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by ordu 2y ago
I'd suggest you to read "The Book of Why"[1]. It is mostly about Judea's Pearl next creation, about causality, but he also covers bayesian approach, the history of statistics, his motivation behind bayesian statistics, a
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by ordu 2y ago
> My feeling from the article was that he worked outside the box, and THAT was simply unacceptable to the authorities, no matter how good the underlying technology was. USSR had a planning economy, so they decided ahead what good and i
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I read it first in the "Interesting Times" by Terry Pratchett. I don't know did he invented this phrase or borrowed it somewhere.
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by ordu 2y ago
If you run in a panic when normal geyser erupts, it would be embarrassing, right? Now, what is a normal geyser eruption and what is not normal? If you never tried to research this, you do not know. So we come to an uncertainty. This seems p
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by ordu 2y ago
> Trying to pin down a universal moral code is a fool's errand. Yeah, it is a complex subject. Philosophers talked about it for thousands of years, and I think they have not came to a definite conclusion yet. But on the topic of non
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by ordu 2y ago
> If some country is hoarding the secret to a revolutionary food that would help your starving citizens, you're not going to say "Oh, I'll just let my people starve because spying would be WRONG." There are things cal
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> Using a crystal made of purified geranium, a semiconducting material, the rectifier could convert AC to DC I like this typo.
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> its a test of EQ, if a simple question about past conflicts makes you this defensive then its exactly the type of thing it was meant to screen for. You see, to do the behavioral interview properly the interviewer must have a psycholo
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by ordu 2y ago
> your ad blocker will need to introspect and run rules on the contents of every request payload. The impact to web browsing performance would be prohibitive. Could ad blockers run WebAssembly? I suppose it will be up to the task, becaus
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The presentation has one of the most annoying things I know, it quotes itself. And it quotes a lot. It is like watching sports game when commentator says you that there will be a home run in a while, and the final game score will be such an
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by ordu 2y ago
> I wonder if it was a special gift I could have developed. Seems that you managed to train your neural networks to do a parallel search. Probably visual cortex neurons. GPU acceleration rocks.
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by ordu 2y ago
Idk, but I can guess. In windows terminal and shell are not so separate as in Unix. For example, is cmd.exe is a terminal or a shell? I believe it is both. Probably it is the same with powershell.
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by ordu 2y ago
I copy from/to terminal with middle mouse button. Just select some text and click middle button where you want to paste the text. Some people don't like it because it needs a mouse, they prefer to keep their hands on the keyboard,
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by ordu 2y ago
> It seems like the high ancient world was so close to industrializing. Bret Devereaux proposed that Industrial Revolution was due to a highly improbable coincidence of circumstances.[1] It all started with a steam engine, and very ine
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by ordu 2y ago
I wonder, why numbers of lost bags (last 30 days) are repeating for different airlines? For example All Nippon Airways (ANA), LATAM Brazil, Malaysia Airlines and Air Transat lost 461 bags each. This month it was even more popular to lose 92
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by ordu 2y ago
I really liked Judea Pearl take on RCTs in his "The Book of Why". It is not much of the history or philosophy, but he show why RCTs works, why randomness do the trick, he does it from the standpoint of a wider theory of a causatio
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by ordu 2y ago
Reasonably, maybe, but it means that the person needs to rejects themself. At this level of immersion sport/music becomes the part of the person, their definition (implicit or explicit) contains words "music" or "sport&q
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by ordu 2y ago
I wonder, is it a productive approach to the superintendent concerns? Anecdotal evidence with sample size = 1 (me) points that the more your force your ideologies to me, the more resistance you get from me. I'm still struggling to keep
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by ordu 2y ago
The only use I can imagine is to use it to write a guide on the available software. You can pick from the image clusters and make them into chapters in your guide or something like.
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by ordu 2y ago
Try to start with small things, like writing your comment but not sending it. You'll see it is really easier to not send a written comment then to not write it. After a while you'll see that you don't need to write your comme
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by ordu 2y ago
> streets are dangerous. I have a vague hypothesis that people's mind have a detector of a danger, and mind adjust sensitivity of the detector to get some specific average value of danger. The safer our streets, the more sensitive
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by ordu 2y ago
I wonder Louis Vuitton really wants to stop the practice of repurposing their handbags, or they are doing it for a Streisand effect? Were that lawyers or sales managers who decided to go after the man?
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Rocks from the far side of the Moon landed in Mongolia on Tuesday(arstechnica.com)
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by ordu 2y ago
> I’m never bored, there’s too many rabbit holes and too much work to do It is a temporary condition. At some point on thousandth rabbit hole you'll feel yourself bored, and decide not to dive deeper, because what is the point. Pr
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by ordu 2y ago
Theoretically, I believe, it is not hard to tackle this schema, just don't accept "I had no idea" as an excuse, not from CEO at least.
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by ordu 2y ago
Disclaimer: I do not know, really, what role language plays in a thought process. I just want to point why your takes are not enough to make me to believe that language is a necessary prerequisite for a thought. 1. Rubber duck maybe just he
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by ordu 2y ago
If a number start repeating from some point, you can do a nice trick: multiply this number by 10^n choosing n to be a length of a period (effectively shifting the decimal points n places to the right). Then subtract: 10^n x-x infinite perio
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by ordu 2y ago
According to Van der Warden "Science awakening"[1] Ancient Greeks treated numbers as some kind of "dirty" (Real) model of a platonic Ideal of a quantity. Numbers were invented by filthy traders and accountants while wise
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by ordu 2y ago
> Do these higher order derivatives say anything meaningful? I'm becoming seasick due to a jerkiness of a car. Not due to a speed or a acceleration, but it is jerk that does it for me. I watched it from my childhood, I hated troll
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by ordu 2y ago
"The infrastructure has been designed to be able to use a variety of connectivity mechanisms, including the military's SATCOM, and Starlink."

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