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by xixi77 11y ago
They are both about equally clear, but the former syntax will always take less time to process (unless perhaps you are a Java programmer who is familiar with the latter syntax but unfamiliar with the former, in which case it's not a va
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by xixi77 11y ago
Sure (assuming that's how a "month" is defined in this context -- I haven't actually read the whole article, so I'm not sure); but why do you find the Java syntax less confusing? They look pretty equivalent, except
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by xixi77 11y ago
Length itself does not; but there is an obvious benefit to a syntax that is both short and clear -- when reviewing the code, it takes much less time to figure out what's happening. Take matrix algebra for example: what takes less time
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by xixi77 11y ago
Exactly! This is really the biggest issue that makes the whole misconduct problem so many times worse (judging by numbers in the article, "so many" is at least around 97/3 ~= 30x, putting cases like the one in question here w
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by xixi77 11y ago
Ha. My first thought was, there sure are different definitions of what "dynamic programming" is, as I've only seen it as related to the Bellman equation (motivation for the name being that it would sound appealing to Bellman&
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by xixi77 11y ago
Honestly, regardless of whether s/he stays home or goes somewhere, no one -- neither in Uganda nor in Indiana -- is going to consider a 22yo new employee as a source of expertise. She might stick to it and in the process learn somethin
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by xixi77 11y ago
This is not exactly the same at all. That battery provides a valuable service: it allows to exchange off-peak power for on-peak power. If the utility had technology to do that economically, the whole controversy would be much less of an iss
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by xixi77 11y ago
they might -- after all they are buying electricity from other suppliers, so why not from me? The question is more like, why should I be in a privileged position related to these other suppliers, and why should I be able to freely exchange
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by xixi77 11y ago
"Matlab, SAS, and Stata, all of which R makes look like APL" -- I am a little confused, what do you mean by that? (and tbh, I would not call either SAS or Stata matrix programming particularly graceful -- it's pretty hard to
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by xixi77 11y ago
He writes it as if he is suggesting that 99% reliability is just bad, period. If his point was to say that 99% is bad in this specific use case, he should have made that more clear.
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by xixi77 11y ago
Perhaps the government would then have an incentive to simplify the tax system and eliminate the loophole?
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by xixi77 11y ago
Well, both are pretty great languages (not without issues, but what is?), and there are a lot of similarities -- "more than one way to do it" of course, and CRAN and CPAN have much in common (I do wish CRAN took a few lessons from
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by xixi77 11y ago
No; but it will be pumped as soon as it hits 80 again, preventing price from going up from there. Although 50 is probably a better number.
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by xixi77 11y ago
Whether I have 10 minutes (I do) is a very different question from whether I review each transaction carefully every month (I do not). Also, IMO the 2nd part -- easy automatic unsubscription in one place -- is actually even more valuable. A
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by xixi77 11y ago
I agree that they should not tell what outcomes should be preferred, but they absolutely should tell what policies should be preferred in order to achieve a given outcome.
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by xixi77 11y ago
Would have been nice, not gonna happen though. Just imagine the headlines about the American billionaires funding efforts to influence those poor countries political systems :)
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by xixi77 11y ago
Well, not quite -- if odds of winning are in fact around 1 in 200MM or less, there is no market failure here. Their point would still stand if they sold 100MM tickets though, so as not to confuse the two issues (ie. the notional amount and
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by xixi77 11y ago
Nice chart, although it would be really important to see references to the data sources and more notes on methodology (at the very least, they should have included dates on which the valuations were measured! Also, how exactly do we define
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by xixi77 11y ago
You actually often can (or at least, could -- not sure how Obamacare might have changed this) -- you need to state that you are uninsured; you may very well get a lower price for your routine than you would have to pay out of pocket with in
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by xixi77 11y ago
You make it sound like Bayesian-type analysis is somehow fundamentally impervious to p-hacking and is therefore clearly superior to frequentist for this purpose; do you have any actual references in support of this -- because I am personall
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by xixi77 11y ago
lbzip2 is pretty good
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by xixi77 11y ago
Similar schemes have been used in e.g. trucking for years; I am not sure what you think is the substantial difference between an Uber driver and a truck owner-operator, but it's far from obvious and very far from inevitable.
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by xixi77 11y ago
Just curious -- what is the main problem with these (as opposed to say sand and other natural objects of similar size) -- do they float in water instead of settling down, or look like food, or something else?
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by xixi77 11y ago
That passage just refers to a well-known truck cheating incident (iirc a few US companies were caught doing this at one time too) -- it certainly does not imply that such cheating is an accepted practice at time of writing. It just makes a
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by xixi77 11y ago
Other manufacturers (e.g. BMW -- pretty sure the same is true for Audi) do not have the same issue; in fact, the original report is very clear on that matter: the issue is specific to VW. The reason is that other manufacturers rely on injec
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by xixi77 11y ago
Just looked at it briefly, but it seems to be about the European test cycle not covering all driving conditions -- to my knowledge, this is something that has been the case for a LONG time, and all manufacturers as well as regulators are we
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by xixi77 11y ago
Looking at the stock chart in the article, "cool reaction from investors" they mention is a downward adjustment reversing most of Wednesday gains, but still putting each company above Tuesday close. Was there another announcement
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by xixi77 11y ago
I'm quite sure a good number of these are running partly on GPU's. People are quite aware of them; their practical use in research applications is still a bit limited because of how often the code needs to be modified -- but in in
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by xixi77 11y ago
Not sure about this project, but a lot of physics simulations are written by computational physicists, who don't really do actual lab work, and instead spend a lot of their time coding and optimizing. These folks are often aware of thi
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by xixi77 11y ago
Well, I'm not sure about other articles, but this one is rather bad (for example, as noted in some comments here, statistical examples are fundamentally wrong, and they are being used to support a substantial part of the argument).

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