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by mxwsn 6y ago
I'm excited for this. Thanks so much!
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by mxwsn 7y ago
Thought about it overnight and this is what I have: To reason about the distribution of positives in the sample, we consider two limiting cases, then interpolate between them. The cases are: 1. All positives are clustered exactly together.
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by mxwsn 7y ago
Just curious, can you expand a bit on the analysis? I see that by binary search you get O(log(S)) to identify a single positive, and naively rerunning search from the beginning P times yields O(P*log(S)). One can certainly do better by avoi
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by mxwsn 7y ago
I'm partial to the Super Mario Sunshine lockout bingo played at AGDQ 2019: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ch3eSzem1v4
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by mxwsn 7y ago
Randomizers are restricted to follow a tree branching logic to ensure that the game can be completed based on all accessible items at any given moment. For some games, there can be several difficulty tiers of logics. In harder logics, the g
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by mxwsn 7y ago
Randomizer speedruns are an awesome recent innovation in speedrunning, where the aim is to beat the game as quickly as possible (in a category called "true any%" [0]). For most popular speedrunning games, randomizers reward a comp
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by mxwsn 7y ago
Does anyone have any hands-on experience with this? It looks impressive. I'm interested in contrasting this with dash plotly for python
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by mxwsn 7y ago
Very fair point. I definitely agree with you and the article in general -- demographics definitely deserves to be the #1 big important force that will shape the world.
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by mxwsn 7y ago
I think it's possible in a technological sense -- my understanding is that we can produce enough food, and little technological development from where we are today is necessary to scale this to 12 billion people. It's distributing
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by mxwsn 7y ago
I find opinions like these to be somewhat disconcerting. I don't know terribly much about demographics, but people who study demographics and economic development seem to fairly consistently agree that global population /will&#x2F
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by mxwsn 7y ago
Just to work out the odds, it's not 2^-8 since she knew there were four of each type of tea. 1 in 70 = 8 choose 4, which one can mental math as 8!/(4! 4!) = 8 7 6 5/4! = (8/(4 2)) 7 (6/3) 5*1 = 70. My asterisks got
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by mxwsn 7y ago
The little charms of everyday life are what I find most interesting about staying in a different country. I would find a hotel room too anonymous though, too stifling. I'd recommend Airbnb instead, which forces one to participate in th
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by mxwsn 7y ago
Previous discussion (June 24, 2018): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17385383
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by mxwsn 7y ago
Too weak in modern, basically like any other bomb in limited but less interesting, and too non-interactive in standard.
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by mxwsn 7y ago
To avoid copying the training set you can increase the temperature at sampling time. This should trade off between accuracy (maximum likelihood) and quirkiness (more stochastic background).
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by mxwsn 7y ago
A relevant NYTimes article about Superhuman was also published today: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/27/technology/superhuman-ema... Key quote for me: "Mr. Vohra said the app was targeted at peopl
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by mxwsn 7y ago
UC Berkeley has an undergraduate data science major. The choices and bureaucracy of creating new majors is also prone to hype though, so it might not be the best indicator.
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by mxwsn 7y ago
Leo Breiman's Statistical Modeling: The Two Cultures (2001, pdf) was posted recently (just 10 days ago) and is a fantastic read. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19835962
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by mxwsn 7y ago
Can you speak more about this? Are you saying that Altair's speed scales poorly with dataset size?
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by mxwsn 7y ago
"For living-room players, Scrabble is about language, a test of vocabularies. For world-class players, it’s about cold memorization and mathematical probabilities. Think of the dictionary not as a compendium of the beauty and complexit
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by mxwsn 7y ago
It's an article about a collection of photography by an artist, not a photojournalist. Given that, this format seems typical. I would also love to hear more though.
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by mxwsn 7y ago
I agree. From personal experience, here are some organizing principles I find useful for exploratory data analysis: 1. A single Jupyter notebook should either tackle a single question, or use collapsible headings ( https://jupyter
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by mxwsn 7y ago
https://outline.com/34PN5W
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by mxwsn 7y ago
I'm impressed by the paper's 16 co-first authors and 13 co-last corresponding authors. While something like this might be more routine in a field like physics, it's a good look for biology and I hope the trend of sharing cred
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by mxwsn 7y ago
I think this is unhelpful parroting of comments on actual cutting edge physics experiments like the LHC. The degree matters substantially - there, we have good guesses of what we might see, but there's uncertainty and new data is immen
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by mxwsn 8y ago
I'm a mid-20s male e-sports fan and I promise you there are tons of us. Perhaps a big thing is lack of visibility - you might see traditional sports on TV in passing at bars, restaurants, etc, but that isn't the case for e-sports.
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by mxwsn 8y ago
In principle sure, as long as you use a different polymer with similar biochemical stability, but a lot of money and tech development has gone into reading and synthesizing DNA in particular. Why reinvent the wheel, so to speak.
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by mxwsn 8y ago
Converting historical currency to modern values becomes increasingly meaningless the longer the time span, and 1795 is a sufficiently different world to today with a different basket of goods that I don't think that's a valuable c
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by mxwsn 8y ago
In some cases, genetic variation in humans has performed a natural experiment for us. It's absolutely crucial to understand the potential impact of a proposed genetic edit in the realm of messy reality. As an example, Ccr5 delta32 is p
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by mxwsn 8y ago
The idea is that the higher purpose of a $1 ticket is creating a paper trail of jaywalking behavior that could be useful in court.

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