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by wjn0 9y ago
The area between Jarvis and University/York is pretty unpleasant to walk around once you're south of Front, in my opinion. Walking in the rest of the city is quite nice. I suppose it can be attributed to the expressway being there
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by wjn0 9y ago
I'm curious to know the ratio of these crimes to population, as compared to Western countries. Harmonious != 100% peaceful.
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That article doesn't support your point. The law being referenced here is the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986, signed into law 8 years earlier by Reagan [1]. You are correct, though. The Black Congressional Congress and the majority of bla
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by wjn0 9y ago
> Lack of opportunities for a nice lifestyle is not a justification for criminal behavior. Of course it's not. Suppose you're in a situation where you have a lack of education, family/community support, and a general lack
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by wjn0 9y ago
This is a joke, right? Or perhaps you are not familiar with the American prison industrial complex? Here[1] are some data from 20 years ago. Intuition and my recent reading suggest it's gotten even worse. Read up on the Corrections Cor
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Vellvm: Verifying the LLVM(cis.upenn.edu)
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I'm curious, are you from the American northeast? FWIW, I agree with the guy you're replying to. But that's being from Boston, and also hearing about NJ/NY projects in the news.
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by wjn0 10y ago
Maybe some simple quoting scheme for "literals"?
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Mindset: smart headphones that improve your concentration(kickstarter.com)
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I wonder if the data could be normalized against usage statistics somehow. Maybe not perfectly effectively, but at least better than as-is, precisely because the number of people "switching" is so much smaller than the number usin
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by wjn0 10y ago
It's less a biological question, and more a question of the laws regarding meat production where you live. IIRC, in the US (just some states I believe), chickens for example don't need to have space to move at all, except maybe a
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by wjn0 10y ago
Cell culturing has a history of the requisite procedures being brought to scale when necessary (insulin production for one classic example). I'm not arguing that the scale is the same. Obviously, comparing a highly evolved animal liter
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> Experimental evidence suggests that having lots of users isn't a guarantee of stability. See Venezuela (right now), Zimambwe Dollar, German Reichsmark, Argentine Peso, Mexican Peso, Thai Baht, etc. All of these had tremendous coll
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So, then a primary argument for the current/recent instability (is presumably?) is its relative widespread lack of adoption? Does economic theory tell us n = number of people using currency such that we can begin to expect more stabi
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by wjn0 10y ago
Are PayPal/other payment services restricted in Canada somehow?
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by wjn0 10y ago
> every literary work is its own separate world with references to other similarly separate worlds from the past. This sounds like the basis of hypertext fiction ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertext_fiction ) whi
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Great Literature Is Surprisingly Arithmetic(scientificamerican.com)
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>It could be concubine, for example. Precisely. Models which use this space do not propose strong equality (==). Rather, they would output a series of probabilities, and choose the most likely. Stating king + woman = queen + man is somew
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by wjn0 10y ago
Interesting, thanks - I wasn't aware of this text. But according to your link, ESL isn't a prototype of ISL, but a more 'advanced treatment'. The R applications in ISL seem like they might be very useful, though.
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I appreciate the comparison. My field is computational biology, and the latest edition of ESL has some specific, relevant examples, which is what drew me to it in the first place. I'm currently working on getting my statistics backgrou
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by wjn0 10y ago
Where would you place "Elements of Statistical Learning" in relation to these, if you know?
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by wjn0 10y ago
It conveys more relevant information than just the name would, in this case.
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I don't follow job postings for ML, but I will say this - there is inherent value in being familiar with certain frameworks when hiring for non-entry-level positions. This is particularly true for ML, where it can be very useful to kno
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by wjn0 10y ago
Building a career around a framework is never a good idea. If you know your shit, it shouldn't matter what framework you're using. Theano and TF, for example, both make similar abstractions: graphs and numerical functions on top o
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It seems that this is true for now (for 'traditional companies'). Soon, however, one could argue that 'traditional companies' will no longer be the norm - data science, ML, etc. will play such a crucial role in the major
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by wjn0 10y ago
I'm an undergrad at a big university known for CS in Canada. The CS program here has several possible 'focuses'; 4 of 9 are related to ML/AI directly (computer vision, NLP, AI, scientific computing). 2 others require AI&