ryanmonroe

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by ryanmonroe 8y ago
I feel that this comment dehumanized me. Therefore, you must remove it. See the issue?
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by ryanmonroe 8y ago
A Hackintosh is arguably more stable and requires less "screwing around" when something breaks, because often that something is hardware and iMacs/Macbooks are notoriously hard to repair yourself.
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by ryanmonroe 8y ago
Well you have to make your decisions based on something right? I'm not sure what you're advocating here, unless it's that we shouldn't think about life decisions too hard. The fact that math is involved doesn't au
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by ryanmonroe 8y ago
Just tried on iPhone X. It didn't disable FaceID.
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by ryanmonroe 8y ago
I don't think it's actually any more effort than a triple-click. "Several seconds" actually means 2 seconds, so you can basically grab your phone and squeeze for two seconds to disable Face ID. It's probably less ob
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by ryanmonroe 8y ago
Not having a good data entry gui is the biggest benefit of not-excel in my experience. 90% of the time your data has a real source that's not "Jim's head" and you should find a way to impute the data from that source dir
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by ryanmonroe 8y ago
I think by "duplicate copy transmitted simultaneously" they mean at the same time your local copy is saved, when the recording stops. The Mobile Justice CA app says "As soon as you stop recording , the video will be automatic
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by ryanmonroe 8y ago
"Do humans cause climate change?" is a question of fact. "What type of gun control should we have?" is not a question of fact, so you shouldn't expect that simply stating some facts relevant to the issue would autom
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by ryanmonroe 8y ago
Sounds like it might be easier to just write a program which inserts line breaks after periods (and one to remove them), so you can edit the books in their typical format and export to "git format" to deal with versioning/bra
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by ryanmonroe 8y ago
In the Ordinary Least Squares section, this sheet says the vector of residuals is equal to the sum of the squared elements of that vector.
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by ryanmonroe 8y ago
FYI the authors of this book are authors of the "forecast" R package (used in the book, but also popular in general) https://github.com/robjhyndman/forecast
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by ryanmonroe 8y ago
The median personal and household incomes in 2016 were $31k and $59k, so at $38k you're starting your career well ahead of the median for US citizens of all ages. I happen to think teachers should be paid much more because of the impor
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by ryanmonroe 8y ago
I think the fear of not being able to find a job is a large part of the reason people don't just move somewhere cheaper when they can't afford housing. There are of course other reasons, e.g. community, for staying in expensive ar
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by ryanmonroe 8y ago
Well, it has a thinkpad-sized trackpad directly under the home-key center, plus some extra area to the right ;)
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by ryanmonroe 8y ago
The App Store makes up about 5% of Apple's total revenue. The vast majority of their revenue comes from selling products to consumers. Their business model is not comparable to Google's, because Google gets most of its revenue fro
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by ryanmonroe 8y ago
Taking results of 5% false positives coming from a tool with a 80% confidence level as anything other than "it worked better than expected" is misinterpreting the results.
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by ryanmonroe 8y ago
The only important part of this conversation is the part that offers a suggestion for the level of confidence you should use when highly accurate matches are important. But we never needed a conversation for that, it's in the documenta
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by ryanmonroe 8y ago
If speed is a concern and you're working in R, you should use data.table instead of dplyr. In Hadley Wickham's words: "We optimise dplyr for expressiveness on medium data; feel free to use data.table for raw speed on bigger d
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by ryanmonroe 8y ago
Any toy designed specifically for one sex is sexist by definition.
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by ryanmonroe 8y ago
Yes, GP even specifically referred to them as "old tricks". But even though the strategy is old, many people do not perceive the process that way so it's worth pointing out.
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by ryanmonroe 8y ago
> the government has a right to any data the bank collects about you This is not true in the US. Banks certainly have a right to give any information you've given them to the government though.
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by ryanmonroe 8y ago
Well, I think the amount of money you would need to support yourself indefinitely without being employed is an amount most people would call "a lot". Certainly that amount is more than almost anyone making 60k a year has.
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by ryanmonroe 8y ago
That makes perfect sense if you have a job that you would still go to every day even if you weren't getting paid. But unless that's true, it's clear what the benefit of more money would be, and it has nothing to do with &quot
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by ryanmonroe 8y ago
What is needlessly complex about length, nrow, and dim and why would they ever give you the wrong thing? length always gives the length of an object, i.e. the number of elements in it[1]. nrow will always give the number of rows, and dim wi
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by ryanmonroe 8y ago
> I go out of my way to hire older devs that are eschewed by typical Bay Area startups Going "out of [your] way" to hire older devs sounds like age discrimination. AFAIK, age discrimination in this direction isn't illegal
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by ryanmonroe 8y ago
Right, there are many tricks for special cases, even when the matrix is not sparse. One example is Toeplitz-Matrix multiplication as described in https://math.mit.edu/icg/resources/teaching/18.085-spring201...
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by ryanmonroe 8y ago
The suggestion that we should redistribute wealth is very different from the author's suggestion that we should provide a disincentive for automation, and make sure we don't tend to hire the best (where best includes intelligence)
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by ryanmonroe 8y ago
What do you mean? Has Google patented the use of computer-generated voices / language to contact a business?
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by ryanmonroe 8y ago
Is your point that you're less likely to get information in written form when working remotely?
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by ryanmonroe 8y ago
> The iPhone, or any other phone, has the intrinsic value of being usable as a computing device, entertainment device, communications device, camera Okay, but you're just shifting the value down the line. What makes computing or ent

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