vcdimension

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by vcdimension 9y ago
I'm sceptical of these figures. How can the US rank higher than Botswana and Brazil in PPP adjusted dollars, when it ranks lower in unadjusted dollars and the cost of living is higher in the USA?
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by vcdimension 10y ago
Can white get a stalemate in 7 moves instead of 50 by just moving its king next to the black king? or is that not allowed?
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by vcdimension 10y ago
Also, we don't necessarily need to breed more animals to perform useful tasks. We can just train existing populations (e.g. birds and bees) to behave in ways that are mutually beneficial to them and us.
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by vcdimension 10y ago
Animal food ultimately comes from plants though, so the net increase in carbon to the atmosphere is zero, and their by-products are not so harmful. Machines rely on electricity which is mostly generated from non-renewable resources, and the
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by vcdimension 10y ago
There are many advantages in training animals to perform tasks rather than building machines to do them. Animals are far more intelligent than current machines, more robust, well adapted to our environment, don't polute, require few&#
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by vcdimension 10y ago
This would be great for intrusion detection if there were some tools that users could use to automatically query the database, and repository maintainers could use to upload hashes.
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by vcdimension 10y ago
funding
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by vcdimension 10y ago
Emacs already has webjump which does pretty much the same thing but with arbitrary webpages.
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by vcdimension 11y ago
Looks cool, clean and clear. Would be even better if there was an API and command line interface...
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by vcdimension 11y ago
We need to ensure that these whistle blower police officers receive praise and reward for their good work, so that they and others are encouraged to do the right thing. They may not get the same treatment from other police officers who migh
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by vcdimension 11y ago
There's a lot of interesting new discoveries being made about the effects of the microbiome on human health. You can participate in this research, and get a profile of your own microbiome here: https://microbio.me/Ameri
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by vcdimension 11y ago
Any terrorist attack in France will almost certainly happen in the center of one of the major cities, most likely Paris. So if you live in the center of Paris your micromort should be much higher, and if you live in a small village it will
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by vcdimension 11y ago
The article presumes that peoples purchasing choices are made rationally and without coercion, but in a capitalist society the implicit competition between consumers and advertisers can subvert rational decision making. Every day we are bom
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by vcdimension 11y ago
Data science needs statisticians. Big data and machine learning courses do not teach about such things as endogeneity, confounding variables, sampling bias etc. and how to deal with them. Data scientists that do not understand these things
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by vcdimension 11y ago
You're still relying on the central limit theorem (i.e. a reasonable amount of data) : using t instead of z just corrects for the fact that you only have sample variances instead of population variances. However, I suppose it's no
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by vcdimension 11y ago
For better accuracy with small samples you could use the multinomial distribution instead. The covariance matrix for the rating probabilities can be found here for example: http://www.math.wsu.edu/faculty/genz/pape