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by jsinai 6y ago
Do you really need Google Analytics if you just have a small personal website? Now that we know the privacy cost, is it worth sending yet another node of a user’s browsing behavior from a presumably well intended personal website?
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by jsinai 6y ago
Dear troll/hacker(??)/intelectual(you must be interested in learning something, else why would you be here?) of the internet, here is some data to show why your viewpoint may be wrong: Africa is on a rapidly developing trajectory,
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by jsinai 6y ago
> However, if you're planning to attach a keyboard to your iPad most of the time, just get a MacBook Air instead. On the flip side, if you're getting an iPad Pro, you should really be planning to buy the Pencil with it to take
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by jsinai 6y ago
> a lot of elementary school teachers are women who weren’t doing well at math and got encouraged to go become an elementary school teacher because, basically sexism is alive and well I hear your frustration, and I’m glad that there has
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by jsinai 6y ago
This is good humoured satire and reminds me of my first job as a data scientist straight out of maths school. I was in a team who’s very existence was to advocate for ML everywhere and anywhere, without much success because everyone (includ
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by jsinai 6y ago
I’m lactose intolerant and have no issue with cheese and gelato in Italy. Most Italian cheeses have little to no lactose. Not sure what the case is with gelato but it doesn’t seem to have an effect on me (this is anecdotal). Also pizza in I
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> Windows and most Linux desktop environments are years ahead of macOS in terms of managing window placement. I don’t understand. Windows has no ability to remember window positioning on screens to the point where I dread undocking my la
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by jsinai 6y ago
The key differentiator is the camera on the Pro, which significantly increases the cost. Some people will pay a premium for the privilege of owning the top model and yet others will go for the Pro precisely because of the more advanced came
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by jsinai 6y ago
I tried both the Sony XM3 and Bose NC 700 and went for the latter. Mostly personal preference for size, weight, fit as ANC and sound quality are pretty even. The Bose though is superior for calls. Never had a problem.
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Really excited by this as well. I couldn’t really wrap my head around the proposed API changes for PyMC4. I find PyMC3 to be a pleasure to work with and understand! Will the JAX backend and integration with external JAX modules mean that we
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by jsinai 6y ago
One of the best things I did was to use Firefox Focus for all my mobile Google Search queries. This let's me use Google to (most of the time) find what I'm looking for, but without worrying as much about tracking or having a profi
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Precisely. And the second fundamental prerequisite is frequency. Make public transport frequent enough, and with privileged access (eg bus lanes) and it will be more convenient than private cars.
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by jsinai 6y ago
YouTube does this very thing. If you aren’t signed in (which I am not and never will), the whole page loads for enough time that you can press play only for the Sign In To YouTube Music account pop up to appear, which pauses and resets the
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by jsinai 6y ago
>Aren’t “concepts” encoded in how language is used, at least to some degree? Good point and I think this shows up to the extent different languages might affect how we express particular concepts. However I think it is more accurate to s
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by jsinai 6y ago
My first course in linear algebra was extremely formal with very little practical examples or visual intuition. It’s easy not to appreciate just how much intuition can go a long way in helping us understand a concept, even if the intuition
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Anticipating a ‘Second Wave’(dailymaverick.co.za)
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However British government developed institutions in England and Ireland which eventually led to overall greater wealth and equality for most of the population. Whereas in India these institutions were systematically short-circuited to crea
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by jsinai 6y ago
Usually when it comes to personal environmental reforms and sustainability preferences on HN (and the tech/research community I associate with), there is always a strong emphasis on air travel. Understandably one round trip across a ma
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Question, why was DDT never tried in Africa if it was so successful in Florida and also in Italy after WW2? Why don’t we use DDT today? I’m curious to know the answers and have better understanding of the complexity of what makes eradicatin
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by jsinai 6y ago
> The only google service that is really relevant and hard to replace is YouTube. I would include Maps to this list. Outside of the US (and presumably China although I do not have experience here), Google Maps has no real competitors.
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Similarly I can never get iOS to type “Kings Cross”, it always forces “Kong’s Cross” even when I delete the word and retype. PS: iOS just did this twice while typing this reply.
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by jsinai 6y ago
What is the lowers/raises approach? Google isn’t up to the job (pun was not initially intended, but here we are).
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In my experience the real meat of data manipulation/wrangling is in extracting statistical value from the data. If the data is noisy, what aggregations and what filters produce the best signal without smudging the underlying statistica
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This runs both ways though. At the same time though we should be mindful of our actions and words, as much as possible. If there is a way of saying something that would not be perceived as a dog whistle, then choose those words. This is har
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I don’t recall this being a problem in 4 years. Men weren’t put down or treated in derogatory ways because they weren’t women. If I try to enumerate typical toxic behaviours, it certainly wasn’t the case that any of this was systematically
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Ignoring the problem is a failure to recognize the problem and only to serves to entrench the viewpoints of the moderators. For some, shutting down the conversation may not be seen as harmful, but all it does is protect the people who most
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I 100% agree. For most of my undergraduate, the male-female ratio was a close to 40:60 (yes there were more women in my undergraduate maths classes than men, sample size ~400-1000). When I moved overseas to study Part III in Mathematics at
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Actually most of the scientific progress in these tasks had already been made and all that was missing was the compute power. Just like the know-how and basic principles of how electric cars and have been around for more than a 100 years an
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Just throwing this out there since we’re talking about morals: who deserves to be hurt and how do we decide that? One of the big issues with tech involvement in security and defence is the shift in onus of responsibility from person to algo
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by jsinai 6y ago
I have to do a “not interested” purge on my Instagram about once every 4 weeks. That’s how long it takes the Instagram Explore algorithm to devolve into degenerate memes and echo chambers regardless of my interests.

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