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by sjtrny 13y ago
The problem with this is people stop asking questions or start pretending that they know everything. Are you saying that Wikipedia should sneer at you for not knowing the chemical composition of the painkiller your doctor prescribed to you?
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by sjtrny 13y ago
The problem is that sometimes the person feels under pressure to pretend they know so they say yes anyway.
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by sjtrny 13y ago
Obviously it's a PR move. You can still use evidence in a press release to strengthen your future statements within that press release.
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by sjtrny 13y ago
1) to scare off the lawyer and all future lawyers 2) to build a body of evidence against the lawyers claims To me this is very confident. It's a big gamble coming out like this. Someone who wasn't confident would have just settled
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by sjtrny 13y ago
I think the US Navy wanted some positive press coverage.
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by sjtrny 13y ago
Why is drag and drop not "real code"?
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by sjtrny 13y ago
This is not news. This rail gun tech has been around for years. Here is a video posted in 2012 which shows the exact same gun: http://youtube.com/watch?v=eC2hu9bildA
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by sjtrny 13y ago
It's more a "thing" because of other social status reasons.
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by sjtrny 13y ago
Did you bother to read the criticisms section found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_behavioral_therapy ? No double blind studies. "The patient is an active participant in correcting negative distorted tho
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by sjtrny 13y ago
'“Depression is not an emotional disorder at all! Every bad feeling you have is the result of your negative thinking.” In this paper, I intend to give this conclusion some good natured trouble.' http://www.psychiatricti
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by sjtrny 13y ago
I looked at the Wikipedia articles and they referenced studies where the conclusion ranged from "needs further study" and "slight effect". It seems like it might be more placebo effect (granted this is still a real effec
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by sjtrny 13y ago
Elitism?
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by sjtrny 13y ago
Sounds like voodoo to me.
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An Introduction to Matrix Completion(sjtrny.com)
8 points by sjtrny 13y ago|0 comments
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by sjtrny 13y ago
I find my time on the toilet quite productive, it's usually when I have Eureka moments.
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by sjtrny 13y ago
Octave is still quite primitive in comparison to MATLAB unfortunately. I think it will be some time before it reaches the level of MATLAB.
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by sjtrny 13y ago
Really? Wouldn't it make even more sense to remove shoes if you live in a rural area where you are more likely to be stomping through mud.
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mckit: a MATLAB library for Matrix Completion(github.com)
2 points by sjtrny 13y ago|0 comments
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by sjtrny 13y ago
Other than MATLAB being closed and very expensive. What is wrong with it?
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by sjtrny 13y ago
Efficient in what sense? Computationally and storage wise it is the most efficient.
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by sjtrny 13y ago
Well mathematically we represent trees with matrices. So anything that can edit tabular data can edit trees.
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by sjtrny 13y ago
You're supposed to click the link to take you to the next page.
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by sjtrny 13y ago
The irony of the headline is that even the article itself is wrong. "A 2004 review of the evidence said that while CLA seemed to benefit animals, there was a lack of good evidence of human health benefits, despite the many claims made
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by sjtrny 13y ago
This is why modem/routers have hardware reset buttons. There is no need to call your ISP.
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by sjtrny 13y ago
Probably to ensure compatibility for old browsers and mobile users. Obviously the more elegant solution is to do the animation client side and avoid rendering millions of videos but it's not the solution that would have worked for the
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by sjtrny 13y ago
Came here to post the same thing (current researcher in this field). Although you could actually automate the labelling by building a classifier for the type of object you wish to extract.
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by sjtrny 13y ago
I don't agree with most of what Michael Pollan suggests. To me there is no distinction between food and food products. I just think the quote is a good general guideline.
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by sjtrny 13y ago
It's not as simple as "sugar is poison". Some form of "sugar" is in virtually everything we eat. It is unavoidable. Just stick to the rule of "Eat food, not too much, mostly plants" and quit screaming abo
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by sjtrny 13y ago
Citation needed
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by sjtrny 13y ago
"...eat their vegetables" is that abuse?

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