notafraudster

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by notafraudster 8y ago
There was no material consideration to begin with. If I agree to paint your house for free, and put it in writing, and then later decide not to (or decide not to unless you agree to some post-hoc rule), you have no tort against me -- there
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by notafraudster 8y ago
There are a bunch of odd non-standard syntax choices in this tutorial. For example, the author ends statements with semicolons. R does allow equal sign assignment (although style guides prefer the stupid arrow syntax). The author mentions B
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by notafraudster 8y ago
One thing that I think would be helpful would be some editorial contextualizing how good these products are. A lot of people would like to incorporate privacy into their decision-making calculus, but not to the exclusion of the quality of t
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by notafraudster 8y ago
Great example. In the design you propose, in expectation, you would have an unbiased causal inference. We would probably want to check for pre-treatment balance between groups to make sure that stochastic (chance) imbalance did not emerge e
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by notafraudster 8y ago
None of this is causal. For a problem to be, in a statistical sense, causally identified there must be some random or as-if random manipulation of treatment. The two major ways of thinking about causality in statistics are Judea Pearl'
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by notafraudster 8y ago
The article frames this as an act of strange mercy (that prisoners volunteer at a prison hospice). But as someone not born in the US (although I live here), the existence of a prison hospice with any great number of patients strikes me as a
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by notafraudster 8y ago
One thing that I think would be useful is to decide IN ADVANCE a project you think the employee can accomplish in their first week as part of getting to know a codebase. I've been thrown into new projects where I'm expected to rea
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by notafraudster 8y ago
It might be reasonable to conclude that, in practice, GDPR has caused a number of companies to their re-assess data collection and retention hygiene (even beyond the minimum bounds of the law). In particular, this change seems to be a very
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by notafraudster 9y ago
It seems to me like the author doesn't actually do anything programmatically, and instead has few enough orders that they eyeball it and do additional human steps. A good start but not scalable.
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by notafraudster 9y ago
A better approach to writing this article would be to gather a wide array of customer features, fit a model using training data from actual fraudulent/non-fraudulent orders, and then interpret the model to explain the features actually