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by imh 8y ago
It's not exactly snake oil because you used to be able to buy thinks with it. It's just become snake oil. Maybe that's pedantic, but I don't think it would have become large if it hadn't initially been on a path t
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by imh 8y ago
> The plots that they include in the paper require hundreds of thousands of digits of precision in the model parameter. This is incorrect. They said "Both use r = 8 and require hundreds to thousands of digits of precision in θ.&quot
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by imh 8y ago
>I don't really feel sorry for anyone driving a tesla though. They are the ones choosing to be Tesla's bug testers. They're only doing that if it's an informed choice. I think Tesla's marketing is to blame, and
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by imh 8y ago
It's not quite the same as active learning. Experimentation and active learning are quite different in ways I didn't fully appreciate at the beginning of my career, and they come in the form of (conditional) independence relations
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by imh 8y ago
Still doesn't work. Suppose I flip a coin and write the result in two places. I write it on sheet y then sheet x. We have that X == Y, so p(x|y) = 1, p(x|!y) = 0, and time(y) < time(x), but neither causes the other. I can write more
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by imh 8y ago
Rain causes people to carry umbrellas. Rain causes puddles. Probabilistically, there's a strong connection between me carrying an umbrella and you seeing puddles (assuming we're both in SF or whatever). To be a bayesian, you could
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by imh 8y ago
> For all practical purposes, you can write causality like > p(x|y) = 1 and time(y) < time(x) This isn't true at all. For a counterexample, x and y may both have a common cause. Pearl's work is on this and extends the lan
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by imh 8y ago
I love this kind of story about the history of science and understanding. Does anyone have pointers to other good ones? Or even better books of them?
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by imh 8y ago
There are largely three branches of data science jobs, each with their own typical gotchas. 1) Data engineering. I suck at this, don't ask me. 2) Inference. One big gotcha is often of the form of not accounting for all the sources of v
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by imh 8y ago
The analogy is closer to the house being on fire, but the landlord 100% won't budge on that, so you might as well ask them for a glass of water, which you have at least some chance of getting.
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by imh 8y ago
I'll second that. Cut out the mildly boredom quenching pastimes (like Netflix) and cut out the pseudo-interaction pastimes (like Facebook), and what's left are the higher value things you already wish you did more of. You'll
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by imh 8y ago
Wouldn't that exacerbate clickbait?
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by imh 8y ago
If that kind of thinking worked, we wouldn't need OSHA. This comes to mind: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/government-paying-billions...
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by imh 8y ago
The experiment I'm talking about is to understand parasite host dynamics in microgravity and also to validate some cool new life sciences hardware for the ISS (and I thought I remembered something about radiation exposure from talking
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by imh 8y ago
Fair enough. The comment I was replying to was trying to make a point that consumers don't like a la cart models, so I think the consumer side of moviepass was the pertinent feature (they're wildly successful in terms of people lo
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by imh 8y ago
That seems counter to what makes moviepass so successful. I pay a fixed monthly cost, and now the incremental cost of each movie is $0. Decoupling the consumption from the payment changes how I think about going to see a movie. It seems lik
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by imh 8y ago
Space science is cool and useful, but is it so crucial to humanity's progress that we shouldn't be super extra careful with our astronaut's lives? Waiting an extra year or two or ten to learn about how fruit fly DNA mutates i
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by imh 8y ago
I tried four searches. 'smbc', 'xkcd', 'reddit', and 'google'. None returned what you'd expect. The search for 'google' was especially weird. I'm surprised to see a search engine t
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by imh 8y ago
Given how quickly the stars are moving, is the comet rotating quickly, or is it a timelapse?
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by imh 8y ago
People have always hated each other and unsubstantiated rumors/gossip/fake news have always been around too. Something about the volume of information and the speed at which it propagates makes things like twitter and facebook ext
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by imh 8y ago
If the autonomous cab future all the companies seem to be hoping for happens, the typical day may change. Not sure what that means for the ideal refueling technology.
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by imh 8y ago
That sounds beautifully scenic. What time of year would you recommend for it?
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by imh 8y ago
The cheeky answer is what I most miss during my day job (python). The more I can assert at compile time, the easier refactoring is. That's what I miss most. In Haskell, you have a great range of how much you want to do at the type leve
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by imh 8y ago
The specific kind of chaos here implies (roughly) that a system starting in state X and a system starting arbitrarily close to X will at some point in the future behave totally differently. Not different as in "they'll drift furth
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The Californians Are Coming!(granolashotgun.com)
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by imh 8y ago
It still applies to creative writing. IIRC, I heard it called a promise in a creative writing course. E.g. if you open with an action scene and the rest of the story has no action, that's a broken promise to the reader. It's usefu
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by imh 8y ago
Thanks. I feel like a good 5-10% of my comments are me curmudgeonly grumbling about titles. I hope it's not a bother.
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by imh 8y ago
You can say a lot about what linear regression gets you when you fit a line to nonlinear data. It's a weighted average of the derivative. You don't need a linearity assumption.
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by imh 8y ago
The title implies (and some commenters seem to believe) that this is about an actual magic leap product, not a speculative recreation thereof. Can we get a title change to something like "Recreating a Magic Leap device" or "T
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by imh 8y ago
Those are two entirely separate questions. Poorly designed studies vs the studies's subject matter.

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