jebus989

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by jebus989 12y ago
This is absolutely a fair comment, coders but not software engineers, and is the same problem that's permeated bioinformatics for the last decade or so. (As an aside, it's fun hearing grand claims about data science revolutionisin
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by jebus989 12y ago
I've never met a statistician who either uses excel or has a "disdain for programming". R or Matlab are basic tools of the trade
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by jebus989 12y ago
Always relevant in these discussions: http://meatballwiki.org/wiki/GoodBye I guess the tl;dr is that community churn is healthy, expected. Leaving essays may be of limited use depending on how many axes to author has t
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by jebus989 12y ago
Maybe it's obvious to those with a better understanding of the game but can explain that "no shame" comment at 11:44?
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by jebus989 12y ago
It's not "their" classification, you pick the race you self-identify as.
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by jebus989 12y ago
As a European (ish), ditto.
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by jebus989 12y ago
Ha, no you crunch the numbers, you get the insights. Google does so whether you opt-in or not. Something I'd like to do (someone else asked for an e.g.) is look back at programming language searches, as they'll nearly always hav
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by jebus989 12y ago
How about just loosening the API rate limits, or making a better token request process with resource allocation e.g. I'd like 1500 requests per 15 min window (as opposed to 15, for some things) for 72 hours. I guess this could be limit
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by jebus989 12y ago
I know we're meant to be freaked out by this but I think it would actually be pretty cool to have data for tens of thousands of search results stretching back a decade or so. With a bit of analysis you could get some cool insights into
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by jebus989 12y ago
It's a logistic regression model, a basic statistical technique which wouldn't have even come under "machine learning" a few years ago. Later they use some kind of LASSO regression to penalise the inclusion of redundant
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by jebus989 12y ago
Or a soviet version of Passport to Pimlico.
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by jebus989 12y ago
All the usual HN nitpicking and obscure edge case discussion should probably be done in the light of ehamberg's own comment: "This is a horrible idea in many ways and was a quick hack for fun." [0] [0] https://gith
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by jebus989 12y ago
I don't follow your logic. A forced sale of bitcoins to assuage creditors is different to speculators losing confidence in the currency and trying to exit their positions. The latter causes market volatility and price crashes. Temporar
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by jebus989 12y ago
Agree, they're not a finite resource that should be miserly handed down every few years by ICANN. Register whateveryouwant.whoopdedoo for all it matters.
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by jebus989 12y ago
"Organic" as in organic chemistry is to do with compounds containing carbon. "Organic" dictionary definition: "relating to or derived from living matter", i.e. [0] > They add that the carbon they use is new
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by jebus989 12y ago
Agree, and Wikipedia does this e.g. for Wikipedia books [0]. If you render any book as a PDF it will append a ~10pt list of all article contributors. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Books
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by jebus989 12y ago
In the US 18% engineering students at undergraduate level were female as of 2012 [0]. In fact, apparently in Iran almost 70% of science graduates are female [1], making the courses less diverse in terms of gender than the US, which I beli
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by jebus989 12y ago
I can't believe ~=< 30% health gives the same catch rate as 1hp, so many wasted save/loads trying to get the other guy down to a slither of health.
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by jebus989 12y ago
I know a guy, mid-twenties, who if wanting to search for something will type "google" in the chrome address bar, enter, click the top hit, then search from the recognisable google homepage. It drives me insane.
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by jebus989 12y ago
It's acceptable to automate twitter activity per the rules here: https://support.twitter.com/articles/76915
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by jebus989 12y ago
I'd guess on Indian review-aggregator websites written in Hindi the trend is reversed ;)
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by jebus989 12y ago
Excuse the plugging of my own wares, but by coincidence I did some analysis the other day of the disparity between User/Critic ratings of movies on RottenTomatoes: http://benjaminlmoore.wordpress.com/2014/05/0
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by jebus989 12y ago
Strange comment, you realise that's not an inherent truth of language? Unique words per song is trivial to calculate
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by jebus989 12y ago
That's a great video thanks. A relevant part for this thread is where he says: > We're really lucky that the first and second-generation users haven't broken their silence but at one point they will ... [they'll] say
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by jebus989 12y ago
"Data scientist" just sounds more impressive than analyst and less boring than statistician.
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by jebus989 12y ago
When a scientist says "an explanation for X could be Y" it shouldn't be interpreted as "here's a guess, I want it to be true and am undermining science", rather it's a sign they are being extraordinarily
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by jebus989 12y ago
That's a silly caricature of how the place works, and not something I've experienced in the 8 years I've had an account there.
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by jebus989 12y ago
I don't understand your expression but I was just quoting a news source without any interpretation implied. I can imagine how such a scenario would hamper the prosecution moreso than someone just not keen on pressing charges.
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Apparently she went further than declining to press charges, the defendant's lawyer claimed that the victim "'provided photographic proof of an unblemished complexion to SFPD' and filed an affidavit requesting that the i
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by jebus989 12y ago
Someone == a PR firm: http://www.eileenkoch.com/ (warning: noisy) but as the current revision reflects, Wikipedia articles are built with respect to due weight and neutrality. While it's not ok to hide unflattering i

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