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by zwaps 6y ago
I was confused why the author claims this doesn't work, then I saw JavaScript... ah
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by zwaps 6y ago
Off topic: This is how this website looks when I open it: https://i.imgur.com/M1m5LJX.png yikes
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by zwaps 6y ago
But does this exact argument not also justify the US and Europe to pursue their own interests? Isn’t that what Trump thinks he is doing? I mean, there is plenty of countries around Europe that are sort of doing worse than China, but are sti
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by zwaps 6y ago
To give a negative example I recently came across, check out https://www.scmp.com/ Now, it's pretty much a normal news website in that it shows a long list of articles, some pictures and then text. I am running a stand
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by zwaps 6y ago
Well if you reject the assertion that parents of kids in private schools have higher than average income, I think the discussion is not fruitful. Be it true or false, this is the axiom on which the whole debate is based. If it were not tru
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by zwaps 6y ago
MMT itself does not yet understand an economy in an open system, which the US certainly is. But then, your post was probably sarcastic.
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by zwaps 6y ago
As I understand it, public schools are not bad because decisionmakers think they are good. So it's interesting to read that "competition" by private schools would increase the quality of public schools. At least empirically,
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by zwaps 6y ago
I want to say that previous versions of Garmin connect did have the data locally, such that you could see your runs or activities without being connected to the Garmin services. The present version of Garmin connect does nothing if you are
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by zwaps 6y ago
In Turkey, the best private universities (that are also up there as best universities in the country) are still held by the corresponding company holdings, i.e. Koc and Sabanci. By contrast, in Germany there are no universally notable priva
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by zwaps 6y ago
I have even had Einspaenner. Wth...
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by zwaps 6y ago
Well I don't own a Nespresso for that reason, so I agree. I drink too much coffee at home. I have several options, because I enjoy different kinds of coffee at different times. However, I see a lot of Nespresso machines in hotels and i
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by zwaps 6y ago
They all taste noticeably different.
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by zwaps 6y ago
I think I am one of the few people who enjoys all sorts of coffee. I have had Espresso in many citys in Italy, all the hip Third Wave coffees, but I can still enjoy a Nespresso, a drip machine, Mokka, Turkish coffee, DeLonghi or Jura type c
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by zwaps 6y ago
I have lived six years at my current location in Germany and have not had a power cut, except for a burned fuse in my apartment.
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by zwaps 6y ago
Off Topic: That website has no obvious opt-out option for EU users, just some dark pattern pop-up that also breaks the browser's "back" functionality. If anyone here works at techcrunch, please feel adequately ashamed about t
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by zwaps 6y ago
Another simple way to see this is to reverse the usual order of steps, starting with the induction step. The author shows that S(n)->S(n+1) and that proof is correct if n is at least larger than 1. The hidden assumption of n>1 is the
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by zwaps 6y ago
Edit: Let me try to be as clear as possible. Your confusion comes from the language in the question of "ANY SPECIFIC N" versus "ANY, as in ALL N". Say, n=3. Then, we assume S is true for the value n=3, but we don't
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by zwaps 6y ago
I have a question regarding the reddit redesign (of a while ago). This is not a joke. I literally have trouble reading relevant comments there now. I guess I don't understand how to browse reddit correctly. Say there is a thread and it
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by zwaps 6y ago
Dont use Mendeley, it is owned by Elsevier. You can’t even export pdfs or notes from it anymore to send to others. Only some snippets via some bad Elsevier platform which is a headache. They will lock you in, and they specifically updated M
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by zwaps 6y ago
Careful with this reasoning! I have this anecdote of a industrial sorting/production machine that worked for literally a year until someone opened the door on a windy day and everything went flying thanks to the AI.
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by zwaps 6y ago
I agree on the point of conditional means, however I'd say other statistical frameworks emphasize that point even more. The point about the probability distribution is reasonable, but I am not sure if it is taken seriously by everyone
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by zwaps 6y ago
As above, I would strongly agree with you. Both linear and logistic regression can be special cases of frameworks that are more general and far less parametric than GLM. But they also have very intuitive or hands-on explanations, especially
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by zwaps 6y ago
Well, then I am gonna say it's even better to think of linear and logistic regression as special case of M Estimators or GMM. Joke aside, the truth is that logistic regression can be understood based on several assumptions. Above we ha
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by zwaps 6y ago
I have a little paper on this, sorry for the plug :-D http://ingomarquart.de/index.php/research/2-the-semantics-of... uses BERT, but GPT2 would work as well. I am working on making this a python package and a tec
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by zwaps 6y ago
As a German, I recommend you take a look at Turkish. It's fantastic as there are zero exceptions. Learn the phonetics of each letter, and you can literally speak any word.
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by zwaps 6y ago
The conditional mean E(y|x), which exists under quite general conditions, is the best predictor in the conventional sense of MSE. The linear projection, assuming finite second moments and a positive definite expectation of the design matrix
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by zwaps 6y ago
Depends on whether the missing variable is correlated with the beta hats you care about ;-)
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by zwaps 6y ago
yes of course, but even then we are left to describe such intransitivities in a useful manner rather than conclude the actors is simply non-rational. If it were so, then human behavior would be impossible to analyze. Instead, if we focus on
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by zwaps 6y ago
Similarly, the most general form of rational decision theory or rational choice theory is based on lattices. That makes intuitive sense, since preference relations ~are~ partially ordered sets. Then, analyzing rational (vs. for example boun
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by zwaps 6y ago
Programmers tend more toward knowing their own productivity than being completely clueless about it. Seems more like market for lemons to me.

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