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   by jointpdf 7y ago

   If the link above doesn’t work, try this: https://www.osapublishing.org/prj/fulltext.cfm?uri=prj-7-8-8...
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   by jointpdf 7y ago

   Here’s the original paper: https://www.osapublishing.org/DirectPDFAccess/3863EB7E-DF76-...
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   by jointpdf 7y ago

   The way I wrote that comes off as more dismissive than I intended. I think it’s quirky in the sense that there is a wide variance in styles of accomplishing things in (base) R, so something that appears perfectly natural to me can look fore
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   by jointpdf 7y ago

   Yeah but PDF itself isn’t really the problem. Bookdown is nice, but if you’re using Bookdown then you’re using RMarkdown, so you can easily output the same .Rmd file as HTML/PDF/Reveal.js/EPub/etc. I’m trying to find wel
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   by jointpdf 7y ago

   I think Julia has a cleaner focus on scientific and mathematical computing than either R or Python (both for performance and understanding). i.e. the language is designed in such a way that corresponds more directly to mathematical notation
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   by jointpdf 7y ago

   This looks like a good reference for the fundamentals of both statistics and Julia, as claimed. I have a small critique, since the authors asked for suggestions. The format for the code samples goes like (code chunk —> output/plots
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   by jointpdf 7y ago

   i.e. it’s like a slot machine where you pay $0.05 and then get E[Y] = $1.25 back (in carbonbucks). Sounds like a great deal vs. 4% loss (and a fast way to pay off carbon debt). How does this compare to the lifecycle net efficiency of other
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   by jointpdf 7y ago

   For deep learning / neural networks, I think these are the best balance of theory and practice (not to mention great visualizations): http://cs231n.github.io More on the intuition/theory side for NNs, but Michael Niels
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   by jointpdf 7y ago

   Have anything more constructive to say?
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    by jointpdf 7y ago

    There is a new operator, {{ or “curly curly”, aimed at dealing with this. It’s part of the rlang (0.4) package and looks snazzy / easy to grasp. Check it out: https://www.tidyverse.org/articles/2019/06/r
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    by jointpdf 7y ago

    Tabula does this. There are Python and R wrappers. -Java: https://tabula.technology -Python: https://github.com/chezou/tabula-py -R: https://github.com/ropensci/tabulizer
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    by jointpdf 7y ago

    There was a recent NOAA conference on this topic as well, you can view the slides here: https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/star/meeting_2019AIWorkshop...
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    by jointpdf 8y ago

    I've taken Amtrak cross-country (CA <--> Chicago via California Zephyr / SW Chief) about a dozen times in my life. If you're not in a hurry to get from A to B, there's no better way to travel IMO. Sure, the trains
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    by jointpdf 8y ago

    There is no WiFi on Amtrak trains--you'd have to tether to your phone. And for most Amtrak routes, you'd be going through some significant service deadzones (depending on the route, you could be in the middle of a mountain wildern
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    by jointpdf 8y ago

    Good thing this is extensively illegal under federal law.
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    by jointpdf 8y ago

    Perhaps Gephi? It was used for those Graphcore neural network visualizations (millions of edges and nodes) and they look stunning. [1] https://gephi.org/features/ [2] https://www.graphcore.ai/posts&#x2F
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    by jointpdf 8y ago

    Thank you for all your comments (across many threads) that are helping to destigmatize these issues. ADD/ADHD and stimulant treatment is an especially loaded one. A lot of peoples' personal experience with stimulants is, "oh
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    by jointpdf 8y ago

    Yes--for such a searingly intelligent community, I find certain patterns of comments here to be quite jarring in their lack of nuance and understanding. It's a statistical certainty that a large number of people here have brooding ment
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    by jointpdf 8y ago

    I don't think you read the whole article--both premises were clearly stated and extensively supported. Hoarding has long been considered a disorder, it was just rolled into OCD. However, enough of the patterns are differentiated from O
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    by jointpdf 8y ago

    No. Clinical hoarding disorder is not normal human behavior--it causes "significant distress and/or impairment of personal functioning", by definition. Same goes with any other mental disorder.
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    by jointpdf 8y ago

    I find the comments in this thread to be counterproductive (bordering on disturbing/dangerous). Trivializing/dismissing the existence of mental disorders based on uninformed viewpoints can cause harm to others, in that they can fe
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    by jointpdf 8y ago

    I'm not really knowledgeable enough on policy to know how this might interact with the new law. But based on my reading, it seems that institutions conducting federally-funded research are required to retain any data generated by the r
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    by jointpdf 8y ago

    Assigning credit where it's due--it looks like the Union of Concerned Scientists and Nature Conservancy have recently changed their position on this: https://www.apnews.com/1af69ea110484f8f9fe26b79559e4d88
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    by jointpdf 8y ago

    I was hoping to dig up some stats that showed nuclear is more popular than you might think, but...yeah, no. Based on this poll, it looks as though the Fukushima incident knocked ~10% off of public support for nuclear energy. I wonder what t
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    by jointpdf 8y ago

    Yeah, I think the proximal issue is that many govt. bureaucrats struggle to keep up with documentation requirements as-is. In some (many?) cases, it takes an exceedingly long time, else does not get done at all. But--it's possible that
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    by jointpdf 8y ago

    I searched/skimmed through the full text of the bill, and it doesn't seem that it applies to data used/generated by grant-based research (or other projects). The language of the bill is heavily focused on executive agencies.
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    by jointpdf 8y ago

    Also: this was recommended on HN recently and it’s the best intro to matrix algebra / basic math of ML that I’ve seen. Lots of very practical and relevant exercises that relate to real data science tasks like text and image analysis. C
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    by jointpdf 8y ago

    ISLR is a good one—it’s focused on practical theory, but there’s still some unavoidable math. Code exercises are simple (and ugly—stats professor code) but gives you the basics to build on. Book/code: http://www-bcf.usc.edu&
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    by jointpdf 8y ago

    I also meant to say that stimulants and antidepressants shouldn’t be expected to solve the entire problem. Stimulants, in particular, are a double-edged sword that can amplify sleep deprivation, anxiety, poor-diet, etc. and make problems wo
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    by jointpdf 8y ago

    100% agree with this. We see the same mental health epidemic in PhD students. Clearly, there needs to be a paradigm shift where we can enable people to achieve high levels of education (and hold them to high standards) without making it a n