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by lliiffee 18y ago
Illinois would miss the existence of feds to investigate corruption like Blagojevich the state is incapable of self-policing.
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by lliiffee 18y ago
I recommend the book "Two-Dimensional Imaging" by Ronald N. Bracewell. I've looked at many signal and image processing books, and I prefer this one by far. Almost all others seem to either shy away from math to the point of absurdity or
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by lliiffee 18y ago
I would love to see this calculated quantitatively. I've heard that the bailout amounts to $50,000 per worker. That sounds pretty good... However, if the bailout is able to keep everyone in $70,000 other jobs for a year, that might be a
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by lliiffee 18y ago
In the recent interview with Soustroup, he suggested that "AT&T bell labs" was the place to be, not "Lucent bell labs". Is that correct-- it has now split in two?
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by lliiffee 18y ago
One reason I might do well is that it is far, far easier to profitably invest 70 thousand dollars than 70 trillion.
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by lliiffee 18y ago
Maybe try the idea that everyone works twice as hard, but instead of building twice as much stuff, everyone just builds the same products better. (Of course, if you think about this carefully enough, the distinction between "more" stuff and
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by lliiffee 18y ago
Are you sure about that? I often used to tell retailers that they "had" to accept, say, 2 dollar bills or whatever because currency says "legal tender for all debts public or private". I found out some years later that this is quite liter
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by lliiffee 18y ago
Fourth, "average" usually refers to the mean, and for distributions with big upper tails (like salaries), the mean is higher than median.
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by lliiffee 18y ago
In a word, no. The reason is that if the bayesian does a really crappy job of specifying their prior distribution, the posterior will be completely inaccurate. On the other hand, if the bayesian does a good job, getting intervals as you d
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by lliiffee 18y ago
> I'm not sure that even frequentists know what the rules are for being a "frequentist". I take no particular side on this debate, but that seems very unfair. The point of frequentism is this: Suppose we want to determine, say, the co
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Statistical Modeling: The two cultures. (Not frequentist vs. bayesian)(projecteuclid.org)
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by lliiffee 18y ago
Roughly (and inaccurately) speaking, frequentism is about confidence intervals. Like, suppose someone hands me a biased coin. A frequentist can flip that coin 10 times, then make a bound on the true bias of the coin that holds with the pro
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by lliiffee 18y ago
So your claim is that we can satisfy the requirements thus: (?) while 1, {} Not sure if you meant this, but remember that it is not possible to write a program that always gives the correct answer, just in an unpredictably large am
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by lliiffee 18y ago
I suppose many don't. I guess it depends on the meaning of "too high" for a student. I took it to mean "students cannot afford to pay $139" rather than "at $139, students will prefer to get the software illegally, even though they could p
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by lliiffee 18y ago
You need to reach a certain "Karma" threshold. (I believe it is something in the range of 50-100)
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by lliiffee 18y ago
Tons of students pay $100 for books. Tons of students pay $10,000-$30,000 for tuition.
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by lliiffee 18y ago
My favorite NP-complete cheat: You want to solve an integer programming problem, something like max sum_i x_i f_i Where the x_i are restricted to be binary. The cheat: Just let the x_i be real numbers in the [0,1] interval, and sol
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by lliiffee 18y ago
> Keep in mind that all schools have a foreign student quota - i.e. slots that will either be filled by foreign students or not filled at all. Foreigners do not compete with domestic students for college enrollment at all. Well, I know
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by lliiffee 18y ago
It isn't really an unmitigated good, though. By increasing the incentive for a foreigner to get a US engineering degree, it would increase the competition for those slots, and result in fewer US students getting degrees. Of course, if the
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by lliiffee 18y ago
Your doubling the salary for teachers due to tenure is questionable. The reason tenured professors don't quit is only partly due to tenure, also due to the fact that they find being a professor more interesting than the other work. Regula
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by lliiffee 18y ago
I really shouldn't nitpick-- particularly on something thrown together in a week by one person-- but I can't resist: I bet you'd double the fraction of people looking at the site who actually build a list if it lets you start building a li
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by lliiffee 18y ago
I think you are wrong about schools. Obama repeatedly mentioned support of Charter schools (though not vouchers) in the debates. He specifically mentioned Michelle Rhee in DC as doing good work, which is highly encouraging to many of us
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by lliiffee 18y ago
> 3) there are a million services that are provided almost exclusively by very large companies. Quite often they do a horrible job. There's a million opportunities there. How do you find these opportunities? I guess there is no easy an
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by lliiffee 18y ago
Your last paragraph seems like such a good idea, its tough to understand why it hasn't happened. (I would definitely be at 85%, and I would accept a lower "base" to have to option!) I think the biggest reason is that time off is fairly di
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by lliiffee 18y ago
I got: Radiohead -> The Beach Boys You should remove that my any means necessary. I think the UI is pretty nice, actually. Very functional, feels like a "tool". Don't lose that when you make it more fancy.
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by lliiffee 18y ago
Imagine that there are two people, in the world: Joe and Bob. Joe and Bob need two things to live: A widgets and B widgets. * Joe can make 10 A widgets in an hour, and 5 B widgets in an hour. * Bob can make 5 A widgets in an hour, and 4 B
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An appalling and politically impossible way to improve voting outcomes.(justindomke.wordpress.com)
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by lliiffee 18y ago
Suppose there are only three states. Suppose that all states have an 80% probability of voting for Obama. If they are independent, the odds of an Obama win are .8 * 8 * .8 + 3 * .8 * .8 * .2=.896 However, suppose the states are maximally DE
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by lliiffee 18y ago
That seems like an excellent point. It looks like electric motors are pretty efficient, particularly big, powerful ones. Electric cars, with 100hp or more should achieve about 95% efficiency, according to this: http://www.psnh.com/Busine
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by lliiffee 18y ago
It's 2/3, but it can come from coal . There are very significant political/economic advantages to that. A simultaneous 1/3 environmental advantage is icing on the cake.

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