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by smartician 8y ago
Let's see... Let's say you test 10,000 people, so about 100 actually have the disease. Since the test is only 99% accurate, only 99 of those will test positive. Of the remaining 9,900 actually negative people, 99 will test falsely
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by smartician 8y ago
> "This is just not true", "I don't believe you" Those sentences stood out to me as well. Maybe I'm too conflict-averse, but in a professional setting I would rarely use sentences like this. Somethi
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'The Bay Area is broken': Why Silicon Valley startups are hiring elsewhere(phys.org)
20 points by smartician 8y ago|1 comments
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by smartician 9y ago
Aren't many AI methods also inherently probabilistic? That would make it by definition impossible to definitively explain any particular behavior.
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by smartician 9y ago
GM killed 124 people with faulty ignition switches[1], yet the brand still survived. It's a cost calculation: will the brand damage outweigh the benefit to the company? Sadly, human lives don't factor into that equation. [1] http
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by smartician 9y ago
It's also worth mentioning that MV has two Caltrain stations, though the other one (San Antonio) isn't served as much by the bullet trains I believe? https://sfbay.craigslist.org/sby/apa/d/jr-1bd-1ba
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by smartician 9y ago
I don't think what you're asking for is too unrealistic if you're willing to adjust your price range a bit. This one looks like it would fit the bill: https://sfbay.craigslist.org/pen/apa/d/only
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by smartician 9y ago
> What average person had a need for internet in 1994? There were fairly successful predecessors to the Internet, i.e. bulletin boards and Teletext. There was clearly a demand for a stream of information into your home.
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by smartician 9y ago
I made some "fun" investments during college: CHS Electronics[1], and Met@box[2]. In CHS Electronics I was actually up 100% at some point and entered a sell order, but changed my mind and cancelled it. Hours later the stock tanked
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by smartician 9y ago
German-American here, I haven't followed the case in the German media extensively, but there is a widespread public opinion that this was a welcome opportunity to punish a pesky German competitor, by throwing the book at them by the US
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by smartician 9y ago
Yup, they seem to be coming in waves. In the past week, I received several robo-calls on how the IRS is suing me, after months or years of not getting any. Before that, it was the "you won an Expedia gift card" wave.
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by smartician 9y ago
That first map is misleading because it tops out at 530/square mile, which on an absolute scale is not very dense at all. For comparison, Tokyo metro houses 37 million people at 11,300/square mile. NY/NJ/CT has 20 millio
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by smartician 9y ago
What do you think of portfolio123.com? I'm looking to get my feet wet in quant stuff, but the high price is scaring me off. Right now I'm running simple momentum models on macro index ETFs using Yahoo data (monthly trades).
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by smartician 9y ago
You see a juice shop sprout at every corner of your yuppie neighborhood, and you read about the success of Keurig, who married the coffee machine with the consumer-level printer, which allows you to control which consumables go into your ma
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by smartician 9y ago
http://www.grad.gatech.edu/helpdesk/knowledgebase.php?articl...
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by smartician 9y ago
Oregon State has an online CS post-bacc program, but it's not cheap: http://eecs.oregonstate.edu/online-cs-students
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by smartician 9y ago
Just like with shopping carts, I think there's a general perception that these bikes are free to use for the public. People treat it like disposable transportation. Not just the homeless and teenagers with questionable morals; I'v
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by smartician 9y ago
Especially when you can just buy a $299 masticating juicer where you can use any DRM-free fruits and vegetables. Like you, I'm flabbergasted about the amount of funding they received, not only because it's bad economically, but al
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by smartician 9y ago
The EU prosecuted Microsoft for bundling Internet Explorer with Windows, with seems much more benign than Google using their market leading browser to block out competitor's ads.
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by smartician 10y ago
A couple of years ago scammers spoofing local numbers were running rampant in my area. They seem to operate from Mexico, so there's very little that can be done about it apparently (which is a testament of how bad the current telecommu
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Google to Shut Down Google Site Search API(pastebin.com)
23 points by smartician 10y ago|4 comments
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by smartician 10y ago
Completely anecdotal, but in case of the company I work for it's absolutely true. We used to have a mobile team of 2 iOS and 2 Android developers in house, and a couple of outsourced devs, and on top of that we were even looking to con
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by smartician 10y ago
J-1 trainees get sponsored by a third party exchange organization, not the company they will be interning at. Typically you (as the host company) and the candidate work with the exchange organization to complete the paperwork to get the vis
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by smartician 10y ago
Especially dangerous because he's asking people to directly email HR and only copy in their managers. You would think he'd ask interested employees to talk to their managers first (so that they can try to convince high performers
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by smartician 10y ago
Ah, thank you for the correction. I admit I glossed over a few paragraphs, and missed this.
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by smartician 10y ago
It's interesting that the attorney's letter specifically says "termination of your _employment_". Add that to the fact that he was "fired" initially because he didn't show up for work, and it looks like he
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by smartician 11y ago
Completely anecdotal: Back in 2001 I was in Silicon Valley on a J-1 visa. The company I was working at had three rounds of layoffs within 6 months. Seeing the decaying situation, I went back to Europe to find work there. One of the other in
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by smartician 11y ago
Did you read the full article? The author then proceeds to explain how German allows for more complex constructs than just concatenating two nouns.
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by smartician 11y ago
Funny how polarizing it is. The elitism, faux secrecy and utter pointlessness of this just ticks me off (along with the other criticism mentioned in the article), but some people, including the author, seem to gobble this up like candy.
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by smartician 11y ago
The author is complaining that "manage your mail" apparently means "We'll copy all your contacts and mail history of all times into our database". The permission dialog only tells you what Google will allow the requ

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