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by simonster 9y ago
For anyone who's curious, the procedure used is described in http://www.aliquote.org/pub/odds_meta.pdf . The standardized mean difference is given by: log((65/35)/(5/95))/(pi/sqrt(3)) =
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by simonster 9y ago
Previous discussion (where I originally posted this gist): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14150854
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by simonster 9y ago
Letter to MIT community: https://gist.github.com/simonster/e22e50cd52b7dffcf5a4db2b8e... tl;dr MIT is selling off half of 18.0.0.0/8 (8 million IPs)
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by simonster 10y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11780565
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by simonster 10y ago
Another relevant caveat (from http://www.nature.com/eye/journal/v25/n1/full/eye2010149a.ht... ) is that "Mice and rats have been shown to have lower thresholds for photic injury than do primates
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by simonster 10y ago
They've been working on NumPyPy since at least 2011, and to my knowledge it's still not in serious use.
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by simonster 10y ago
> Those seats mean that despite paying more than most people on the plane, I'm not stuck in a middle seat most of the time. The MCE seats also serve this purpose. > I'm willing to bet that people with similar flying habits t
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by simonster 10y ago
There are seats that are not "Main Cabin Extra" but that AA will still charge you for, although less than they would charge you for MCE. Once the free seats are full, your options are to pay extra, or accept what is most likely go
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by simonster 10y ago
At least in OpenBLAS, most (all?) of the BLAS routines are C functions that call kernels written in assembly, but many of the LAPACK routines are the Netlib reference Fortran versions.
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by simonster 10y ago
Or just make Science OA. Unlike Nature and Cell, it's published by a non-profit (the American Association for the Advancement of Science). In principle, the American government could just give them money to make everything freely acces
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by simonster 10y ago
Yann LeCun called a technique for pruning weights "optimal brain damage" back in 1990: http://yann.lecun.com/exdb/publis/pdf/lecun-90b.pdf
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by simonster 10y ago
They used a clinical depression survey (CES-D). The questions were: 1. I was bothered by things that usually don't bother me. 2. I had trouble keeping my mind on what I was doing. 3. I felt depressed. 4. I felt that everything I did wa
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Depression afflicts almost half of STEM graduate students at UC Berkeley (2015)(sciencemag.org)
23 points by simonster 10y ago|19 comments
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The Effect of Visual Appearance on the Performance of Continuous Sliders(autodeskresearch.com)
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by simonster 10y ago
On top of that, mice are nocturnal creatures, so they do not ordinarily experience the same constant barrage of visual stimuli that humans do.
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by simonster 10y ago
> Hopefully, someone will figure out how to answer this question definitively, so academics can start arguing about something else. The reason academics argue about citation counts isn't necessarily that they care, but that, at many
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by simonster 10y ago
A benefit to what? People arguing for years over boring research questions where the evidence clearly favors one viewpoint over another does not benefit anyone except the people involved in the argument, who can ask for more funding to reso
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by simonster 10y ago
As a student who has participated in some decisions regarding changing courses at my institution, I think classes here are usually bad because no one really cares. It requires tact to say "this course is garbage and you don't care
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10:21 PM EDT(inkdroid.org)
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by simonster 10y ago
The counter reports all heap-allocated memory, not just memory that persists after the function call, and the description in the post doesn't look quite right. The 208 bytes come almost entirely from calling the function from the globa
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Photo-Realistic Single Image Super-Resolution(arxiv.org)
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by simonster 10y ago
The question is answered here: http://www.embedded.com/electronics-blogs/say-what-/4442498/... . The answer is no, except for the system calls.
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Avoiding Cache Writebacks for Freed Memory(robert.ocallahan.org)
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by simonster 10y ago
> What is your motivation for defending the status quo? My goal for posting was to point out that existing mental health treatments don't work, and that there are promising developments that point to a better model. I didn't s
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by simonster 10y ago
The claims you are making are stronger than the claims made by that paper ( http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0149763416... ). First, the paper does not claim that cortisol production is relat
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Apple acquires Turi in major exit for Seattle-based machine learning startup(geekwire.com)
11 points by simonster 10y ago|0 comments
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Debiasing Word Embeddings(arxiv.org)
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by simonster 10y ago
There is no paper. This was a 15 minute oral presentation. It may or may not be interesting work, but it's not at the point where the popular press should be reporting on it.
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by simonster 10y ago
It sounds like this was a conference presentation, which are usually not peer-reviewed in biological sciences, so I would be very careful about drawing any conclusions from it.
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by simonster 10y ago
Of course it is. But if you care a lot about battery life, you might wonder if you should use Edge with an ad blocker or Opera, and the provided benchmarks are not very useful for determining which of those options is superior.

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