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Does anyone know of any other, similar resources with datasets and known results for further techniques in statistics, machine-learning, numerical optimization, etc.? While working on a library for deriving discrete maximum-entropy distribu
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The various spellings arise because the television host's real name was Monte Halparin, and he used the stage name "Monty Hall" [0]. 0. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Hall
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This reminds me of a similar (but visual) project done several years ago, called "Light Painting WiFi" [0], which has popped on HN more than once, most recently in April [1]. Are there any city-wide (or larger) WiFi maps availabl
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A recent article by CoinDesk [0] quotes the total number of listings on each of the biggest dark markets (before the seizures) and the number of listings for drugs; drugs made up a large majority of listings on all markets except Evolution,
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The primary effect of upvoting a submission is to make it sort higher relative to its present position; the main effect of a downvote is to make it sort lower. So downvotes are a mechanism to add information about your preferred (partial) o
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I try to use upvoting and downvoting to massage comments (and comment threads) into a sorting I like better, which seems similar to your philosophy. I upvote particularly insightful comments, or those that I think will lead to an interestin
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It was flagdead-ed after about a half hour in the top spot. The only reason it's visible now is because the moderators revived it. It's hard to tell what so many people on HN disliked about the post that they flagged it into obliv
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The text of the amendment is not tautological in itself: nowhere else in the constitution is it made clear whether the enumerated powers are a mere sampling of the federal government's authorities or an exhaustive list of them. So the
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We've had this conversation before [0], and I pointed out then that the tautological interpretation of the Tenth Amendment appeared only in the first decades of the twentieth century, not coincidentally in the jurisprudence of the very
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The abstract is not paywalled. I understand that my comment may seem rude, but tokenadult's basically useless comment was in the first spot for a good half hour, above a better comment thread, until I posted and several readers downvot
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I meant to downvote your comment but accidentally upvoted it. You wrote that you have nothing meaningful to say and quoted the abstract, contributing nothing to the conversation. Next time, instead of using your accumulated karma to monopol
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Probabilists often think of a uniform distribution over the whole real line as giving an infinitesimal (but non-zero) probability at each point. The intuition is very similar to the way physicists understand the Dirac delta function. Like t
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Check out Nick Chu's blog, the Gondola Project [0], where he's been documenting urban gondolas around the world for years. Like La Paz, mountainous Medellin, Colombia has been building a system of gondolas [1], the first line of w
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Theory is unfortunately silent on how many observations it takes to see convergence. If you mean that there are processes that "should" converge that do not seem to empirically—yes, there are, but that is not evidence for failure
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It's usually called a liquidity spiral. Brunnermeier and Pedersen's 2009 paper [0] is the standard reference. For a quick overview, see their slides [1] or Pedersen's summary for Vox EU [2]. As Pedersen emphasizes in the Vox
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> Ask any recently-turned 16-year-old what it's like actually being able to go places. ... That's a sentiment born of the suburban age. Cars are freedom from suburban isolation. In places where you can get around using your o
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Put a hinge on the camera and display module; flip it up towards the sky to turn Glass off. Down it's on, up it's off. Give wearers a simple, clear way to communicate that they've turned Glass off when it's inappropriate
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Among my favorites is Claude Shannon's model of language as a Markov processes in his seminal paper on information theory [0]. His presentation of ergodicity is also remarkably clear compared to the usual muddle about ensemble and time
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> If the goal is to prime the economic pump with an influx of new money, put that money in the hands of people who will actually go out and buy something. ... [from nostromo's grandchild comment] My question is simply: why use asse
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Yes, that's basically correct. To an economist, you're rational (modulo some technicalities) if (a) when you have to, you can always decide which of two things you want more (yes, it's OK to want some things equ
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Adonit announced their new Jot Touch [0] today, perhaps not coincidentally. 0. http://www.adonit.net/jot/touch
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> Can the typechecker ensure that your matrices have compatible dimensions to be multiplied together? No? Yes. In fact this is one of the earliest examples [0] of what you can do with the ever more numerous extensions to Haskell's
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As Alonzo Church and Alan Turing showed, the computable numbers [0] are countable too. The computable numbers include all the algebraic numbers and some transcendental numbers (including π and e ), so the reals are uncountable "beca
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"The authors explore several competing explanations to the joint declines in residential and labor market mobility, including changes within the housing market , the decline in higher paying manufacturing jobs, the polarization of the
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One may have opinions about opinions.
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It's a striking phrase, but not quite right. ... If you can recognize the way in which it is not quite right, I think you will have recognized the genius of the attempt.
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Where did the phrase "serendipity's evil twin" come from? 9 results: https://www.google.com/search?&q=%22serendipity%27s+evil+twi...
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See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4020885 :P
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This topic came up on HN a couple of years ago [0], and I posted a comment that was well received. So here it is again, edited for the present context and updated with my recent thoughts: People do seem to misinterpret MPG ratings. A stud
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"It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest." Adam Smith's insight helped launched the enterprise of modern economics becau

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