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by wanderfowl 8y ago
To be fair, this is very person-specific, and this distinction of preferred learning methods is a common topic in pedagogy. Some folks, myself included, are auditory learners, and will tend to retain more from a spoken lecture than a rea
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by wanderfowl 8y ago
In other news, $2100+ for a small unit is viewed as 'affordable' for grad students to UC Berkeley administrators. I know there's a rent crisis out that neck of the woods, but that's some quality lack of perspective.
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by wanderfowl 8y ago
Just a quick note: 'Dual Affiliation' is being used here differently than in most academic contexts, so the headline's a bit odd. Normally, it means having a joint appointment in two academic departments (e.g. Linguistics and
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by wanderfowl 8y ago
I understand that a central respository of work and the need to make the busywork scale cleanly and linearly makes it tough to be decentralized, but I regularly wish that a dominant cryptocurrency could find a way to do proof of (real) work
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by wanderfowl 8y ago
But in what universe would an individual ad need that? This seems like precisely the sort of thing that a third party ad would be prevented from doing.
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by wanderfowl 8y ago
Dearest Ad Industry, This is why we run ad blockers. Since you won't regulate your industry, we're fixing the problem for you. Love, The Rest of the World.
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by wanderfowl 8y ago
This is excellent, and these sorts of projects are wonderful to see, as they're nice reminders that although our modern computing tools are more powerful, there's much to be learned from studying the past.
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by wanderfowl 8y ago
It feels like we're heading into the Hype Cycle [1] with cannabis-derived treatments/products/cures, with waves of legalization serving as the classical 'technology trigger'. I say that mostly because, although this
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by wanderfowl 8y ago
Variations in pressure, which form the basis of sound, are linear, and thus, are measured in a linear unit (Pascal, Pa ). These (or a similar unit derived from electrical changes associated with pressure changes near a mic) are what are us
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by wanderfowl 8y ago
Normalizing temporal expressions, that is, putting human language onto a strict timeline, is a hard problem in natural language processing. There's some literature on it, which may or may not be helpful, at least in establishing the
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by wanderfowl 8y ago
What are you passionate about? Start there. I'd rather see an article describing, in detail and with passion, your particular [esoteric computer configuration], than the most requested topic in this thread. If you don't want to w
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by wanderfowl 8y ago
Agreed. That was my first thought, too. Part of the reason that these silly vaccine/autism conspiracy theories are hard to shut down is the fact that Autism is harder to detect pre-vaccination, so there's confirmation bias here
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by wanderfowl 8y ago
I'm having a [Poe's law]( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law ) moment here. You've just applied Abstinence Only Sex Education 'logic' to infectious disease. This is either brilliant sati
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by wanderfowl 8y ago
This makes me very sad, but I've also gotta highlight her skill at perfectly nailing the tone of that video. Humor, sadness, gratitude, and fear, in excellent measure. Plus, I'm thrilled to see somebody else with a nice sense of
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by wanderfowl 8y ago
Agreed. As pointless as railing against language change is, it bothers me a bit that 'crypto' has come to be synonymous with a very small (yet very loud) area of the application of Cryptography. But this too shall pass.
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by wanderfowl 9y ago
Absolutely. I'm sort of hoping to see Python/Pandas eclipse R at some point in my career. But for now, my field is only reluctantly in R, and advising colleagues and students into Python is... non-trivial.
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by wanderfowl 9y ago
For me, often, it's just a bandwidth issue. If a colleague has a 12 GB movie they'd like to transmute, a local app might be a possibility, but an hour long upload followed by a 20 minute long download won't be.
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by wanderfowl 9y ago
But just think, for the price of this app, you could buy a nice dinner for two and an infinite number of copies of R.
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by wanderfowl 9y ago
Agreed. It's odd to charge money for this at all, given that there are such robust statistical tools for free (read: R). But on top of what you said, the fact that trial versions can't export p-values is tacit endorsement of the
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by wanderfowl 9y ago
Wait: - Curb Weight: 1100lbs - Max Takeoff Weight: 1500lbs So... you, your passenger, and any cargo combined can't weigh more than 400 pounds? That's a pretty serious limit for people hoping to transport multiple adults. And &qu
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by wanderfowl 9y ago
I use Prime95 to test for usage-related recording lags for sound and video recording in our lab equipment. If we're not getting signal de-synchronization with that slamming the CPU(s), we can worry a bit less.
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by wanderfowl 10y ago
We're usually there, but helpless. When you watch somebody slipping, even into dangerous territory, you're left with a limited set of options. Unless the family can prove "Imminent Danger to Self and others" or the per
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by wanderfowl 11y ago
This is a great idea, and I'm thrilled to know it exists. Thanks much for your hard work here :)
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by wanderfowl 11y ago
I started in SPSS. This is so much better. And although it drives me nuts, I still spend the other half of the time working in R feeling like a goddamned wizard. So even if it takes an hour and a half some days to figure out how to tur
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by wanderfowl 11y ago
I'm a Post-Doc in a small social sciences department in a major university, and am probably the department's ranking R-geek. I did my dissertation, and much of my current work, doing modeling, analysis, and even machine learning
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by wanderfowl 11y ago
Brings to mind the old saying, which is extra applicable to e-commerce for hard-to-find items: "If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is."
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by wanderfowl 11y ago
Your post advocates a ( ) technical ( ) legislative ( ) market-based ( ) vigilante (X) Physics-based approach to fighting spam. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particu
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by wanderfowl 11y ago
Yes, but there's a huge subjective difference between saying "You're an asshole, stop smoking up in a shared-wall-dwelling" and "You're a criminal, go to jail". Most managers are happy to address nuisance
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by wanderfowl 11y ago
This is a big issue, I think. Concerts are really, really bad in Colorado these days. My hope is that widespread legality and availability of tinctures and edibiles and non-plant-containing vaporizing juice, there will be an increased numb
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by wanderfowl 11y ago
In Colorado, many communities have started to actually enforce this, in the same way that repeated noise violations can lead to eviction or non-renewal. Now that it's no longer a police issue, and just an "inconsiderate prick&quo

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