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jey
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jey
10y ago
What is your definition of practical?
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jey
10y ago
This algorithm is not practical to implement using any computer that would fit on Earth. It's primarily of theoretical interest.
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jey
10y ago
Title should probably have "for Python" appended for clarity.
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> I remember it was almost impossible to explain the issue to the support staff on either side Yeah, is there some kind of standard escape sequence to use in these circumstances? Like "I must speak to the manager" or some analo
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10y ago
Anyone have a link to the transcript that's not trapped inside scribd? Really, just plain HTML would've been fine, but instead it's trapped in a PDF that's trapped inside Scribd!
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10y ago
What regulatory approvals are required for this transaction?
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10y ago
> The rest seems more like a COO would do and not a strategic CEO. Yeah, which of these are tasks a good CEO should see to, and which would be more appropriate or acceptable to delegate to a COO?
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10y ago
You could move to Berkeley, where we still have Al Lasher's Electronics right in downtown with knowledgeable staff.
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10y ago
Find the thing that excites her and encourage it. Whether that's game programming (clone Mario), web programming (clone Twitter), algorithms (implement sorting, path finding, etc), controlling Karel the Robot[0], or something else. 0.
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jey
10y ago
Sounds more like LinkedIn.
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10y ago
These are things that seem normal to me that a Windows user might also describe as "weird", just like the GP post described colons in filenames.
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10y ago
How do you feel about file extensions longer than three characters? How about filenames with multiple dots in them?
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10y ago
This can be true even if there's something "obvious" on the MRI, since the importance really depends on the base rates of that abnormality in healthy individuals without symptoms[1]. For example, it's easy to find bulgin
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There's an awesome free replay debugger GDB extension available for Linux that most people don't seem to know about: http://rr-project.org
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> fundamentally command-line-based I'm a bit skeptical. Like the rest of LLVM, it's probably "fundamentally" an API, but with a bundled command-line interface.
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10y ago
Yeah, we should just get rid of non-DST.
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Title should really read "fMRI" instead of "MRI". The referenced journal article is titled "Cluster failure: Why fMRI inferences for spatial extent have inflated false-positive rates".
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10y ago
Yes: http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/02/17/which-type-of-exerc... TL;DR: Long distance running or other sustained aerobic exercise is best. Several meta-analyses also have shown that the mood and cognitive
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10y ago
True, but this does smell an awful lot like a control signal (in the sense of a control system).
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The connection between exercise and brain health has now been super conclusively and astonishingly shown, but what are some possible evolutionary reasons for this connection? Maybe the extra energetic investment in brain health is only just
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I'm amazed the powder is still selling well enough to warrant further development after the release of the drink form. It's it primarily an issue of the drink being too expensive for many?
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10y ago
So what?
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Stochastic gradient actually performs better in terms of generalization performance! https://arxiv.org/abs/1509.01240 The intuition for it is that when optimizing a machine learning objective all the way to machine p
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Honestly, Ethanol is straight up toxic and we probably shouldn't drink it. We just grandfathered it in because our ancestors were getting drunk off fermenting fruit way before the genus Homo even existed.
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While it's generally true that water-soluble vitamins are hard to overdose on, it's still true that you at the very least have an abnormally high (and possibly toxic) level of the compound in your bloodstream until your kidneys ca
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10y ago
http://stackoverflow.com/a/1801162
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Click "PDF" on the right side and you get https://arxiv.org/pdf/1602.04504v1.pdf
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The indirect costs of switching to HTTPS (like lost advertisement revenue) make it a inviable solution. How does HTTPS result in lost ad revenue?
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10y ago
Who's the target audience for this? Doesn't nearly everyone have a smartphone with an accelerometer, or will very soon?
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10y ago
Yes, Logistic regression applies when you're modeling a binary random variable and expect the log-odds to be linearly related to your regressors.
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