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by howlin 10y ago
Google brain was an acquisition, not a Google X project.
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by howlin 10y ago
You can make money having by having better access like the HFT firms or by having data not widely available. You can also make money by applying well known principles more intelligently than others. This latter approach usually requires a l
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by howlin 10y ago
HMMs are a good model if you know what the categorical states are before you start modeling. If you let the HMM learn the hidden states (e.g. with expectation maximization), there is no good reason to believe they will have obvious semantic
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by howlin 10y ago
Domestic spying versus projecting power in other regions of the world are completely different and get promoted by people with different mindsets.
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by howlin 10y ago
> Hydro though, even without failure, seems to have a pretty undesirable environmental impact. Nuclear has to go catastrophically wrong for that to be the case. Arguably, the Chernobyl disaster was an environmental boon by forcing humans
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by howlin 10y ago
Coal involves burning tons of minerals, concentrating the non-carbon elements of those minerals into coal ash and exhaust. A lot of those other minerals are radioactive or otherwise toxic. http://www.scientificamerican.com/a
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by howlin 10y ago
Mushrooms are the fruiting body of a much larger fungal complex. Many fungi use the fact that animals carry the mushrooms (and their spores) off to eat as a reproductive strategy.
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by howlin 11y ago
Unlike religion, there are actual verifiable facts to consider. Calling food choice a religion sounds like an excuse to not consider ones choices critically.
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by howlin 11y ago
I don't think it's right to use historical numbers on terrorism to do a cost/benefit analysis of whether surveillance is worth it. The technology of today is vastly empowering, and that power can (and eventually will) be used
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by howlin 11y ago
They certainly do in many parts of the world. I personally saw the dead body pickups in India. Seems like the parent aspires an American health care system more similar to the developing world.
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by howlin 11y ago
> On one hand, you have a population that believes that no one should be left to die if they show up at a hospital (probably due to their religion and whatnot). No. It's a sign of national pride to have a country where people aren&
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by howlin 11y ago
He just gave it to you. Their system is not really competitive in any metric people are measuring.
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by howlin 11y ago
He added dust to the clay bricks are typically made of. No indication of the percent pollution vs normal brick.
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by howlin 11y ago
Similar issue though. When class A fails, do you let your patient die, or do you try class B even though it's not supposed to be used this decade?
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by howlin 11y ago
The problem with peanuts is aflatoxin. It's a really, really bad contaminant. If human livers weren't so resilient, ingesting this toxin would almost guarantee liver cancer. Most commercial peanuts have either been rigorously insp
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by howlin 11y ago
Looks like completely different technology. OP describes a technique that sequences platelet-derived RNA, while your link is about a technique that analyzes enzymes in the blood plasma.
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by howlin 11y ago
http://extoxnet.orst.edu/faqs/natural/natcarc.htm Natural = less carcinogenic is not always true. E.g. peanuts with fungicide are way less likely to give you cancer than peanuts in their natural state. Also, sap
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by howlin 11y ago
It's from nitrate curing. Ham, bacon, mamy sausages, and most lunch meats go through this process. Sometimes the chemical is added directly via saltpeter, and sometimes indirectly via stuff like celery juice.
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by howlin 11y ago
I'm desperate to "retire" by making enough of a nest egg to live off the returns. Some things I'd love to do if I had the time: * Improve my culinary skills. Some recipes require all day to do "right", and I n
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by howlin 11y ago
Silicon Valley is more of a suburb than metropolis. Though SF is probably similar to NY with respect to dating prospects.
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by howlin 11y ago
> My understand of the usual common-sense interpretation is roughly "The actions that I take are supernatural, and are not a consequence of physical laws", which seems quite absurd to me, and I'd expect that to have very l
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by howlin 12y ago
Sure it's cheaper, but if you wait another month it will be even more cheap. The longer you can hold of spending, the more you get for your money. Contrast that to a sale. During the sale, things are cheap now with the expectation th
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by howlin 12y ago
Hawking got lucky that his degeneration stabilized before it became fatal, but we shouldn't discount the incredible amount of mental discipline it takes him to live his life. I suspect this discipline is at least partially responsible
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by howlin 12y ago
Maximum likelihood is literally the simplest thing classic statistics will tell you. No serious statistician will regard this as meaningful without at least some indication of sample size, confidence interval or whatnot. The worst-case natu
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by howlin 12y ago
This is an ok overview, but it's missing a key point. Classical statistics can be viewed as the statistic of interest being fixed but unknown. However, it's better thought of as the parameter is fixed but set in a way that will be
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by howlin 12y ago
Generally, the more data you have, the less your prior influences the results. And the less your prior influences the results, the more frequentist and Bayesian analysis will "agree" on the outcome. Note that there are still some
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by howlin 12y ago
Clearly those people don't count. If you can't afford to protect yourself with a few hundred pounds of extra steel, then no loss.
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by howlin 12y ago
There's no clear distinction between today's drones and older intelligent munitions such as cruise missiles.
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by howlin 12y ago
I'm saying ant behavior is artificial when humans emulate it. Just like humans flying isn't natural just because birds do it too.
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by howlin 12y ago
You are coming awfully close to completely destroying any distinction between artificial and natural. Raising animals for food is not a natural human instinct and there have been plenty of human societies that hunt rather than raise livesto

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