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by truantbuick 8y ago
Has anybody in the world said that Caruana was "dead to rights" in game 12? That's not what the controversy was about. It was the fact that white had "winning chances" in a completely unclear position with most piec
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by truantbuick 8y ago
Beyond overt fraud, I feel like there's so much incentive for imprudent analysis. Several times when I've worked on a project at work that involves data analysis, I get really impatient responses when I don't come to a firm c
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by truantbuick 8y ago
Kevin Drum is an absolute shill for LCH. There was a study in New Zealand that, if you actually read the paper, unambiguously fails to support the LCH. What was the headline for the article he wrote about it? "New Zealand Study Provide
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by truantbuick 8y ago
Fossil is chauvinist if it's asserting that everything I save locally "is part for the project history" and must be pushed. Don't tell me what's important for me to push. Git preserves history as it happened on the
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by truantbuick 9y ago
I was specifically responding to the commonly held belief that modified gravities and observations of the bullet cluster are absolutely irreconcilable. I'm not necessarily drawing any line in the sand about whether I believe in modifie
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by truantbuick 9y ago
First time I've heard of Fossil and started reading up on it: https://www.fossil-scm.org/xfer/doc/trunk/www/fossil-v-git.w... In particular, I'm interested in the last section "4.2 Feature
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by truantbuick 9y ago
Some would disagree: http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2018/04/no-that-galaxy-with... As a non-scientist, it seems like dark matter has been relentlessly adjusted and overfitted and still appears very inadequate to
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by truantbuick 9y ago
That article tries to debunk a slightly different notion than I had in mind. It's not that I imagined everybody was sitting just above 4 minutes when running the mile, and that the significance of those round numbers psyched everybody
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by truantbuick 9y ago
When we talk about something so big that it might as well be infinite, we call it "astronomical". We've all heard the awesome facts: we know we're an invisible dot in our town; we know the town is an invisible dot on the
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by truantbuick 9y ago
A few things that raised my brow: 1. The press release for the study and this article have completely opposite conclusions. At least the author is relatively upfront about this, but he characterizes it as if the press release is just a caut
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by truantbuick 10y ago
What the graph really seems to indicate is that time is only linear when working within a cache size on the author's computer (remember that iterating a linked list accounts for the gradual increase in between the cache jumps). If the
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by truantbuick 10y ago
Clearly there are exceptions. In my area, I don't come across lights that use sensors (or at least the sensors pick up cyclists). I'm just uneasy with saying "red lights = stop signs for bicyclists". In complicated inter
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by truantbuick 10y ago
Cyclist commuter here. Red lights should be red lights to everybody. However, Idaho stops are the way future. It's just doesn't make sense to apply the same "come to a complete stop" standard to cyclists. They're tr
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by truantbuick 10y ago
So are drugs.
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by truantbuick 12y ago
I'm not sure I agree with the idea that this somehow characterizes the idea of quicksort better. Technically, you can always convert a recursive algorithm to iterative and back again (and not just with existence arguments -- it can be
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by truantbuick 12y ago
I'm sure I saw a HN link a month or two ago touting the great success of Munich's Linux move. Can anybody find it?
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by truantbuick 12y ago
Sorry, is the vim that ships with OS X consider emulated?
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by truantbuick 12y ago
SPE is an absolute mess as an experiment, and shouldn't really be regarded as science. However, you really don't even have to go far so far into the technical details to find it to be flawed. The whole premise seems absurd to me.
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by truantbuick 12y ago
Using these kind of game metaphors just shallowly rationalizes something of far more importance, IMO. Legal or not, a country was worse off because of his direct and deliberate actions.
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by truantbuick 12y ago
I don't know that much about finance, so can somebody explain to me why I never hear anybody censuring Soros over this? I only hear congratulations for bamboozling the incompetent British government. He made billions at the expense of
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by truantbuick 12y ago
I didn't imply otherwise. I just didn't explicitly mention global variables because that will always remain a possibility that lurks over everything. Technically, we can never rule them out because it's possible that all the
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by truantbuick 12y ago
Lots of errors in this article. It particularly rankles my sensibilities when he says randomness doesn't actually exist and it's just when humans can't track all the variables. Randomness is much more interesting than that, a
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by truantbuick 12y ago
FAQs with categories often annoy me. Maybe I've just had bad luck or I have a selective memory, but it just doesn't seem to work that well when I've used them. I understand that they're often necessary depending on the v
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by truantbuick 12y ago
There's a lot of difficulty in evaluating stuff like this, and I feel like we inevitably trip over biases that go in both directions. On one hand, it's very easy in hindsight to ridicule what didn't come true or what seems li
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by truantbuick 12y ago
I understand this is a bit of fun trying to rethink a very old thing, but the benefits are really bare even when looking past all the damage of a potential transition. Basically, you're consolidating the unevenness between years/m
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by truantbuick 13y ago
I'm no expert myself, but I thought the Turing-Church thesis implied the exact opposite. Turing machines and lambda calculus are widely assumed -- though not proved -- to be the limits of what can be computed. And yet, in a Gödelian f
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by truantbuick 13y ago
There's something that particularly bothers me about Goodfellow's article. He condescends about crazy theories while making ridiculous assumption after ridiculous assumption while acting very authoritative about each one. Just bec
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by truantbuick 13y ago
Real life has never sprung a random topic on me at 7:30 AM and required me to have a handwritten essay written 25 minutes later. This essay, in a wildly naive attempt to limit the subjective value of writing, was judged largely on "coh
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by truantbuick 13y ago
As a member of the first year of students who were required to do the writing section, I'm glad it's gone. What an absolute crock that was, and it probably screwed up the other sections as well. When you make an already ponderous
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by truantbuick 13y ago
This has probably been addressed millions of times, but just to give a response to why this is a misleading comic: If you were equally mocking of both Bayesian and Frequentist, the Bayesian would arguably come up with basically the same con

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