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by nerdponx 2y ago
When it's even available. But then they start cranking the ratchet, increasing the no-ad price and introducing a with-ads tier at the old no-ad price, or cutting quality, or cutting corners on customer service and security, etc etc. We
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by nerdponx 2y ago
The alternative is called legislation, and we have been unable to get effective legislation out of our legislators for at least a decade.
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by nerdponx 2y ago
That's why these bunk psychology studies are so insidious. It might in fact be a real effect! But maybe not at the level of babies and marshmallows.
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by nerdponx 2y ago
The consequences are virtually nonexistent. They know what they are doing. There is nothing to learn.
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by nerdponx 2y ago
Who cares if it doesn't hurt revenue?
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by nerdponx 2y ago
Seems ideal. Get in while the price is discounted relative to the overall market.
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by nerdponx 2y ago
It's not a flamewar tangent, it's the current political reality.
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by nerdponx 2y ago
Funny, the mathematician I know that works at a CL shop hates it, and is eager to transition into data science in a Python shop. From what he has told me, the Allegro IDE is unpleasant and antiquated-feeling, and the code is hard to work wi
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by nerdponx 2y ago
"All the bad things about Common Lisp" would be a fun blog post to write up one day.
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by nerdponx 2y ago
It's tractable in practice. That's what the Idris (2) language does, for example.
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by nerdponx 2y ago
Sherlock Holmes is a fictitious character that also makes use of investigative techniques such as phrenology and tobacco ash species identification, make what you will out of that.
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by nerdponx 2y ago
I actually thought I made it up, and almost called it "Nerdponx's Razor", but I thought it would be arrogant to name it after myself. Hubbard can take the credit!
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by nerdponx 2y ago
When money is at stake, never attribute to incompetence what could be attributed to greed.
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by nerdponx 2y ago
> Do you have some resources for optimizing a N_51 x N_51 x N_51 x N_51 -> R+ unknown black-box function? Maybe Bayesian optimization? That's often how hyperparameter optimization is done in machine learning, but that has the ad
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by nerdponx 2y ago
> The most infuriating thing is when they say that diabetics just die in surgeries, but forget to mention that often the reason is medical negligence. I find that a lot of medical research literature is like this. A couple of "X is
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by nerdponx 2y ago
That's fair. That's the ad-hoc data engineering I was talking about. I interpreted the question to be asking about "warehousing" moreso than just "laying out data", but I think I might have read too far into it
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by nerdponx 2y ago
I don't like these questions. Data warehouse schema design is out of scope for data science, it's data engineering. Yes we have to do a lot of ad-hoc data engineering along the way, but it's such a strange thing to interview
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by nerdponx 2y ago
Is Matomo not suitable?
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by nerdponx 2y ago
Thank you!
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by nerdponx 2y ago
How do you normally use Prolog and Python together? I had looked into embedding logic programming within Python in the past, and found a lack of satisfying options, but maybe I didn't know where to look.
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by nerdponx 2y ago
It's not a question of how gracefully the person behind the wheel handles it. There is a certain moral expectation and minimum standard of handling, and this expectation is more often than not enforced by law and/or threat of civi
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by nerdponx 2y ago
How much confidence do you have in weather? How much confidence do you have in yourself?
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by nerdponx 2y ago
If Paul Johnson's History of the Jews is to be believed, Judaism arose out of a fanatical cult that worshipped the sky-and-war god El, and all the monotheism stuff was a big retcon that evolved out of El insisting that he was the bes
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by nerdponx 2y ago
Right, but apart from their mentions in the Hebrew Bible, the Canaanite religion and culture are a lot more obscure and a lot less powerful-seeming than ancient Egyptian if you're a Nazi propagandist. It's often the case that the
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by nerdponx 2y ago
> University departments tried to ban his books and boycott his publisher, but Velikovsky still found himself the subject of documentaries and the star of speaking tours until his death in 1979. When has censorship ever accomplished anyt
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by nerdponx 2y ago
Asking people irrelevant questions and rejecting them on irrelevant grounds is a lot sillier than just rejecting people because you have too many applications.
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by nerdponx 2y ago
> Yes, you'll get your salary again in stock but you aren't necessarily getting left behind by choosing to punch lottery tickets because you enjoy it. But you are. $100k in liquid stock is worth about $100k. Startup options are
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by nerdponx 2y ago
Are you sure it wasn't always meant to just be a preorder + data harvesting scam?
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by nerdponx 2y ago
People realize the risk, they just think it can't happen to them personally , and/or just don't care because they personally aren't going to bear the risk. People run businesses the way they drive their cars, i.e. selfi
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by nerdponx 2y ago
I don't know for sure, but you can do that kind of thing pretty easily with Matplotlib in Python. Or in R base graphics, with more effort to get it looking pretty.

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