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by tfgg 11y ago
I like their policy of not allowing templated form emails, on the grounds that it just annoys MPs and they're more likely to reply if they're unique and personal. I also like the general philosophy of "You don't need to
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by tfgg 11y ago
Couldn't it still be the case, though, that we have too much data, but it's also the wrong sort for actionable insights? As a scientist I find the most actionable data are often in the smallest, custom-made datasets, driven by som
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by tfgg 11y ago
> A combination of MOND and dark matter matches most observations very well, far better than dark matter in isolation. Isn't that unsurprising that a theory with more degrees of freedom can fit the data better? It's hard to say
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by tfgg 11y ago
I once went to a talk by Wolfram to an audience of academics which he finished by saying that if he managed to find the theory of everything (which he seemed to think was a possibility), he probably wouldn't bother telling people, sinc
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by tfgg 11y ago
What I love about Simons is that he's funding to solve the problem of my field, the Many Electron Problem: https://www.simonsfoundation.org/mathematics-and-physical-sc... It's so important for physics, materials
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by tfgg 11y ago
And browsers have had such options (block all cookies, prompt to accept, etc.) built in to them since the very beginning of cookies, except everyone turned them off because they were annoying! So now websites had to add them! And they are j
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by tfgg 11y ago
The notes are a bit more detailed (p13 for Section 5). There seem to be lots of different overlapping defences of which you can choose to use one or more, that one is more protocol based and involved than the others (though some companies w
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by tfgg 11y ago
I went to an interesting seminar on UK defamation law as it relates to the UK, given by an experienced barrister. He didn't mention much about hate speech, so I don't know if it's relevant. Notes and slides from the seminar a
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by tfgg 11y ago
Ok, but I'd tend to call those "classes" or "supervisions"/"tutorials" if in small groups. That essay seems to focus on how copying from the blackboard can go wrong, without covering the experience si
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by tfgg 11y ago
You know what? Those lectures were the ones I remember 10x better than the ones with printed handouts and powerpoint slides.
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by tfgg 11y ago
Larger than the current life of the universe, not necessarily longer than the end of the universe, though that really depends on your model of how it'll all end. Some do involve black holes gradually boiling away to radiation being the
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by tfgg 11y ago
While doing scientific research I usually just use scatter plots. If you summarise things into statistics it's too easy to miss things. However, some of those plots were unreadable -- what the hell do the colours mean in that unemploym
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by tfgg 11y ago
> Parliament got it's own TLD Which is interesting and makes sense, because Parliament (legislature) isn't part of the government (executive), so it can't go under the gov.uk TLD.
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MySociety’s Director Tom Steinberg to Step Down(mysociety.org)
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by tfgg 12y ago
Ok, I think I got the wrong idea that the identity was any arrow pointing back on to an object. Thanks.
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by tfgg 12y ago
So, on slide 33, the "+1" and "bestFriend" arrows are identities of Int and Person? On slide 35 it says that identity is associated with the identity function, but to me that means a function that returns what you give i
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by tfgg 12y ago
I think the issue is whether P(detected|positive) and P(detected|negative) are the same, right? It's whether they have equal coverage of all possible phrases. Having more positive or negative words, as you say, doesn't inherently
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by tfgg 12y ago
Not sure what you mean, the Rubberbandits do a pretty good job: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWfZ4Pw0_oE
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by tfgg 12y ago
That's the blog I was trying to find! Thanks, it's a great read, and points out an advantage of having in-house people with some ability to push back/negotiate :)
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by tfgg 12y ago
There's also the possibility that, with an established Digital Service, feedback can be given to policy makers to improve the creation of new laws and make them more efficiently implementable. This might mean the difference between a l
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by tfgg 12y ago
It seems to be available to the public http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/eebotcp/ , and on github at https://github.com/textcreationpartnership/ . That first site is remarkably poorly designed for actual
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by tfgg 12y ago
That equation is rather unnecessary showing off, I don't see it being used later on, and the author doesn't bother trying to explain it. It looks like (going by the GM/r) that it might be the gravitational potential for a mas
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by tfgg 12y ago
Those names make me think more of British ship names[1], which tend to be more aggressive, which makes sense given Bank's nationality. Also the background of The Culture trying to be taken more seriously by other civilisations who thou
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by tfgg 12y ago
Now I've read your other comment with the terminology, I think "shotgun hill-climbing" is the appropriate phrase for the sort of materials science thing I'm talking about - you start atoms in random configurations, with
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by tfgg 12y ago
> shotgun stochastic ballistic hill-climbing works at least as well This is the method that I'd like a lot of these stochastic optimization algorithms compared to, especially genetic algorithms. At least brute force sampling of the
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by tfgg 12y ago
And the EU, rather than doing this, enacted their dumb 'cookie law' which, as far as I can tell, has just meant every UK website now has unnecessary cluttery popups telling you that they're using cookies.
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by tfgg 12y ago
Peierls and Landau predicted that 2D crystals can't be stable: http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/110079/why-a-mono... Either they made assumptions that don't hold, or graphene actually isn'
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by tfgg 12y ago
To make the opposite point for fun, what if higher interconnectedness means that language actually evolves quicker? Couldn't the fact that everyone can 'sync' their language with other people faster mean that things like pron
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by tfgg 12y ago
Yep. Personally, I trust DFT about as far as I can throw it, and think that spending time worrying about functionals is fairly pointless and likely to end up over-fitting data, especially if they aren't incorporating new physics :) Tha
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by tfgg 12y ago
Indeed, though there are reasonable arguments that DFT functionals are ok in high pressure regimes, it's obviously best to use the most physically accurate methods when you're in unknown regimes. It's just going to be ridicul

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