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We already have a much more liquid terrorism futures market, i.e. the regular stock market. Worrying about incentives for a large attack from a prediction market is missing the oce…

It's a nice xor swap, but I think you reversed your list twice. And xor swapping with x=y=2 is likely not ideal. Seems like exactly what I'd do in an interview too :p

It's just a small Cython-compiled utility throwing the warning, it works fine. Everything else is pure Python and so doesn't care about 3.5 vs 3.6. We will fix the warning, though …

A lot of the best practices for initializing/saving/restoring/etc. are handled automatically if you wrap your model in an Estimator[1] using a model_fn. It also enforces a "clean" …

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You could, but you would be wrong, as the remainder of the paragraph you started quoting argues quite convincingly. Fiddle with the free parameters of the contest and it "demonstra…

The waiting time distribution is actually the geometric distribution (with expectation 1/p = 1/0.021 = 47.6, so about what they got).

One solution would be for Netflix to modify their clients to send useless and quickly discarded UDP packets back to balance out the traffic. Verizon then has tons of data to push b…

This is essentially the goal of probabilistic programming[1]: let the programmer specify and tweak the model, and have the analog of a compiler handle inference. Finding a good mod…

>Yep, because now you've just got your air rushing into the vacuum through the cracks, instead of water. Fair enough. I imagine there's a trade-off between the quality of the tunne…

Is there some reason that sandwiching air between the evacuated tube and the water wouldn't work? Granted it would add to the cost. The ocean depth point is interesting. The articl…