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Yeah I agree the FTC article could be more clear here. I think they call out Western Union because those are tools that are commonly used by scammers. But let’s be clear: the risks…

Sure thing. For those who don’t know, wiring money like this is a good way to lose your money. https://consumer.ftc.gov/articles/what-know-you-wire-money

> Can I pay with something besides wire transfer? In order to keep prices low and quality high, we don't offer any customization to the box or ordering process. Wire transfer is th…

Hah! My opinions are not so strong so no flaming here. I was genuinely just wanting your take as someone with strong opinions. I’ll check out Bloc, thanks.

What’s the best state management in Flutter?

> Four others that raised money but with painful recapitalizations that effectively wiped out early shareholders Does someone have a recommendation on reading that goes deeper on t…

I did a little digging because I haven’t followed the news on this. Through a chain of links from the article is https://edworkforce.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?Docum... whi…

I still like Moment because it offers better control of time zones that aren’t the browsers time zone when compared to the builtin Date APIs. Do you have a recommendation to replac…

Addressed to GP. This resonates with my experience. When a friend is having their first manic episode, it’s hard to get them to recognize that and get the help they need. But after…

My intuition would be that there are certain conditions under which Bayesian inference for the missing data and multiple imputation lead to the same results. What is the distinctio…

I'm an engineer in this space and would be interested in learning more about your business and why you feel you are unique and under-served. My contact info is in my profile. I do …

> I asked Firefly to create images using similar prompts that got Gemini in trouble. It created Black soldiers fighting for Nazi Germany in World War II. In scenes depicting the Fo…

It turns out the dissertation is not quite published yet, but this paper [1] will be a part of it. Sam and I were in the same lab and his work has evolved to focus even more on AI-…

If you’re up for reading a dissertation I have one in mind I can dig up. I will check back here in 12 hours or so or you can contact me from my profile.

I just signed up and tried it a little bit and I like what I see so far. I find myself increasingly frustrated with Google search results for a particular use case: searching for d…

I never understand people chasing daily commits to GitHub. You can push whatever git history you want to GitHub. I can rewrite all my commits so they are evenly distributed across …

I’ve been in Seattle for a mere 8 months and I’ve been robbed already.

"Life expectancy" is short hand for life expectancy at birth, but other life expectancies such as life expectancy at age 65 are also measured. For instance, https://data.oecd.org/h…

Is there a news article about the demonstration? I couldn’t find anything from 3 Norwegian papers with an English translation, Google, or HealthCare IT News.

Im not in a position to produce the section reference right now but the regulation discussed in the comments, 45 CFR, requires providers are able to transfer medical records from t…

Mentioned in TFA, the GRIM test for checking a paper’s reported mean of integers: “”” The GRIM test is straightforward to perform. For each reported mean in a paper, the sample siz…

Is there any particular topic? I agree with other posters though that the notation is a short hand for the concepts and you need the concepts, not the notation.

I find the writing style in CLRS to be quite readble. Sure the book is huge but so maybe pick and choose chapters but each chapter can be read "cover to cover". Perhaps some of the…

See my sibling comment. Suppose you have data with 0.95 positive class and 0.05 negative class. You can achieve high ROC AUC with the classifier that blindly predicts the positive …

While I agree with your overall sentiment, it is important to understand the relationship between class (im)balance and ROC curve performance. A very short article which does a gre…