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by mshron 13y ago
There are many, many jobs that you could eliminate without inventing sentient AI. Anything that requires implementing a plan, rather than coming up with the knowledge, should be fair game. Doctors, most of contract law, teaching, lots of lo
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by mshron 13y ago
I agree. It seems to me that the Kevin Drum article is much clearer on this topic. AI doesn't need to be that good in order to oust humans from their jobs. His first line example is automated cars, not sentient robots. In the case where m
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by mshron 13y ago
Jig was excellent, some very clear talent involved there. Curious to see what comes next. Best of luck to all of you!
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by mshron 13y ago
I've maintained for awhile now that the distinction isn't between "big" and "small" data, but between coarse and fine data. Now that everything is done through the web, previously common data sources (surveys, sales summaries, etc) are bein
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by mshron 13y ago
Since the new administration decided to start gaming the rankings. Admissions rate now stands at 8.8%, down from mid-forties when I was admitted only eight years ago. Part of that was from switching to the Common App, part of it was riding
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The Hell of American Day Care(newrepublic.com)
2 points by mshron 13y ago|0 comments
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by mshron 14y ago
> The $1 billion in PAC money in 2012 seems to have had very little impact on the election, other than to pump up the people who already agreed with the messages in the ads. There are at least three ways that money can have an effect th
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by mshron 14y ago
1) I think Lessig makes a fair case that we should broaden our notion of corruption. Congress folk spend 30-70% of their time raising money. Roughly half of congress goes in to lobbying after their terms end, with an average pay hike of abo
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by mshron 14y ago
I think Coursera has struck a very effective balance between synchronous and asynchronous learning. Once you sign up for a class, you're able to go back and watch videos, get assignments, even submit assignments for automated grading. For t
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by mshron 14y ago
Not the OP but: * Problem definition * Infrastructure * Data transformation * Exploratory analysis (arguably part of model work) * Results presentation Then again, this is an ongoing disagreement I have with the Kaggle folks over what const
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by mshron 14y ago
Citation needed? If true, that's a pretty crazy story.
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by mshron 14y ago
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned Meteor yet. As far as I understand, developing for Meteor means having a single codebase that erases the distinction between server and client. Your web pages become live views of the underlying controller
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by mshron 14y ago
Everyblock was a great way to find out about what was going on in my neighborhood. I wish they had given a little more warning; I would have gone back and read some things before they closed their doors. Then again, hard to complain about s
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by mshron 14y ago
Assuming that you're comfortable with 2d histograms (hexagonal binning is the standard) I completely agree. Otherwise scatterplots are pretty crucial.
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by mshron 14y ago
In what way were you hindered? I deleted mine years ago and the only downside is that I occasionally can't see a photo album someone sends me. It's not like photos only exist on Facebook. I can't speak for other people, but the effort it to
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by mshron 14y ago
I'd like to suggest another reason for large military expenditures that have nothing to do with corruption. The US has the only two-ocean navy, and a very extensive one at that. A lot of the burden of protecting shipping lanes for members o
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by mshron 14y ago
To those of you that have forgotten: ↑↑↓↓←➝←➝BA
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by mshron 15y ago
... where there are serious externalities. Isn't this where government regulation is most suited?
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by mshron 15y ago
I love the idea, but I don't think the page does a good job of selling itself on design merits. Your eyes immediately go to the tertiary copy ("The new eBook for bootstrappers..." etc) because that's where the highest contrast is highest. T
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G, a Statistical Myth(readability.com)
3 points by mshron 15y ago|0 comments
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Ten Brighter Ideas(worrydream.com)
1 points by mshron 15y ago|0 comments
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by mshron 15y ago
NumPy! Woo! This is a big deal for writing data-intensive backends. There was a great outcry of happiness on the ticket system when this got announced. Now all we need is SciPy and matplotlib and we'll be in business...
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by mshron 15y ago
Permutation tests! Easy to use and easy to explain. The two examples have the same mean and median, but differ substantially in their min/max/standard deviation/median absolute deviation. Pick your spread, they differ. I got this by poking
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by mshron 15y ago
I can see why the Dreyfus article would be controversial, but so far (first ten pages or so) I found it very enlightening. This really struck a chord with me: > What the learner acquires through experience is not represented at all b
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by mshron 15y ago
I think the typography and design are easier to read than http://sleeptyi.me , but it is uncomfortably similar wording and navigation if they're not made by the same person.
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by mshron 15y ago
It turned out to be a bug in their testing framework.
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by mshron 15y ago
I just finished "Hamlet's BlackBerry," which is exactly about taking time to disconnect to get "depth." A little preachy some times, but thought-provoking. Basically, we haven't developed the social norms needed to put some space between ou
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by mshron 15y ago
Got it. For some reason I was expecting some sort of Mario AI or something. Thanks!
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by mshron 15y ago
I'm confused. All I see is a copy of Mario in HTML5. Can someone enlighten me?
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by mshron 15y ago
I don't think the claim is that something other than net calories are what regulates your body fat, but instead that trying to limit intake through calorie counting isn't the right way to do it. That's what I took away, anyway.

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