samfriedman

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   by samfriedman 9y ago

   I'm surprised more high-tier universities don't supply tenured PIs with dedicated grant writers, or at least easy access to them. Many of my social circle work as grad students at a private R1 institution, and I've seen a vas
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   by samfriedman 9y ago

   > The medical examiner’s office says it switched from FST to a new program, STRmix, because of changing FBI standards and not because of any deficiencies with FST. Is there any effort towards independent examination of this new tool? I
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   by samfriedman 9y ago

   The ACLU has produced a map to this effect: https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights-governments-100-mile-b...
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   by samfriedman 9y ago

   Presumably in that the data itself is not criminal, and there could be no viable method to determine whether the data the key decrypts is criminal.
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   by samfriedman 9y ago

   Someone on reddit [0] seems to have signed up for that option accidentally, so it would appear they don't require any documentation. [0] https://www.reddit.com/r/personalfinance/comments/6zrwdd/soo..
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   by samfriedman 9y ago

   Non-paywall link (twitter redirect): https://t.co/5sCeMykOWW
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   by samfriedman 9y ago

   I'd guess the population of magazine models who want minimum-information access is an acceptable false negative rate for Facebook.
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   by samfriedman 9y ago

   True, this is much more "instant" and definitely has a psychological effect of only working with the separate Venmo money you've accrued. I think the next frontier of these bill-share/social payment apps will be in tight
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   by samfriedman 9y ago

   I don't get the use of a physical Venmo card. I solely use the app to split bills with my friends, and almost always cash out as soon as I'm paid up. And that's not a knock against the app: I think it's one of the most
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    by samfriedman 9y ago

    True, but it's often the case that the money is spent inefficiently or on the completely wrong things. More money + proper spending = worker growth.
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    by samfriedman 9y ago

    There exists a tool called TPOT (Tree-based Pipeline Optimization Tool) [0] that aims to automate the knob-twiddling that tends to go with optimizing Machine Learning models. As these models often have a number of parameters to tune and tw
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    by samfriedman 9y ago

    There was a fairly well-known Facebook page called The Disciples of the New Dawn. They purported to be a cult-like Christian Fundamentalist group, and the page served as a distribution channel for image-macros that seemed designed to get a
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    by samfriedman 9y ago

    You jest, but they're not above "throw a blockchain on it" levels of buzzword-chasing: https://www.ibm.com/us-en/marketplace/z14
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    American Chess Is Great Again(fivethirtyeight.com)

    2 points by samfriedman 9y ago|0 comments
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    by samfriedman 9y ago

    I actually wasn't aware, thanks. I've been on GPM for years, but it might be time to get a refreshed view of the competition as well.
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    by samfriedman 9y ago

    I love Google Play Music for exactly this reason: I have 20k songs uploaded and counting. No other service is offering anything close. Sadly the team seems to have recently scaled back on the "Your library" features in favor of r
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    by samfriedman 9y ago

    For those who want more of this "analysts' insight", I can heartily recommend the blog and podcast, Arms Control Wonk [0]. The researchers and experts there work to perform analysis into most new missile launches in the inte
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    by samfriedman 9y ago

    This is a product from the same devs as spaCy, Explosion. https://github.com/explosion
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    by samfriedman 9y ago

    The article states that the court order used in this case is something called an Anton Piller order [0]. Its intended use seems to be for cases where the defendant is known to possess incriminating material they are in imminent danger of de
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    by samfriedman 9y ago

    For quick interactive data apps, there is also now Dash by Plot.ly[0]. It aims to do for Python what shiny does for R. [0] https://plot.ly/products/dash/
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    by samfriedman 9y ago

    This story has really gotten legs somehow. The research is related to work with AI agents developing a trade/negotiation logic with shorthand language [0], but the media seems to have spun it into a tale of rogue computers being shut d
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    by samfriedman 9y ago

    There is no need to make this thread, as whoishiring [1] automatically posts this and the other monthly threads at 11AM EST. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=whoishiring
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    by samfriedman 9y ago

    These threads are automatically posted by the whoishiring [1] account. OP is missing a lot of the usual information. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=whoishiring
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    by samfriedman 9y ago

    >Just like how HSBC physically expanded their teller windows to make it easy for Mexican drug cartels to make cash deposits. I can't seem to find any mention of this in the linked article?
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    by samfriedman 9y ago

    One thing I rarely see discussed in any detail in mechanical keyboard roundups is a noise comparison. For a tool for "coders", many mechanical keyboards can be pretty disruptive to your coworkers if you're using it in a work
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    by samfriedman 9y ago

    This is great. Reminds me of the Lego brick identifier/sorter that was posted a while ago. Sure, there's no real reason that true-random bits from Random.org couldn't be used, but I think a project like this is neat precisel