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by ronaldx 13y ago
I'm slightly surprised to see the statement: "...non coding structural elements of software are not protected by copyright" as I had understood that there is database copyright. Reference on the same site: http://w
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by ronaldx 13y ago
As a UK/EU citizen, this has always been my understanding of the law, and it's not strange to me. I might violate US patent law (which is an increasing concern given the apparent freedom of extradition), but I'm not violating
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by ronaldx 13y ago
I would make an ad hominem attack, yes. I don't believe ad hominem is fallacious in this sense. Orson Scott Card has expressed such a lack of humanity elswhere that I do not understand why I would spend my time deciding whether his oth
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by ronaldx 13y ago
It removes the top 1M globally-ranked websites. So here it's removing wikipedia, imdb, etc, and leaving only more specialist sites. www.adamwest.com isn't removed because it's ranked 3,400,000th or so, using alexa as a refere
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by ronaldx 13y ago
OK. I took expectation to have a specific mathematical meaning here (average including 0s). Sorry for confusion. In any case, I still don't agree with your point. If everyone knows what's going to happen in the future, there&#x
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by ronaldx 13y ago
I drew the opposite conclusion from your story that you did, which is most simply exemplified by your point: > insurance costs come closer to the expected costs of treatment. In general, insurance costs are above the expected cost of tre
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by ronaldx 13y ago
I understood differently, that the parent was asking for the distribution of win rates per town.
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by ronaldx 13y ago
What makes me uncomfortable is: 1. the claim that dogfooding would be helpful for feedback and improvement, followed by 2. listing only superficially positive feedback. Given this memo, I don't think I would feel comfortable giving neg
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Forgive me for being mathematical in order to make my point: My hypothesis is that having more information cannot result in a worse average outcome, given a rational response to the information (correctly accounting for relative risk). As a
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by ronaldx 13y ago
> That's because there's so much stuff that might show up but which is totally harmless. I've heard this argument but I don't buy it - not at all. I consider it better to know than to be ignorant. If everyone has some
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Not really. The stats have not been thoroughly calculated (to my knowledge) but here is an attempt: http://www.isna.org/faq/frequency Not XX and not XY: one in 1,666 births Klinefelter XXY: one in 1,000 births There ar
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Agreed - if I had asked for the weather in Sao Paulo, and it gave me the weather for Sao Paulo on Sunday night, I would be frustrated rather than impressed. The app is making the implicit assumption that I didn't know what I really wan
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by ronaldx 13y ago
As long as you split the distribution uniformly into categories with the same number of people, it doesn't matter that it's not uniform by date.
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Question 33 has to split any category of people formed from the first 32 questions - very awkward, as you say. Here is a moderately-functional question 33, though: "Are you further North than any other person who has given the same ans
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by ronaldx 13y ago
An uneven distribution of early wealth describes almost every organisation in society (including society itself): as long as later participants perceive they are gaining value for themselves, they will allow this to continue. Part (b) is mo
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by ronaldx 13y ago
If Gmail didn't work 9% of the time, nobody would use it.
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Ponzi schemes sometimes work by giving early/influential customers the advertised returns as taken from the newer customers' subscriptions. This creates a viral effect, but the customers suckered in by the viral effect will get no
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Sure, there are realistic applications of Machine Learning with great results. But the article has failed in its headline goal ("ML is easier than it looks") if it chooses an example that is mathematically more complicated and sti
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by ronaldx 13y ago
I'm cynical about how machine learning of this type might be used in practice and this is an illustration of why: the stated goal is a "you might also like" section. There is no reason to believe the results are any better th
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Red -> Green -> Refactor is important because it indicates that the test genuinely behaves as required. (RED shows you that the test fails when it should: there is good reason why this step should not normally be skipped; then GREEN s
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by ronaldx 13y ago
My television preferences and the times that I am normally watching TV are personal data - and potentially sensitive. There is some disconnection within two sentences: If it's not personal to me , how can they return the best ads fo
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by ronaldx 13y ago
I don't believe this is true. Anecdotally: 1. I cannot easily distinguish between SD and HD screens. I would much rather have a faster frame rate or better sound quality or an easier way to legally access international TV channels. Bet
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by ronaldx 13y ago
It's also difficult to claim that this reflects the current situation in Germany. As best I can tell, Germany hasn't had any road border controls since 2007 (when Czech Rep & Poland implemented Schengen).
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Is that your worst story? I read it like this: Border officer didn't want you to take a car with a wrong/likely-illegal registration across the border - instead took some time and effort to clarify the details and then allowed you
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by ronaldx 13y ago
I mostly agree with you but I do blame the webmasters. Every piece of third party content reduces the quality of the experience, even assuming it works 100% correctly. I have never visited a site to check out its third party content; it&#
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Cool :) Good luck and mind out for black swans along your way ;)
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by ronaldx 13y ago
By saying the value is volatile, it admits the chance of increasingly quickly but also the chance of decreasing quickly. With the benefit of hindsight, it's very easy to see which happened, but this doesn't necessarily make someth
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Yes, and it's likely that the cost of the lease would be signifcantly higher to account for the risk of default.
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by ronaldx 13y ago
What Wolfram says is nonsense but what he produces is still good. Wolfram Alpha was massively over-hyped and billed as a Google-killer. It is not remotely that, but it's still an incredibly useful and inimitable product.
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Cool point and I agree. The sample has to represent the population, that's fundamental. If the sample is so small that it can't characterise the population distribution, then you have a problem anyway. If you're measuring a e

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