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by stdbrouw 6y ago
Nobody expects wind to cover the majority of our electricity needs, but don't discount it either. There are some positive signs re: winter production, too: https://www.belgianoffshoreplatform.be/en/news/winter
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by stdbrouw 6y ago
Correlation but with categories rather than continuous variables, for example as used in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kendall_rank_correlation_coeff... -- so "has the same sexuality as their twin" would be c
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by stdbrouw 6y ago
How about holding people accountable for what people do?
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by stdbrouw 6y ago
> anyone with the chops to make $200k/yr from Facebook could start their own SaaS and make $400k/yr without too much effort. Or, I mean, they could start their own SaaS that for any one of a thousand reasons ends up making them
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by stdbrouw 6y ago
Fair enough. I read the word "application" as "field of inquiry" where I do think the sky is the limit, but it's true that Stan is primarily geared towards scientific work with small data sets.
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by stdbrouw 6y ago
Any kind of statistical modeling that doesn't fit neatly into an existing "one (meta)model to rule them all" framework such as generalized linear models.
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by stdbrouw 6y ago
If it short circuits, the circuit breaker on that circuit will open up and cut power within a couple of milliseconds, before anything has had a chance to catch fire. Though I definitely second the sibling comment about the multimeter.
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by stdbrouw 6y ago
Sure, I don't think the roundabout is that special. But if building a short third leg is cheap, building an even shorter third leg (instead of one that meets the others "in the middle") should be even cheaper.
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by stdbrouw 6y ago
The photo on Google Maps shows a cruise ship, and the map shows a harbor. Perhaps a fixed bridge with enough clearance is impossible and one that opens not any cheaper than a tunnel?
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by stdbrouw 6y ago
Even just looking at that map it's not clear why they didn't just connect Strendur to Rókin instead, perhaps with a bridge. I guess there's a geographical or geological explanation, but I'm curious precisely what that is
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by stdbrouw 6y ago
You're hemorrhaging rep points because you are in fact glib and are not seriously participating in the discussion.
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by stdbrouw 6y ago
> Even if this anecdote is untrue, the point remains valid... I mean, I guess the point remains valid in that everyone can see that a lot of manufacturing has left the US in the past, I dunno, fifty years. But if you don't even know
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by stdbrouw 6y ago
Huh? Apple doesn't own Bose.
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by stdbrouw 6y ago
Accessibility matters, that's true, but last I checked private cars aren't that great if you're in a wheelchair either.
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by stdbrouw 6y ago
Well, I don't live there anymore but did a couple of years ago, and definitely for more than two days. If anything bothered me about the subway, it was the extreme overcrowding during rush hour. If you had that much trouble with strike
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by stdbrouw 6y ago
Conversely one might think of free parking spaces as a subsidy for the middle class and up, at the expense of those who can't afford a car. Public transport in Paris is wonderful, and while there are parts where I still would rather no
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by stdbrouw 6y ago
List price for the kinds of Intel chips Apple used/uses is somewhere along the lines of $200, though I can't imagine Apple ever paid that much. Some quick googling says that Intel maintains a gross margin of 50% or more, so manufa
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by stdbrouw 6y ago
> This is a low dimensional bias. If there is increased risk of default from high A & B & C & D but not high A or high B or high C or high D, then the combination or parameters is what matters even if it is not easy to explai
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by stdbrouw 6y ago
The amount of resources involved is next to nothing compared to pretty much any other hobby you might imagine, whether that's painting, tinkering with motorcycles, setting up a home recording studio or even just hiking.
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by stdbrouw 6y ago
Yep. Works as intended, easy to set up though as with most of these wireless technologies the initial pairing can be a bit fussy. The built-in software and smartphone app is good enough for me, but if you want you can flash new firmware and
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by stdbrouw 6y ago
FWIW, Jonathan Swift's original modest proposal, was a proposal for eating poor children and the title was satire.
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by stdbrouw 6y ago
I used a MBP with 4 GB of RAM up until 2018 for rather heavy duty data science workloads. Wasn't ideal, but one thing I learned was that you really can't infer the amount of swapping and performance degradation that occurs just by
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by stdbrouw 6y ago
Is it flagged? Mostly, I think people just don't care that much because Benford's law is a curious pattern that applies to some kinds of numbers some of the time, so it's interesting as a first diagnostic of fraud, but withou
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by stdbrouw 6y ago
And now you've solved one problem and have created a bunch of others. Welcome to tax design!
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by stdbrouw 6y ago
> What gap is this referring to? When computers were still a fairly new phenomenon, it was assumed that they would be an absolute game-changer and that productivity would go through the roof, objectively quantified in terms of revenue pe
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by stdbrouw 6y ago
> Maritime archaeologist Yftinus van Popta of the University of Groningen A name that could've come straight out of a Discworld novel, wonderful!
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by stdbrouw 6y ago
> Yet I haven't heard of a single doctor who quit his practice and moved to Colorado to run a ski lodge. I don't know if that's true. Eurostat has these "proof of concept" statistics that try to look at how many
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by stdbrouw 6y ago
Did you notice how the driver is the only one not getting hurt in that video?
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by stdbrouw 6y ago
It seems obvious that the real question that was being asked was "How hard can it be to bake a piece of plastic into shape [given the current state of the plastics industry and technology in general]?" and the answer to that quest
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by stdbrouw 6y ago
Santos does not offer neutral commentary, but he claims to offer objective commentary: it is objectively possible that public policy and immigrant policies will negatively affect the census. You can't discount that possibility and igno

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