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by imh 10y ago
Whatever you choose for that, if it doesn't throw an exception, then given x = 1/0 (or x = something else NaNish) we really should have x == x. Basic equality really needs to be reflexive, or else you're asking for trouble.
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by imh 10y ago
On iphone, uber's app now requires you to give it permission to see your location always, regardless of whether the app is open. With lyft, the app only needs my location while it is open. That's a huge one in my book. The day ube
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by imh 10y ago
Here's the video of that part: https://youtu.be/gTEDYCkNqns?t=3m54s (starting at 3:54)
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by imh 10y ago
Lots of answers about apples-to-applesness, and such, but from a very practical viewpoint, the "said activities" part of "participating in said activities" is hard to define and measure. Should you condition on swimming,
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by imh 10y ago
>As the most highly valued startup in the world, at $68 billion, Uber ... At what point is it just a plain old company? Is Facebook still a startup? Is it just because Uber's #disrupting things or some cultural BS?
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by imh 10y ago
Never met a data scientist with an MBA. I work with plenty with PhDs (or a few Masters) in CS, stats, or the hard sciences.
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At first, you might think it's just something like this ( http://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations ), but as far as I can tell, the arguments come largely from first principles physics, validated through both expe
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by imh 10y ago
>The colored temperature lines are the modeled estimates that each climate factor contributes to the overall temperature. There's only one y axis, and it's degrees F for both lines.
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You're asking the reverse of the question I'd be asking. Purpose, money, and satisfaction are so vague and general, you'll never find an answer from those premises alone. What do you care about? Music? Your family? Friends? T
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>“Google was very supportive, but they absolutely did not want their name associated with a vehicle driving in San Francisco,” he said. “They were worried about an engineer building a self-driving car that kills someone and it gets back
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by imh 10y ago
In the interest of other readers and posterity, the link goes here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_English_words_by_coun...
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Innovation could still happen in countries with net neutrality.
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by imh 10y ago
I've been recently learning my way around web dev. Most of it is straightforward enough, but security is my sticking point. Everything on the web is contradictory, half explained, and rapidly changing. Seems like you know your way arou
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by imh 10y ago
>Detecting place visits at scale: Jan and Danielle offer a deep dive into a system capable of interpreting location signals coming from mobile devices at scale. It's weird to see people proud of things that so seriously bother other
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by imh 10y ago
Start with statistics. Seriously, just google time series modeling (this seems ok for a beginner https://www.analyticsvidhya.com/blog/2015/12/complete-tutori... ). Learn ARMA/ARIMA/etc. Don't wo
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by imh 10y ago
It depends on whether pedagogy is the primary goal. For teaching, the in-place implementation can come after the conceptual "pick a pivot, partition accordingly, then recurse" is made concrete.
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by imh 10y ago
So long as you avoid the opinion articles like the plague, WSJ is my personal pick for closest-to-neutral. Their event coverage tends to be more neutral than NYT and WaPo (or the guardian, but i can't remember why I didn't look at
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by imh 10y ago
So if they come to John Doe's house with a warrant and he just sits passively on his couch while they legally enter, he has broken the law? This page[0] (ctrl+f "You do not have to assist law enforcement when they are conducting t
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by imh 10y ago
I have a technical question about this comparison. In the locked door example, is the warrant an allowance for police to enter the area without the owner's permission, or is the warrant an order for the owner to give permission and as
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by imh 10y ago
This makes me think of charities. Suppose I'm trying to raise money for cancer research. Maybe I tell my friends and raise $100k. I then give that $100k to a research lab. The next year I raise $100k again, except that this time, I spe
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by imh 10y ago
Sounds like a Strogatz kind of thing. I seem to remember him talking about it somewhere, but can't find it either.
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by imh 10y ago
Here's a much longer look at some of the same concepts http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/12/17/the-toxoplasma-of-rage/ Ideas which spread because of their divisiveness.
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by imh 10y ago
Think of it like anything else with jargon. It's important to people, so they come up with words to talk about specific ideas more efficiently and less ambiguously.
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by imh 10y ago
For anyone interested in really flexible differentiable graphs, Chainer is the most flexible convenient library I've used. It's all I use for prototyping neural nets anymore, and I'm surprised not to see more adoption. It fee
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by imh 10y ago
Better yet, just consider all deduction as "a fun language game," rather than having any intrinsic truth or falsity. If you assume a whole bunch of stuff and the axiom of choice, you can get these interesting things over here. If
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by imh 10y ago
If net neutrality goes the way it seems this week, sharecropping might become even more of a necessity.
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He's only threatening them in the sense of peer review. If you publish dumb stuff, your reputation is hurt, but that doesn't make peer review shocking.
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by imh 10y ago
How accurate is the calorie count? And out of academic curiousity, how did you validate the calorie counts?
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People communicating scientific knowledge to the general public need to become more responsible in talking about uncertainty. Scientists in certain fields need to as well. When people hear a bunch of scientific facts that later turn out to
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by imh 10y ago
In my example, t, f and r are HKTs. Does that clear up what I mean at all? Strictly speaking in my example, f (r a) is the type of the table, but it's still illustrative to say that f is the type of the table, or say that it's pro

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