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Hence why international coordinated action (all countries pricing carbon) is the best option. Alternatively, carbon tariffs: https://www.niskanencenter.org/border-adjusting-imported-pro...
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You’re right, that is the technical terminology (because the government does not directly collect the sales tax from the consumer, the stores do). Still, from the point of view of the consumer it’s “direct” (in ordinary language, not econom
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Look again, it’s in there.
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The JL lemma is an essentially an error bound, which reassures us that dimensionality reduction (compress big vectors —> small vectors) is not a lost cause. More specifically, it says that even if you perform a random projection—the most
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Implementations vary, but the most efficient design is to tax carbon as far upstream as possible (e.g. oil refineries), rather than at the manufacturer or household level. So, it’s not a direct tax on consumers the way a sales tax is. In th
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Is there any publicly-available data or studies on the behavior patterns of people who caught the virus? I’m very curious about what the relative likelihoods involved. e.g. what % of cases are people that don’t wear masks and brazenly part
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Exactly. There are a vast number of incapacitating health related reasons that could cause a person to be absent, e.g. panic attacks, stuck in a bathroom (IBS/IBD/Chron’s), migraines, depression. The type of thing that reasonably
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Also known as diaphragmatic breathing: https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/articles/9445-diaphrag... I was taught this as a way to control some very acute anxiety from hypochondria that took over my life for ~6
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What you said wasn’t egregious or anything, no worries. I’ve seen some incomprehensible code from data scientists with PhDs, stuff that has no excuse. I also know of one single resource for essential coding skills specific to data scientist
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Honest question: what skills should a data scientist possess to graduate out of “shit tier”? Should we have all of the skills of statisticians, ML engineers, data engineers, software engineers, visualization designers, and domain/commu
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I’ve read all of VMLS and Forecasting (and ISLR from the original list), and maybe half of SLP. MML I have skimmed through for review / used as a reference, and the deep learning book is high on my queue. I tend to not be a cover-to-co
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More free books: * Vectors, Matrices, and Least Squares — IMO the best beginner-friendly and applications-focused intro to (or review of) linear algebra. Covers a ton of fundamental ground while keeping things consistent and concise. Lots
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The process is daunting, and the mental healthcare system is deserving of extensive complaint. I have had my own “bad dates”. My fav: I was suffering extreme burnout and had just had my car stolen, among other things. I found a therapist.
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Random tip: Uniqlo is an usual but excellent source for inexpensive hiking/backpacking/lightweight travel clothes. In particular: the UL down jackets/parkas (~9.5oz in size M), HeatTech Extra Warm baselayers, Airism underwear
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From an erstwhile therapy procrastinator: First of all, don’t stress about explaining “what’s wrong” to a therapist before you meet them, or let this become a barrier to you getting started (I fell into this trap for years myself). A simp
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One interesting use case I’ve heard about (for blockchain) is supply chain verification / provenance. Does anyone with more knowledge or experience have insights on this one?
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Maybe the way the vibrations echo in a valley is the mountains’ way of experiencing sound-ness?
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This isn’t going to solve the problem entirely, but what about moving most instruction to the outdoors? Is this being considered anywhere? I went to a private school for 1st+2nd grade (this is Michigan, in the 90s), and we were allowed to r
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Seeing those preserved fire pits (in [3]) with the charcoal and wood intact is wild. It looks similar to a campsite that someone used last weekend.
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/chirp https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Cricket-chirping-algor...
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You could make your point a lot more constructively if you omitted the denigration of the author’s substantial effort and people who suffer genuine manic episodes (which tend not to be this pretty).
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On that note, what some favorite (ideally freely available) lectures/notes/books on the subjects of algorithmic composition and generative music? Ready, go:
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> ”I find it disturbing when people describe a function as exponential just because it is a superlinear polynomial.” This is the kind of statement people should put in their dating profiles if they want fewer but better matches. No,
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Oops good catch. I should really stop writing posts on my phone. That’s especially sad since their docs are so good. I can’t edit it now, but: https://spacy.io/usage/spacy-101 Bonus—An excellent interactive Spacy cours
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True, good point. That may be better for classification performance. But at least for visualization and interpretability purposes using NMF is extremely simple and versatile (e.g. you can induce sparsity in the representation, setting the r
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For those interested in related/alternative approaches, one or more of the following established open-source libraries might appeal to you: - Snorkel (training data curation, weak supervision, heuristic labeling functions, uncertainty
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If X, Y ~ N(0,1), then X/Y ~ Cauchy(0,1) (Read: If X and Y are normally distributed random variables with mean 0 and standard deviation 1, then X/Y is equivalent to a Cauchy(0,1) distributed RV. This is a useful equivalence to kno
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Here are some guided meditation recordings that I found very helpful for getting started (if you’re on mobile, scroll to the right for the play button): https://www.uclahealth.org/marc/mindful-meditations Of these, I h
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I’m not taking a stance on the issue, but this quote from the article illustrates how blacklist vs. whitelist is different than the examples you gave: > “Others pointed to the dualism between black and white as representing evil and good
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But think of the utils that you’re leaving on the table by not fully exploiting comparative advantage. /s

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