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by isolli 8y ago
The charts in here [0] should alleviate any doubts you had: when it comes to marijuana possession, blacks are indeed arrested at massively higher rates. [0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2013&#x2
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by isolli 8y ago
I would always expect a higher chance of throwing a 6 the second time, because I updated my Bayesian prior (the die is fair) and I now believe there is a slight chance that the dice is biased in favor of landing 6s.
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by isolli 8y ago
Yes, this immediately reminded me of this book. To add an example (from the book): after implementing turn-on-red in a few places, a study was conducted to check if it increased the rate of accidents. The study found no statistically signif
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by isolli 8y ago
I guess the difference is market share...
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by isolli 8y ago
Agreed. It reminds me of the final scene of Grizzly Man, when Herzog listens to the audio recording of the bear enthusiast and his girlfriend being mauled to death. Herzog puts the headphones down, visibly shaken, and comments (paraphrasing
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by isolli 8y ago
I agree! This has been bothering me ever since I stopped eating vegetarian. My ideal dish would have lots of tasty vegetables with a side of meat. Unfortunately I suspect that most customers would consider they're not getting their mon
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by isolli 8y ago
As a rule of thumb I would say there is good overlap. In support of my claim, I suggest the report from Olivier de Schutter, UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food [0]. [0] https://www.resilience.org/stories/2011-03
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by isolli 8y ago
I was vegetarian for 20 years, vegan for 7, yet I started eating meat and fish about a year ago. Here are my thoughts: - I started eating animal products again for health reason; I believe many people can thrive on a vegetarian or vegan die
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by isolli 8y ago
Yes thank you :) It looks like everyone understood, though!
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by isolli 8y ago
Touch screens should be banned on security [edit: safety] grounds. You need to take your eyes off the road to perform simple operations such as adjusting heating. Relying on muscle memory with physical knobs is much safer. And it's not
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Why It's So Hard to Restart Venezuela's Power Grid(wired.com)
2 points by isolli 8y ago|0 comments
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by isolli 8y ago
> quantum hasn't provided anything substantial yet I believe you meant "quantum computing hasn't provided anything substantial yet". I first read it as "quantum theory hasn't provided anything substantial ye
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by isolli 8y ago
I definitely agree with your first point, but from personal experience the second one is debatable. It certainly depends on the specific activity, and will change with time. For instance, while quantitative research during the explosion of
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by isolli 8y ago
Note that violinists (and cellists, and others) are not constrained by their instrument and can play in different temperaments depending on the situation.
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by isolli 8y ago
Does anyone know of a similar idea for neural networks? As far as I can tell, you need the entire framework (which requires a heavy, 1.5 GB docker image) to apply a trained model, even though in theory you only need matrix multiplication an
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by isolli 8y ago
It's difficult for a non-specialist to place this article in a broader historical context. I thought string theory was by now more or less considered a dead-end, so I wonder if this article is an attempt to revive it, or the first sign
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by isolli 8y ago
Of course, but it has everything to do with real-life availability of records.
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by isolli 8y ago
Some recordings are not available on CD, or only terribly remastered. I haven't looked into downloads, but I doubt they are better remastered.
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by isolli 8y ago
You're right, except that in practice some wonderful historic recordings are only available on vinyl, so a blanket statement like: "I have come to hate the vinyl format" should be qualified.
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by isolli 8y ago
It reminds me of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_test#Na%C3%AFvet%C3%A9_... I remember reading once that a machine had finally passed the Turing test, but when I looked in detail at what some of the judges o
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by isolli 8y ago
I have to disagree: a well-mastered recording on vinyl is superior to a high-resolution, digital recording when the music has been auto-tuned, mastered, remastered, and compressed to death. (I'm talking about dynamic-range compression
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by isolli 8y ago
I'm pretty sure Harvard benefits from tax breaks on the donations it receives. The tax breaks are on the donor's side, but the economic effect is the same as channeling public money to the institution (it simply takes the form of
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by isolli 8y ago
And this is my first answer when people ask why I buy vinyls.
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by isolli 8y ago
Try Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/BudgetAudiophile/
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by isolli 8y ago
I would argue this is wrong on several levels: 1. The convenience offered by the app is obviously a good thing; Uber's labor practices are not. 2. The low price of Uber rides is subsidized by burning VC money; they could easily kill lo
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by isolli 8y ago
To be fair, the American justice system is not the only one: > Clark's first son died suddenly in December 1996 within a few weeks of his birth, and in January 1998 her second died in a similar manner. A month later, she was arreste
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by isolli 8y ago
You would be right: > The troopers told the pair that VanderWiel’s dog “alerted” on the vehicle’s back side. However, the spot where the dog alerted was out of the frame of the video from [the troopers'] vehicle, the lawsuit said. C
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by isolli 8y ago
Only a minority are willing to kill. The rest just lazily contribute to spreading false rumors. If you stop the lazy ones, you may stop the rumor from going viral and reaching the killers.
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by isolli 8y ago
Infants are definitely more likely to die in the USA than in any almost any other OECD country (the exceptions being Chile, Turkey, and Mexico). https://data.oecd.org/healthstat/infant-mortality-rates.htm
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Why criticism of Amazon isn’t sticking(vox.com)
14 points by isolli 8y ago|1 comments

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