moultano

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by moultano 9y ago
I do feel like I get value from politics Twitter, but sometimes I'm just not in the mood, and really wish I could filter it down to scicomm twitter easily.
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by moultano 9y ago
Why would we expect a global company to hire even a majority from the US?
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by moultano 9y ago
Much more interesting than the question, "is minimum wage good or bad?" is the question, "what policies accomplish the goals of minimum wage more effectively?" I wish half of the ink spent debating the sign of the impact
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by moultano 9y ago
Case Western has to step up its game.
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by moultano 9y ago
Ideally it is, but it is more complex to implement, and complexity can create loopholes that undermine it. There's more opportunity for graft in how the credits are distributed.
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by moultano 9y ago
I can make small edits on my phone, and more importantly reread it to find errors. If I think of something at work, I can open in a tab. I can send my current draft to someone so they can add feedback inline. I can make changes based on the
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by moultano 9y ago
I can work from any device in any little snippet of time I have available, and all I need is a browser. That flexibility allowed me to make progress even with a job and two kids. I submitted my first paper recently, and I don't think I
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by moultano 9y ago
For that reason I prefer approval voting (as well as how simple it is to explain) but I'm happy to get behind any change that has momentum. We have the worst possible system right now, so any movement is good.
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by moultano 9y ago
The current system is already mandated by federal law passed in 1967. http://archive.fairvote.org/library/history/flores/district....
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by moultano 9y ago
You aren't dividing up seats by party. You make big districts with at least 5 representatives. Anyone with 1/n of first place votes is elected. The candidate with the fewest first place votes is removed, and you repeat until all t
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by moultano 9y ago
You should read OP. It's about making districts with multiple representatives, not changing districts with the current system.
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by moultano 9y ago
None is perfect, but not all are equally bad! You can compare them by how often they would pick the condorcet winner when one exists. Any ranked choice system would be better than what we have. Furthermore, the OP is mostly about the proble
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by moultano 9y ago
The behavior in this case is that new uploads are blocked but your existing files remain. https://support.google.com/drive/answer/2736362?hl=en "If you cancel your storage plan or when your storage plan expir
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by moultano 9y ago
Moreover there are no apolitical choices of algorithms. When one party is urban and one party is rural, your choice of algorithm determines which party will benefit.
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by moultano 9y ago
Seems more expensive than the alternatives, but that depends how much time it takes to seek out used clothes via friends, mothers groups, thrift stores. If that is time consuming for you then it might be worth it.
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by moultano 9y ago
I've come to the conclusion that the only reason new baby equipment is ever sold is due to baby showers. There's an extremely liquid market for this stuff since it spends less than a year with each owner.
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by moultano 9y ago
>And then there are the ads, which, as a bunch of other commenters have pointed out, tend to be really far out of line from anything I've ever expressed interest in. It's just off-putting to see a bunch of low-quality ads for t
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by moultano 9y ago
No mention of discount rate? I don't think wages appreciate competitively with the stock market, so time preference strongly biases this.
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by moultano 9y ago
I started following a bunch of paleo-artists on twitter and now I find it hard to look at kids' dinosaur stuff anymore. http://scienceblogs.com/notrocketscience/2010/03/03/zombie-h...
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by moultano 9y ago
Get a white noise machine.
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by moultano 9y ago
Seems like means testing this can only distort the incentives and introduce bureaucracy. If it were priced in universally we might actually see costs drop.
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by moultano 9y ago
I don't think student loans are the primary motivation to earn more for people that have any hope of paying them off.
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by moultano 9y ago
Suppose student debt payments were capped as a fraction of income, say 10%. It seems like this would align everyone's incentives correctly toward the student succeeding.
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by moultano 9y ago
Mostly they can't move to cities because zoning laws prevent the places they would live from being built.
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by moultano 9y ago
Some, but enough to entirely eat it up provided that there are lots of unsubsidized renters.
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by moultano 9y ago
Much better to include the feature in the training, and exclude it from the inference. That actually cancels out the effect, rather than just incentivizing the model to reconstruct it.
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by moultano 9y ago
>* the performance per watt of the most efficient supercomputer (7 GFlops/watt) vs the human brain (38 petaflops / 20 watts = 1.9 petaflops per watt) Encouraging, but AI wouldn't be constrained to an energy budget similar
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by moultano 10y ago
Appending the subtitle of the article ("That is not a good argument against them") to the title would more accurately describe it.
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by moultano 10y ago
The best explanation of why these transfer that I've seen is that the problem inherently arises from dot-products in high dimensions. Real data is somewhat random w.r.t. any particular set of activation coefficients, so the dot product
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by moultano 10y ago
If the location is determined by the plaintiff, the only incentive is to be friendly to plaintiffs, not to produce accurate and reliable judgments.

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