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by nerdponx 3y ago
R is even more wild because you can access the entire definition of a function from the function object itself. You can literally make a new function that's a copy of an existing function with some lines of code injected.
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by nerdponx 3y ago
I mostly agree, but once you understand it, a new frustration emerges: "why can't I just do X on this graph?"
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by nerdponx 3y ago
It will all be "accidentally" deleted when someone decides they don't want to pay the storage bill anymore, like what happened with Myspace.
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by nerdponx 3y ago
There are many legitimate use cases for multiple worktrees. Here's one example: I'm working on a trunk-based project, and I am upgrading a core framework like Angular or Django. That's a fairly intrusive change that involves
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by nerdponx 3y ago
Did they need some kind of visa to do that? or were they already EU citizens?
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by nerdponx 3y ago
Serious question: Would it be illegal to hire a human "price consultant" who was very popular among your landlord friends? Does it matter if the price consultant only serves 5% of the landlords in an area? What if they serve 20%?
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by nerdponx 3y ago
Some bumbling police chief might say something stupid that would draw media attention to ShotSpotter and their massive data collection operation. You definitely wouldn't want that to happen.
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by nerdponx 3y ago
Their statement about observed crime was an historical claim (as in: "historically there's been a lot of ...").
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by nerdponx 3y ago
It's not inflammatory, it's a statement of fact. Of course the public surveillance is located in the areas where crime is most likely to occur! But an important side effect is that innocent people in those areas now are more sur
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by nerdponx 3y ago
It's nice when federal agencies are funded and led by people who aren't trying to sabotage them from the inside. Ignoring all other considerations, the current incumbent political party in the US presidency on average tends to pro
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by nerdponx 3y ago
It's an interesting area because the line might be fuzzy. It's not reasonable to expect every landlord to become a data analyst or statistician! So naturally there's a market for a product that helps landlords make data-drive
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by nerdponx 3y ago
This might be a different form of price-fixing. You know how big-box retail stores will price match products? That's in order to keep tabs on competitors' prices, and to pose a credible threat of starting a price war. Keeping the
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by nerdponx 3y ago
What's interesting though is that while pricing is strictly regulated, underwriting is significantly less regulated, at least in P&C commercial insurance. Insurance companies have been exploring the use of ML and AI for that task s
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by nerdponx 3y ago
No need for an AI model. Probabilistic Machine Learning by Murphy is an excellent reference and resource.
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by nerdponx 3y ago
It depends on the particular subtopics it covers. Machine Learning: A Probabilistic Perspective is from 2012 and it's still a great resource, although Murphy's newer book will certainly cover more up-to-date material.
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by nerdponx 3y ago
The sibling comment is right in that this is clearly not intended for first timers. But your instincts are correct here. When you write out the objective function for ordinary least squares, it turns out to be a quadratic form. The choice o
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by nerdponx 3y ago
It's not a matter of them being not actually valuable. It's a matter of them being overvalued even relative to their tremendous and obvious actual value.
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by nerdponx 3y ago
I think they're making the same point as you: "nonprofit" is usually a scam to enrich executives anyway.
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by nerdponx 3y ago
What are the chances that the LLM suggests the NPM package?
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by nerdponx 3y ago
That's not really what "superset" means, so I think you might want to change the wording.
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by nerdponx 3y ago
I just thought it was a particularly extreme version, to the point of being silly and funny in hindsight. Were they looking for chemists? Programmers? Mechanical engineers? Project managers? Janitors? I'm top talent with a vacuum clean
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by nerdponx 3y ago
I occasionally leave the "analytics" and "performance" boxes checked. It's the 3rd-party tracking that always get unchecked, and blocked (by uBlock) for good measure.
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by nerdponx 3y ago
It's a weird argument to me that somehow obtaining a Java runtime environment is easier than getting a binary for a Scheme interpreter. I think most people who aren't already Java users would find the latter easier, not the former
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by nerdponx 3y ago
On the topic of the interesting engineering puzzle... I went to a university job fair in 2014 and Heinz had a booth there. I remember asking the recruiter what kind of positions they were recruiting for, and her only response was "We
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by nerdponx 3y ago
Is that what AWS CloudWatch Insights uses?
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by nerdponx 3y ago
Because the risk is abstract and seems distant, so it's something that most people probably want but aren't thinking about actively fighting for. They might already think that these things are better regulated than they are, and n
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by nerdponx 3y ago
If structs are just tables by another name, this sounds a lot like Lua to me. Not that there's anything wrong with Candy here, but I don't know that it's much of a departure from what we already have.
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by nerdponx 3y ago
I've been dissatisfied with all of them actually! But both Deal ( https://pypi.org/project/deal/ ) and icontract ( https://pypi.org/project/icontract/ ) have merit. I can't remembe
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by nerdponx 3y ago
The problem here is that, if you can see the adverse effects on the public, you're too late. So you need to anticipate them. That's not an easy thing to do.
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by nerdponx 3y ago
No, that's a good point. And no, I was not going to cite ASML. My point is that maybe the US isn't better for causing wildly successful ideas to be rewarded by the market. The US probably is better for starting tech companie

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