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by msellout 14y ago
I think that's worth repeating: "the ownership of the means of production has changed". Intentionally rephrased to allude to a certain economist.
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by msellout 14y ago
I'd like to see a controlled experiment verifying the existence of such a zone. I'm skeptical.
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by msellout 14y ago
Some folks published a paper last year or the year before about their roulette monitoring system. You can improve your odds because you're allowed to place bets while the ball is bouncing. Some physics prof claims to have successfully used
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by msellout 14y ago
You don't use your browser's zoom feature?
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by msellout 14y ago
When people realized it's more comfortable to sit back in their chairs.
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by msellout 14y ago
I got punched by a guy at a stop light in Atlanta. Practically the same thing. Context: I yelled at him for trying to turn left at the wrong time. He caught up to me a couple lights later, walked down the median and popped me through my ope
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by msellout 14y ago
I'd call Excel more declarative than functional.
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by msellout 14y ago
> It is nowhere near significance. Stopping it is completely wrong under the procedure we're using, we'll have no idea whether we're making the right decision! I don't know anyone who runs an experiment until they find "significance".
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by msellout 14y ago
Does the hg-git extension ( http://hg-git.github.com/ ) not suffice?
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by msellout 14y ago
I was more annoyed that he didn't see immigration as the answer. If we can't expect more immigrants from Mexico, we can still welcome millions from India and Africa.
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by msellout 14y ago
Depending on how he's defined industry, I suppose the only things left are post-doc and non-tenured lecturer.
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by msellout 14y ago
I thought Diamond's comparison of Europe and China was especially weak. He wrote it off as that China had an emperor, and thus a single point of failure. He didn't do enough to explain why Europe did not become an empire, or to explain why
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by msellout 14y ago
Regardless of the source (I didn't read it), there are some good arguments for buying non-local, non-organic being better for the environment. Efficient farms use less land to produce the same amount of food. Taxing carbon and pollution app
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by msellout 14y ago
You've got it backwards: rent is controlled by the law.
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by msellout 14y ago
Try Bushwick. It's on the L train. And some parts of Jersey are a faster commute to midtown Manhattan than north Manhattan is.
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by msellout 14y ago
> "But the vast majority of these are changes that frankly they don’t completely understand" Sounds like over-fit to me. I much prefer interpretable and plausible models to magically accurate predictions.
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by msellout 14y ago
Get them to buy in advance.
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by msellout 14y ago
You could have skipped the first two sentences and got your message across better.
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by msellout 14y ago
Unless there are confounding factors also correlated with the h*geneity scale.
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by msellout 14y ago
However annoying this is, there is some truth to the claim that the takeover of AIG was a "backdoor bailout" of other firms. Somewhat like the IMF loaning money to countries like Thailand and South Korea during the Asian financial crisis. T
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by msellout 14y ago
800 hours (20 weeks) of consulting service for $125k. That's about $6.25k per week, which seems reasonable for high-quality engineering. Some folks would charge more. The key is if you believe it would take 800 hours to re-create Cheddar.
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by msellout 14y ago
Yes, you can use nearest neighbors to implement collaborative filtering. Truly you can use numpy.linalg.norm to implement collaborative filtering recommendations. The trick is always to figure out what "distance" or "similarity" between two
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by msellout 14y ago
That goes both ways. Just because one wants to keep secrets doesn't mean you should stop someone else who wants to know everything. To make the case for who is wrongly imposing their will, we need need a framework for measuring goodness. Th
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by msellout 14y ago
A random forest builds a diversified portfolio of decision trees. To the extent that the errors of the individual trees are uncorrelated, the random forest keeps the same low expected error of a single tree while reducing the high error var
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by msellout 14y ago
500 million to a billion is on the same order of magnitude. Seems reasonable to me.
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by msellout 14y ago
I think science likes to move faster than that. What does "completely objective" even mean? That's like saying you want something in real time or with no bugs. It's all evidence, not proof. We just keep moving from prior beliefs to posterio
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by msellout 14y ago
The article indicates that GM uses proprietary software to design powertrains. Therefore, good software is a competitive advantage.
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by msellout 14y ago
Funny, my first interpretation of his M:TG suggestion was that he enjoys playing and hopes others will also bring their cards to play with him.
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by msellout 14y ago
It's far too early to call Coursera the incumbent and Udacity the challenger. Plus, challengers sometimes win.
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by msellout 14y ago
Why the surprise? It's a reasonable guess. Everyone wants to say something is unique about humans. As more of our features are being discovered in other animals, it's good to assert something that's hard to disprove.

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