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by tnecniv 3y ago
Out of curiosity, is there a third way? The two you mention are the big ones, I know, but your phrasing implies (perhaps unintentionally) the existence of at least one more.
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by tnecniv 3y ago
Perhaps, but it’s easy to attribute malice to what is done by sheer incompetence. To me the situation reads like he bought his favorite toy and is playing with it until it breaks.
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by tnecniv 3y ago
In this case we know who the enemy is
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by tnecniv 3y ago
I read a psychology study a long while back (might be able to find it idk) that I think would agree with this line of thinking but with a slightly different mechanism. The paper argued that we have an internal risk level that we like to dri
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by tnecniv 3y ago
Thanks! I know some basics about DP and have adapted some of their results for my non-privacy related work, but it’s not an area I know much about the cutting edge of. Your blog post inspired me to catch up on some results from the past few
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by tnecniv 3y ago
The authors don’t want to tip off their bosses that they have a drug habit obviously
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by tnecniv 3y ago
Some of my favorites have been mentioned so I’ll add: “On the Common Law Origin of the Infield Fly Rule” A rare blend of honest academic inquiry and parody writing
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by tnecniv 3y ago
Do you have more recommended reading on differential privacy from recent years?
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by tnecniv 3y ago
I agree with you but what’s so amazing is that it is a first principles analysis. He postulates a few criteria information must satisfy and generates a whole field of study as a consequence
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by tnecniv 3y ago
I feel like certain dramas are just more forgiving. Like even if the prose is bad and the characters are flat in a sci-fi or fantasy novel, the concept of the world being explored can still be interesting. I love classic SciFi but I don’t g
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by tnecniv 3y ago
I have a family member who was a speculator for about a decade and worked in a secondary role for investment banks for the rest of their career. Their advice, as a retail investor, was to just build a diverse portfolio so you are profiting
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by tnecniv 3y ago
Any favorites you want to share? Loved this video
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by tnecniv 3y ago
Not to mention how many medications are patented. The patents do serve a purpose — taking a drug to market is both incredibly expensive and has a high failure rate, so a company needs a guarantee of some kind of return to take that chance.
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by tnecniv 3y ago
It might have had to be rediscovered in the West. I remember learning that DaVinci’s autopsies were controversial because they were considered desecrations of someone’s body and therefore disgusting and unholy.
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by tnecniv 3y ago
I feel like this has happened with my grandmother. She’s in her 90s and mostly still there, but she has outlived my grandfather and most of their friends. She’s also quite feeble and didn’t leave the house, and broke her hip this year (and
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by tnecniv 3y ago
That empathy and taste also comes from repeatedly playing with each other. It’s a lot easy to anticipate where the song is going if you know what moves your band mates like to employ.
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by tnecniv 3y ago
Yeah if you have insight into why a field is interesting from a younger age, you are more likely to be interested in it yourself as well. That also goes the other way. My dad was a lawyer, and I know a little more about the law and legal pr
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by tnecniv 3y ago
I think part of it is also the nature of the research. As an engineer, the use of statistics in papers I’ve written to compare outcomes of the proposed method vs competitors is rudimentary, but that is for a number of reasons: 1. Normally t
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by tnecniv 3y ago
Another thought I had is to replace statistics requirements with a rigorous (but not measure-theoretic) probability class or, preferably a semester of both. My engineering program required probability, not statistics, so I never took a form
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by tnecniv 3y ago
Sure, but you know what has state? ODEs and their discrete-time analogue, recurrence relations. You first meet ODEs in calculus. Even if you say “who cares about continuous time, my computer is fundamentally discrete!” you won’t have a conc
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by tnecniv 3y ago
Probability and stats requires calculus
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I think better tooling may help, but part of the issue is that the tools are asked to do the wrong thing because you’re thinking about the problem wrong. In the article, they cite the hot hand research: for a long time, the understanding wa
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by tnecniv 3y ago
I agree that collaborating with dedicated statisticians is more feasible. I think part of the challenge might be ingraining in researchers that “stats is both hard and important so you need to take it seriously or find / hire someone w
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by tnecniv 3y ago
Thanks! Yeah I should clarify that these friends I were talking to do the kind of bio / neuroscience where they spend most of their time in a lab running a physical experiment so their skills are focused around that kind of wet work an
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Not algorithmically.
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In grad school, I had conversations with a couple different conversations with fellow PhD students in the life sciences. The question I asked was not about p-values / hypothesis testing but about the (lack of use) of something else tec
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by tnecniv 3y ago
I agree I just wish the docs were better. Maybe they’ve improved since I used it last but I remember having to hunt for whatever the equivalent of a certain numpy function was and it wasn’t the easiest to find
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by tnecniv 3y ago
While I disagree with the RL assertion without a source, linear programs are convex, so local optima are global optima. However, unless there is some aspect of the problem which is not known (e.g., you don’t exactly know the objective or co
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by tnecniv 3y ago
AI has always meant “things we don’t know how to do well.” Once we know how to do something well, we just refer to it by the name of the algorithm or family of algorithms.
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by tnecniv 3y ago
I haven’t used Linux on an AMD laptop in like 10 years. Is that still a bug? That used to drive me crazy.

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