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by wjn0 8y ago
Very curious about this as well!
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by wjn0 8y ago
If a drug dealer sells a drug that people enjoy and use to improve their quality of life, but a few people don't follow his advice and become addicted and die as a result, the drug dealer should go to prison for manslaughter?
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by wjn0 8y ago
The idea (ranking stocks by sum of the absolute value of the coefficients) is valid, but that line of code (variance explained by each component) doesn't do that.
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by wjn0 8y ago
I found this line confusing: > The printed lines above show that both algorithms capture more than 50% of the variance exhibited in the data using only 4 of the 50 stocks. Based on the sklearn PCA documentation [1] this has nothing to do
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by wjn0 8y ago
Sure it does. Author could've been clearer about the goals, though. Say that rather than pre-selecting 50 stocks, we ran the analysis on the whole market - then each component intuitively corresponds to some segment of the market. For
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by wjn0 8y ago
I'm taking a measure theoretic probability course this fall, and while I've had great success with using Anki for my biology (i.e. memorization-heavy) courses, I've struggled with using Anki effectively for math. Would you mi
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by wjn0 8y ago
Yup, it is very frustrating - and discouraging. There are some tools designed for replication - Snakemake, for one, in python, which seems to work pretty well. But, I think it adds unnecessary dependencies and complexity. I support using ba
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by wjn0 8y ago
> i don't think data protection applies to state surveillance. if people knew what data the state collected about them, it would defeat the point. What? The people the system is meant to protect shouldn't know about the system.
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by wjn0 8y ago
I don't disagree with the sentiment, but based on your comment, I can only guess you're fortunate to have access to "great" art. For people who don't live close to huge cities with big museums, the diversity and ava
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by wjn0 8y ago
Non-violent, victimless offense, yes. This appears to have been premeditated with a number of victims, all of whom were disadvantaged relative to the perpetrator.
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by wjn0 8y ago
When I read articles like this I wish I had a better grounding in economics, I guess specifically macroeconomics? Is there a well-known, digestible textbook?
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by wjn0 8y ago
you mean, if you do $10 of good things as a smoke screen for $11 of bad, then you are bad, not that the good things aren't in fact good
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by wjn0 8y ago
Interesting, at one point it seems like there may have been technical reasons for that [1], but not any longer. I've had to wait in hospital waiting rooms for hours, and not being able to use a phone/laptop _at all_ would kind of
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by wjn0 8y ago
This has potential to not just answer the question "who's using?" but "does x affect usage?" which is potentially much more useful, because it not only localizes treatment but also informs it.
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by wjn0 8y ago
I think some people are missing a real opportunity here. It seems GDPR is here to stay. A simple, straightforward guide to GDPR compliance for small-medium size websites who otherwise would have difficulty complying, including FOS well-exec
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by wjn0 8y ago
I don't think so. > For post-1953 information he was able to modify old memories with new information. For instance, he could add a memory about Jonas Salk by modifying his memory of polio. Additionally, the surgery he had, caused h
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by wjn0 8y ago
Computational biologists, specifically those who utilize network models, are hoping to make this idea more concrete. It's well-known now that some real-world (including biological) networks are scale-free (mathematically, their degree
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by wjn0 8y ago
I found The Plague to be quite enjoyable, while I've struggled through Notes from Underground and The Idiot (the latter moreso because of its length). The Stranger and The Fall by Camus are also incredible, I hope to read all
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My Life as a New York Times Reporter in the Shadow of the War on Terror(theintercept.com)
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by wjn0 8y ago
Interestingly, from what I understand, by policing content, they actually open themselves up to MORE legal issues. Unfortunately I can't find a source for that right now, but I recall hearing about it in the context of DMCA takedowns,
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by wjn0 8y ago
> The slippery slope fallacy isn't really a fallacy. History shows that in the context of policy, especially that of a non-democratic authority, it isn't always a fallacy. It seems absolutely absurd to me that YouTube should ba
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by wjn0 8y ago
Warren Buffet says 6-7%, and by rules of compound interest, that 3-4% difference is a lot over 75 years, so I'd say "high." I'd guess a really good, modern, algorithm from the past couple years could average, maybe, 15%?
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by wjn0 8y ago
Quick script, to show some example numbers on how this could happen (assumes she worked for 75 years, that her salary kept up with annual rate of inflation and she always invested 10%, and a very high annual rate of return of 10%) [1]. [1]
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by wjn0 8y ago
Yeah, I guess (I was curious, and you're right, about 1/3 live in Vancouver, Toronto, and Montréal metro areas), but (to me) the culture varies a lot more between Toronto and Montréal than between SF and, I don't know, some o
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by wjn0 8y ago
But did you write it up and put it on arXiv?
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by wjn0 8y ago
An interesting idea. A paper from last year showed that neural networks and rational functions efficiently approximate one another [1]. [1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.03301
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by wjn0 8y ago
That's a weird comparison, I guess you say that because California's population (39 million) is close to that of Canada's (36.3 million)? No doubt California is diverse, and by no means homogenous, but Canada... is physically
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by wjn0 9y ago
> It does, she drowned after she was put in the water. Yes, I understood that, but I just mean there was a 4+ hour window when that could have actually occurred it seems, and I don't know if more surveillance could have improved the
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by wjn0 9y ago
It is interesting that the article states that Iceland's conclusion from this case (and probably others) is "more surveillance." They don't mention if the autopsy revealed when during the course of these events the girl
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by wjn0 9y ago
You expressed my thoughts better than I could. I'm looking forward to more analysis being done on the actions of IRA - I just hope FB/Twitter/others don't sweep what was done beyond these big accounts under the rug, beca

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