polls is typically just a function of the sample size and sample variance. The error is assumed to be due to statistical variation, not to problems with measurement. Measurement error is a
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by groceryheist 9y ago
Hackernews likes this as a practicable application of transfer learning. Fans of machine learning want to see transfer learning as more than a cool trick. Unfortunately, there is really no good reason for someone seriously interested in acc
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by groceryheist 9y ago
Don't represent 1-dimensional quantities like proportions or numbers of people as area. This is actively misleading because area it squares the magnitude of differences.
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by groceryheist 9y ago
Why do all these features of a colony need to be part of the same thing? I see 1. Reputation 2. Governance based on reputation 3. Division of labor 4. Team membership 5. Organizational ownership 6. Dispute resolution It is not obvious what
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by groceryheist 9y ago
In my experience consulting in boring offices of companies that provide business reporting and compliance services a lot of the people only have a few hours of work to do most of the time. But a lot of the processes are manual and brittle a
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by groceryheist 10y ago
It's like mit scratch. Except the underlying purpose is to sell junk food, the only sprite you can control is a corporate mascot, and you do so alone instead of in a social platform. The focus on problem solving may be good for helping

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