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by kctess5 10y ago
I understand that Tokyo is like that in large part because of very strict laws against actions like what you describe. Turns out very strict punishment is a good deterrence, but some might argue that the ends do not justify the means. There
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by kctess5 10y ago
Worldwide there are around 1 billion cows [1] [1] http://beef2live.com/story-world-cattle-inventory-ranking-co...
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Simple Rules for Effective Statistical Practice(journals.plos.org)
98 points by kctess5 10y ago|5 comments
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by kctess5 10y ago
Despite those benefits you list, you still don't think that knowledge makes you a better software engineer? I definitely think that understanding the lower levels helps me write better software, largely for the reasons you list.
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Ten Simple Rules for Effective Statistical Practice(journals.plos.org)
8 points by kctess5 10y ago|0 comments
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by kctess5 10y ago
Yep.
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by kctess5 10y ago
The parent comment was in a sense asking if nkoren's assertion was reality, or after the fact speculation. If it was in fact speculation (like "the moon landing was staged") then it would follow that there wouldn't be a
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by kctess5 10y ago
I feel like this is akin to asking why the staging of the moon landing was not more well documented.
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by kctess5 10y ago
I've worked with autonomous control for RC cars, and it's not that easy. The math is very fuzzy in highly dynamic an non-linear environments. That approach works in nice controlled environments, but will fail badly when assumption
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by kctess5 10y ago
I couldn't agree more. This is the thing I wish USAs lower education system understood. So much childhood is wasted sitting in a boring classroom doing busywork for hours on end. That kind of environment doesn't exactly motivate p
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by kctess5 11y ago
I think part of the reason you see so much AI/ML and crypto is that those methods are very useful in a wide range of CS disciplines. This is true for many of the things you list: AI/ML is important to (or visa versa): - Performanc
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by kctess5 11y ago
MIT student here. I heard about this recently, and looked into it a bit as an interesting way to get some funding. First of all, it's not like every participant gets 25K. Getting that level of funding would take some serious doing. It
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by kctess5 11y ago
It's not a fixed rate, there's a time and distance component. The time component is presumably to account for the drivers time wasted when traffic is high.
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by kctess5 11y ago
I had the same interpretation. "I'm gonna take my ball and go home"
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by kctess5 11y ago
While this may be true at some level, I'm not sure it will be as drastic a change as no-internet to internet. Young people today (and increasingly many not-so-young people) have been growing up with the concept of quickly changing &quo
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by kctess5 11y ago
False.
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by kctess5 11y ago
This is an interesting dilema
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by kctess5 11y ago
It's going to land eventually... Just the water seems better than the water AND people's lungs
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by kctess5 11y ago
I'm not sure the stats on this one, but it seems to be that something with 1,000,000 loc would have to have decent documentation, or it would be totally unmaintainable and wouldn't grow to that size without dying a horrible deat
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by kctess5 11y ago
This is some seriously scary data. It would not be hard to de-anonymize this data if you know a person's address, and I'm sure there's all sort of nefarious activity that famous people/politicians/other people might
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by kctess5 11y ago
I've worked both in industry and at a research institution (albeit not very long) and I've learned a bit of a love hate relationship with matlab. It's really awesome for prototyping complex math-based algorithms as an interme
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by kctess5 11y ago
Heavy neural nets on a rasp-pi? How does that work out?
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by kctess5 11y ago
I think there may be solutions to some of these things. Firstly, it sounds they are envisioning pipelined algorithms where stages are run on the best compute device. The CPU pipeline would presumably handle all asynchronous Apis and only ca
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by kctess5 11y ago
I've been working a lot with GPUs recently, and so far it's been a mixture of really awesome, and really hateful. Dealing with memory is a huge pain, and the language limitations are pretty bad. So many workloads these days are s
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by kctess5 11y ago
What kind of embedded devices could this be booted with?
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by kctess5 11y ago
It's interesting to me how the "Acceptable Ads" thing has managed to inserted itself in the middle of all of this - for a price of course. Yet another middleman which skims off money from the content producers, but this time
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by kctess5 11y ago
I suppose that war has also changed - you can't just go destroying cities from the air to get a few insurgents when there are civilians in the general vicinity.
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by kctess5 11y ago
It sounds like the people hiring the contractors didn't exactly do their due diligence. > unclear who is really in charge, sometimes it's no one > vague deliverables from people who don't know what they're talking
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by kctess5 11y ago
Interesting, thanks!
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by kctess5 11y ago
How does that math near the end work out? If there are 3B bp in the human genome, then the write the whole thing for $1000 it should be $3.3e-7, which is a whole lot less than the quoted $0.02.

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