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by usgroup 5y ago
Sir/madam I think you might need to do some serious re-calibration.
572.
by usgroup 5y ago
An audio desktop: http://emacspeak.sourceforge.net/
573.
by usgroup 5y ago
World most powerful data scientist here. I disagree.
574.
by usgroup 5y ago
Their combined total bench press weight is truly outstanding.
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by usgroup 5y ago
Every once in a while I have a network related data science type problem to muddle through and I invariably want to try visualise some aspect of it, so I invariably try use Gephi for it, and it invariably leads to a frustrating experience f
576.
by usgroup 5y ago
I study a lot . I’m ok at it —- certainly no great talent. I haven’t learned any methods worth a damn and not for lack of trying, but I feel I know things about my own learning machinery which has made me much better at it over time. In my
577.
by usgroup 5y ago
Is it really worth knowing if you use numpy or R style array ops in a daily basis? I spent a bunch of time with J. I think it’s really worth knowing the semantic layer — that you might write code like you write sentences is quite brilliant
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by usgroup 5y ago
I don’t mean this to come across as elitist, but if you don’t know what it’s like to be very good at your work to the point that other peoples decisions are often absurd to you, it’s not hard to confuse it for ego. Interpreting conflict as
579.
by usgroup 5y ago
I like to see success stories of this kind personally. “It’s never too late” makes me feel better about a life so far squandered. I think if he needs encouragement in order to do it, he probably isn’t going to do it. The only way it’ll work
580.
by usgroup 5y ago
Well I think there is a separate question of "does this work on a population level" versus "does this work for any given individual". I think we are used to "vaccine mostly works for everyone" type thinking. Ho
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by usgroup 5y ago
I think that the "whole story" matters, even if the bits you highlight are a large part of it. A bit like the relationship between epigenetics and the rest of genetics -- it rather changes how you interpret what you already know.
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by usgroup 5y ago
I didn't mention Penrose because he is an outlier. I mention him as an example where tool use disproportionally effects resultant performance, or conversely as an example of where a specific link in a reasoning chain effects the outcom
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by usgroup 5y ago
Kasparov had a nice line about this in "How life imitates chess". I'm paraphrasing but it was something along the lines of "there are lots of things that cannot be tought to you which you can nontheless teach yourself&qu
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by usgroup 5y ago
IQ doesn't behave like you think it might in fairly uncontroversial situations is part of the problem. For example, have a read about the "Rationality Quotient" and the surprising conclusion that rationality is poorly correla
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by usgroup 5y ago
Would have liked to see an APL on the Python VM ala Hylang. Still waiting for Hy to become stable enough to switch to for Python work but that’s the ticket right there. Trouble is that APL/J gain their magical abilities by specialising
586.
by usgroup 5y ago
> I understand it's frustrating trying to use a language you don't understand. And instead of reading the language manual you go on rambling. I'd agree with this assessment. If you start doing R and it feels weird to you t
587.
by usgroup 5y ago
I think what’d be nice in these politics debates is to see people literally listing and then referencing the facts they are relying on to make their arguments. Not always, just for these emotional, shouty, hyperbolic threads.
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by usgroup 5y ago
A while back I got into thinking through allocation problems that we'd typically use numbers for without using numbers. Things like "how much what do you need to store in order to get a village of N people through winter given the
589.
by usgroup 5y ago
I'd be grateful if someone could say a bit about why GNUnet is interesting. I looked at it some 4-5 years ago for some P2P work, and concluded at the time that it was entirely unsable. Has much changed?
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by usgroup 5y ago
I'm starting to use this at the moment. I've often felt that coding something from scratch is too labourious for the task, whilst a spreadsheet isn't functional enough to do what I need. I think pyspread hits the sweet spot.
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Pyspread – Spreadsheet with deep Python integration(pyspread.gitlab.io)
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by usgroup 5y ago
> ...The complex math that researchers use is disposable. You deploy it to get a publication, then move on with your career. When it comes time to give policy advice, the math is AWOL. If you’re lucky, researchers default to common sen
593.
by usgroup 5y ago
I think he’s saying that of all the things you could power in whatever electricity consumption regime you care to mention , bitcoin competes for supply with more socially useful things.
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by usgroup 5y ago
I think a satellite product able to detect methane at a sub km resolution, layered by data products able to add meta such as the business it is related to, or show timeseries of emissions, would be splendid.
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by usgroup 5y ago
I have a pet theory that "Turing complete" slow people just need debugging.
596.
by usgroup 5y ago
It sounds like you're saying that you did become slower. I.e. you weren't always slow. However, it isn't due to health. It may be constructive for you to figure out where the efficiency went. Perhaps start with when it went.
597.
by usgroup 5y ago
Did you get slower, or did this start being a problem now (not 5 years ago) for some other reason?
598.
by usgroup 5y ago
You know it’s illegal to use CH data for direct marketing right?
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by usgroup 5y ago
No, I was making a maths joke on count of the "orthogonal design" on their website. Orthogonal matrices are full rank and have non zero determinants, but I think it was perhaps a bit too well disguised.
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by usgroup 5y ago
I think the landing page is more informative personally: https://github.com/gchq/CyberChef

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