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> You can't write a blog post on how to build a statistical model without stating how good the model is in actuality > it is disappointing to see this post only do a high-level overview. Yes, it may be a Google trade secret, but
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How is it different from Azure ML and Microsoft Cognitive services?
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> We all know these tech companies prefer to hire from Stanford, MIT, and each-other. Maybe you know, but around tech companies, I see more people from Georgia, Texas, Michigan, South Carolina ... than from Stanford or MIT. Tech companie
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Well in the US, Diesel isn't very popular so the impact won't be as big, but people in Europe at least are going to rethink about getting Diesel, and the governments there might reconsider the big tax break they give to diesel eng
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The math facts aren't completely correct since we don't know the ratio of Advanced degree vs. non advanced ones. Also the table includes transferred and renewed H1B, for which the cap does not apply. What would be interesting is t
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> "Improperly cooked maize-based diets have been associated with higher rates of homicide, suicide and cannibalism in humans" Maybe it's a huge shortcut to say this but could this be a reason the ancient American civilizat
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In France it always has been 100% chip & pin, but if you have a hardware like this device between your card and the card reader, it can apparently intercept any signal, including the pin code. I don't know how exactly the prot
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Hi, interesting findings! You say as a summary : > a minority of nice people can make everyone better off Was it possible for you to identify the "nice people" group vs the other group? If yes, overall which group was better of
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Awesome, I was thinking about the same thing, as during some car shopping I noticed the 2014 Volkswagen CC, I liked it but I was wondering why its price dropped so low compared to other vehicles from 2014 who had a similar starting price.
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> New view controllers continually being introduced by Apple and Google are not available in React Native. So if you want to get fancy with UX, you are out of luck. Or won't get a net benefit when you start doing native development
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The Real Reason the French Work Less Than Americans Do(time.com)
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The 9.4% was data from 2002. The french wikipedia page says a 2012 study shows that while 32,3 % are (25 ≤ BMI < 30 kg/m2), only 15 % are(BMI≥ 30 kg/m2). If from 2012 to 2014 it jumped from 15 to 23.9 there would be a problem.
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That looks like a very interesting read, skimming through it, it says that France spends around 10% of GDP on healthcare while the US spends 15%, but yet France gets a better health coverage, and a better life expectancy. One of the first t
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I think the parent means : Would a Switzerland with the same ratio of different job be able to survive if the Switzerland population was let's say 2 billion people. (or are they relying on France, Germany and other neighbors to sustain
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If this is similar to Qarnot[1], the servers are also heaters in people home. I'm not sure how the Internet connection data transfers are handled by the ISP [1] https://www.qarnot.com/qrad/
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For the past decade you can find a lot of Renault with a speed limiter. Nobody mentioned it here because they probably don't know of it but it's really cool. Like cruise control you set it up, for instance to a maximum speed of
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Rear view cameras are already mandatory on all new vehicles: http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2014/03/31/nhtsa-re...
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> started with making my bed as soon as I got up every day This is exactly the advice from Admiral Mc Raven at the university of Texas commencement ceremony. He recalls it as one of the most important lessons he got from its navy SEAL t
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Lambda is "azure functions", which isn't included in this guide.
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This is a Microsoft Research project started in 2008 [1]. It was previously hosted on codeplex [2] [1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/project/dafny-a-lan... [2] http://dafny.codeplex.com&
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It was called called "Startup Engineering" [1]. This course doesn't exist on coursera anymore, there's a similar syllabus on Stanford's website [2]. The project was something about building a small web app with nod
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To get a good mental model of a SQL database, there is this pretty technical but great write up from researchers from Berkeley, MIT, and Microsoft research: http://db.cs.berkeley.edu/papers/fntdb07-architecture.pdf
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Architecture of a Database System (2007) [pdf](db.cs.berkeley.edu)
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> working in France or at least in a French company is still the best way to climb the hierarchy fast when you're coming from X/Central Paris/ Mines de Paris/Telecom/etc... For those in those French "Ivy le
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I can't find anything online about that note from a ministry, do you have access to any sources? (either French or English)
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People mention the lack of VC, infrastructure, tax or other issues, but to me the biggest problem is the lack of talent. I would say that in terms of business skills, there's a surplus of "salesmen" type of founders, but t
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I looked at the Microsoft Virtual academy videos [1], they cover a lot of basics but were usefeul, having the creator of powershell teach the course helped understand the philosophy behind it. When searching for tutorials online, "the
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I don't think that's the parent point. One of the main ingredients of a successful negotiation is to be likeable. Men can be likeable and aggressive, leading to better results than a likable but non agressive man. Women on the o
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> Some parts of the ACA could be implemented in state law, some would be either illegal or impractical at the state level. That's my poor understanding of U.S. Federal vs State government that fails me here: what exactly would be i
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As a non US Citizen, I have a question: If Obamacare is repelled at the Federal level, could a state just implement its local ACA? what prevents California for instance of giving health coverage for its residents? California is a good examp

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