mziel

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by mziel 11y ago
Naturally this comes to mind: https://xkcd.com/882/ Spurious correlation achieved by misusing statistics. Not to mention publication bias.
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by mziel 11y ago
That's why you never ever grow lists with R. do.call('rbind',...) or even better data.table::rbindlist(). You can't blame R for being slow if you don't know how to write fast R code.
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by mziel 11y ago
Flagged? Not sure what happened.
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by mziel 11y ago
Objective-C, which is very popular? Give me a platform (apart from iOS and OSX) where Objective-C is popular? Why not the other way around?
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by mziel 12y ago
Sometimes I get the idea that people in CS want to "get all this machine learning/data science stuff" without understanding the principles. Sure, it's trivially easy to build a classifier in R/Scikit (or even code o
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by mziel 12y ago
Also if you include a mixed (randomized) strategies the postulated Newcomb's problem is idiotic, because the other player is not an oracle. That's why they included a dirty fix that "if the Predictor predicts that the player
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by mziel 12y ago
Ultimately open source software is approved by many eyes, for which Github seems like a natural place. Many excellent packages are already only available via devtools::install_github(). CRAN is nice and easy (especially for people starting
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by mziel 12y ago
Bayesian updating of the posterior? Or if you prefer frequentist algorithms for online learning of classifiers? Not trying to pick a fight, just as a statistitian/ML developer I've seen the same things be reinvented and renamed so
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by mziel 12y ago
"Statistics reinvented for the internet age" looks like a cheap knock-off of the long known bayesian statistics.
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by mziel 12y ago
You do realize that it's about statistical distribution, not political REdistribution?
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by mziel 12y ago
I'll be interested as well.
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by mziel 12y ago
In addition to all the standard arguments against IQ (tailor at specific culture circles, can be taught and improved upon, measures subset of intelligence) it is important to remember that this is a sample of people who took the test, which