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by stdbrouw 10y ago
You mean you don't understand the rationale behind the expression "the end does not justify the means" or something more specific?
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by stdbrouw 10y ago
Alternatively, buy a cheaper bike. Most folks in Belgium and the Netherlands use bikes that are 50-100 euro, so if your bike gets stolen every couple of years it's not that big of a deal.
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by stdbrouw 10y ago
Paracetamol and caffeine is a common combination in Europe too. I wouldn't be inclined to move countries or even to bring home medication from abroad just so I could take my medication as a single pill instead of two.
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by stdbrouw 10y ago
It's all fine to say that we should first and foremost look at what someone does, not what they say, but the idea that the latter has absolutely no bearing on the former and that propaganda and rhetoric is universally and completely in
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by stdbrouw 10y ago
Worked on something like this as a hobby project a while ago, but to avoid the complexities associated with solving arbitrary exercises, instead I had it set up as an algebra exercise generator: you start with the solution, which you then
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by stdbrouw 10y ago
That's true and I don't think anybody disputes that fMRI is a good way to measure brain function, but (1) the improved statistical methods you talk about are often not adopted and (2) brain function is at a different level of abst
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by stdbrouw 10y ago
There are well-known problems with fMRI studies and particulary with how they are interpreted, see e.g. http://www.edvul.com/pdf/VulHarrisWinkielmanPashler-PPS-2009... (PDF) for a good critique. It's an intrinsica
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by stdbrouw 10y ago
For me, I think it's not so much NIH syndrome but resentment at pricing among analytics products that seems calibrated to extract as much value from the customer as possible, which they can do because there is so little direct competit
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by stdbrouw 10y ago
You would have a representative dataset but you'd still be stuck with the curse of dimensionality that plagues nearest neighbors: in high dimensions, everything is far away from each other and nothing is close to the center.
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An ode to the bar chart(debrouwere.org)
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by stdbrouw 10y ago
SEEKING WORK - Paris (France), Flanders (Belgium), on site wherever if reimbursed, remote Data scientist. Python (scipy, scikit-learn), R (hadleyverse) and node.js/javascript/coffeescript for glue and web interfaces. Familiar with
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by stdbrouw 10y ago
This. By not worrying about whether your notes are actually complete / sensible, you get the cognitive advantages of writing stuff down without the distraction. You can still make a proper summary after class if need be.
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by stdbrouw 10y ago
There are some cases when the difference between bayesian and frequentist statistics is just a matter of interpretation, but not in this case: the mathematics for a bayesian statistical test are different from the mathematics of a frequenti
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by stdbrouw 10y ago
Yup, and the null hypothesis is a reduced model. Different words, same thing.
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by stdbrouw 10y ago
> a statistical test answers one central question: what are the odds that the results you observed could have arisen by chance Well, no, that'd be very interesting but unfortunately what a statistical test really says is the probabi
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by stdbrouw 10y ago
The sociology of scientific knowledge is a thing. Some crackpots, some very interesting work as well, e.g. "The Baby Factory" about dodgy science in psychology labs http://srd.sagepub.com/content/2/237802
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by stdbrouw 10y ago
If you drive a car you are literally contributing to global warming. If you pay taxes you are literally funding bombs and missiles. If you download big files you are literally taking bandwidth away from your neighbors. Hyperbole does not a
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by stdbrouw 10y ago
> They struggle enormously at providing solid cloud services, So does everyone else. > their websites suck (particularly their developer portals), I'm sure consumers care about developer portals. > they can't write a func
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by stdbrouw 10y ago
> I've come to the conclusion that it's because many of them, especially the larger ones, face no real competition. All the other companies in their space are run similarly. I'd argue that a better way to describe this is
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by stdbrouw 10y ago
You'd miss out on all the goodies of version control like seeing what has changed. Ideally, version control for musicians would have the ability to show "change panning of guitar a to 0.3 and volume to 0.1" similarly to a cod
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by stdbrouw 10y ago
I don't think the conclusion follows from the data. It's not implausible that in computer science you need to "get" a whole bunch of things before it clicks and you start being productive, and a bimodal distribution of g
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by stdbrouw 10y ago
> Using the word "average" to refer to the median is bad writing It can be, but not necessarily. Otherwise, you'd have to say that the average Joe has 1.9 legs. Median or mode are much more natural in that context. Other t
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by stdbrouw 10y ago
A nitpick, but "average" can refer to any sort of central tendency, whether it's the arithmetic mean, the harmonic mean, the median, the trimean or anything else.
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by stdbrouw 10y ago
Nope, not at all, talking about upper middle class folks. You're right that it doesn't necessarily make sense because the children will eventually have to take care of themselves, but it is what it is.
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by stdbrouw 10y ago
Isn't it a well-known phenomenon that the children of well-to-do parents often end up in the arts and other fields with high cultural capital? Having money allows you to not worry about money.
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by stdbrouw 10y ago
FWIW I didn't downvote you and I don't think you should be downvoted, but as sjwright points out, if you did indeed make all of these blind comparisons and were able to reliably spot the difference between LAME 320 CBR and lossl
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by stdbrouw 10y ago
"Better" and "best" imply a detectable difference, and the point of a transparent lossy codec is that no such difference should exist.
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by stdbrouw 10y ago
That's pretty clearly ironic, though.
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by stdbrouw 10y ago
Blind tests comparing lossless against what codec at what bitrate? How many runs and how often were you able to correctly identify lossless?
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by stdbrouw 10y ago
> If they sold a car, they get profit immediately. If they kept the car for their own fleet, it would take longer to earn the same profit Well, no, it would take longer but the profits would be higher, too, so it would still be the smart

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