lawlorino

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by lawlorino 8y ago
> why bad things are really actually bad. In a material universe there is no objective good or bad.
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Statistics Done Wrong(statisticsdonewrong.com)
547 points by lawlorino 8y ago|54 comments
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by lawlorino 8y ago
No. Saved you a click.
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by lawlorino 8y ago
As a counterpoint that's not uniformly distributed globally, the incidence is much lower in Northern Europe including UK where OP is from.
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by lawlorino 8y ago
> In common usage, 1 January was regarded as New Year's Day and celebrated as such,[40] but from the 12th century until 1751 the legal year in England began on 25 March (Lady Day).[41] So, for example, the Parliamentary record lists
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by lawlorino 8y ago
> They also discovered “significantly higher" incidences of cancer in vegetarians, as well as increased rates of anxiety disorder and depression, although they note that this is inconsistent with other research. Having scanned the o
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by lawlorino 8y ago
It depends on your use case and the type of model e.g. is it from TensorFlow or scikit-learn or just a simple lookup table. Could you expand a little? Like someone else has said already, it also depends on how comfortable you are or how nec
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by lawlorino 8y ago
Very true. I've noticed in the past couple of years that the quantity of these kinds of articles on the BBC seems to be increasing, which is a shame because I've long considered them 'above' this kind of journalism. Just
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by lawlorino 8y ago
I agree with your comment in general but just wanted to be nitpicky over this part (this is HN after all) > probably more than 2x all of who have ever seen game of thrones (16 million is their highest rating ever) I don't think that
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by lawlorino 8y ago
What is this trash.
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by lawlorino 8y ago
> Being able to recognise it's a problem is already a big achievement, acting on it only follows naturally once you've realised how much time you waste. I suppose this means I might have bigger problems if I recognise how much
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by lawlorino 8y ago
Along similar lines does anyone have ideas for transitioning away from consumption to production? I am coming from a similar place to the OP and after some reflection noticed my spare time is still dominated by media consumption (reading, p
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by lawlorino 8y ago
Probably not.
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by lawlorino 8y ago
Reading the tweet source of this one, interestingly the author left out " + Anti-fragile" after Independent in his version.
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by lawlorino 8y ago
I don't really see any ML? Do people just blindly upvote any posts with the words Machine Learning in them?
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by lawlorino 8y ago
What alternative would you propose?
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by lawlorino 8y ago
Thanks for sharing your opinion I guess?
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by lawlorino 8y ago
> It's a thing where my mind snaps awake but not my body and it's as though I'm paralyzed This is called Sleep Paralysis and it's pretty horrible to experience. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep
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by lawlorino 8y ago
> A lot Dutch people think they are really good in English, but we really aren't (sometimes native English speakers beg us to not try and speak English but use Dutch instead so they at least understand what is being said given thei
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by lawlorino 8y ago
I think OP was referring to incidence, and you are thinking of prevalence.
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by lawlorino 8y ago
> Do a live demo, people love live demo's I'm not sure if I agree with that, in my experience they seem to fail or underwhelm about 50% of the time.
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by lawlorino 8y ago
So is this something you've experienced personally, or is it just speculation?
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by lawlorino 8y ago
> Eventually at Google US you get 5 weeks PTO, which is the same as in Google London. Ah but you're cherry picking an example from one company, I am also not sure how long or what role you'd need to accrue that much PTO. In Eur
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by lawlorino 8y ago
> if they didn't fix the keyboard it really is moot. I saw this mentioned in other comments but I'm not familiar with MacBooks - what is wrong with it exactly?
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by lawlorino 8y ago
> 500 employees were divided into two groups--a control group (who continued working at HQ) and volunteer work-from-homers (who had to have a private room at home, at least six-month tenure with Ctrip, and decent broadband access as con
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Three Apple workers hurt walking into glass walls in first month at $5bn HQ(theguardian.com)
5 points by lawlorino 9y ago|0 comments
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by lawlorino 9y ago
I doubt he's single any more.
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Show HN: Usage patterns of Dublin Bikes stations(medium.com)
2 points by lawlorino 9y ago|0 comments