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by itissid 7y ago
The most intuitive explanation of GPs came to me from McElreath's Statistical rethinking. What was most sticky was that was explained in terms of a thing needed for a simple regression problem that becomes hairy with continuous variabl
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by itissid 7y ago
Let's assume the Pilot is a smashing success, let's also say math works out in some country to do it for 0.2% of their GDP. How do the logistics of policy adoption work for the first "pilot" country? 1. You would need en
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by itissid 7y ago
Curious question why not also study the naturally occurring green sand beaches in Hawaii?
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by itissid 7y ago
Its like rage shake for mouse! If you are angry and shake your mouse in rage it moves things faster. I imagine this would be a very satisfying thing to be able to do.
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by itissid 8y ago
But apple is a luxury brand. You can't say that with Xiaomi or Oppo. With luxury brand the price is not a bug but a feature for the people that swear by them. And Rich people don't even care about the money. the 50-100 million ric
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by itissid 8y ago
There was a european heat wave in 2003 that killed thousands a day and 70,000 total[1]. If 70K people in the US died from a single large climate change induced event change, people might start to talk. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org
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by itissid 8y ago
Shouldn't plasma be also listed as a state of matter in the opening sentence?
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by itissid 8y ago
This would make a good study in Economics: 1. Given Large supply of Developers as compared to Demand. 1.1 What causes Poor Software Quality Control and Poor hiring practices(resume padding or tech hiring offloaded to non techies)? Are thing
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by itissid 8y ago
While this is great for Afib detection it's its very rare CDC says 2.7-6 Million people[1]. Still great for those people! I still think we need to do much better. High BP and hypertension is way more important to measure since they can
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by itissid 8y ago
Have a look at Chapter 6 in the Make It Stick book.
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by itissid 8y ago
This looks awesome. But: 1. Grain of salt: contemporary research shows how learning has other facets that are also important like grit[1] (i.e. repetitive application of hard work that has the right direction). 2. Contemporary research sugg
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by itissid 8y ago
Their species murder rate is 100%. Can you blame them.
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by itissid 8y ago
I have seen a few biodegradable things used for takeout like in chipotle. Can someone tell me why those are not more popular in at least some processed food, e.g. my hummus.
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by itissid 8y ago
The difference between an exposition in text(like this one) and videos(3blue1brown) is how people prefer to build knowledge and more deeply with how one learns. The quality of both of these is excellent. And one can test what works best
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by itissid 8y ago
I did really like his lectures on youtube on investing. One can learn a lot about dissecting a company's fundamentals from them. I wish he had not done all that stupid shit. I am not sure if he thinks he ever needed to anyways..
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by itissid 8y ago
I worked on a project on Optical inspection of PCBs on assembly lines in early 2004 and it was all image processing. Not a peep about ML in those days.
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by itissid 8y ago
This is scary. I mean someone can just replace the cables in my house and my phones and computer would become infected. I can't even imagine the headache this does for company's cybersecurity practices. A rogue janitor replaces th
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by itissid 8y ago
This is so sad: https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/muslims-...
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by itissid 8y ago
My friend from China explained to me that the surveillance of people is as much top down as much as its bottom up. - At every village level they have "informants" for the communist party who inform their higher ups regularly about
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by itissid 8y ago
I think Rust adoption has more to do with developer productivity than speed: - People preferring the compiler to yell at them to fix their Type mistakes before they hit the "run tests" button. - Getting a better IR for better erro
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by itissid 8y ago
There was a nice investigative report on Propublica on how short staffed US surface fleet caused the USS McCain and USS Fitzgerald crash into shipping containers. Basically the navy is focusing on buying newer ships and deploying too often
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by itissid 8y ago
Can't you memorize any amount of numbers with mnemonics? I remember multiple 16 digit CC numbers using it.
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by itissid 8y ago
Wouldn't this sort of thing be also very common in applying bit map masks to bit arrays in frameworks like numpy?
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by itissid 8y ago
Root cause analysis: 1. Developed world: Profit motive(i.e. greed). 2. Developing world: Profit motive(i.e. greed) and Bureaucracy(greed, but oft times incompetence). Greed and incompetence are deeply rooted creations of concentrations of e
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by itissid 8y ago
1. If certain Prion disease(like say CJD) was Communicable with a high R0[1] by say contact, fecal matter, saliva we would see a lot of people dying, since CJD has a mortality rate of 90% within 1 year[2]. 2. The level of A-beta protein(i.e
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by itissid 8y ago
What I am really scared of is mutation of certain disease due to a lack of heard immunity. I thought it was logical that mutation of certain viruses poses a threat, even to vaccinated people within the heard, in a population where heard imm
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by itissid 8y ago
It's true, their cash on hand tops the GDP of many countries.
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by itissid 8y ago
The right to publish here would be protected under the first amendment. But: 1. An argument for the news worthiness of these pictures could be made like in the Hulk Hogan v Gawker[1]. This is a delicate balance if a judge decides to let th
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by itissid 8y ago
US mideast policy had been affected for the as long as I can remember by oil and weapons exports. Especially on oil in the 80's with the Oil Shortages[1]. After 2015 congress voted to remove restrictions on Oil production in the US and
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by itissid 8y ago
And selling Hawaii vacation packages to people after they have been there. And I live on the east coast.

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