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by magneticnorth 7y ago
The paper is here (link from further down in their discussion): https://drive.google.com/file/d/19lv8p1fB47z1pEZVlfDXhop082L...
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by magneticnorth 7y ago
National forests are usually like you described, but most national parks have camping areas with toilets and bear lines available at popular backcountry locations. Most national parks also allow dispersed camping, but not all - Rainier for
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by magneticnorth 7y ago
I'm not the person you were asking, but I agree that keeping this a secret seems like a mistake. Between the increasing popularity of genetics & ancestry services and the increase in health & fitness tracking, it seems extremel
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by magneticnorth 7y ago
Just tried your test, and looks like I need to work on my rolled shoulders, too :) What have you done that helped to improve it?
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by magneticnorth 8y ago
1. Dealing with biased data 2. Cleaning/understanding data - nearly all data sets I've used have duplicates, missing data, highly anomalous distributions in some fields that indicate we aren't measuring what we think we are,
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by magneticnorth 8y ago
Agreed. Many people don't want to think, they only want to know. One of the things my team does is build data tools. The number of people who want to take data they have hardly looked at, put it through a tool they don't understan
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by magneticnorth 8y ago
Oh, you absolutely wouldn't simplify anything by doing this - ideas that used to be encompassed by a single word would have paragraph-long descriptions. It's just a thought experiment about how much you could optimize one dimensio
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by magneticnorth 8y ago
A little late on this thread, but did want to add - I'm not assuming that's what's happening here, but I know this has been overlooked in similar analyses. I think Google's hr team is probably smart enough to account for
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by magneticnorth 8y ago
I've talked to one expert about a similar result in a company where I worked, and the flip side to results like this is sometimes promotion velocity - women looked "overpaid" for their level relative to the men, and that was
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by magneticnorth 8y ago
... tomorrow's comic? Hi, Randall?
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by magneticnorth 8y ago
I used Blue Apron for a while fairly happily, and for me the reasoning was that I like to cook - I find it a really nice way to unwind after a workday - but I hate shopping and often don't feel like planning. So for a slightly higher c
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by magneticnorth 8y ago
Margaret Atwood has written several non-sci-fi novels that would qualify, in my opinion, as Great Canadian Novels - e.g. Alias Grace or The Blind Assassin.
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by magneticnorth 8y ago
I find this NLP guide helpful, and would love to know of any others that people are aware of: https://nlpprogress.com/
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by magneticnorth 8y ago
I got lucky; they had a successful IPO and I made around 150k based on working there 1.5 years. I joined fairly late (employee 400-something) at a startup that was very secretive about their finances and customers, but clearly doing well, i
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by magneticnorth 8y ago
I believe they mean that they don't eat from, say, 8pm on Sunday night until 8am Tuesday morning (and again covering Wednesday and Friday).
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by magneticnorth 8y ago
I had thought there were a few pre-contact dog breeds in Mexico still? And they mention that one Carolina dog tested at 30% native, but maybe in error - I had also thought that Carolina dogs are partially descended from native American dogs
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by magneticnorth 9y ago
I know at least one Googler who really will quit if Google continues to contribute to drone warfare research. Yes, they like the high paychecks, five-star meals and massages, but the market for ML and AI experts is very strong right now. Th
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by magneticnorth 9y ago
Thank you - this seems like the missing piece that might answer the obvious "but why?" the article title inspires.
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by magneticnorth 9y ago
It's very difficult to compare wealth across different times in human history, but even in modern(ish) times, Rockefeller was much wealthier by many reasonable measures - his assets equaled 1.5% of America's economic output, and h
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Stitch fix has filed for an IPO(techcrunch.com)
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by magneticnorth 9y ago
This is fascinating, thanks for sharing. It's especially interesting that female software developers seem to marry other devs, whether they're gay or straight, but gay male software devs tend to marry fitness workers.
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by magneticnorth 10y ago
If you were willing to pay the modern-dollar equivalent of the cost of old appliances, you could maybe get appliances that would last decades. If this website is accurate: http://www.thepeoplehistory.com/50selectrical.html
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by magneticnorth 10y ago
From the article: "But the new jobs panic is exaggerated and misplaced. For one thing, political and social caution may block some of the potential uses" Sounds to me like: Our worry & tendency toward caution is unnecessary, b
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by magneticnorth 10y ago
What kind of job(s) do you think you're interested in? I moved from academia to a data science job, and it wasn't as hard as I thought it would be. My background: Math PhD from a top school, though my research was very abstract -