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by judk 12y ago
I bet you work in an inexpensive paper/theory field (math, theoretical physics, CS), and your parent poster works in an expensive wet lab field (bio, chem, eng). The cost/benefit tradeoffs are atrkly different.
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by judk 12y ago
At the end of the day, statistics is about using a rationally consistent process to making decisions under uncertainty , but everyone (except the theoreticians) tries to use it to make correct decisions, conjuring certainty from the ethe
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by judk 12y ago
Why is "flat prior" here? A requentist method assumes a certain prior, for example Normal
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by judk 12y ago
How do you decide which models actually have predictive utility, under real world incomplete information? Back to square One.
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by judk 12y ago
This is typical of Closure, as a sort of anti-Haskell. It starts with empirical structures invented by folks without PL theory training, and then wriggles to find an explanation in terms of standard theory. You can see this here on HN when
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by judk 12y ago
OK, now try to make some claims about the real world. You will have to make frequentist confidence or Bayesian credibility claims.
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by judk 12y ago
Um, the folks at CERN don't agree with your assessment of frequentism in science. Their papers are explicitly frequentist, they celebrate results based on how many "sigmas" they get. P-value all the aym
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by judk 12y ago
Specifically, "all this" is a 17-year legacy. Incredible at his age, regardless of his wealth. XX Thousands of techies looked to a kid as the authority on hardware. His writing looked a little weird at times, which folks took to
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by judk 12y ago
The way that you interpret all of your sources exactly backwards is showing Scientologistically scary attitude to the topic.
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by judk 12y ago
He same reason most economically obvious things don't happen in practice: transaction costs. But with mobile electronic payments, this is changing across the economy.
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by judk 12y ago
he golden ratio and then rounding down. What's the point of putting 4 into the seed sequence?
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by judk 12y ago
How is it reasonable to expect that previously freed memory would be available later for the vector to move to?
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by judk 12y ago
It's math, not computer code. ^ means exponentiatuon. The author was just being weird.
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by judk 12y ago
That makes no sense. Reporting income is is easy. The IRS will mail you a correction of you make an error. Deductions are the hard part, which is not govt tracked.
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by judk 12y ago
6 figure valuation is in no way inflated. When you get a job offer with a 4 year stock vest in Microsoft, that's a 6 figure valuation on your contribution to Microsoft.
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by judk 12y ago
And when the police show up to a scene where they see nothing is happening, they can stand down.
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by judk 12y ago
Why is it surprising that participation drops as unemployment grows? x vs 1-x.
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by judk 12y ago
"Definitely" says who? Why is your laptop on the floor?
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by judk 12y ago
Way does built-in in mean? Airplanes are designed to withstand noise, and smells too. Social acceptability is defined by society. Why is reclining acceptable?
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by judk 12y ago
Same thing happened to my snowboard when I was holding in my lap.
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by judk 12y ago
For comparison, what are the other possibilities for parallelism? MapReduce seems the obvious obvious one.
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by judk 12y ago
ML is 0% of the cost of a web app. JS and images and CSS flights of fancy make it expensive.
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by judk 12y ago
Interesting how you thing it is obvious that you are more capable than low-income folks with the same test scores as you, or that you assume that there aren't low-income students with the same test scores as you.
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by judk 12y ago
This is really interesting. It would be great to see how this plays out, as there are "menu effects" and "reputation effects", intertia and such that would make it awkward to have society make this change without people
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by judk 12y ago
Context, please. That means Einstein was a 99.99%ile fast thinker in a room of 99.999%ile fast thinkers.
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by judk 12y ago
Java has a fixed assembly-language level syntax. Look to Scala or F#
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by judk 12y ago
Yes. USA institutions are happy to pay for commercially licensed software, but refuse to pay non-tenured-profs to write open source software, AMD refuse to assert scientific ethics and send their license dollars to open source projects.
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by judk 12y ago
This is an insidious myth, not supported by evidence. Facebook gives candidates substantive feedback on each interview.
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by judk 12y ago
People don't "contribute" math components to Sage, for the most part. Sage is like Debian or Slackware: it is a distro: a "bag" holding a giant bag of any third party program/library that the maintainers are ab
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by judk 12y ago
Seems it would be easier to just make the "Never show me content from X.com" menu item actually work.

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