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by mturmon 2y ago
Red hat at the end positions this as a job application?
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OP did allow the base frequency to vary when he did the fit. So if you found the first residual and then used the same varying-frequency fit, you might not get an exact harmonic of the base frequency. That would not be the Fourier transform
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> ...most astonishing things about probability theory... It's a core result, perhaps the most useful core result of standard probability theory. But from some points of view, the CLT is not actually astonishing. If you know what T
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> My take during that era was neural nets were considered taboo after the second AI winter of the early 90s. I'm sure there is more detail to unpack here (more than one paragraph, either yours or mine, can do). But as written this i
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Hey, at least I didn’t use the Spanish version, that would have been even worse! I’ll restate. Restricting analysis within national borders does not make scientific sense in many cases. The arctic/boreal region studied in the link I ga
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You are getting a well-deserved correction to your ignorance of political forces that might result from perceived threats to the oil and gas industry. I want to comment on a separate thing, about responsibility for the measurement, that’s i
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I see where you’re coming from, but the reality is not as stark as you have put it. The forces you point to are real, but it’s more complex because many people have seen the value in learning about Earth. A huge reason we have a NASA Earth
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Why not both? That is, a global measurement and a regional measurement? (Regional, with airborne and in situ for validation of the large scale measurement.) And appropriate global and regional studies? They are highly synergistic! Maybe som
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One goal is to do a fine grained global census, just to see what we are confronting: https://acp.copernicus.org/articles/22/9617/2022/ Previously, a high quality census was done of California and it turn
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Related fun fact: The actual tar pits, and the art museum adjacent to it, are basically at the intersection of La Brea Blvd. and La Cienega Blvd., which translates to: A main tourist attraction of LA is at the intersection of Tar Pits Blvd.
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by mturmon 2y ago
My copper pipes have with some regularity gotten small pinholes that blossom from tiny drips into tiny high-pressure jets. (E.g.: https://whyrepipe.com/blog/what-causes-pinhole-leaks-in-copp... ) The longer I have a hom
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Full agree. The preceding paragraphs are terse and add further insight about the limits of Stoicism (or perhaps the little-s version that one might commonly adopt if under stress) and its effects on curtailing emotions.
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Quite nice. Probability can be hard, and sometimes the correct intuition has to be found and/or cultivated. As TFA says, "The interesting thing is that many people wouldn’t accept a mathematical argument, but found a simulation
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by mturmon 2y ago
I use defaultdict a lot - for accumulators when you're not sure about what is coming. Here's a simplified example: # a[star_name][instrument] = set of (seed, planet index) of visited planets a = defaultdict(lambda: defau
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by mturmon 2y ago
100%. I have the same experience - my home runs seven Logitech (formerly Slim Devices) “squeezebox” players from a home server with a ripped collection and options for Spotify. The networked players either have their own speaker, or are con
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by mturmon 2y ago
We rest easy knowing the wealthy are using their money more wisely: https://sfstandard.com/2024/08/18/zuckerberg-sculpture-prisc...
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Another roundup from Science magazine: https://www.science.org/content/article/trouble-and-strife-d...
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Yeah, regarding your first point -- the replacement brushes are also an Oral-B product, so prompting for frequent replacement of the brushes would be a way to make more money.
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by mturmon 2y ago
Excellent point. Longnow.org has a lot of material about the resilience of cities over very long time scales (like, millennia). Here’s an example on the resilience of cities versus corporations: https://longnow.org/seminars&
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by mturmon 2y ago
Some sympathetic reading about ADHD might help. And think about who in your life might have it in some degree. That person who leaves the cabinet doors open, or who has 500 tabs on their browser. Don’t pathologize it.
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Yeah, differentiating these infinite sums to pull down polynomial factors is a familiar trick. It happens in basic moment generating function manipulations (e.g., higher moments of random variables). Or from z-transforms in signal processin
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The Nation is published and for many years was edited by Katrina vanden Heuvel ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrina_vanden_Heuvel ), whose grandfather founded MCA (now Universal).
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by mturmon 2y ago
No argument with that fact. But the parent comment is not talking about constrained optimization, just gradient following. In the context of this post, that’s just “which of these N discrete variables, if moved from 0 to 1, will increase th
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A single decision could still be easily modeled by a 0/1 variable (as an input) and a real variable (as an output, like revenue for example). That 0/1 input variable could also have arbitrary interactions with other variables, whi
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I think this is accurate. A significant loading on diagnosis (X2) does not tell you anything about the effect of diagnosis at any particular age (except age 0). You’d have to recenter the model about the age of interest.
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This is a reasonable heuristic. I studied in a program that (for both philosophical and practical reasons) questioned whether the Bayesian formalism should be applied as widely as it is. (Which for many people is, basically everywhere.) The
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Thank you. In fact, the whole talk series ( https://foundationsofprobabilityseminar.com/ ) and channel ( https://www.youtube.com/@foundationsofprobabilitypa2408/vide... ) seem interesting.
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You’re changing the subject! There is a really good problem in there. Why does this stuff work so well, for what classes of problems, and can we say anything about the fundamental energy/accuracy limits of this approach? I think of it
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(Not an expert, but try to follow climate science as part of $Dayjob. It’s always hard to write quick summaries in Earth Science, because the system is very complex.) We have to be careful about what is meant by “these events”. According to
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Yeah, that was when I knew for sure that the author is trying to make a point and didn’t care about the facts. I’ve read NYRoB since the 1990s and you are right, they had and have a lot of really good writing and reviews. The thing OP unfor

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