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by thousandautumns 8y ago
Thereby driving up demand for living downtown, further driving up rent? Excellent solution.
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by thousandautumns 8y ago
2001 is considered gen Z. Before them are millenials, the oldest of which were born around 1980. If OP was in their late 40s, they would Gen X. So clearly they were referring to millenials, and not Gen X.
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by thousandautumns 8y ago
> Laws and social pressure are also a moderating force Perhaps this was true in the days prior to the internet, but it certainly isn’t the case now. In fact, social pressures in the online sphere can be the opposite of a moderating force
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by thousandautumns 8y ago
Calling the 3rd and 6th columns "3rd" and "6th" is hardly arbitrary.
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by thousandautumns 8y ago
I won’t disagree that Mormons still have a ways to go regarding relations with the LGBT community, but if you have follow the Mormon church at all you’ve seen lots of progress in the last 10 years which continues to be made. As for the suic
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by thousandautumns 8y ago
No, because if the underlying phenomenon happened 20% of the time, that’s what you want your model to predict. The point of the model is to describe reality as accurately as possible. So a model that predicts a particular outcome to happen
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by thousandautumns 8y ago
Yes, it is.
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by thousandautumns 8y ago
Agreed. His ideas are often completely incoherent and occasionally devolve into a mixture of pseudoscience and philosophical babble. He is also difficult to argue against because he is essentially the statistics equivalent of a nihilist. I’
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by thousandautumns 8y ago
Sort of. The problem is people get confused about the same statistical methodology they use in other situations when the measure they are estimating is also a percentage. For example, if you are estimating the height of a male in the US, yo
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by thousandautumns 8y ago
Not OP, but that opens a whole different can of worms. “Confidence” has a specific meaning in the context of statistical theory, and specifically in a particular flavor of statistics called “frequentism”. I won’t get into what is involved i
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by thousandautumns 8y ago
Literally no data producing phenomenon is a repeatable event, outside of controlled experiments.
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by thousandautumns 8y ago
The point of the model is absolutely not to reduce uncertainty, it is to quantify it, which are two very different things. No model reduces uncertainty in a probabilistic sense. And no, you don’t need statistics or machine learning to say “
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by thousandautumns 8y ago
They are. The companies I’ve worked at have all employed behavioral economists, and they have all ramped up their head count over time.
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by thousandautumns 8y ago
And how is that going for the goat herders? The US may not be "winning" in Afghanistan, but they certainly aren't losing as much as the Afghan people are. Their nation has been utterly decimated. The idea that the American pe
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by thousandautumns 8y ago
> Do you seriously think that the much qualified software engineers and other specialists working on these projects are not thinking through all these points? You are commenting in a thread about how a team of those "much qualified
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by thousandautumns 8y ago
> Personally I'll gladly accept more dead astronauts (and hail them as heroes) if they push spaceflight further. How noble of you.
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by thousandautumns 8y ago
You are actually the one doing bad math. In statistics, you start with a null hypothesis, which is represented by the status quo (in this case, autonomous vehicles aren't any better than humans in terms of crashing), and use the data t
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by thousandautumns 8y ago
Yes, and how many more miles are driven by human drivers in the US compared to autonomous vehicles? Obviously there is going to be a disparity in the number of deaths. What is important is the number of deaths per mile. Further complicating
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by thousandautumns 8y ago
It means cross validation. It essentially means is a way of simulating how well your model will do when it encounters real world data. When building a model, you divide your data into two parts, the training set and the testing set. The tra
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by thousandautumns 8y ago
That only ensures your model is accurate assuming real world parameters remain the same, which again, is prone to overfitting. To use a real world example, financial models on mortgage backed securities were the root cause of the financial
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by thousandautumns 8y ago
In addition to many of the other great answers here, I would say cleaning your room/house and rearranging the furniture. One of the best things I've found for combating depression is changing my environment. Usually that means get
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by thousandautumns 8y ago
This is a stupendous example of someone going overboard on their criticisms in order to grandstand. R may not be the most "beautiful" language in a general perspective, but it certainly is more beautiful than Python when it comes
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by thousandautumns 8y ago
Because then students start using 3 or 4 different languages, can't figure something out, and come bitching to the TA to tell them what they did wrong, and now the TA needs to know 5 different ways to implement the same thing. Ironical
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by thousandautumns 8y ago
> Bitcoin consumes as much power globally as a single large power plant, and roughly 10% of the world's data centers Well first of all, according to your own blog post, it is not as much power as a single large power plant, but as m
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by thousandautumns 8y ago
I lived in Japan for several years and most people I met didn't ignore Japan's actions during WWII. But they didn't like that basically every interaction between Japan and China/Korea was defined by China/Korea airi
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by thousandautumns 8y ago
Having attended BYU and lived in the Utah Valley area for a while, I can say they were pretty extravagant. They have tons of billboards, many of which don't even really state anything about the business or the product. Just stupid, mem
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by thousandautumns 8y ago
Its not bad, but I would always get it confused with Chubby's which is far better in my opinion.
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by thousandautumns 8y ago
Regarding 5, that's actually better than a lot of their billboards. A lot of the one's I've seen in the area over the years have literally nothing to do with the product.
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by thousandautumns 8y ago
It doesn't have to be headquartered there, nor a startup to be relevant to the tech scene. Its not like its a small office building or anything, its a giant, state of the art campus that employs thousands and they've already commi
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by thousandautumns 8y ago
Honestly differentiating between Salt Lake City and Utah County is splitting hairs and pointless. The vast majority of people in Utah live on a 40 minute stretch off of I-15, and the "Silicon Slopes" brand is centered right in the

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