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jmount
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About jmount
Please checkout my book: Practical Data Science with R http://practicaldatascience.com/
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Comment #49090896
Unfortunately not. Most of my sampling ideas were too slow and not effective at high degree.
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Comment #49086867
Came to say the same thing. Now remains the time to give the public access to the ACM digital library.
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Comment #49086273
I could not tell what parts the human author thought were phantasies they felt they had escaped versus which they really were wallowing in. Who honeypots the honeypots?
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Comment #48690614
Why would they remain fundamentally expensive? It is a fixed machine (so eventually you recoup the investment) and running consumes nothing other than electricity and a paper gown.…
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Comment #48634065
Thanks. I had some friends look. Half got it to work, half errored out.
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Ask HN: Fda.gov Down for You?
I keep getting no server for fda.gov links. Anyone else seeing this?
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Comment #48620880
My feeling on geometric algebra is that you should look too much into it until you exhaust the exterior algebra. That is (in my opinion): it isn't a good use of it to replace the c…
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Comment #48620723
Thx, but looks like you are also getting downvoted. Sorry about that.
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Comment #48620576
No point up-voting or down-voting this, already flagged off the site. Possibly triggered a controversy filter? I know the title is provocative, but it is actually the point the vid…
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Comment #48529339
Not quite on topic. But I feel there is an issue in politics where many non-wealthy people vote as if they are "temporarily inconvenienced billionaires." That is they endorse polic…
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Comment #48493556
The whole arc was brilliantly evil. Once they put int the guardrails then Claude is fully un-falsifiable, and failure can be claimed intentional.
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Comment #48479771
I really think one needs a "Harvard architecture" for AIs (data independent of instructions). Though yes, that may not be possible.
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Comment #48413603
I have to say worrying about the provenance of writing has made me a grumpier reader. For example: "The space station is made up of Russian and US segments, and there are modules f…
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Comment #48390138
I honestly thought GoPro and FitBit had both been stomped out a long time ago, and we were just watching new companies brand-squatting.
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Comment #48376421
HP generously gave me a 16C at the end of an internship. It was a weird beast! Amazing a simulating different types of integer arithmetic. Not at all a replacement for the 11C, 12C…
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Comment #48238076
Good point on "Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect."
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Comment #48170566
I think this is a good under-represented point. Again and again things that could only run on a mainframe get ported to the personal device level. However it looks like the campaig…
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Comment #48170450
This is important to think through, does one have a product, tech, tool, or even just a feature. I given thing is not necessarily at the bottom of this stack, but also not always a…
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Comment #48111252
A perfect doomsday machine. Over-using tokens gets your peers laid-off before yourself.