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by ppod 7y ago
Imagine a ball rolling down a huge basin. Very deep, ball gets a terminal velocity, rolls down at constant speed. Then the basin shallows, and finally the ball reaches the bottom. From the ball's point of view, "downnwardness&quot
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by ppod 7y ago
One random example I found recently is a tidyverse package called forcats that has lots of nice functions for categorical data. For example, it has a single function that merges all categories with a frequency of less than a certain thresho
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by ppod 7y ago
I agree with independence of thought, courage, and high principles, but is it moral? An militant anti-semite in present-day Germany is might be just as independent, principled, and courageous.
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by ppod 8y ago
"A man can do as he wills, but not will as he wills." - Arthur Schopenhauer https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/qM7ydBXaCxPisAsaY/will-as-th...
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by ppod 8y ago
How does that affect the incentives and motivations of investors? It doesn't matter how much value you create in the long run, investors will want returns, not safe AI.
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by ppod 8y ago
Really great examples. Anyone got any updates on what the best python equivalent is? Bokeh? Plotly?
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by ppod 8y ago
The tidyverse and data.table universes are two very comprehensive sets of packages that kind of offer a replacement to the base R syntax, and they are pretty nice languages.
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by ppod 8y ago
I agree with what you say as-is, but the other side of it is that the company might not be making optimal hiring decisions by doing this discrimination. A 22 year-old can choose to spend a full weekend on an interview task and do a great jo
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by ppod 8y ago
Yeah I think I agree with all that, I think I just have a kind of pedantic point that getting to 2019 Japan from 2019 China would be a net positive.
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by ppod 8y ago
I recently found this great twitter color bot: https://twitter.com/colorschemez https://github.com/joemfox/colorschemer
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by ppod 8y ago
>I'm an overall China bear, think its final destination is to be like Japan Did you get bull/bear mixed up, or do you not like Japan?
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by ppod 8y ago
>An enormous amount of energy used to support a tiny minority of people participating in a highly-manipulated wealth redistribution mechanism is, objectively, a complete fucking waste. You cannot look at bitcoin by any measure and say th
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by ppod 8y ago
Google tried to make this work, but they were sued; and then they made a deal, and then many, many people objected to the resulting deal. This is the usual process whereby a corporation is first criticised for having too much power, and the
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by ppod 8y ago
I manage a team that do what could broadly be described as data science, here is one thing I feel unsure about and I'd like others' opinion on: How much should I tell my team about what's going on above me? If my manager tell
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by ppod 8y ago
You're building your mathematical model based on the knowledge you have, which is from the data you have, and there is still the same risk that your theory won't generalize to new observations.
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by ppod 8y ago
" all the data has been thrown aways... oh" That's a ridiculously disingenuous summary of the article, did you read past the Forbes headline?
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by ppod 8y ago
regression is not a black box.
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by ppod 8y ago
What method would you use to yield scientific knowledge in the sense of cause-reaction? Many important processes really do have large numbers of causal factors that interact non-linearly. If we want to try to learn about that, some statisti
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by ppod 8y ago
> And the only things that could crack open these containers, she adds, were the bone-cracking jaws of hyenas or a clever ape wielding a rock. The authors do mention that. It was written by three professors of evolution and anthropology
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by ppod 8y ago
It's in the summary too: >They took account of many potential confounding factors, including age, income, marital status, number of children, employment status, smoking status, exercise levels (measured by days each week on which th
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by ppod 8y ago
I've always thought that the day they crossed the line was when they arbitrarily changed which subreddits were default, removing some (such as /r/atheism) with no real reason. At the very early days of reddit, discussing athe
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by ppod 8y ago
>Buzzfeed's Justin Bieber haircut quizzes, however, do not provide any value to the users, apart from a tiny fleeting endorphin rush, maybe. Depends on whether you measure people's stated or revealed preferences. Traffic stats
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by ppod 8y ago
>If you want to make that same sort of impact, it is not just important to be a great mind, but to spend a bunch of time practicing how you communicate that information. The most insidious cause of this is that getting a permanent positi
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by ppod 8y ago
While this is true, just for a second consider on which side the groupthink in these comments falls. The mentality that anyone who disagrees with you must be "brigading" or a paid shill is very dangerous. It's also a consiste
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by ppod 8y ago
>Mark says that he didn't plan to build a global company and wants to connect the world and serve people and all of that, but he could do that right now. All the things that people don't like about Facebook, he could get flatou
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by ppod 8y ago
Yes. Don't know why so many philosophers are either unaware of it or choose to ignore it, it's a well known idea. It was even referenced in an X-Men movie, I think. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic_prin
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by ppod 8y ago
Doesn't mention the anthropic principle, uses the term "consciousness" to denote some mysterious essential soul-like property, and presumes that an omnipotent god must be good. 17th century philosophy alive and well. "Wh
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by ppod 8y ago
>The notion that any of those platforms is democratic is laughable. They are democratic as publishing and research platforms because every citizen has equal access to them, subject only to a device and internet connection. Only 20 years
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by ppod 8y ago
>Many people, it seems clear, experience surveillance capitalism less as a prison, where their agency is restricted in a noxious way, than as an all-inclusive resort, where their agency is restricted in a pleasing way. The possibility th
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by ppod 8y ago
Yes, sorry that's actually quite clear in the text now that I read it again.

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