lambdaphagy

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by lambdaphagy 6y ago
I think it's fine to build NLP models with any desired property you like, including "not leaking vulgar opinions that offend the courtly manners of your society." Makes plenty of sense. But I do wish people would be more fra
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by lambdaphagy 6y ago
Bias in prediction, rather than parameter estimation, is a perfectly well established sense of the term. In particular, people doing language modeling are practically never concerned with identifiability, because you can't pick out on
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by lambdaphagy 6y ago
Whenever someone uses the term "bias" in ML in anything other than its statistical sense (E[\hat y - y]), it's helpful to mentally replace it with "opinions I disagree with" and see if the argument still makes sense
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by lambdaphagy 6y ago
Not a teacher but know a few well. The professional culture of teachers tends to flow downward from ed schools, and is pretty different from the professional culture of programmers. If you think of a tech company and then roughly invert th
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by lambdaphagy 6y ago
I think elementary is supposed to mean "self-contained" or "using the basic methods appropriate to the field", not necessarily "easy".
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by lambdaphagy 6y ago
Two friends of mine have cured jaw tightness by taking methylfolate. It may not work for you, but it's cheap to try.
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by lambdaphagy 6y ago
Another point of caution here is that CDC adjusts flu mortality rates for under-reporting in an attempt to estimate how many people actually died of the flu, as opposed to how many people have influenza listed on their death certificates. C
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by lambdaphagy 6y ago
Probably because it's hard to trust public health experts in a crisis whose very existence has already demonstrated a failure in their authority. If I wanted to reduce the risk of acquiring or transmitting an airborne infection back in
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by lambdaphagy 6y ago
I would find it more surprising if journalists didn't share certain demographic regularities. As an exercise, I looked up the educational backgrounds of the current NYT masthead on wikipedia. Here are the results: Columbia Harvard, H
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by lambdaphagy 6y ago
OP mentioned "the most popular news outlets". I expect that there's pretty good intersubjective agreement about which entities are in or out. It's true in one sense that there's no such thing as "the media&quo
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by lambdaphagy 7y ago
Sarah Constantin's essay on plow cultures and hoe cultures seems apposite here: https://srconstantin.wordpress.com/2017/09/13/hoe-cultures-a... (Note the very first photo in the wikipedia article)
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by lambdaphagy 8y ago
It's not as clear to me that this development is fortunate. The customs of social dance have evolved over centuries, and I'm leery of doing away with things simply because we no longer understand them. I learned to contra dance i
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by lambdaphagy 8y ago
There is a strongly negative relationship between women's education and fertility. Is this, in the long run, also good for the taxpayers?
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by lambdaphagy 8y ago
Testosterone levels in the West have declined by about a factor of two over the past few decades ( https://academic.oup.com/jcem/article/92/1/196/2598434 ). Maybe society is indeed sick.
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by lambdaphagy 8y ago
The cognitive modules that govern dominance and hunting are completely different things, in us as in all hunting species. We don't actually treat prey as we treat conspecifics we wish to dominate. Neither do cats or mantis shrimp.
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by lambdaphagy 8y ago
Apologies, and thank you for the correction. My comments betray a lack of intellectual curiosity and I will strive to harmonize them going forward.
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by lambdaphagy 8y ago
I'd love to respond substantively to this post, and in particular to your figures, but hn has threatened to ban me for discussing this topic. I suppose each of us can only make of that what we will. Best wishes!
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by lambdaphagy 8y ago
Well, the victimization surveys tell us that for every category of crime that matters, there are large disparities in base rates that (a) predate policing decisions and (b) recommend focusing on black neighborhoods, because that's wher
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by lambdaphagy 8y ago
That's not what I'm saying.
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by lambdaphagy 8y ago
Misdemeanors are not a predictor of crime, they are crime. Further, many types of misdemeanors are quality of life issues that have outsize impacts on the people who live in those neighborhoods. Go to a town hall meeting in a bad neighb
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by lambdaphagy 8y ago
This isn't about overfitting. Race is almost exactly the opposite problem: the signal in the data is so strong that you can't help but pick it up, even after you censor everything you can think of. If you try to predict any kind
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by lambdaphagy 8y ago
It doesn't uniquely pick out the Bible, except to the extent that Western civilization was shaped far more thoroughly by the Bible than by Homer.
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by lambdaphagy 8y ago
The Bible is data. It's a collection of texts with its own [secular] field of study. Peterson's thesis is something like the following: that the early biblical stories constitute a kind of dominant eigenvector of human cognitio
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by lambdaphagy 8y ago
How many generalizations about human behavior whatsoever do you think are "deterministically" true? How many as robust statistical tendencies?
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by lambdaphagy 8y ago
"I always kept my cell neat, and they never called me Palle the Clean. I always kept out of fights, and they never called me Palle the Peaceful.. But you murder four police ONE TIME..."
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by lambdaphagy 8y ago
What good is a social policy if you have to implement it at national scale for an unlimited time to see if it works as advertised?
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by lambdaphagy 8y ago
Restriction of range is a potential concern, but not all studies are subject to that criticism. Bruce Sacerdote's study of Korean adoptees randomly assigned to American families found, for example, that the adoptive families represent
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by lambdaphagy 9y ago
"Upbringing" can be a slightly misleading way of stating that summary, as most people think of upbringing as comprising environmental factors that parents can influence. But factors that parents can influence should be largely sh
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by lambdaphagy 9y ago
This is frustratingly accurate. When I was learning I wanted to tell people that I didn't speak English, only... halting Dutch with an American accent.

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