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by ims 7y ago
> Me and most of America think the FDA approves things according to the highest bidder. Why do you think this?
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by ims 7y ago
Except that we now understand it is virtually impossible for even an intelligent person to meaningfully weigh risks like this.
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by ims 7y ago
If your meter broadcasts your household energy usage, you may be able to use a ~$20 SDR dongle hooked up to a Raspberry Pi to read the kWh of the whole house several times per minute. There are some little tools that make this easy: https:
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by ims 7y ago
Indeed - I asked her yesterday and it was Terry Gilliam.
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by ims 7y ago
My great aunt wrote some of the original scholarship on this type of marginalia: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5064937-images-in-the-ma... It's a shame that she is not mentioned. In answer to one of the
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by ims 7y ago
Check the post history for this person. There's a weirdly specific and persistent anti-Massachusetts vendetta.
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by ims 7y ago
Do you think the fact that the CT scanner at your local hospital needs to be calibrated and computationally reconstructed from X-ray intensities mean it does not result in an "image"? When we use side-scan sonar to create represen
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by ims 8y ago
DrivenData Labs | Data Scientist and Lead Data Scientist | Berkeley, CA or Boston, MA | Full-time | ONSITE We run online machine learning challenges with social impact, and we work directly with mission-driven organizations to drive change
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by ims 8y ago
The actual complaint: https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/documents/cases/office_depo...
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by ims 8y ago
Sometimes there's a middle ground: make your "map" and "reduce" steps separate scripts. If you want to do the parsing in Python instead of awk, just make a tiny script that reads from stdin and writes to stdout - th
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by ims 8y ago
This is an interesting plot point in Vernor Vinge's Zones of Thought science fiction series. The "net of a million lies" has been astroturfed and boobytrapped by living beings and AIs for generations. Programmer archaeologi
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Working to Solve a Family’s Medical Mystery(medium.com)
1 points by ims 8y ago|0 comments
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by ims 8y ago
I'd love to hear more about this - email is in my profile if you have a minute.
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by ims 8y ago
> When I find myself in the latter kind of work environment and I need to quickly get sortable and/or indexable datastructures of any kind, then a key-value store is the way to go Interesting, can you expand on this?
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by ims 8y ago
DrivenData Labs | Software Engineer (Python) With Focus On Data Applications | Berkeley, CA | FULL-TIME, ONSITE | http://drivendata.co -- OVERVIEW -- DrivenData brings the transformative power of data science to organizations ta
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by ims 8y ago
Andrew Gelman calls the larger problem the "Garden of Forking Paths" - http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/research/unpublished/p_...
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by ims 8y ago
DrivenData Labs | Software Engineer (Python) With Focus On Data Applications | Berkeley, CA | FULL-TIME, ONSITE | http://drivendata.co -- OVERVIEW -- DrivenData brings the transformative power of data science to organizations ta
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by ims 8y ago
> Lumping part of New Hampshire in with Boston is like lumping Northern Ireland in with London. One side considers it a horrible insult and the other doesn't see why you wouldn't want to be associated with them. For those readi
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The Battle Over the Hendra Horse Vaccine in Australia
2 points by ims 8y ago|1 comments
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Life at the Palace (1996)(truecenterpublishing.com)
9 points by ims 8y ago|1 comments
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Lanternflies Eat Everything in Sight. The U.S. Is Looking Delicious(nytimes.com)
1 points by ims 8y ago|0 comments
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Get that job at Grab(medium.com)
2 points by ims 8y ago|0 comments
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by ims 8y ago
I'd guess that historically the Mathematical Optimization department has comprised "legacy" operations research people (spreadsheet modeling and decision analysis, linear and nonlinear modeling with AMPL-type tools, SAS stati
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by ims 9y ago
Just a quick correction, he was president of the Harvard Law Review - not the school.
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Accelerating the discovery of therapies for aging and its related diseases(medium.com)
10 points by ims 9y ago|2 comments
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by ims 9y ago
Just as with self-driving cars, you have to look at the counterfactual. We don't have an interpretable audit trail for the decisions made by human employees either. So under the status quo, what happens in the case of an aberrant or pr
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by ims 9y ago
DrivenData Labs | Software engineer (Python) w/ focus on data applications | Berkeley, CA | ONSITE | FULLTIME DrivenData brings the transformative power of data science to organizations tackling the world’s biggest challenges. We run o
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by ims 9y ago
DrivenData Labs | Software engineer (Python) w/ focus on data applications | Berkeley, CA | ONSITE | FULLTIME DrivenData brings the transformative power of data science to organizations tackling the world’s biggest challenges. We run o
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A new kind of data challenge: $100k to help build open source AI for lung cancer(blog.drivendata.org)
9 points by ims 9y ago|1 comments
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by ims 9y ago
Github code search for 'script src "cdn.mathjax.org"': > 1,811,496 code results. Woof.

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