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by 0xddd 6y ago
How do these companies perform compared to the USPS? Just knowing that they're privatized without any mention of customer satisfaction, cost, or other comparative metrics doesn't say much about whether it's a good idea. (I do
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by 0xddd 6y ago
Sure, but with the amount of wealth and power that they have, it goes beyond lobbying. If there were any sense of the other side getting equal bargaining power, maybe people would be less upset.
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by 0xddd 6y ago
What about this video did you find relevant? The case where one individual attacked a plywood barricade with a hammer and was stopped? (Surely not the Andy Ngo digression.) That's not the topic under discussion. People are concerned wi
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by 0xddd 6y ago
I will have to take a look at that paper. I didn't catch your edit before replying. It would certainly be worthwhile to verify that claim (or not) using the paper's model if I find some time. In any case, I think the underlying po
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by 0xddd 6y ago
I wish there were a freely available copy online, I could link, but the passage is at the end of chapter 2 of Syntactic Structures. It's not a footnote, but rather the crux of his argument, I believe: > "... a structural analys
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by 0xddd 6y ago
I think the more interesting result (and more relevant to Chomsky's point) would be to work in the other direction. If you instead produce a list of sentences with similar log probabilities you will see that it contains a mix of gramma
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by 0xddd 6y ago
Right. The sentences are both very unlikely to be uttered even though one is grammatical and the other is not, so there must be another factor in play.
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by 0xddd 6y ago
It's funny the author wasted energy composing this after admitting he barely knows the origin of the sentence. Chomsky invokes it in "Syntactic Structures" to illustrate that the grammaticality of a given sentence doesn'
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by 0xddd 6y ago
What examples do you have in mind when you say this? The main case studies that I see get brought up are Catalonia during the Spanish Civil War and the Paris Commune, but the wartime pressures that led to their collapse strike me as much di
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by 0xddd 6y ago
And did those arrest and charges come before or after multiple days of protests? At this point the protests have snowballed into a larger frustration over police conduct (and I'm sure other issues), which only gets reinforced with each
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by 0xddd 6y ago
Seriously, "any tools"? You are commenting on an article about the use of new surveillance tools like facial recognition software that scrapes Facebook, not a discussion on whether the National Guard should be deployed.
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by 0xddd 6y ago
So your point is that this justifies the expansion of the surveillance state? Do you consider all of the protestors responsible for looting? And should we just discount the evidence pointing to the presence of agents provocateurs?
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by 0xddd 6y ago
Yes, what a heroic display we're commenting on here. What exactly is your point and how is it relevant to this unsettling video? Just the platitude that not every interaction is necessarily racist?
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by 0xddd 6y ago
Having gone through two chapters now, I also feel the need to caution others that the amount of typos in this book is simply jaw-dropping. The conceptual explanations in the text are generally excellent, but it is simply impossible to get t
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by 0xddd 6y ago
Thank you! This looks great and surprisingly affordable for an academic textbook. It seems like a lot of the good material for teaching these topics at the undergraduate level has come out rather recently.
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by 0xddd 6y ago
Wow, this is beyond what I could've hoped for. Especially the coding exercises, which make up for the other massive difficulty in self-studying--a lack of solutions to verify the work on written problems.
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by 0xddd 6y ago
Can anyone recommend a good introduction to differential geometry and forms? Does something analogous to "Visual Complex Analysis" exist for the topic? I have been curious to learn for a long time but, for whatever reason, always
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by 0xddd 6y ago
Unfortunately, it looks like this will be short-lived. China's emissions for some pollutants are already above what they were pre-shutdown. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-china-...
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by 0xddd 6y ago
Unfortunately, the third part is missing from youtube. Full video here https://reason.com/video/mississippi-drug-war-blues/ .
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by 0xddd 6y ago
I'm genuinely surprised someone could read that whole blog post (I'm assuming here) and come away with that conclusion. Gelman addresses this so directly in the article: "Recall the Javert paradox. It’s completely reasonable
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by 0xddd 6y ago
Walker has clearly made a huge name for himself and sold a significant number of books by skewing the evidence to make his thesis sound more substantial than it is
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by 0xddd 6y ago
What do you mean that stretching doesn't do anything? Any links to such evidence? It's a pretty simple experiment to stretch every day for a month and measure your flexibility gains, so that's quite a bold claim. Do you mean
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by 0xddd 6y ago
Except there are cases where Walker went so far as to remove portions of a graph to support his argument. This kind of manipulation shouldn't be allowed to stand and it's frustrating (though not surprising) to see a book that reli
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by 0xddd 6y ago
> Entire patterns of thought become antiquated as our communication wiring adapts to the ever increasing pace of society. Social media is driving dopamine hits from shorter and shorter forms of engagement. I think you are extrapolating a
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by 0xddd 6y ago
Could this have to do with the fact that the site is paywalled and not open to the bots and trolls that overwhelm other news organizations' comment sections?
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by 0xddd 6y ago
Why is that? The article doesn't say much about the benefits of using this type of regularization.
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by 0xddd 6y ago
So you're relying entirely on conjecture of this possible conflation and not weighing how much more dangerous one side is compared to the other? I'd find it much more useful to discuss if there examples of this being an actual wid
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by 0xddd 6y ago
This is a coarse mis-characterization of both sides of that "debate" if we can even call it that. Are anti-vaxxers mostly worried about proven risks, like narcolepsy in this case, or is a much larger part of their movement concern
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by 0xddd 6y ago
Oh, wow. Is any of his research still taken seriously? For whatever reason, I was under the impression his work on researcher bias like "the law of small numbers" was quite influential and still cited here and there by trustworthy
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by 0xddd 6y ago
I managed to dig it up: https://web.archive.org/web/20170312041524/http:/www.brianwa... . It really is incredible to read Wansink's clueless non-rebuttals to the comments that point out his academic fraud

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