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by ploika 6y ago
Maybe "spur" might be putting it a bit strong, but I do think it will make it more likely in subtle, marginal ways. It will be an extra push factor in an already complicated dynamic. In any case, I think a referendum on unity is s
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by ploika 6y ago
Speaking from Ireland. - Car traffic will be only slightly less than 2019 levels, despite rolling lockdowns all year. - Brexit will start to be noticed on supermarket shelves. - The built-up stresses of 2020/2021 will turn some relativ
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by ploika 6y ago
Today is Lá an Dreoilín in Ireland (and elsewhere) - the Day of the Wren. People dress up in masks and straw outfits and parade through the town with a captured Wren (often a wooden one these days). https://en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2
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by ploika 6y ago
I was a particularly anxsty teenager at the time, but I do remember there being plenty of hype and speculation about "LP7" in Radiohead fan circles before In Rainbows finally arrived.
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by ploika 6y ago
I'm slightly disappointed that the term "data mining" fell out of favour, because I think mining helps convey the idea that you have to sift through a lot of worthless crap before maybe, if you're lucky, getting someth
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by ploika 6y ago
You can, but it's slow and computationally intensive - you still need to be fairly sure that the sampler has converged on the true posterior (I might be a bit off with the terminology there but you know what I mean) before that can bec
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by ploika 6y ago
Those are statistics/ML questions, not software development ones, so software development processes like TDD are only tangentially relevant really. But in any case, it's actually fairly easy to test that your trained model has suf
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by ploika 6y ago
It's doable once you're out of pure experimentation and into the development phase at which test driven development can help. Test that this ETL function expects a DataFrame with a given schema and returns one with a different
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by ploika 6y ago
That's pure HN solipsism. I don't know how you can look at plummeting rates of illiteracy, child mortality, polio(!) and countless other scourges on humanity and conclude that no impressive progress has been made since 1950 outsid
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by ploika 6y ago
Irish lost the overdot diacritic in the move away from traditional Irish type around the 1940s, but it will never lose the acute accent (síne fada) because the meaning of a word is completely different if you drop it. Eg: Féar - grass. Fear
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by ploika 6y ago
I'd love the same. I often think that a good data science IDE will end up looking like RStudio with mlflow abilities. I barely use R at all anymore (or IDEs really), but RStudio is still the best attempt at a data science IDE that I&#x
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by ploika 6y ago
The EU's focus is more "consumer protection" than security or privacy as such, in my view.
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by ploika 6y ago
I'm going to take this comment at face value even though the username is "jokethrowaway". Yes. It is freedom. I'll take a few popups over the worst excesses of big tech privacy invasion, rent-seeking and monopolistic pra
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by ploika 6y ago
Further conjecture I heard that I'm repeating with no supporting evidence: it was partly a side effect the Cold War. All the new airports built well outside cities meant that low cost airlines could offer flights to (near) a major city
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by ploika 6y ago
Just farming in sunny places is also expensive and complicated. It's also vulnerable to drought, flooding, frost damage, pests, blockades, tailbacks at ports etc. I'm lucky enough to live in one of the most food secure countries i
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by ploika 6y ago
I am not American.
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by ploika 6y ago
That's not very a sophisticated take to be honest, especially when we're talking about a part of the world that gave us the word "realpolitik". Politicians disappoint and unscrupulous people exploit. Absolutely everyone
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by ploika 6y ago
I don't think you can credit Tesla with changing the way we commute if that still involves loads of people driving their own car to work. If far fewer people really needed a car at all, that would be a big positive change for the envir
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by ploika 6y ago
US dollars clearly do have value though. It's foolish to claim otherwise.
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by ploika 6y ago
That's such a bizarrely condescending comment. What on Earth are you trying to talking about?
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by ploika 6y ago
> Pencil, pen, hole punch, what's the difference? It is a mark on a physical piece of paper Hanging chads? You even brought up the 2000 election in the US yourself. Pencil and paper (and no machines) would have avoided that mess.
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by ploika 6y ago
It kind of does preclude it. Your argument seems to be "they do bad things primarily because they're just evil" and mine is "they do bad things primarily because they can't bear losing control". I feel like you
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by ploika 6y ago
There's quite a lot of evidence that the CCP values social stability (their own definition of it at least) extremely highly, above almost everything else. I don't agree with you about Westerners not seeing the villainous wood for
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by ploika 6y ago
Since you asked, also the pension funds of almost everyone you know.
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by ploika 6y ago
A lot of people in Somaliland, Kurdistan, Catalonia, Taiwan, Kosovo have worked on getting new countries recognised over the past few years, to highly varying degrees of success. South Sudan is generally considered to be the newest country
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by ploika 6y ago
"Rivals are alien, unlikable, contemptible" could be a description of feelings in Northern Ireland during its worst days, long before the advent of social media. Poisonous rhetoric definitely made things worse, but the real damage
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Trying and failing doesn't make you stupid.
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by ploika 6y ago
What do you mean by worse than random? R-squared is a measure of variance explained, not binary prediction accuracy.
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by ploika 6y ago
Pen and paper, honestly. I didn't even need a calculator for most of my maths degree, never mind a programming language. Learning and exploring maths will involve theorems, deriving stuff, solving textbook problems, that kind of thing.
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by ploika 6y ago
That's covered fairly extensively in the vast amounts of literature on climate change mitigation, with all due respect. Carbon neutral in the next few decades is the short answer to your question. Otherwise increasingly severe floods,

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