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by wolfgangK 3y ago
About words embeddings, the №1 example is the famous King - Man + Women = Queen This works nicely in the vector space but fails to make a visual impression when projected on 2 dimensions. Neither with ACP, nor MDS ot t-SNE in my experience
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by wolfgangK 3y ago
I really wish there was a name (that I knew of) for this logical fallacy of using precise quantities of meaninglessly confused categories. What do you think "farmland" is ? Our ancestors who knew how to raise cattle and farm cerea
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by wolfgangK 4y ago
The dirty secret of education is that no school outperform nor underperform much other schools when adjusting for differences in student populations : https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/why-selection-bias-is-t...
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by wolfgangK 4y ago
If I may hijack a bit this thread, I am currently looking for an optimization solver for a specific goal : I wish to constraint the values of variables so that tuples of variables are unique within sets of tuples. Cf. https://s
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by wolfgangK 5y ago
I'm sure most people would want that, but I don't think that we know how to "make people" change. Much in the same way that we don't know how to have school "make children" more academic, we don't kno
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by wolfgangK 5y ago
I would have expected the Clojure versions of types to inherit from the Java versions. Any reason not to do that ?
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by wolfgangK 5y ago
Do you actually thing that the anti-IQ crowd is mad that the nazis (notoriously anti-IQ) lost WWII and that is the reason they are so touchy about this ?
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by wolfgangK 5y ago
It makes no sense to posit that IQ differences between population have a different cause than IQ differences between individuals. Adoption raises the IQ by at most 5 points ! What environmental difference could have a much more dramatic eff
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by wolfgangK 5y ago
Most interesting ! I love the use of Pyodide. It reminds my of https://basthon.fr/about.html . What is the libraries situation ? I'd be most interested in pandas, seaborn and SciKit-Learn to contribute teaching materia
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by wolfgangK 5y ago
Has education ever been ? Can it ever be ? I'm not sure it makes sense to hope that anything could prevent offspring to be more similar (and have more similar lives) to their parents that to random member of their species. Gregory Clar
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by wolfgangK 7y ago
Nice ! Now I just need to be able to have org mode source blocks for that .
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by wolfgangK 7y ago
Being a teacher myself, I understand this policy. Too bad, though, I'd have dearly loved to read the python implementation to rewrite it in Clojure. I think the language could allow for something at least as concise be maybe cleaner.
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by wolfgangK 8y ago
Or maybe there might be an other confounder than skin color ? Maybe SES status of drug addict influences the way they finance their habit You might want to compare the impact of crack in black neighborhoods on violent crime and the impact
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by wolfgangK 8y ago
> Thompson sampling itself is not difficult (specifically, 6 lines, as I'm looking at my Clojure code), Going through "A tutorial on Thompson Sampling" and being eager to hone my skills in Clojure, I would be very intere
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by wolfgangK 8y ago
> IQ is NOT a measure of a thing that exists. I don't understand your concept of something "existing" or not. Do you believe that a "speed" exist ? That a "center of gravity" exists ? That a "tempe
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by wolfgangK 9y ago
I consider myself as leftist as possible with a functioning and informed brain. Yet I know that "left leaning" and "right leaning" are mostly biases that we use to orient ourselves in a world too complex to be fully unde
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by wolfgangK 9y ago
I hope that he also sues media outlets for slander. To sum things up : - fairness & lack of prejudice wrt minorities/women : goal - minorities/women % in the workforce : metric - diversity hiring : https://en
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by wolfgangK 9y ago
The problem is that reverse discrimination does justify the discrimination they [cl]aim to fight. If HR considers the results of my technical interviews to be biased for the benefit of people who look like me and compensate accordingly , I
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by wolfgangK 9y ago
> say they are inferior in some respect I do not believe that the author of the memo ever wrote anything like that. I'm not sure that you should equate all research scientists who published on gender/sex differences with nazis.
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by wolfgangK 9y ago
Exactly ! But 'intertwined' means correlation, not causation. Being a woman is correlated with not doing software dev. in a tech company. It does not mean that tech discriminate against women, because correlation ≠ causation.
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by wolfgangK 9y ago
> Sure, if you define diversity as having nothing to do with gender, I would have sworn that this would be "Not being sexist 101", but apparently words do not mean what I think they should…
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by wolfgangK 9y ago
Re: Ukip and racism, there is a lot of political acts to provide context that can invalidate (or not [0]) their statements. As for this guy, his memo should be considered on it's own (in good faith) for lack of outside context about th
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by wolfgangK 9y ago
> By stating that he's OK with discriminating by gender, Actually, he wrote exactly the opposite.
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by wolfgangK 9y ago
There is no way around https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkson%27s_paradox
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by wolfgangK 9y ago
Fond memories of programming my Amiga to scrap pages from the Minitel to fill up up database instead of doing data entry by hand, as ha been expected of me during my first intership…
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by wolfgangK 9y ago
Point-free programming would be extremely useful if the composition primitive allowed introspection. You would then compose functions that would have run-time homoiconicity as you would be able to edit the "ast" embedded in the po
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by wolfgangK 9y ago
Always nice to see some clojure code, even more so when to code is interactive. However, I would not have coded it that way. Call it premature abstraction if you will, but I think, especially in a language guiding you toward purity and immu
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by wolfgangK 15y ago
Your post is very condescending but also very light on facts. To someone successfully using C++ metaprogramming you just sound like you failed to find how and when to use it. (I do agree that it can get ugly wrt error messages and syntax as
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by wolfgangK 15y ago
I would have sworn that Fortran was compiled.
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by wolfgangK 15y ago
I believe it to be a metaphor on that corporate culture clash between "do no evil" and "cthulhu was a hippie".

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