maldeh

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by maldeh 10y ago
Strange, that wasn't my take from Rhinehart's blog post. His lifestyle is certainly... alternative. But I think his choices appear to be driven more by dispassionate energy calculations than douchebag judgmentality. Which isn&#x27
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by maldeh 10y ago
It essentially comes down to whether you assume that the probability of an earthquake every subsequent year is independent of the result in previous years. The notion of tectonic pressure build-up suggests that that assumption isn't tr
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by maldeh 10y ago
Your comment made me recall this classic comic: http://existentialcomics.com/comic/1 I personally try to resolve this quandary in my head by defining my consciousness not as a single state at an instant in time, but ra
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by maldeh 10y ago
Not quite escrow, but there's 'Fulfillment By Amazon', which takes care of distribution and shipping for you (albeit for additional fulfillment fees), and can be safer for both the buyer and seller since goods pass through in
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by maldeh 10y ago
we'll fix your car for you *for free. The customer can always choose to pay the standard repair cost and not sign any Goodwill waiver.
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by maldeh 10y ago
The field isn't going to get trapped in a local minimum with neural nets because the field is too big now. When AI was 20 people each at Stanford, MIT, and CMU, that could happen. With 50,000 people taking machine learning courses, th
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by maldeh 11y ago
Personally, I think that answer is more useful or actionable than attempting to answer in absolute terms. How much lead does "trace amounts" actually amount to? Is it realistic to expect manufacturing processes to be completely le
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by maldeh 11y ago
The criticisms leveled against control charts in the wiki again elucidate a common problem with the state of statistics today. If experts, who have thought long and hard about the philosophical implications of likelihood versus significance
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by maldeh 11y ago
This reaction feels to me to be exactly what the article (and even the old debate club maxim) is hoping to have us consider. On most of the pressing social issues of our time, I can at least identify a considered point from the other side -
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by maldeh 11y ago
> What she is really saying is that she has permission to fail the customers who trusted her. No she really isn't. > She is unilaterally demanding the right to betray that trust in order to have both the benefits of success, and
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by maldeh 11y ago
I feel like you are getting distracted by the sound bite. This post is not about telling employees that it's okay for them to do mediocre work - it's about having a healthy perspective about their jobs and not getting emotionall
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by maldeh 11y ago
Not to mention that Facebook's partner in all this is Reliance Telecom, who do not have a good track record on censorship. You need an RCom subscription in order to have access. Does anybody happen to know how easy or hard it is for a
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by maldeh 11y ago
Interesting idea. Sounds like you may hit scaling issues rapidly if this gains modest popularity though, since you're tied directly to a worker pool. I see there's about 300k HITs active on MTurk at any time, so even the startup p
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by maldeh 12y ago
Alright, that's fair. I'm not too familiar with the design of these trials, so I concede that my worrying about sample-poisoning is likely misplaced. Still, and I realise I'm coming dangerously close to sounding like a tinfoi
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by maldeh 12y ago
I'm not entirely comfortable with allowing this by policy. I could see this affecting the interpretability of results from such trials in the long run. If there's a rising proportion of mega-rich people in any given study, this co
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by maldeh 12y ago
Keep in mind that /bin/sh is bash on OS X. So if you have any scripts with the #!/bin/sh preamble you'll have to replace the default sh too.
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by maldeh 12y ago
One shouldn't discount the free concurrency offered by the unix pipelining paradigm. There are several data-mining usecases where you'd wind up writing much more performant scripts exchanging I/O between processes, with less
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by maldeh 12y ago
What would you consider a viable alternative to "majority-is-right" morality? I've always personally taken a moral action to mean the one that a majority of people, over and by whom the action is to be judged, consider to be
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by maldeh 12y ago
Surely one doesn't need to be pressured by third parties to make a judgment call on this situation? You must concede that there is some polarization in the debate over Github's reaction, with positive nods about the company's
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by maldeh 12y ago
The post only deals with ending association, and doesn't make any direct accusation against Github. As a feminist organization devoted to protecting women in the workplace from similar (but not necessarily identical) circumstances, it&
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by maldeh 13y ago
Or automata theory and turing machines, for that matter.
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by maldeh 13y ago
Keep in mind that Yahoo Japan is not wholly owned by Yahoo! Inc. Similar to its shares in Alibaba, The global company holds a minority stake in Yahoo JP (about ~35%, which puts it in second place on ownership [0]). [0] http://ir.
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by maldeh 13y ago
this only bears a very superficial resemblance to the slippery slope argument. We're not leaping from a dubious, frowned upon activity to an extreme hypothetical. All of the aforementioned activities are (a) unambiguously illegal, and
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by maldeh 13y ago
Call it paucity of imagination on my part, but I was wondering if somebody could make explicit some legitimate examples of situations involving a "clear national security need"? It's not like they're just making a legal
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by maldeh 13y ago
Moral objections don't just come from biblical incompatibility. Back in high-school (not-US), I once had an uncomfortable questioning from our principal because a kid's parent complained after seeing us playing with unfamiliar dic
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by maldeh 13y ago
It might not be a big deal, but I found this particularly infuriating: > The graphic comes along with an icon of a little dinosaur. Asked whether Facebook was implying that privacy was an artifact of the past, ... It was just a cute, irr
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by maldeh 13y ago
Fair point. It definitely looks like an emotional purchase in a tough market. They're already getting creamed for it in the stock market [1] The way things look, this is largely a win for Oculus for finding a big backer, and a risky ga
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by maldeh 13y ago
I see the absence of overlap as a good thing. It means it's highly unlikely that Facebook threw down $2 billion for some gimmicky social integration that a tiny sliver of their userbase could harness. The Oculus team is cutting-edge ha
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by maldeh 13y ago
Kevin Murphy's treatment of Kernel Methods in "Machine Learning - A Probabilistic Perspective" offers a take on SVMs that I don't often find in most discussions. He makes the case that SVMs are generally rather unusual f
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by maldeh 13y ago
From a policy standpoint, I like to think of the Senate Intelligence Committee as a good-faith attempt at providing "sufficient statistics" of otherwise sensitive data -- having trusted elected officials peruse classified informat

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