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by jmcgough 7y ago
Article titles, especially for creative or personal stories, aren't always summaries of the article's contents. It serves as an introduction, and frequent readers of his column will know that his wife died several months ago and t
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by jmcgough 7y ago
He's referencing the fact that he wasn't the one to write his wife's obit for the same paper, months earlier: https://www.coloradoindependent.com/2019/06/14/the-indy-500-... . FTA: "When Mi
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by jmcgough 7y ago
> Anyone with an opening book of AlphaZero's mistakes will be able to push AlphaZero into a mistaken position. This only works if AlphaZero never retrains on previous games.
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At the same time, he should be able to clearly state the policies of his company. He seemed completely unprepared for some basic questions that he should have been prepared to answer.
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IIRC Carmack didn't write that code, as brilliant as he is.
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by jmcgough 7y ago
Put it on your resume if it's something you're proud of, even if it failed. The fact that you were willing to give it a shot is typically a positive signal. Be prepared to talk about it - a lot of interviewers will find that more
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by jmcgough 7y ago
R was used by statisticians, but python was used by every non-cs researcher who needed something more than matlab. Python didn't beat R because it's OO. It won because of its existing popularity (with many people learning it in th
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by jmcgough 8y ago
I've met a number of very smart engineers who believe that because they can think through engineering problems rationally and solve hard challenges, that they can apply that skill to biomedical / sociological / other complex
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by jmcgough 8y ago
It's not zero extra effort. If you want to maintain your statistical power for both male and female, that means doubling your sample size. And it's unlikely that they'll be identical 99.9% of the time. The article suggests th
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by jmcgough 8y ago
I didn't say that what they were doing was a good thing. The AI ethics council wasn't intended to do much but provide some nice PR and political connections.
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They probably didn't bring her on for her expertise, they brought her on because she's a powerful conservative. Google wants politically powerful friends on both sides of the aisle in light of how much criticism there's been
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by jmcgough 8y ago
It could have been a startup if he wasn't too afraid to market and sell the software.
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by jmcgough 8y ago
Hair products are heavily counterfeited on Amazon - I only buy them direct from companies now. High end shampoo/conditioner/treatments can cost $50 a bottle for large sizes. They're just colored plastic bottles with text and
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by jmcgough 8y ago
Most people probably lack the technical aptitude to use darknet markets, so this is probably more relevant to hacker news readers than the general public.
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by jmcgough 8y ago
We used to get drunk and debate the merits of the DSM as undergrads. Most of my friends who went on to get their PhDs still see it as a imperfect but necessary evil. As a researcher, you need a common language to discuss what you're re
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by jmcgough 8y ago
4chan hasn't really changed much, /pol/ (where most of the right-wing memery and conspiracy posts are) was always awful; it was created years ago to keep those kinds of posts away from other boards.
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I had a similar situation happen - was really confused when they showed up together as dates to a wedding I attended.
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by jmcgough 8y ago
Bad Blood is a must if you work in tech. Incredible page-turner, and shocking at the level of deception they employed. I also got hooked on Endgame by Frank Brady, about Bobby Fischer (the american chess prodigy who quit chess and became a
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by jmcgough 8y ago
Masters of DOOM is amaaazing, really made me into a John Carmack fan.
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This isn't about science, this is an interview with a philosopher.
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by jmcgough 8y ago
The entire public health crusade against e-cigs reminds me of the anti-pot crusade in the 80s and 90s. Lots of decisions made by the government based on emotion instead of based on evidence. In the 19-29 year old demographic, e-cig vaping i
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by jmcgough 8y ago
It was announced, not available.
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by jmcgough 8y ago
The much talked about social credit score doesn't really exist yet https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/11/16/chinas-orwellian-social...
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> P-values are not good measures for reliability, because they absolutely are not the same thing as the chance that a result is wrong As an undergrad, I even had tenured professors try to tell me that a p-value is the chance that a resul
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by jmcgough 8y ago
I watched them regularly during the championship, they had Yifan[0] on several times and she was fantastic. 0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hou_Yifan
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Not a fan of it either, but how do we incentivize companies to research and create new drugs if they can't make back the huge cost of clinical trials?
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I just can't see wikinews doing serious investigative journalism, though, which is one of the major reasons that news corps like WaPo are worth supporting. A talented journalist can work on a major story for months (like in the Therano
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It isn't wishful thinking from Speier; there are a number of survivors who can attest that this is what happened. And how would many of them actually know that they were drinking poison, when there were several rehearsals beforehand th
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Related to this, Bill Gates recently wrote about some of the major sources of co2 pollution and the challenges of addressing them: https://www.gatesnotes.com/Energy/My-plan-for-fighting-clima...
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by jmcgough 8y ago
Literally (adv): 1) in a literal sense or manner. 2) (informal) used in an exaggerated way to emphasize a statement or description that is not literally true or possible I literally just did.

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