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Patient0

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About Patient0

I'm a software developer working in London.

Projects: http://patient0.github.com/FirstClassLisp/

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    Comment #49180402

    Sorry where in the article does it make this point? I cannot find the text "On my visits to the Bay Area" anywhere in the original article.

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    Comment #47627917

    which makes sense because I believe that polars was written by the same guy that did pandas (hence the name - panda and polar are bears)

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    Comment #43534072

    The actual paper makes more sense: "the number of galaxies in that field that rotate in the opposite direction relative to the Milky Way galaxy is ∼50 per cent higher than the numb…

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    Comment #43534069

    The actual paper makes more sense: "the number of galaxies in that field that rotate in the opposite direction relative to the Milky Way galaxy is ∼50 per cent higher than the numb…

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    Comment #43534063

    The actual paper makes more sense: "the number of galaxies in that field that rotate in the opposite direction relative to the Milky Way galaxy is ∼50 per cent higher than the numb…

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    Comment #43243891

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    Comment #42182101

    I think a lot of the hostility about over achieving kids is that parents and their fellow students instinctively recognize that a lot of the success that comes from education is "z…

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    Comment #41067104

    I read an article that stated that Microsoft lost an anti-trust court case against the EU in which the EU mandated that they allow third party competitors to provide this service. …

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    Comment #40924975

    Not to be that guy but this is the sort of thing I could imagine might benefit from an AI also. Train an AI to recognize drowning, and sound an alarm just in case the lifeguard mis…

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    Comment #40376228

    "Students tend to understand objects better" -> I actually a disagree. A problem is mutability. Consider: "Is-a list of triangles a list of shapes?". Most inexperienced people, usi…

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    Comment #38791059

    I feel like the whole article is an allegory of LLM development (as a critic would write it: devoting a stupendous amount of resources and 'training data' to 'memorize' the solutio…

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    Comment #31832667

    This is also how virtual methods are implemented by C++ compilers.

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    Comment #31681573

    yes and perhaps the difficulty of using a frequentist approach on a sample size of 1 is why the parent post thought that you cannot learn anything from a sample size of 1...

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    Comment #31679659

    I think this is too pessimistic. One always gains some information, even from a single event. If you're catching the bus one and shows up literally the minute that you arrive at th…

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    Comment #29808129

    This. I remember forking out... $50?... to buy the Commodore 64 Reference Manual from a specialist bookstore (we had to drive there). I was so excited when I brought it home and co…

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    Comment #29691634

    On my phone I cannot read more than the first page. Something wrong with the site?

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    Comment #27240089

    Basically yes - but even now I'd have to admit I have no intuition for why the different "frequency" functions are orthogonal to each other.

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    Comment #27231301

    The only way I have been able to understand it: - Functions can be thought of as vectors in an inner product space ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgKwz5Ikpc8 ) - the "inner prod…

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