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Yes, it's quite clever. An equivalent proof is dividing 0.999... by 9 using long division, which comes out to 0.111... which is equal to 1/9. Now use fraction notation and it simpl…

> How can the US have that little protection of their workers..? The US has spent the last 65 years chipping away at unionization rates and other pro-employee protections. The over…

Yes - this is a major function of private equity in general. They even have investment banks and firms that specialize in "buy side" versus "sell side" of the transaction.

I once had a consulting gig where the customer desperately wanted to build a Spark/Scala ML pipeline, for a dataset that was 10 MB. We spent 3 months hammering it together for a fl…

Neil Postman was my single most favorite find in a thrift store.

Long-haul trucking would be a great use-case. Even if you need humans for local pilot guidance, you can queue them up to a "cell phone lot" and courier the last-mile drivers in bet…

Cash or a bank demand account is not without their own inherent risks. A fire, robbery, or forced currency exchange could destroy the value of the physical commodity of cash, and t…

Drinking multiple _liters_ of water in a relatively short time can cause water intoxication [1] due to the drop in relative electrolyte levels. I got it once at scout camp where, u…

Most MLM's tout a flexible working schedule which women tend to prefer due to being saddled with a higher average proportion of the child-rearing and elder-care responsibilities.

Over time the attrition rate for attention increases. As a result it becomes harder to justify further investments in usability features or content quality because you can no longe…

I think we would have to understand better how instinctive behavior ends up affecting this kind of cognitive processes, but I think it would be possible. Examples that immediately …

DOB and date of last checkup are highly schematizable. This specific example is very well-suited to a SQL solution dumping into an autocaller queue. Maybe this was a terrible examp…

Funny - half of my experiences talking with nonprofits were telling people with an Access database to migrate to a proper SQL database.

Mid-tier Midwestern cities are quickly gentrifying with bikeshares, kombucha shops, craft breweries, and bookstore/brewpub combos. Madison, Indianapolis, & Cincinnati often get men…

I would add that humans also integrate gyroscopic & acceleration information from the inner ear to understand relative balance. Multiple sources of sensor data is a net benefit, no…

Fascinating. I've used my own hacked-together unsupervised learning to facilitate topic labeling, and this seems to address the bottleneck problem for supervised learning. Will hav…

Logistic regression is also referred to as a "supervised classification" problem, which this book only addresses in the specialized space of document clustering or image classifica…

Well - there _is_ a bit of Student's Paradox involved in requirements-gathering for machine learning or analytics, and it's not always apparent that you're using the right algorith…

I found it simply fascinating when I learned that Blue Wildebeests are born knowing how to stand within minutes of their birth, and within a day can outrun adult hyenas: "Extremely…

What would you propose as being a "market-decides" approach to health care, beyond abolishing any-party insurers and revert to a 19th-century model?

We have lots of examples of governments doing this with ranges from poor to fair to good results. To my knowledge, the US is the only widescale attempt at market-based health care,…

I had a very bitter argument about whether Kansas was Midwestern or not. An important distinction is that what's now considered the "Midwest" used to be just called the "West", and…

Neat observation. The "3-longest-words" approach probably works well because grammatical words tend to be elided down to as short of an implementation as possible, while longer wor…

Eh, that really comes down to applied theory vs. pure theory. There's no one Grand Unifying Theory of Natural Language Processing, and not likely to be a strong candidate for a whi…