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Medieval fantasy city generator(watabou.itch.io)
7 points by wjnc 9y ago|2 comments
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by wjnc 9y ago
Sociology tends to have more differentiation in what sources are taken as 'canon'. You can probably still find Marxist sociologists, although the field has somewhat collapsed since the 80's.
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by wjnc 9y ago
In the Netherlands lunch is usually sandwiches (with cold cheese) that children being themselves. A proper meal follows at 1730 at home. Some schools do school milk or school fruit, but usually it's bring your own. In high school cafet
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Predicting future recessions?(informationtransfereconomics.blogspot.com)
1 points by wjnc 10y ago|0 comments
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by wjnc 10y ago
Their market cap went up 1.2B thanks to a .8B settlement. That's not really logical, is it?
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by wjnc 10y ago
That just means that they will be a lot less flexible intimes of trouble (and hence less customer friendly).
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by wjnc 10y ago
What I don't get: Why would he pursue some court order he's not a party to? The only logical counterparty to this dispute is BoA. They gave away your money without proper title. That shouldn't hold up in court? That they gave
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by wjnc 10y ago
You're right (and we probably agree). I did focus on the number 1 problem in social science / pop psychology today -- sloppy statistics. But you do make a convincing point. The 'stink' that is uncovered nowadays is mostl
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by wjnc 10y ago
I disagree pretty strongly. You've got worldwide universities churning out masters and pdh-level educated persons, who mostly go to the private sector for employment. Many of those would be perfectly able to perform peer review. And wi
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by wjnc 10y ago
My Whirlpool dryer and washing machine lasted 10 and 12 years respectively. Few fixes in the last few years, but still in pretty strong condition. What made me switch was the realisation that just the energy savings going from energy label
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by wjnc 10y ago
You've got to admit Uber has brought the BigCorp stereotype of the 80s to life. I am amazed at the (US?)-culture that makes people enact so poisonous policies. In my corporation, literally the first line of our risk appetite says that
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by wjnc 10y ago
Have you looked at the main plots? They're terribly noisy. And because of the difference-in-difference design, a pretty strong covariate for adult suicide (economy / labour participation) is not taken into account. Take perspectiv
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by wjnc 10y ago
Any facts to back that up? The story I hear more often [1] is the other way around. More men in medical studies, more often male animals in studies etc. [1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1761670&#x2F
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Economies in reverse(johnhcochrane.blogspot.com)
2 points by wjnc 10y ago|0 comments
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by wjnc 10y ago
Substitute 'western civilization' for US/UK? In Europe there still are many countries with free or cheap higher education. Education as a consumption good funded by loans is tragic though. The most expensive consumption good
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by wjnc 10y ago
If there are techniques available, generally not thaught in school, that speed up reading quite easily. Why not call that speed reading? Perhaps x10 is not attainable to most (if any), but +50% is a massive time saver for anyone. Same goes
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by wjnc 10y ago
Well the sample size should probably be mentioned as 22k / # students per class (~700 classes?), since the students results are purported to be correlated. The statistics is meagre as well. Regressing percentages, counts and dollars al
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by wjnc 10y ago
Let others build an MVP without technical skills. How do I break up plans and requirements in bits, so that the chances of success of the contractors rises? How to select contractors? Should I define a stack, or let contractors decoder? Etc
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by wjnc 10y ago
16.04 is a LTS-version (long term support) while .10 is not - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LTS
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by wjnc 10y ago
You've just blown my bubble. What actions can one take to increase the chance of success?
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by wjnc 10y ago
What kind of firm are you in (and perhaps more important: country/culture)? I've actively been a friendly pita wherever I worked and always found people to help search for answers, even if the question was not really in the line o
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by wjnc 10y ago
But now a review of actually using an Ubuntu tablet? Is this an option tot a cheap but secure kids tablet?
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by wjnc 10y ago
Please explain!
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by wjnc 10y ago
Your reply gets flagged / downvoted. Perhaps it's because it is really harsh. The thought experiment is real though. But why would so many more people be better off dead now than a few decades ago? Perhaps mental care was better o
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by wjnc 10y ago
It's a detour but isn't "many people have struggled with alcohol and drug abuse" the generalization? Not much greatness to be found there. The ones like Erdos are the outliers by much greater margin than among the non-ab
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by wjnc 10y ago
The thing is, as a 10 yr office worker (ouch), the specs might not amaze, but the Works!-part does. The fact that it's integrated means it probably Works, while the earlier mish-mash of MS, Cisco etc left most functions hampering. We h
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by wjnc 10y ago
This AI-as-a-competition is somewhat troubling to me (Kaggle, that hedge fund yesterday, now Darpa). You are building value for someone without knowing the true value for someone else. The free market aspect is great. Many competitors from
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by wjnc 10y ago
Do you mean test explicitly and fail graciously? So even test over false inputs, but check that the code fails with the right exit?
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by wjnc 10y ago
I always wonder why they don't program a second pass over the output with a model, say, trained on radio conversations. That second model just for audio 'quality'.
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by wjnc 10y ago
There's more to it. Stan does models, as akin to statistical models. Workflow: specify model - run - evaluate results. Within that sphere they f.e. don't support all types of variables, but are fast, well-documented and under acti

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