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by yellowcake0 5y ago
No, this is expressly untrue. In the frequentist paradigm parameters are fixed but unknown, they are not random variables, and have no implicit probability distribution associated with them. An estimator (of a parameter) is a random varia
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by yellowcake0 5y ago
I'm not sure I entirely follow your comment, however I was merely pointing out that reckoning with parameter uncertainty by "computing or approximating the posterior...", as you said, is not always applicable in probabilistic
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by yellowcake0 5y ago
You can take Russia's grievances on their own merit, Putin's behavior notwithstanding. The crisis at hand is that we have, along with our counterparties in Russia and the EU, created a region of instability along the outer Soviet
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by yellowcake0 5y ago
Although this is technically true, in practice probabilistic machine learning makes use of "un-priored" parameters all the time.
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by yellowcake0 5y ago
I didn't say the US started it, my point is both countries made poor decisions which led to this outcome, not just Russia. So instead of trying to assign blame, lets try to resolve this situation to all parties' benefit, rather th
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by yellowcake0 5y ago
How about we stop with the blame game and start figuring out how to conduct foreign policy in a way that leads to desirable geopolitical outcomes for all parties involved. The humanitarian catastrophe that resulted from the US' invasio
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by yellowcake0 5y ago
When the book is published in 2023 it will have exercises, this is just a preliminary draft.
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by yellowcake0 5y ago
You don't elect a dictator.
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by yellowcake0 5y ago
> how often does one have to skim that many papers in a day, to a level where the freely available abstract is not sufficient? More often than you might think. To take an example from my own work, I was doing assay design a while back, a
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by yellowcake0 5y ago
Except a researcher could easily need to skim 30+ papers in a day, this is not a solution.
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by yellowcake0 5y ago
> ...but CS is math. A branch of it, to be exact. And biology is just self-replicating organic chemistry.. and chemistry is just the physics of outer electron shells.
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by yellowcake0 5y ago
My 2¢, I'm currently interviewing for jobs in biotech, and it's been pretty tough. Between all the interviews, take home assignments, coding challenges, presentation and interview prep, I'm putting in 10-12 hour days 7 days a
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by yellowcake0 5y ago
If the problem is mostly the physical symptoms of anxiety then get a prescription for propranolol and take 20mg or so an hour before the interview, it will help a lot.
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by yellowcake0 5y ago
Why would it be hopeless? They have the time, energy and resources to address it properly. Someone with depression who works two jobs without health insurance and is too exhausted outside of work to do anything but watch TV, now that's
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by yellowcake0 5y ago
Normal is still pretty shitty when compared to being a member of the aristocratic leisure class. Of course there are diminishing returns to the happiness value of money, but it's a hell of a lot higher than being a normal middle class
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by yellowcake0 5y ago
The ln notation has gone out of fashion with mathematicians. Generally the base is clear from the context, or it's irrelevant. As someone who has done a lot of mathematics in their life, I've never found this perceived ambiguity t
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by yellowcake0 5y ago
Is electron some sort of synthetic genome compiler?
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by yellowcake0 5y ago
The left struggles to gain any traction because they fail at marketing their ideas to a set of key demographics in a small number of swing and low-population states . The average American is a liberal American.
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by yellowcake0 5y ago
Is Joe Rogan really right-leaning though? He voted for Bernie Sanders after all. He doesn't strike me as particularly ideological, and I've never gotten the impression that he had a partisan axe to grind. Granted that he is someti
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by yellowcake0 5y ago
> None of this matters, because the limiting factor for civs is collective intelligence, not energy. Is this really the limiting factor? I've always assumed the limiting factor was distance. I can envision a species that is more int
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by yellowcake0 5y ago
It's unfortunate that as he's become more popular his interviews have become increasingly self-indulgent and vapid. Maybe it's to appeal to a wider audience, however I think more likely it's just a negative consequence o
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by yellowcake0 5y ago
And not only listless now unemployed people, but listless now unemployed people whose only job skill was being a soldier . I mean what the hell did we think they were going to do.
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by yellowcake0 5y ago
> U.S. could have not cynically installed the most pliant pro-American corrupt thugs to be in charge and told the people to obey Which of course has been the post-WW2 standard operating procedure for the U.S. in more countries than I car
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by yellowcake0 5y ago
There is no way that AI will be better than us at math in a couple of decades.
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by yellowcake0 5y ago
He died only a few months after that presentation. Yes out of respect and, like I said, an unwillingness to tell him directly that his proof was wrong and then to decline to host him at the event.
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by yellowcake0 5y ago
I don't understand why scientists would risk their reputation in this way. Either directly or by association. Is it hubris? naivety? what is going on here?
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by yellowcake0 5y ago
I'm not sure what you're driving at here. But Atiyah was suffering from dementia by this point and the math community was just too embarrassed to address it directly. They even let him give a talk on his RH proof where he further
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by yellowcake0 5y ago
If your motivation is to develop marketable skills since your crypto investments went belly up, then I think you're likely to find that math provides a poor return on your investment. You're better off just learning to program and
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by yellowcake0 5y ago
I'll just make one brief comment in regard to wanting the math you've written by hand to closely match the syntax on the computer, and say that this is rarely the correct thing to do when writing high quality numerical software. M
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by yellowcake0 5y ago
I didn't say to make your variable names verbose. rho_m is fine in my opinion, although I find it strange that you would name a probability distribution rho unless it's a density matrix. I would probably name it prob_dist_m, or ev

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