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This article uses the word “conceptions” throughout, but it sounds like the only data is about births. These births would have all occurred after the recessions started. Did the or…

It’s basically drain cleaner (which becomes salty water as soon as it gets mixed with an acid), plus digested meat juice.

Even better, add an indicator light to the hardware that shows the OS is asking and not an app (although this suffers from the same problem that users need to notice something is a…

That's only if you're using a third-party keyboard, I think.

Any individual bit could be noise, so it might take 2-3 bits to transmit something unambiguous (via an error-correcting code or similar). If so, I think the speed advantage disappe…

>voting could reduce the likelihood of the draft being reinstated ... only in the unlikely event that my vote changes the outcome of an election, and the candidate I voted for woul…

The authors state that HashCat uses Markov models and that they outperform it.

Maybe the Department of Justice? I don't know if they go for that sort of thing. The only other option I can think of off the top of my head is the FCC.

As a non-lawyer, I'd expect to miss something important from the legislative text. Your point about relying on other organizations is a good one, though. I generally take this appr…

Huh? The article is written by Harris and suggests that a piece of legislation she wrote will solve the problem.

Reforming bail sounds like a good idea. I don't know why anyone would trust Harris on the issue, though. If she wanted to shrink jails when she was California's Attorney General, s…

Yeah, "150 years of lichen biology" would be much better.

No one in this thread claimed to be God. It's worth remembering that the whole point of Hospital IT is to facilitate the doctors' and administrators' work.

They claimed (or at least implied) that you'd be buying something closer to raw hunks of fruit and vegetables in the bag, so it would be fresh.

see also: Muphry's Law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muphry's_law

It is, it's just not accurate. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accuracy_and_precision

It doesn't avoid the R interface, which is GPL'd (version 3).

Several of the universal perturbation vectors in Figure 4 remind me a lot of Deep Dream's textures. I wonder what it is about these high-saturation, stripy-spiraly bits that these …

I was doored once. I remember flying through the air and thinking, "oh, this isn't so bad." Then I landed and almost broke my hand.

Right. And to be even more specific, they are not compensated in any way (except occasionally by perks with zero marginal cost, like a free online subscription). Some editors, who …

Here's one impressive counterexample: https://arxiv.org/abs/1604.08772

>bring an end to this smug conman's thievery If the courts declare him a "vexatious litigant", he'd have a much harder time filing these suits.

Some of each. It's hard to blame the media for thinking it could be important in light of the press conferences and press releases. The last section of this article gives some deta…

In block [37] of the ipython notebook, are racial main effects missing? I only see interactions. https://github.com/propublica/compas-analysis/blob/master/Co...

Not a great example. Apple's graphics layer on OS X is very closely tied to PDF, and basically uses the Adobe Imaging Model that PDF is based on. It actually does include a PDF-bas…