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by vharuck 5y ago
>There’s really not a reason to use R if you’re not going to use tidyverse. I feel the same way, except for the data.table package.
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by vharuck 5y ago
I've contacted websites about scraping when it'd be a repeat thing and they didn't have a robots.txt file available. Also if their stance on enforcing copyright was hazy (e.g. medical coding created by a non-profit). Sometim
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by vharuck 5y ago
I see the difference as BitTorrent being an ignorant tool that just processes the data it receives. If you point BitTorrent to copyright data, it emits copyright data. The fault is on the users. Copilot was built with and "contains&
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by vharuck 5y ago
>It’s not copyright violation to train ML on content. I agree. It'd be a nice gesture to reach out to the creators of the training data, like is usual with web scrapers. But collecting and analyzing data publicly available on the
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by vharuck 5y ago
>What would then stop a music label from training an AI with its music catalogue to automatically generate every tune imaginable and prohibit its use by third parties? What would stop publishers from generating millions of sentences and
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by vharuck 5y ago
A compressed file containing Quake's source code would be covered by the copyright on Quake's source code. The compression algorithm would not. The algorithm cannot produce the plain-text copyrighted material without the compres
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by vharuck 5y ago
>Python, as befits Python, has default behavior for instances that I believe is "is" equivalency Python dicts consider two keys the same if they have the same hash value and are "=="-equal. So __eq__ and __hash__ are
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by vharuck 5y ago
>saying it is their responsibility to vet any code they produce But, if some of the code produced is covered by copyright, isn't Microsoft in trouble for distributing software that distributes copyrighted code without a license? Ho
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by vharuck 5y ago
I guess a generous reading of "complex" versus "complicated": Complex - a plain adjective. It's just how the thing is. Complicated - past tense of the verb "to complicate," used as an adjective. Somebody
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by vharuck 5y ago
We've grown up and shopped in a time without these. But the long game is different. If these become ubiquitous or even just common, I'd bet few people care after a couple generations. For example, imagine how ugly telephone pol
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by vharuck 5y ago
>“non-malignant conditions at enrolment” (it would be nice to know more what that means) My guess is they're referring to the neoplasm behavior codes defined by the WHO in the International Classification of Diseases for Oncology (s
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by vharuck 5y ago
>Breast cancer awareness programs are a good example of early screening programs not being an exercise in mass hysteria. This example also shows how screening can be recommended against because that's better for public health. The
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by vharuck 5y ago
Question to anyone more knowledgeable than I am in fiscal or business matters: why did Panasonic invest in a large client? Wasn't it risky? If 2020 had not been kind to Tesla, Panasonic would've been hit twice.
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by vharuck 5y ago
The US federal government requires users to agree to terms in return for receiving potentially identifiable data. Usually those terms include something like, "I agree to not attempt to use these data to identify any individuals."
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by vharuck 5y ago
It is definitely possible, and even has a clear financial and reputational incentive. But a lawyer only needs one expert witness and can pay that expert. And then that expert can use his testimony as validation of his skill or a new conce
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by vharuck 5y ago
The prosecution should take the amateur's opinion to a certified expert to (1) meet the legal requirements for an expert witness, and (2) verify the amateur is correct. Trial lawyers do this kind of thing all the time with experts. E
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by vharuck 5y ago
Ideally, bad representation for issues that aren't intrinsically GOP should be corrected in a primary. I don't know much about primaries (I'm an independent in a state where I can't vote in primaries), but I have a funn
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by vharuck 5y ago
Appeals to "survival of the fittest" piss me off, because they necessarily give up on the idea of improving society. I don't want to replace my ethics and hopes for the world with a barbaric version of pre-history. As a per
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by vharuck 5y ago
You can rightfully dismiss the wording of PR statements, but it's a little harder to dismiss their list of actions on behalf of Conservative citizens and groups. Including Donald Trump.
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by vharuck 5y ago
Doctors will optimize for patient outcomes, usually by doing all they can. Sometimes, this doesn't scale well. For example, the US Preventative Services Task Force stopped recommending routine PSA screening among asymptomatic patient
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by vharuck 5y ago
HN thread about that article, including archive link of a non-paywalled copy: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27414920
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by vharuck 5y ago
One example would be a food critic. They give an honest description of a restaurant so readers can decide if they want to go there. The article doesn't need to be helpful for the restaurant. But I can't think of an example where
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by vharuck 5y ago
4chan flocks to doom and gloom predictions, because that's the most "fun." When they always predict a global disaster, we shouldn't be surprised when they predicted something that actually was a global disaster. Broken
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I'm amazed at how much uniqueness they found. It makes sense there were region-specific microbes, given how alcohol and cheeses taste different depending on where they were made. But I thought, with global travel, "universal&quo
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by vharuck 5y ago
My favorite example is that Aristotle came to believe, through sound reasoning, men had more teeth than women. And then never bothered to count. I've never checked if this story is true. But it sounds like something Aristotle would d
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by vharuck 5y ago
Do you have a link to the New York Post story? I didn't see a link in the article you shared, and Facebook's claim was that the NYP story included a person's home address(es).
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by vharuck 5y ago
This is the key. R shouldn't be seen as a general programming language, but a domain specific language that's still open-ended. I started with SAS in my job, which was fine for statistics and handling tables. But anything beyon
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by vharuck 5y ago
I agree with Matloff's overall point, though. "Tidy programming" (which came to mean non-standard evaluation) is very hard to understand, even for R professionals. It relies on directly handling symbols, and encourages usin
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by vharuck 5y ago
Tempered loss aversion is the better way to approach things when there is no upper limit to winning, but the lower limit to losing is getting kicked out of the game. It's why "the house always wins" is true even for fair c
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by vharuck 5y ago
>I argued for the contraction "amn't" through sixth grade, but my teachers kept correcting it. I asked my high school English teacher the proper way to contract "should not have" in writing; I was trying my hand

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