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by it_does_follow 5y ago
> I haven't seen anything uses of math in any of my jobs Math didn't "click" with me until well after college, when I eventually caught up on a lot of calculus, discrete math, probability and stats, to the point where
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That distribution is still a point estimate for a multinomial, not truly the distribution of your certainty in that estimate itself. This is essentially a generalization of logistic regression, which will of course give the probability of a
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by it_does_follow 5y ago
> a machine learning model Not to mention that generally ML models are not useful for assessing risk . ML nearly always focuses almost exclusively on some point estimate rather than a distribution of what you believe about a value. The
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by it_does_follow 5y ago
> that’s given you the view that drug and alcohol use has increased a lot post-pandemic. It's fairly well studied in the medical literature [0, 1] and reported on pretty regularly in popular media as well [2] 0. https://w
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by it_does_follow 5y ago
I'm not sure you're aware of the future we're facing right now. Continued unchecked growth coupled with increasing consumption is heading us towards an ecological catastrophe that quite seriously threatens the possibility of
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by it_does_follow 5y ago
> what today will sound absurd in the future? I quite seriously suspect that answer will be "24 hour electricity and grocery stores where you can buy food from anywhere in the world" > Our widespread and normalised alcohol a
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> there must be a vast gulf in skill level between me and the average hn poster I suspect it's much more a time gulf than a skill gulf. I love AoC as well and don't so much burn out but find that after a week of coding for fun
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by it_does_follow 5y ago
> YAML is considered by many to be a human friendly alternative to JSON I'm not disagreeing with the author here, but as someone old enough to remember the rise of XML as a data transmission format (and Erik Naggum's masterful