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Xkcd Plots in Matplotlib(nbviewer.jupyter.org)
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Those are some nice tips, but I have to question the use of bold font, it seems to come off as too aggressive.
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Contrapuntal Consciousness(aeon.co)
3 points by mxcrossb 7y ago|1 comments
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He payed 250k for the pass, and 150k for the companion feature. I think the empty seats were fair, considering it nearly cost him double. AA just practiced this basic rule: make sure your customer/partner/citizens are always break
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by mxcrossb 7y ago
I’ve been trying to quit Reddit over the poorly disguised political advertisements that flood it, and so I came to HN hoping to fill some of that discussion void. It surprises me that HN users think comment sections are inflamed here, to me
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Finally a Kennedy assassination theory I can believe
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From the article: > Only a full ban — a federal ban, covering the use of facial recognition by government agencies, in public places, and in public contracts with private entities — can prevent our nightmares from becoming reality. Talen
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by mxcrossb 7y ago
It seems like it should be the opposite right? There is no uranium being exchanged with the environment after burial, so you can determine the age by how much has decayed.
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Following an influencer is basically the same as reading a magazine like GQ. They show off a lifestyle you find aesthetically pleasing, and the advertisements are part of the enjoyment. People just dislike them because hating young people’s
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Tied closely to this shift is probably the theory falling out of favor due to a lack of evidence. But I’m really enjoying it in Westworld, it’s just great to spend to reflecting on one’s own consciousness.
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The good news is that Oregon, according to the article, also gave up on its climate change bill. This means that many of those coastal buildings might already be under water by time a tsunami strikes, avoiding the problem.
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Most of the technology works just hates any sort of change. Apple’s core base is different, they embrace change regardless of its utility. So that makes it hard to evaluate this kind of tech online. I’m also noticing that the article sugges
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by mxcrossb 7y ago
Something is weird about this poll. They are talking about the average person thinking it’s 20%, which is already crazy, but the most picked answer was 25% or more. What would the average have been if Gallup had allowed people to pick highe
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I think this would fail under any directed attack. It’s too hard to generate a database that’s large enough.
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I agree with him actually. Which is why a company like equifax should be regulated out of existence. The only way to secure such a database is to make sure it never existed in the first place.
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The Chalk Market: Where Mathematicians Go to Get the Good Stuf(alumni.berkeley.edu)
211 points by mxcrossb 7y ago|118 comments
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Obviously it’s trying to detect left handedness
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On a side note, I always wondered if Americans would be more aggressive trying to prevent global warming if these projections were in Fahrenheit, not Celsius.
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Knowing to put ms office on your resume to get by HR’s stupidity is exactly the kind of skills needed to work in a big company
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As someone working in this field, I disagree. The state of these codes is that if you put garbage in, you get garbage out. Without a strong theoretical background, you’re generating junk. Of course, if he’s willing to spend several years de
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> Natural reserves of graphene are few and far between This seems to imply that graphene does occasionally occur in nature? Does anyone know under what situations this happens?
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Coincidentally, a paper was published today in Reviews of Modern Physics on this topic: https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/RevModPhys.91.021002 https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.02007 It seems like a
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Not to mention typos and weird grammatical mistakes....
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It’s pretty clear here. Microsoft wins over skeptics, and who exactly are those won over skeptics? Don’t expect satisfying answers in the article. In general, I wish the passive voice was banned from headlines.
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Maybe this is overly cynical, but I think they can. Otherwise everyone could just claim they don’t have an account. But this kind of policy deters people from wanting to visit or immigrate to the US, which is this administrations real goal.
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> When editing, print out your manuscript and edit it with a red pen. I also do this for all of my papers and find it extremely helpful. Though I’d be curious if any of you have found a good digital process.
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I think the two are linked though. Imagine someone saying “why are we racing to the moon? Why are we racing to quantum computers?” If the benefit is clear, nobody asks about the race.
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Why is social media the poster child for algoritmically driven content? If anything, social media response to scale hasn’t been to use algorithms to drive content from top down, but instead to crowd source that information. Yes Facebook mig
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Popper’s approach still works here. When some one writes a statistics based paper, they basically have said “I have a hypothesis that X correlates with Y. If this is not true (falsifiable), X will not correlate with Y in this data”. The hyp
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It seems like 90% of this can be achieved for free using a language with duck typing and named parameters. But of course we know codes written in those languages are often not robust and inmaintanable. What is missing? Is it the static typi

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