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by rm999 13y ago
CVS has always refused to sell e-cigs, as I understand it. They certainly don't right now. edit: just found this: >CVS does not sell electronic cigarettes, the highly popular but debated devices that deliver nicotine without tobacco
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by rm999 13y ago
>I don't really see how this new data contradicts the generally accepted view (mentioned in the article) that money increases happiness up to a point. The article shows a logarithmic trend (i.e. doubling your income increases your h
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by rm999 13y ago
There are a few inaccuracies in your comment. >If they refuse, they have to sue to get your money First, they wouldn't refuse (at least in the USA) because Visa and Mastercard contractually require issuers to cover debit cards at th
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by rm999 13y ago
Hearing only half a conversation is actually more grating than hearing a full conversation according to research (and my own personal experience): http://pss.sagepub.com/content/early/2010/09/03/0956
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by rm999 13y ago
>Why does the flag have 13 stripes? The official answer: "because there were 13 original colonies." In fact, the flag has 13 stripes for the 13 original states. Maybe I misunderstand the point, but Delaware was the first state
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by rm999 13y ago
Academia/research. I was making more than some of my world class professors a few years into my career, where I was using research they developed and improved upon.
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by rm999 13y ago
Am I looking at the wrong code? I see SORT (ups + downs) / max(1, ABS(ups - downs)) which would give a way higher score to the 1000/999 case than 2/2 - 1999 vs 4. https://github.com/reddit/reddit&#
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by rm999 13y ago
NYC has certainly had a lot of issues with gentrification and skyrocketing rents, but I don't think the issues in NYC are comparable to SF. Huge parts of Manhattan and Brooklyn have very high rents, but the lower-middle class haven&#x2
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by rm999 13y ago
> Engineers have, in many ways, built the modern world and helped improve the lives of many. Of this, we are rightfully proud. What's more, only a very small minority of engineers is in the business of making weapons or privacy-inva
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by rm999 13y ago
> This is a great example of why I don't move all my data to the cloud Music is a great use-case for keeping data in the cloud. You can have a consistent music library and can use any player client-side. Personally I prefer the spot
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by rm999 13y ago
The history of AI is really interesting. Perceptrons were extremely oversold by their inventor, Frank Rosenblatt after he introduced then in 1958. This led to a lot of funding and interest in AI and perceptrons. Then, in 1969, Marvin Minsky
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by rm999 13y ago
>it's actually the best - if not the only - method to represent the contribution of the Top N contributors to a global measure Yet it's still not great at that. Stacked bar chart (basically an unrolled donut chart) is better -
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by rm999 13y ago
>use a pie chart or a donut. We know it's very controversial (data visualization mullahs tend to yell after anyone using a pie chart) but it's actually pretty usefull in a business environment. Translation: it's for people
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by rm999 13y ago
Your scenario isn't supported by ComScore's results, they state that the vast majority of iphone users aren't using google maps at all. From the article: >ComScore's data suggests though that comparatively few iPhone
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by rm999 13y ago
Some password hints with that same encrypted password: idiot hero worst president My President prez gwbush is the pw I think I can guess what the password is ;)
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by rm999 13y ago
> it is not as battery efficient as they promised ... got better battery life running the same apps The point of the article is that the M7 is always active (even if you aren't running apps), so the battery usage of the M7 is bak
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by rm999 13y ago
The CTO just sent this comic to the head of operations of my company :)
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by rm999 13y ago
> The prosperous parts of the geographical area NYC is in have very high housing prices and very little new housing construction I suspect you are arguing based on incorrect intuition here, this simply isn't true. Some of the neighb
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by rm999 13y ago
>a time period when US population increased 9.7%: That's a misleading and mostly irrelevant statistic because population growth in the USA is not homogenous. Half the growth from 2000-2010 has been hispanic, a population that tends
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by rm999 13y ago
>very slow production of new housing due to a lack of buildable land and zoning that makes it difficult to replace small buildings with larger ones in many areas This is not true, new housing is actually one of the things NYC has done re
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by rm999 13y ago
He is making that claim: >both being true, as far as current research shows
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by rm999 13y ago
I'm aware of the controversy, but it comes from a very vocal but small minority. That alternet article you linked to is a great example of the absurd bias and political agenda the minority has. Their main gripe is political, not factua
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by rm999 13y ago
That's a little misleading - despite some controversy it's a de facto nobel prize: >it is identified with [the original nobel prizes], and prizes are announced with and awarded at the same ceremony >The Prize is awarded by t
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by rm999 13y ago
If you're going to include water I think Hawaii may have Maryland beat. Maybe even Alaska?
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by rm999 13y ago
This is a harder problem than it sounds, and something I've given a lot of thought to. I think the underlying issue is that all machine learning was discovered through a combination of applied math and intuitive ideas/models. With
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by rm999 13y ago
For a beginner to machine learning I'd recommend Andrew Ng's course notes and lectures over any textbook I've seen. But I prefer his Stanford CS 229 notes to Coursera for exactly the reasons you state: they are watered down.
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by rm999 13y ago
This is a very common issue in NYC, my building is also listed as built in 1900. Someone with real estate knowledge told me a fire destroyed many building records (not sure when), so the city defaulted those records to 1900. edit: I just re
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by rm999 13y ago
This is typical of the previous 's' updates: 3gs, 4s. Both offered a better camera and faster speed, and not much else. The 4s had siri, which ended up being mostly just a gimmick IMO.
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by rm999 13y ago
Looks like you are right. From the FAQ: > What does the y-axis mean exactly? The y-axis represents the frequency of each phrase, as a percentage of all phrases that contain the same number of words. For example, if you search for from N
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by rm999 13y ago
Sure it is. 60,000 weddings * 0.02% is an expected number of 12 positive examples, which really isn't much. Assuming a binomial process, n=60000 and p=0.0002 gives a 95% confidence interval of 5.2 to 18.6, which is a really wide range

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