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Summer Camp Took Almost Every Precaution. The Majority of Kids Still Got COVID19(thedailybeast.com)
4 points by jmount 6y ago|0 comments
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by jmount 6y ago
I don't have examples, but it seems to me you really hear a lot of teens pulling off successful social engineering attacks, even back to the days of phone-hacking. I guess that is evidence that some teens develop a fairly comprehensive
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Let A be a Pedant and Let B be a Pedant(win-vector.com)
3 points by jmount 6y ago|0 comments
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by jmount 6y ago
A tangent: the movie "The Landing" (2017) is a fun treatment of a non-existent Apollo 18 and disaster.
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by jmount 6y ago
One of my favorite chemistry memories: "what is that dripping out the back of the crystallography setup?" (ans: "okay would be a liquid nitrogen leak, explosive risk oxygen condensing out of the atmosphere.")
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by jmount 6y ago
I feel this is an instance of prof.dr. Edsger W.Dijkstra just being mean. If one works more on pigeon-hole principles you end up with Ramsey Theory, which covers some amazing results.
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Data Science Is Not “Statistics Done Wrong”(win-vector.com)
3 points by jmount 6y ago|0 comments
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Love the article. It inspired me to make a follow-up note on one of the memes: https://win-vector.com/2020/07/03/data-science-is-not-statis...
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by jmount 6y ago
An older generative art project, with some history: https://win-vector.com/2020/06/11/genetic-art-introduction-v...
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Just imagine that €21B spent on biological/medical programs.
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by jmount 6y ago
This sword was always hanging above the heads of Triplebyte users. The mistake was causing the users to look up.
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by jmount 6y ago
My father purchased and built one of the originals as a kit. There was a program that played "flight of the bumble bee" on radio using radio leakage on the S100 bus.
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by jmount 6y ago
First anxiety is real, you must/can manage it. My trick is externalize and slow down ideas. Instead of immediately pursuing ideas, enter small descriptions of them in a journal. That tends to cut down on the effort to remember them. A
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Unfortunately in mathematics "application" is often a synonym for "prove a lemma or theorem." David Spivak told me Peter Freyd once said, “Perhaps the purpose of categorical algebra is to show that which is trivial is tr
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by jmount 6y ago
Whew, not Automattic (WordPress).
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Imputing Out of Mixtures, or Un-Stirring Spicy Soup(win-vector.com)
1 points by jmount 7y ago|0 comments
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by jmount 7y ago
When I teach coding, I teach the following. When debugging you must clear your mind of any desire to fix the problem. You are most effective if you work only to find and identify the problem.
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Y-Conditionally Regularized Neural Nets(win-vector.com)
1 points by jmount 7y ago|0 comments
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Version control is a time machine that translates hindsight into foresight(win-vector.com)
2 points by jmount 7y ago|0 comments
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by jmount 7y ago
Probably "de-globalizing" a supply chain would turn out to mean off-shoring the entire production to one country, instead of the probably intended on-shoring of production to one's own country.
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When Cross-Validation Is More Powerful Than Regularization(win-vector.com)
2 points by jmount 7y ago|0 comments
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by jmount 7y ago
It gets even better. := is an abandoned assignment operator in R (derived from ←). It is still in the syntax with no default implementation. A few packages use it (data.table, dplyr, wrapr) for quoted assignment tasks.
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by jmount 7y ago
This was the scam at the start of the digital camera boom: a consumer back you could dock onto your camera (I know there are some medium format replacement digital backs, but the consumer replacement was a joke).
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by jmount 7y ago
I think he also said something along the lines of: don't introduce a class over a struct if you are not trying to maintain an invariant. Very good advice.
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2014 poster here, happy to see it discussed again. I love the paper.
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Why We Plot Predictions on the X-Axis(win-vector.com)
1 points by jmount 7y ago|0 comments
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Tools for preparing data for machine learning in Python and R(win-vector.com)
1 points by jmount 7y ago|0 comments
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by jmount 7y ago
Just another way to submit your PII to a bound to be leaked repository.
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by jmount 7y ago
Also check out Rado's classic "Lion and Man" http://mathworld.wolfram.com/LionandManProblem.html
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Practical Data Science with R Book Update (April 2019)(win-vector.com)
4 points by jmount 7y ago|0 comments

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