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by jointpdf 6y ago
> I honestly can’t remember anything special about Civ4/5/6 Aww c’mon, not even one thing? What about the greatest video game song ever produced (Baba Yetu): https://youtu.be/IJiHDmyhE1A Agree on Alpha Centaur
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I worked on a ~3 month remote project with people in timezones +6 and +12 hours ahead, which is arguably the worst configuration of timezones. Yet, we indeed found a way to make it work (and in fact I have some fond memories, though I doubt
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Additionally, RStudio has a built in GUI widget for importing .csv (and other) files: https://support.rstudio.com/hc/en-us/articles/218611977-Impo... . I find it quite useful for breezing through the common go
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I tend to think of dataframes (R, Python pandas) as the standard way for representing and working with the data contained in a .csv. “List columns” ( https://jennybc.github.io/purrr-tutorial/ls13_list-columns.h... ) insi
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by jointpdf 6y ago
What is the best way to approach an overdue reply? I always find myself at a loss for words as the thought “sorry for being a spacey moron” ricochets around my brain.
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by jointpdf 6y ago
I had the same question about retesting. Here’s a quote from Scott Gottlieb (former FDA commissioner): “While all of these tests can still generate false positives—a finding that you have the antibodies when you don’t—that risk can be sharp
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by jointpdf 6y ago
Huh, wow. I got a hairline crack on the screen of my Surface Laptop 2 and thought it was just me and my carelessness. I will have to see if there’s any recourse for me since it’s outside the warranty window.
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by jointpdf 6y ago
via Bayes Rule: “Assuming an underlying infection rate P(I), what’s the probability that a person is actually immune (=was infected), given that they test positive, i.e. P(I|+)?”: P(I|+) = P(+|I)*P(I) / P(+) = Sens*P(I)
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I could be off-base here, but I think they’re saying that a sparse matrix (for holding the edge weights) is ultimately something like a list-of-lists format, rather than a dense n x m array (for which GPUs have optimized routines). Except I
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NIH = “not invented here”, I think. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_invented_here
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by jointpdf 6y ago
Hard to beat in terms of effort vs. quality of the outcome is more accurately what I meant (it’s two lines of code in scikit-learn [ CountVectorizer() + TruncatedSVD() ] to go from raw text to document/word embeddings, and the result i
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by jointpdf 6y ago
I mean...you can always appeal to “old school” AI. Just dig in to the old papers and use their words. Latent semantic analysis (LSA) is an example of a hard to beat baseline model for text: “By inducing global knowledge indirectly from co-
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Here are a couple more ways to get SRTM tiles: - OpenTopography (also has 3DEP/LIDAR data): https://portal.opentopography.org/datasetMetadata?otCollecti... - SRTM 30M tile tool: https://dwtkns.com/srtm3
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For what purpose? There are tons of ways to do it differently, see here: https://cran.r-project.org/web/views/HighPerformanceComputin...
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by jointpdf 6y ago
Jeff Bezos owns 55.55M shares of Amazon stock ( https://www.secform4.com/insider-trading/1043298.htm ). Since just April 1st, the value of that stock has increased by ~55.55M*($2400 - $1900) = $27.775B. I know net_worth
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> The pipe operator in R also sort of does my head in. As someone who taught myself base R from scratch in 2013, I (used to!) agree with this. When the pipe operator was first introduced, I’d roll my eyes whenever I saw a script that us
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by jointpdf 6y ago
> It’s the subterfuge that makes it astroturfing. One might call it subturfuge. Sorry I’ll delete my account.
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by jointpdf 6y ago
Or maybe we could call it the US Public Health Service: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Public_Health_...
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My dad is a professor of emergency medicine. There are med students that come through in their 30s or 40s (none are former CEOs). It’s obviously not as common as people in their early 20s, but that may just be a self-selection thing (rather
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Re: rwmj I used to do taxes for extremely poor (<$10K yearly income) people in Michigan as a volunteer thing. For most of them, I could get the ~$3.5-5K earned income tax credit. A huge windfall? No, these people need that money for ba
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by jointpdf 7y ago
It’s really not. Even in a low cost of living area, $1.2K is about one month of basic living expenses.
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by jointpdf 7y ago
> ...3D isometric front end for Dwarf Fortress There is more than one mod in this category, but you may be thinking of Stonesense: https://dfhack.readthedocs.io/en/stable/plugins/stonesense/d... DF
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by jointpdf 7y ago
Small potatoes, but last week I started working through Project Euler problems as a soothing distraction. A good number of #1-50 are solvable as nice Python one-liners. I’m getting bored of prime number puzzles though, so next up is dabblin
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by jointpdf 7y ago
“emergent vomit cascades” gave me the laugh I needed today.
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by jointpdf 7y ago
It may not be “accessible to the layman” (yet?), but this seems rather intriguing: “The memory crystal is capable of storing up to 360 terabytes of data for billions of years.” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/5D_optical
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They include a breakdown by date of onset as well, which isn’t exactly the method you suggest (but I read somewhere that recovery time is ~2 weeks for mild cases and ~3-6 weeks for severe). Case fatality by date of onset: [<Dec 31] 14.4%
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> Had anyone seen death and recovery by age? There was a recent (Feb 17) study here with mortality crosstabs (see ‘results’): http://weekly.chinacdc.cn/en/article/id/e53946e2-c6c4-41e9-9... Case fatality
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by jointpdf 7y ago
I’m a data scientist (with a background in environmental economics) working in US gov. contracting, and my goal is make the switch to climate tech or similar. Where would you recommend looking to get started (conferences, communities, compa
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> Can we make them wear signs saying that they’re sick? Not really, since people with viral infections (e.g. cold, flu, corona virus) are often contagious before showing symptoms.
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by jointpdf 7y ago
I have a couple of books that are something between self-help and neuroscience/psychology that I can recommend. They are a more scientific and evidence-based lens on many of the same themes as self-help books (resilience, confidence, a

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