moseandre

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by moseandre 6y ago
Creativity isn't painting a photographic self-portrait. Creativity is, like, painting your own self over the course of your disease and so painting the disease.
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by moseandre 8y ago
Monarchs have a multi-generation migration. That is beautiful and mysterious.
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by moseandre 9y ago
>> ways to understand NN's are useful, if for nothing other than debugging, but I don't think the community agrees at all over whether explainability is necessary to use it. I have to be able to debug anything I work with; d
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by moseandre 9y ago
It means that if you are using your phone while driving, you are at just as much increased risk of incurring an accident as if you had not slept the previous night. Right, folks?
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by moseandre 9y ago
Evidence accumulates, it does not spring into existence.
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by moseandre 10y ago
No. Buzzwords have a short shelf-life and it has passed for OLAP and SSAS [actually, maybe not -- no idea what that is]. I don't know the term for expired buzzwords, though! They do turn people away.
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by moseandre 10y ago
He is well-known for long, grammatically correct sentences and abundant footnotes. Some of it was fitting in as an academic? I find some of the writing tough (i.e. impossible to read at night in bed) but the audio book for Infinite Jest na
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by moseandre 10y ago
I'm not sure all of the opposition to nuclear research is about dangerous byproducts from the typical situation(s). It is about the improbable problematic situation which lead to exponential disaster that are scary, and, even if improb
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by moseandre 10y ago
Please read Freeman Dysons's "Disturbing The Universe". This book is autobiographical and Dyson explains his arc of passion for nuclear propulsion and Orion. His strongest statement in this book is some deep respect for a bio
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by moseandre 10y ago
This is a tour de force in data science style computational geometry. I really loved the story. And very nice maps. Wow. :)
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by moseandre 10y ago
It was a statistics class where I learned a linear time median algorithm. But that was pretty lucky, I admit. 95% of undergraduate statistics education is focused on formal inference. Data science, in my experience, involves a lot more expl
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by moseandre 10y ago
You are simplifying to wage garnishing. Probably the parent comment is intimating things like loss of socioeconomic position due to the divorce. If marriages are financially unequal in many cases, fundamentally, then divorce shows that to
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by moseandre 10y ago
This is really nice art and data visualization too. It's common to scale the elevation of a topographic map to exaggerate features [1], even non-linearly [2]. If you try to 3d print a raised relief globe without exaggeration it is sur
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by moseandre 10y ago
You don't have to leave engineering to research plants or rocks. You just have to leave some urban center. Remote work is difficult to negotiate at times, but for some of us it is worth it. You might also like this book. A Review of J
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by moseandre 11y ago
R is great for fitting models and so on as explained by others. Most R functions expect a 2d matrix or table-like input. SQL is great for choosing which columns to get out of multiple tables, somehow combined, as well as to filter which ro