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mlevental

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    Comment #21601555

    why would that upset you? you still have a job? that's like saying you'd be upset if a homeless person got a free meal at a restaurant where you had purchased a meal. also it's his…

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    Comment #21549672

    how did you draw the diagrams?

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    Comment #21299430

    I agree with you but this isn't a local issue. famously healthcare is under the umbrella of the interstate commerce clause.

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    Comment #21299421

    there's gotta be some name for this fallacy of "they didn't actually get hurt by the bad thing they got hurt by the good thing that props up the bad thing". maybe it should be call…

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    Comment #21294653

    Well you can very easily yourself figure out whether I'm responding directly to you or someone else: did you sincerely consider the implications of your comment when you made it? D…

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    Comment #21292799

    i didn't say you did. i said you were very nonchalant in predicting the deaths of millions of people.

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    Comment #21292455

    oh well good thing they haven't spent decades amassing an arsenal of weapons to protect themselves. man people love to bandy about so blithely on shit like this as if they've been …

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    Comment #21288092

    if not all points in P are coplanar then what does it mean to rotate clockwise? perpendicular to which axis?

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    Comment #21277947

    how is that true? which component in a modern processor is akin to an fpga or any ip deployed to an fpga?

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    Comment #21274218

    maybe because you're projecting? it's a local culture piece (it's in the ny region section). for better or worse the hasids are large component of ny culture.

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    Comment #21274135

    it's interesting because it gives insight into a culture and community we typically don't have access to. the point isn't amazon - the point is the hasids.

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    Comment #21271639

    I'm sure the answer is no but can I buy just the chip?

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    Comment #21255459

    so i should write a whole other function that iterates over a list instead of being happy that := exists?

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    Comment #21251622

    didn't we already elect someone like that (Obama vis-a-vis ACA)? and yet the monied interests have undone most of the work.

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    Comment #21249428

    Thank you

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    Comment #21248411

    show me a successful peaceful revolution anywhere in world ever in the history of the world.

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    Comment #21244898

    >My most important prof was a star student of E. Cinlar so you're 2 removed from someone whose authority on the matter we would trust? >I've published peer-reviewed original resear…

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    Comment #21242858

    https://media.giphy.com/media/gBpY4p7bbhsiI/giphy.gif

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    Comment #21240517

    can we see some of the "ml algos" you've built? in particular your autodiff engine

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    Comment #21237282

    that one is legit. sometimes I do something like map(int, [x,y,z]) and I always trip over that it's a generator

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    Comment #21237266

    how is that a trick? you still can't access without quotes? the real trick is a Dict class that in the __init__ sets self.__dict__. but why would you do that just to save trying qu…

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    Comment #21237235

    name one except python

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    Comment #21236387

    a more general such tool: http://proselint.com/

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    Comment #21235793

    of course but no one venerates the cheaters (lance armstrong has fallen from grace)