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by rfrey 9y ago
> It was because, if not officially, probably also for his politics. That's a serious claim to make without evidence. Perhaps you have evidence and you're not sharing it. If that's the case you should ask yourself why you&
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by rfrey 9y ago
Winner: Autocorrect Prize, August 2017
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by rfrey 9y ago
The headline is relevant because the US is the most powerful military force in the world, and also involved in more conflicts than any other nation. The US position is more relevant than any other nation's.
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by rfrey 9y ago
I think the suggestion is that cuts are largely determined by the regime that instituted the program, independent of effectiveness.
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by rfrey 9y ago
Only if you think having the telescope is the point.
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by rfrey 9y ago
What a strange thing to say. I pointed out that a university professor living in a small northern city actually turns out to have taught many of the other researchers currently pushing forward the field of Reinforcement Learning. I named on
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by rfrey 9y ago
Edmonton is an awesome place to live, and even after a decade in Toronto I would move there in a heartbeat if there were opportunities for my spouse. The history of Alberta actually shows Edmonton and Calgary trading places several times as
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by rfrey 9y ago
Trace the graph of Reinforcement Learning movers and shakers, and see how many have their roots one or two levels up with Rich Sutton in Edmonton. David Silver, for example, quit a career in games AI and moved his family to Edmonton to stud
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by rfrey 9y ago
It's not either-or, advertising and virality (what you're calling "n", and the cool kids in the back of the room call "k") go hand-in hand. K > 1 is a runaway train, hold on. It happens rarely and apparentl
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by rfrey 9y ago
Honest question: can you tell me what phrases in particular you read this way? I read almost everything exactly the opposite way - and I'm genuinely curious which sentences can be interpreted so differently by different people.
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by rfrey 9y ago
>Is there a website like HN that's actually focused/moderated and doesn't mix Cosmo type clickbait with actual news? There probably isn't one that will never, ever, ever include a link that you're not interested
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by rfrey 9y ago
> so I assume those countries tell it because they are jealous Naw, that Canadians find that joke hilarious is part of why it's a great place to live.
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by rfrey 9y ago
>There's no correlation, ruling out the slightest possibility of causation That sounds like an interesting study, where can I read it?
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by rfrey 9y ago
Which regulations are you thinking of in your first sentence? In my view the limitation on use of residential units as hotel units simply recognizes the externalities involved - externalities that Airbnb hosts are now throwing into the comm
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by rfrey 9y ago
Genuinely curious how you're assessing his technical expertise - you must have serious insider access to be able to judge it as totally outdated.
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by rfrey 9y ago
I don't remember a time when all those topics were not common.
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by rfrey 9y ago
Why?
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by rfrey 9y ago
For Toronto folks reading this, an Anishinaabe restaurant called NishDish just opened on Bloor. It's quite tasty, about 10-15 dollars for a meal.
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by rfrey 10y ago
A principle is just a foundational truth that you start a chain of reasoning or behavior from. You can have principles for maximizing profits, principles for good software architecture, principles for increasing reliability of your vehicle.
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by rfrey 10y ago
"a functioning Government to enforce the rule of law?" i.e. controlling other people's behavior. Also, a tax is a law, so enforcing a tax is enforcing the rule of law. It's just a law that some people don't like.
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by rfrey 10y ago
CH4[g] + 2 O2[g] -> CO2[g] + 2 H2O[g]
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by rfrey 10y ago
13% in Toronto. 5% in Calgary.
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by rfrey 10y ago
I'm probably just reading this into your comment, but the challenging tone makes it seem like you think OP is pretty misguided... like there's no information to be had here. But isn't an interest in tools pretty common in mos
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by rfrey 10y ago
Your first paragraph makes your point. The rest is an over-the-top response to a fairly innocuous comment.
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by rfrey 10y ago
The people don't belong to the company, why should the company get "a cut"?
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by rfrey 10y ago
That might be true if your market is other businesses. The courts are largely closed to normal consumers though, because of cost and the perception that justice is for sale. I doubt many mainstream consumers consider "can I sue this co
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by rfrey 10y ago
I would keep a stash of this for when I get up early and want a cup while I set down to work. I can't run my grinder or espresso machine because it wakes up the kids. I do drink normal instant coffee in those desperate times, but I wou
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by rfrey 10y ago
"but this is Hacker News." I don't think I understand what that means. HN has always had a rich mixture of VC-seeking entrepreneurs, spare-time hackers, software hackers, hardware hackers, greyhair DB analysts, academics and
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by rfrey 10y ago
"Why should mathematicians apologize?" Apology in this context means "defense of".
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by rfrey 10y ago
It doesn't get better. It is a truly awful book, I think I only finished it because I was in a train-wreck fascination mode with the author's insecurity.

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