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by mmierz 5y ago
This is answered in the article!
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by mmierz 6y ago
“Conservative” here is being used to mean “marked by moderation or caution”, rather than the set of political positions called conservatism. The poster is saying that global climate change is probably even worse than people think. Often, th
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by mmierz 7y ago
>The proposed solution isn’t optimal but it works. Not sure what you think is wrong with it? Consider the input “ba” This solution will return “ab”, which is not a strong that can be generated by deleting characters from the input.
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by mmierz 7y ago
That solution as written is O(n^3) This is not an easy problem.
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by mmierz 7y ago
It’s not external muscle control, that’s not what a TENS unit does. OP is describing using painful electric shocks to punish a worker for mistakes or for going off-task, i.e. brutalize workers into performing with machine like efficiency.
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by mmierz 7y ago
I believe it is intended to mean "strategic advice from someone perceived as a social peer", meaning a high level important executive person, not a junior analyst.
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by mmierz 7y ago
Historically, labor unions.
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by mmierz 7y ago
I see people trot it out in online arguments as an excuse, or in think-pieces as a justification. But if white male identity politics is very important to someone, important enough to find common cause with literal neo-nazis, I think their
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by mmierz 8y ago
Author appears to be a cell biologist, where this is not atypical. There are very few permanent jobs, there are hundreds of applicants for every one, and the hiring committees would generally rather not hire anyone than accept less than the
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by mmierz 8y ago
My parents did something like this. My near-total isolation prior to college resulted in terrible social skills. I hurt a lot of people and experienced crushing loneliness. In my 30s, I'm starting to feel like I can pass as a "nor
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by mmierz 8y ago
That's the stereotype, but it's not clear that it's actually true [1] 1. http://theconversation.com/anti-vaccination-beliefs-dont-fol...
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by mmierz 8y ago
at US universities, it's more like 1.5X the workload or less. There are typically large numbers of general or elective course requirements that can satisfy requirements for 2 or more degrees simultaneously.
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by mmierz 8y ago
"general intelligence". the characteristic that IQ is intended to correlate with.
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by mmierz 8y ago
Cary, NC
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by mmierz 8y ago
Adding onto this, I saw a very interesting seminar a few years ago from a biologist who sequenced bacterial samples from the arctic permafrost. He found resistance genes for antibiotics that had definitely not been created by humans at the
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by mmierz 9y ago
I agree. I started developing adult friendships when I decided not to worry about this and start dropping “strong hints” that I was interested in social events that I overheard people discussing. I tend to appear standoffish and several fri
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by mmierz 9y ago
It doesn’t help “nobody”. It helps people that build yachts. And then the people who sell things to the people that build yachts. And on, and on. Working people spend their money.
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by mmierz 9y ago
> I've often felt like science in particular would benefit from a sort of embargo period, during which time pseudonymous authorship would be obligatory, and after which researchers could collect their due credit. Too much focus is g
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by mmierz 9y ago
Did you read the article in the post you're replying to? I don't think "herd mentality" is what the US far-right rejects.
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by mmierz 9y ago
>men with severe obesity have only one chance in 1,290 of reaching the normal weight range within a year Based on my personal experiences, a pool of anecdotes from friends, and the generally accepted advice of the medical community: sust
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by mmierz 9y ago
I can't comment on BBC, but I can't remember the last time I watched something on netflix or amazon that had missing subtitles.
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by mmierz 9y ago
Please no. Papers are sufficiently terse, jargon-filled and hard to follow as it is
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by mmierz 9y ago
Because of the 10% they keep, which can still be a huge sum.
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by mmierz 9y ago
I disagree that corporations are more powerful than nations, because FB and google can't compel you to do anything. If I opt out of google, then I miss out on google's services. If I "opt out" of my country's laws,
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by mmierz 9y ago
Any forum that doesn't censor at least some content is abused until it either starts censoring or becomes unusable. The key difference is that you're allowed to make your own platform and set whatever rules you like
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by mmierz 9y ago
I'm not sure I agree with that. I don't know any ML researchers that don't know about probability, but maybe they exist somewhere. Machine learning research isn't a good model for "data science" writ large. May
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by mmierz 9y ago
I think it's a dumb name for what I do so I call myself a programmer if anyone asks.
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by mmierz 9y ago
I think it's more like not hiring a big name coding competition winner because they never bothered to learn how to use version control, or any coding best practice, or any language other than C. Trying to do data science with zero know
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by mmierz 9y ago
The usual way is to kill them with heat when the fish is cooked
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by mmierz 9y ago
Looks useful, I will try this out. In the examples, some of the plots (such as the classifier factory ROC curve) generate many curves, but this is not explained -- is it one curve per cross-validation split?

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