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by st1x7 6y ago
> In hardware, software and now Covid vaccines, I try to avoid being an 'early adopter'. I wait til the bugs are ironed out. This isn't the same getting an Apple Silicone Mac though. There's almost no downside to wait
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by st1x7 6y ago
It's not irrational at all but it also doesn't answer my question. Worrying comes from uncertainty. If you had evidence (in either direction), your uncertainty would go down and you would either not worry as much or you would have
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by st1x7 6y ago
Do we have evidence for the rushed-to-markedness of any of the vaccines?
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by st1x7 6y ago
It's impressive how my pip version seems to always be out of date.
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by st1x7 6y ago
My favorite example is from MIT's Intro to Probability and Statistics course: > Definition: The probability mass function (pmf) of a discrete random variable is the function p(a)=P(X=a). This only makes sense if you already know wha
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by st1x7 6y ago
Anyone else planning on rotating languages? I think that using a different language every day is too much of a stretch for me, but I plan to switch between C++, Rust and Julia.
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by st1x7 6y ago
I would recommend skipping this one. It contains fairly obvious advice, the information density is low and it isn't delivered very well. I really don't know why it's recommended so often.
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by st1x7 6y ago
Same here. I actually started writing a comment criticizing the branding before I had a good look at the page and realized what's happening.
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by st1x7 6y ago
This thread is a great experiment in how seriously HN takes things and how long people think for before they comment.
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by st1x7 6y ago
The list of company endorsements is a great touch.
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by st1x7 6y ago
1. Ask for a raise. Your company likely has some kind of review cycle and there are times in the financial year when employees can get a pay review. Make sure that before that moment comes around you've had a conversation about salary
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by st1x7 6y ago
Sure, I just can't agree with the parent statement that probability has nothing to do with the object it describes, which is demonstrably false.
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by st1x7 6y ago
> the probability of that coin toss being 50% does not talk about the coin; it talks about you, and about your partial knowledge of the universe. But it does talk about the coin - a weighted coin would have a different probability. Same
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by st1x7 6y ago
I'm in a similar situation but with less experience than you. After a couple of years of being a data scientist I'm realising that I enjoy building stuff a lot more than the other aspects of the job. So for my next job I'm lo
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Does Advertising Work? (Part 2: Digital) (Ep. 441)(freakonomics.com)
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by st1x7 6y ago
Big no, I dislike everything about this - the assumed necessity of such a product or the implication that it does any good, the uncertainty of whether I'm reading has been censored at any given time, some vaguely undefined measure of
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by st1x7 6y ago
As if they couldn't read everything anyway. Obviously, I have no evidence for making such a claim. What I know is 1. Facebook's reputation with regards to privacy. 2. The fact that they paid 20 billion dollars to buy a product wit
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by st1x7 6y ago
Or a person. We're achieving human-level AI by keeping AI where it is and bringing human intelligence down.
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by st1x7 6y ago
The list is so long we might as well start another thread for it.
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by st1x7 6y ago
More accurate title: You probably don't need a neural network if your model has 5 inputs.
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by st1x7 6y ago
> discussions about being able to work for Google and Facebook at the same time, now that everyone's WFH anyway. At the end of the day you get $x per hour and your hours are limited. This is true whether you you're in-office or
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by st1x7 6y ago
Can Google change direction and improve like Microsoft did? Or are they on the path of becoming a 2020 IBM in a few years?
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by st1x7 6y ago
Why would your pockets fall out?
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by st1x7 6y ago
> This is kind of random, but I was watching a cooking video where the presenter said things like "we add two tablespoons of olive oil", and it looks like they pour much more than that. I don't know which chef you watched
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by st1x7 6y ago
Of course wealthy interests played a role. And there's also evidence of foreign interference which was never fully investigated or disclosed. Those are seriously problematic. But they are different from implying (like point 16 in the
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by st1x7 6y ago
This is a list of points without much justification. It reads like the author is just pushing their own ideology and projecting it onto what's happening to the UK. Then around point 16 he straight up jumps into conspiracy theory terito
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by st1x7 6y ago
I think that what isn't discussed enough is the variance in quality of your office environment and of your home office and how that quality affects your preferences about working from home. It sounds quite obvious but in these argument
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by st1x7 6y ago
That's getting to my point though - they should accommodate different workflows and use cases. But what's happening instead is that people are overusing notebooks in cases where plain text + REPL is more appropriate.
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by st1x7 6y ago
Yes, what I meant by Rmarkdown is these notebooks.
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by st1x7 6y ago
Sigh. I really think that the only reason notebooks are so popular is that Python never had a popular IDE with a high-quality REPL where people can learn to work interactively while writing code in plain text. R illustrates this very well -

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