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I think that may be only partially fair: some people appreciate his writings because they question things which, at the time, (and possibly still now) would have been considered “t…

You may be referring to p-values, and the arbitrary 0.05 threshold but in that case, the connection is risky at best and wrong in general (common misinterpretation of p-value as pr…

Thsee questions pop up every time Julia comes on HN and have been answered time and again for example by Chris Rackauckas [1], at the end of the day there will always be pros and c…

In Oxbridge, colleges compete for public exposure because ultimately that’s what leads to donation & to get top undergrads applying who, eventually, will donate £££ to the college …

This is a tricky line of thinking. Once surveillance is there you can always hide behind the “now we’re safer”, the issue is that you can always survey more and always claim that g…

Last I saw him (last year) he was still a prof at Oxford, pushing for a startup called « invrea » (that does try to use PP [1]). I think UBC was before that. [1] http://invrea.com/…

This is a question of perspective, you can in fact just take it as a regression over the continuous 0-1 interval with loss |y-o(Xw)| where o is the sigmoid and could report that lo…

I agree with this though opening up to external scrutiny (up to a reasonable extent similar to - say - CERN) would help dispel a feeling of “yet another faster-than-light type expe…

No, because that would take full rows of the feature matrix (thereby corresponding to the full information of one individual). The idea here is to “generate” rows corresponding to …

Right. No offense but where do you live in China? Beijing or Shanghai is not exactly the same as Xinjiang. Also foreigners (still) enjoy a de facto “upper class” status in China so…

MAC address randomisation has been proven to be essentially useless: https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.02874v1

Seems a bit overreacting dissing the whole of journalism for the odd pun seen in an article. Eg: John Oliver’s late night show is, objectively, quite good journalism (even if he de…

From 4 years ago... a lot has changed since. Consider this recent post for example: https://tk3369.wordpress.com/2018/02/04/an-updated-analysis-...

The question discussed is interesting and important but I felt the structure of this article is somewhat unfortunate: it explains very well and objectively some of the statistical …

This is very neat! It made me think of hackmd.io which offers similar features though maybe less minimalist/distraction free but with collaboration. Thanks for sharing!

I agree with the sentiment but your last paragraph needs some (serious) backing "incredibly easy to stop 80% of anthropogenic emissions", really?

As much as Chomsky may have been incorrect, I think it is foolish to call him "depressingly ignorant" without justifying your statement. His international recognition both in his f…

Nothing is sufficient by itself if you want to figure out what's going on in the world. Reading from different sides even biased sides, Chinese, Russian, Qatari or Western 'propaga…

This is hilarious, well worth a read.