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by kvh 16y ago
I disagree. This is another example of underestimating how powerful the human brain is: it is an exquisitely designed piece of dedicated hardware with more power than even our super-compute-clusters. Hardware that's dedicated, to a large ex
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by kvh 16y ago
ftfy
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by kvh 16y ago
http://www.withfit.com/
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Once upon a time, a princess was sequentially presented with N suitors(kldivergence.blogspot.com)
21 points by kvh 16y ago|4 comments
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by kvh 17y ago
The P in P(X) and P(Y) IS actually the same P. It represents the probability of the underlying sample space. X and Y are random variables mapping from that sample space to the real line. P(X=x) is shorthand for P(X^-1(x)).
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by kvh 17y ago
just to be clear, you save as much gas moving up from a 20 mpg car to 25 mpg car as you do going from 50 mpg to 100mpg. (think in terms of gals per 100 mile)
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by kvh 17y ago
For instance, the same authors, in a previous paper analyzing nigerian election results, state the following "lab experiments indicate that individuals tend to favor small numbers, even when subjects have incentives to properly randomize.
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by kvh 17y ago
I think his point is that if a hundred such political scientists used a hundred different methods of evaluating election results, one of them would be guaranteed to find evidence of fraud. the other 99 would not report there results, not ha
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by kvh 17y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayesian_network
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by kvh 17y ago
minus inflation...
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Ask HN: Laptop recommendation?
7 points by kvh 17y ago|9 comments
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California State Controller: Out of Cash in 50 Days(calculatedriskblog.com)
17 points by kvh 17y ago|14 comments
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If Research Papers had a Comment Section(phdcomics.com)
1 points by kvh 17y ago|0 comments
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Banks Bullied Fed on Stress Tests(online.wsj.com)
1 points by kvh 17y ago|0 comments
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by kvh 17y ago
see http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~cook/movabletype/archives/2009... . "one possibility is that the more serious candidates (the ones we know are going to win anyway) are more attractive. Maybe you have some goofy-looking people who decide
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by kvh 17y ago
Good info. Did not know this. I'll take a look...
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Ask HN: Can I write a recommendation engine for HN?
3 points by kvh 17y ago|8 comments
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by kvh 17y ago
Can I write a recommendation engine for HN? Simple item-based (hackers who upvoted this article also upvoted...) and/or user-based (hackers who upvoted similar articles to you, upvoted ... ) recommendations would be cool to see on HN, possi
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by kvh 17y ago
I use it on my mbp. I agree the feature set is inferior, but its the only browser that can handle the 50+ tabs i like to have open at once. ff3 eats up cpu and overheats things.
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by kvh 18y ago
The internet has made media non-excludable and the media aren't willing to accept this, for understandable reasons--a non-rival and non-excludable good doesn't make you much money! Short sell!
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Military robots and the future of war [TED](ted.com)
19 points by kvh 18y ago|32 comments
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by kvh 18y ago
Oh, what a saint! unbelievable. i hope everyone sees this sniffling wretch for what he is. PITTY??? you want our PITTY?? the freaking nerve.
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by kvh 18y ago
disagree completely. ada???