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by msellout 12y ago
In the thread below she quickly introduces herself as Lexi, which is not only a more feminine name, but also perhaps an allusion to a lex-er, as in lex and yacc?
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by msellout 12y ago
Banks invest in individuals by offering loans.
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by msellout 12y ago
That's the thesis of decentralized economies -- that they are more effective at responding to market information, which is theoretically entirely captured by price, than centralized planners are capable of.
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by msellout 12y ago
Instead of "networking" just try to make friends. It's basically the same thing.
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by msellout 12y ago
Not that I'm aware of. This type hinting is currently planned for analysis, not for efficiency.
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by msellout 12y ago
I'd expand on #9. It's generally faster and more readable to use an idiomatic Python iteration than to use indexing inside the loop. The difference was small over 5 elements, but `enumerate(a)` will become dramatically faster than
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by msellout 12y ago
Generally, state legislatures provide representation in proportion to districts rather than population. Urban centers often represent a large portion of a state's population but only cover a handful of districts. ... yes, this is not a
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by msellout 12y ago
The chance of repeal or lack of enforcement should be factored into the price of the medallion. It's a free market, as they say.
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by msellout 12y ago
Not if the random variable distribution changed over time. Calculate a new mean and variance every now and then, based on some hash of current time or whatever you want, maybe view count of Gangam Style Videos :-). Joking, but that would wo
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by msellout 12y ago
Some (many) people are distracted by non-participating neighbors. It's somewhat like second-hand smoke.
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by msellout 12y ago
I think it's a joke.
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by msellout 12y ago
I think you're using a different definition of "essentialism" than Dawkins is. Dawkins was not arguing against improvement, but against the idea of clear boundaries between concepts.
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by msellout 12y ago
It'll certainly destroy a few if not hundreds or thousands of species. Transoceanic ships will bring strange species, displacing natives. The environmental studies will, among other things, try to model which species will be able to fe
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by msellout 12y ago
The definition of cause is more of a philosophy/epistemology question than a statistics question. I'm not sure those 3 points are necessary. Even temporal precedence is called into question by quantum mechanics. Positrons are ju
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by msellout 12y ago
You can always linearize a non-linear relationship to create a linear correlation. Even in cases such as an exclusive-or, neural networks demonstrate layering linear functions to mimic any relationship.
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by msellout 12y ago
Could you please give an example? It may be that he is defining causal more narrowly and correlate more broadly than you are.
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by msellout 12y ago
That is not a very useful definition of the word imply , since all events have a non-zero probability in a trivial, quantum mechanical anything-can-happen sense. Gelman likely uses the word imply in the more common meaning of indirect lo
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by msellout 12y ago
Some cities require a larger footprint. For example, Atlanta should include the entire I-285 Perimeter.
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by msellout 12y ago
I don't see `else` used very often on loops, but it is an unambiguous language feature. That's Zen enough for me.
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by msellout 12y ago
I'd try to test smaller chunks of code for validity. If any block of code is longer than 12 lines, I get nervous that I don't understand what it's doing. Refactor your code into functions as you confirm the code behaves as ex
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by msellout 12y ago
I can see why you might think so, but remember the Zen of Python is to have only one obvious way to do something. >>> [1,2,3] + [4,5] [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] Thus appending should do something different than addition. &g
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by msellout 12y ago
I'd argue that the key difference from other languages is (re)assignment rather than (im)mutability.
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by msellout 12y ago
You could say that interpreting is first parsing and second executing/evaluating. The parser tokenizes and does a small amount of optimization such as ignoring unassigned values.
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by msellout 12y ago
It turned out that subscriptions generate more revenue than micro-payments.
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by msellout 12y ago
Perhaps this includes qualifying matches.
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by msellout 12y ago
AutoTrader.com is a good example of a successful startup within a large company.
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by msellout 12y ago
We played Diplomacy for extra credit in one of my International Affairs classes at Georgia Tech.
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by msellout 12y ago
Brokers take a transaction fee.
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by msellout 12y ago
It's easy to underestimate the precision necessary for those bounce throws.
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by msellout 13y ago
An anthropologist might disagree with you. Not all science relies on data, some scientists prefer "case studies".

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