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by pav3l 14y ago
Yes, I originally started http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4769667 with title "Andrew Gelman: I don't like this cartoon", but for some reason mods decided to get rid of "Andrew Gelman" in the title. I mean, the whole point is that it's
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by pav3l 14y ago
Thanks so much! Just tried it and the setup binaries worked like a charm! 20 seconds for the whole experience including downloading and testing. Very different from how I remember my experience with lxml on Windows when I tried it before! T
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by pav3l 14y ago
>lxml is awesome, but difficult to install So true... I often need to write something that will run on a Windows machine and I just end up having to use the old version of Beautiful Soup (before it became dependent on lxml). Pretty frus
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by pav3l 14y ago
When you are reporting, say, a p-value from your ANOVA F-test, you are making formal mathematical assumptions, such as normal marginal distribution of your dependent variable. A lot of Frequentist methods (hypothesis testing) are really jus
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by pav3l 14y ago
>Surely, only one is true. This is my general comment about statistics and data analysis without going into the specifics of Freq vs Bayes: As anyone who ever worked with real-world data can tell you, for the most part data analysis is
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by pav3l 14y ago
I really like this sentence: > All statisticians use prior information in their statistical analysis. Non-Bayesians express their prior information not through a probability distribution on parameters but rather through their choice of
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I don't like this cartoon(andrewgelman.com)
82 points by pav3l 14y ago|54 comments
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by pav3l 14y ago
Very cool, but unfortunately things "the web can do" are limited by things "bad popular web-browsers can do"
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Will Obama Let Washington and Colorado Keep Their Legal Pot?(theatlantic.com)
23 points by pav3l 14y ago|3 comments
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by pav3l 14y ago
Relevant blog post by the author: http://mflux.tumblr.com/post/29879318929/generativemachines
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by pav3l 14y ago
Yes, set up a private tunnel, don't rely on Tor, Google blocks a lot of their exit nodes, so it's just unusable most of the time.
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by pav3l 14y ago
Another discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4764376
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Genius: The Nickelback Story(businessweek.com)
1 points by pav3l 14y ago|0 comments
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Why Facebook ditched Hadoop’s MapReduce(thenextweb.com)
6 points by pav3l 14y ago|0 comments
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by pav3l 14y ago
I'm assuming this is a follow-up on http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4752047 Wow, that is crazy!! Even though i have 2 math degrees and am doing applied math and stats for a living, there is a very good chance I'd fail such an exam if
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by pav3l 14y ago
Just curious, are there people here who went through or are going through the MIT Tech Entrepreneurship program? Or maybe just took some courses from them? What are your thoughts?
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by pav3l 14y ago
Google is an excellent search engine. If you have privacy concerns, don't store your personal information with Google. It's really that simple. Switching to other search engines because of privacy concerns is just silly in my opinion. I hav
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by pav3l 14y ago
>If someone wants to communicate with me, they do the same. I get texts all the time that start similar to "hey, facebook-challenged friend, theres X going on next weekend, come hang" or a phonecall/email saying the same, which leads in
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Longtime Exec Fired for Refusing To Apologize for Apple Maps(slate.com)
3 points by pav3l 14y ago|0 comments
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by pav3l 14y ago
So, can someone please explain me why "Closing off the department’s computers to the Internet is a complicated matter"? I mean is it so hard to have sensitive databases on an internal network, that is disconnected from the outside world and
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by pav3l 14y ago
How are those two easily distinguishable, when the major selling point of your skill set is that you worked on and designed a system whose workings are the confidential information.
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by pav3l 14y ago
Facebook specifically prohibits this. If I'm not mistaken only the account holder can download the data, you need to enter your password and bypass captcha. Also the download link is sent to your email.
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by pav3l 14y ago
+1 for Tom Mitchell's book. Although it may appear a little outdated, it is an excellent introduction to ML. Highly recommend doing the exercises (in whatever language you'll be working, not necessarily in C), especially the Neural Nets fac
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by pav3l 14y ago
It would be interesting to do some sentiment analysis on comments and look at the statistics of dissmissive/approving top comments and all comments in general in HN threads.
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by pav3l 14y ago
A great catalog, will definitely be using in the future.
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by pav3l 14y ago
Back when I waited tables, whenever a customer would doubt the quality of wine because it's a twist-off, we were supposed to tell them that it's a "green thing", and a lot of good wineries are getting away from the cork for environmental re
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by pav3l 14y ago
Yes, you can use rpy/rpy2 in your python code to delegate stats to R
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by pav3l 14y ago
I thought that the growing amount of twist-off's was due to cork tree going extinct, but it appears that the production of corks doesn't harm the tree. Any thoughts?
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by pav3l 14y ago
Mplus is quite popular in social sciences. From what I understand its main functionality is fitting Latent Variable Models and structural equation modelling. I've never used it myself, but it can in fact do things for which it is hard to fi
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by pav3l 14y ago
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/my-son...

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