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by stdbrouw 6y ago
You seem to be extremely certain of your position and seem to find it impossible to believe that Robert Santos, the statistician in question, could have any motive other than a political one in sounding the alarm. However, "if people c
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by stdbrouw 6y ago
Too bad there's no good examples in the blog post. With regards to the color of the bike shed, if any color is good enough (even though there might be some perfect color that is very visible yet also soothing and pretty), then picking
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by stdbrouw 6y ago
> bandits have higher statistical power, but also higher false-positive rate; false positives can be quite high cost since they cause thrash and require time to investigate if a feature that tested well does poorly in production Not sure
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by stdbrouw 6y ago
I don't really see the resemblance between J and NumPy the author claims is so obvious. I mean, yeah, some of the snippets look similar but they do the exact same basic array manipulations, what do you expect?
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by stdbrouw 6y ago
You probably misunderstood: they're not talking about building from source (which is easy), but rather about recreating Git from scratch in another programming language (which is hard).
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by stdbrouw 6y ago
For those into this kind of thing, Arika Okrent's "In the Land of Invented Languages: Esperanto Rock Stars, Klingon Poets, Loglan Lovers, and the Mad Dreamers Who Tried to Build A Perfect Language" has a chapter on Blissymbol
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by stdbrouw 6y ago
Tibor Scitovsky once remarked that the most rewarding leisure tends to be skilled leisure: playing a musical instrument, sports, drawing and painting and so on. and that as people start to work less, they will increasingly need to learn how
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by stdbrouw 6y ago
Yet if the only use for footnotes is to house whatever the author just couldn't bear to part with, even when that information doesn't contribute to the overal thrust of the argument, then endnotes are precisely the right solution:
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by stdbrouw 6y ago
Mortgages and pension plans are not strictly speaking an expense, you're paying towards an asset. It would be incredibly unfair if wealthy parents could camouflage their wealth just by taking out a big loan on a big house.
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by stdbrouw 6y ago
I feel like the blog post should be read in line with how it was probably written: informal, personal and somewhat sarcastic, with a bitter note because he chose one major and now it turns out people value something else instead. Hence the
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by stdbrouw 6y ago
A natural experiment is an experiment (an AB-test if you will) that occurs by chance rather than conscious design. For example, two neighboring countries contemplate banning smoking in restaurants, but in one the bill fails with 49% of the
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by stdbrouw 6y ago
If you enjoy these kinds of explanations, "Data Science from Scratch" by Joel Grus explains many machine learning algorithms and has you implement simple versions of them in Python as you read along. It also covers linear regressi
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by stdbrouw 6y ago
But Peter Kirn, the author, is not a company, he's a musician. He's not selling music software so he can't (as per the sibling comment) racewash it.
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by stdbrouw 6y ago
Let's grant that a terminology change like this is just a distraction. If so, why do you get so worked up about it? Why not just say to yourself "heh, much good that'll do, but whatever" and move on?
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by stdbrouw 6y ago
> The police need to push cars to the side of the road on, I'd venture, a daily basis. In what kind of weird and twisted world do police officers need to push cars to the side on a daily basis?
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by stdbrouw 6y ago
Yup!
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by stdbrouw 6y ago
In the lingo, a "news app" is typically some sort of interactive presentation of one particular story, and depending on the story may allow the user to filter or visualize something from a database, it might change the information
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by stdbrouw 6y ago
Let's say lowering the bar has the result of making two courses absolutely useless for you, because you've already mastered everything there is to know about them. And let's say your typical bachelor's degree includes 30
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by stdbrouw 6y ago
> What really surprised me was the core principle at British unversities - "don't assume prior knowledge of anything". The rationale is that you want to give 18 year olds the opportunity to pick a field of study that they&
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by stdbrouw 7y ago
There is. https://business.gov.nl/starting-your-business/choosing-a-bu...
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by stdbrouw 7y ago
Because it's very cumbersome to work in 3D, for very little benefit. Projection error can be as little as a couple of meters over hundreds of kilometers if you choose a proper projection (and creating your own conic projection is easy,
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by stdbrouw 7y ago
> 80% sounds bad but the chance of two launches failing is 4%, which means a 96% chance overall success rate. I don't disagree but I also don't think it's always as straightforward as probability theory would make us belie
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by stdbrouw 7y ago
Actually, yes, it looks like I didn't have the full truth either: as recently as 2 or 3 years ago you could still buy leaded solder in most places (in Europe), but the store in Germany where I used to order it, doesn't sell any an
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by stdbrouw 7y ago
That's nonsense, it is still very easy to get leaded solder in Europe.
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by stdbrouw 7y ago
> numerous philosophers have argued Friedrich Nietzsche is not "numerous philosophers".
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by stdbrouw 7y ago
> Part of this is definitional, too. Do you include that far left part of the graph where people are not really paying you as a "customer"? Exactly. Often when the mean is problematic, it's because there's multiple su
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by stdbrouw 7y ago
Craft breweries don't have a lot of money and spreadsheets are cheap and therefore hard to compete with.
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by stdbrouw 7y ago
The software isn't the issue. A lot of bars and restaurants go broke within the first year, and lack of financial literacy is a big part of that, but you're not going to fix financial literacy with a bunch of software and a dashbo
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by stdbrouw 7y ago
As others point out, contract brewing is definitely a thing, but a better comparison than cloud computing would be shared hosting: you're stuck with whatever stack they happen to have installed, no admin rights, and you get the same di
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by stdbrouw 7y ago
It might have something to do with (1) how expensive it is to make software and (2) the fact that software engineers are known to sometimes be purists or aesthetes or susceptible to hype. A good comparison might be (building) architects: yo

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