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by jfaucett 9y ago
Well, we know the following: If people lived active lives and didn't eat too much we wouldn't have this problem. So I guess those are the only two vectors you can attack it on. As far as eating goes, you can't really dictate
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by jfaucett 9y ago
When you have a national health care system its no longer the case that each person's health decisions only affect themselves. A person who eats healthy, exercises and takes care of themself ends up paying for those who don't.
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by jfaucett 9y ago
They should really come up with different terms for "Men's rights issues" and split it up a bit IMHO. Most people seem to hear that and immediately reject it without looking into the topics it actually deals with. When you do
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"But nearly three-fourths of the variation in longevity is accountable to behavioral and metabolic risk factors, including obesity, exercise, smoking, alcohol and drug addiction, blood pressure, and diabetes" After searching a bit
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Ask HN: How to improve data science skills as a software dev?
1 points by jfaucett 9y ago|0 comments
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by jfaucett 9y ago
From the forward, "With rare exceptions, the mathematics that I have found most useful was learned in science and engineering classes [or] on my own". This has been the case for me too. I never learned this in a class in school, b
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by jfaucett 9y ago
well dataquest.io is for data science but they seem to be going down that track.
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by jfaucett 9y ago
Yes. I think he meant "We wish to understand mechanism through " should have been "We wish to understand the mechanism through " I had to pause on that spot too because it felt stilted when reading over it, though after
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by jfaucett 9y ago
I'm not a biologist. Can someone that knows more here help me out? From the article it seems epigenetic mechanisms aren't inheritable i.e. they do not change the DNA just how the DNA is interpreted and/or which genes are acti
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"But you seem to be doing a bit of a bait-and-switch in your comparison here" You're right I might be conflating the comparison but does it matter? JavaScript is a dynamic language which allows strict access controls (althoug
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by jfaucett 9y ago
"I tried octave years ago and it was so much slower" I tried the then current version of octave less than 3 months ago at the latest version and it was still slow to the point of being unusable. Even a lot of simple matlab code I
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by jfaucett 9y ago
"Are you talking about breaking modules (like linalg) out of base or changing the semantics and mechanics of modules?" Well, I'd be all for making Base as small as possible since I'm not big on monolithic standard libs a
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by jfaucett 9y ago
Yes you're right. Sorry about the overlap. Its been a while but from what I remember the module system doesn't have any concept of public/private i.e. fine grained control of an exported public api and essentially just lets e
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by jfaucett 9y ago
You're acting as if our governments don't have access to all this information already which they do. Its because I do not trust social structures and government that I think anonymity needs to go away. In a truly de-anonymized sys
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by jfaucett 9y ago
The engineer is conflating privacy with security. These are not the same thing and they are constantly confused when people discuss this topic. I can for instance lock my house in such a way that no one can enter (security) but broadcast ev
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by jfaucett 9y ago
Sorry not to see a rehaul of the module system. I've talked to the devs and know its not a direction they want to take but I really wish they had tried to make Julia a language you can build modular applications around (like Python) in
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by jfaucett 9y ago
I've been looking into Vanguard ETFs recently but it looks like the quarterly dividends don't even make up for inflation. The total stock market ETF is paying about $2 yearly at a market price of around $125. What specific index f
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by jfaucett 9y ago
"NN being gutted are those around loss of anonymity through the Internet." How is that by necessity a bad thing? People aren't anonymous in every day life and their internet anonymity is mostly an illusion anyway. Big brother
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by jfaucett 9y ago
"How do you compete against competing services owned by ISPs?" Good question. I guess you wouldn't need to as long as the ISP market is competitive. You might go to another competitor and convince them your product is good or
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by jfaucett 9y ago
" If FB was required to make a deal with every ISP in the US, do you think they would have been able to grow" It would be much more difficult obviously. But it would also have been much more difficult for myspace in the first plac
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by jfaucett 9y ago
Does anyone else find the internet market odd? Up until now net neutrality and other policies have given us the following: 1. Massive monopolies which essentially control 95% of all tech (google, facebook, amazon, microsoft, apple, etc) 2.
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by jfaucett 9y ago
Rarely. I just do a lot of integration/feature testing for actual projects. Most of my libraries have unit tests though cause for me it makes sense to write a unit test for things like matrix transformations or ensuring some generic gl
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The computer/brain interface. This will fundamentally change the way we interact with technology because it will make said tech essentially part of us and expand our sensory experience and understanding of reality.
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by jfaucett 10y ago
I'm a migrant to Germany as a software engineer and I can tell you its probably going to be really hard if you don't at least study in Germany or are a student in your home country (I was a student when I came). You don't nec
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A visual brief on icon history through different GUIs and operating systems(historyoficons.com)
15 points by jfaucett 10y ago|11 comments
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by jfaucett 10y ago
This was a light and interesting read. Here is the direct link: https://arxiv.org/pdf/math/0411418.pdf "Indeed, the most important thing in understanding a complex system is to understand how it processes inf
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by jfaucett 10y ago
This link list most of the open questions: http://www.rbmojournal.com/article/S1472-6483(17)30078-0/ful... , looks like mainly some clinical work and also ethical grounds due to legality etc.
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by jfaucett 10y ago
This article would have been much better if it didn't suggest people fall into one of these two categories. It seems much more likely this is a spectrum with people distributed throughout depending on topics and contexts as opposed to
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by jfaucett 10y ago
This is awesome. Unlike the JVM, its really hard to find anything describing how the Erlang VM works in detail. I tried reading through the source a while back but it was still hard to get a gist of what was going on because of the shear si
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Capability Myths Demolished [pdf](srl.cs.jhu.edu)
1 points by jfaucett 10y ago|0 comments

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