Bill_Dimm

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by Bill_Dimm 8y ago
Very interesting statement, considering that Sargon (the guy Patreon banned) was directing his offensive language AT the alt-right (i.e., he is against the alt-right, not part of it).
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Misleading Metrics and Irrelevant Research (Accuracy and F1)(blog.cluster-text.com)
1 points by Bill_Dimm 8y ago|0 comments
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by Bill_Dimm 9y ago
I don't think "100% in-house techs" is right. I have Comcast Business and my line was recently cut (probably an accident by apartment maintenance). The tech who came out and put in a temporary line was from Comcast, but he
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by Bill_Dimm 10y ago
Actually looking forward to MS's UX folk cleaning up LinkedIn. Along those lines, maybe they'll fix the very broken email alerts for group postings. For quite a while, my experience has been that if I have it set to weekly dige
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by Bill_Dimm 10y ago
I've found Vischeck to be helpful: http://www.vischeck.com/vischeck/
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by Bill_Dimm 11y ago
Here is the breakdown for the quants at the bank I worked for in 1995-1999 (I may have forgotten a few people): Cornell physics PhDs: 3 Harvard physics PhDs: 2 Princeton physics PhDs: 2 Univ of Penn physics PhD: 1 Other physics PhDs: 2 Corn
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by Bill_Dimm 11y ago
The fpr and fnr should be swapped (note: I haven't read the rest of the paper yet). Specifically, it should be: ROC curves plot (1-fnr) as a function of fpr.
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by Bill_Dimm 11y ago
For the few that I looked at, clicking the "Description" tab tells you almost nothing. Clicking the word "Help" in the upper right gives a much more detailed description.
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Mozilla shutters Firefox OS, gives up on smartphones(computerworld.com)
2 points by Bill_Dimm 11y ago|0 comments
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by Bill_Dimm 11y ago
DSL is available without telephone service, at least with Verizon in Pennsylvania. It is called "dry loop DSL." 3 Mbps / 768 kbps is costing me more than the price they are advertising for 50 Mbps / 50 Mbps FiOS (which
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by Bill_Dimm 11y ago
About 20 years ago, when I was a grad student, I attended a colloquium where the speaker (a physicist, for better or worse) had computed the number of people that the planet could support if everyone consumed natural resources at the rate t
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Detecting Fraud Using Benford's Law(blog.cluster-text.com)
16 points by Bill_Dimm 11y ago|1 comments
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Detecting Fraud Using Benford's Law(blog.cluster-text.com)
1 points by Bill_Dimm 11y ago|0 comments
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by Bill_Dimm 11y ago
Neat. It would be helpful if you could go in the opposite direction (enter RGB values and get the name of the closest color). I find that when I'm making a chart or graph and I cook up some color in GIMP, I don't know how to ref
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by Bill_Dimm 11y ago
In a similar vein, but with physical mail, I made a donation to the local PBS TV station years ago during one of their fundraisers. They sent me a postcard with my name misspelled in a way I had never seen before. I then received solicita
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by Bill_Dimm 11y ago
> Better Business Bureau link? Is lacking a BBB link supposed to be a bad thing or a good thing? http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/business-bureau-best-ratings-m...
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by Bill_Dimm 11y ago
Should we take 100k new users to mean 100 new Ashley Madison employees generating 1,000 fake accounts each? http://abovethelaw.com/2013/11/ashley-madison-should-take-be...
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by Bill_Dimm 11y ago
> Except I've never once seen such a claim actually made by any politician. So at the very least it seems likely to stand out. Marco Rubio made a claim like that on Meet The Press two days ago. > I intentionally have no access to
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by Bill_Dimm 11y ago
All of the C++ books by Scott Meyers are excellent -- very clear and insightful.
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by Bill_Dimm 11y ago
I (not original poster) have a Dell Latitude E5430 with the upgraded backlit keyboard and I like that keyboard a lot (vastly better than the standard one on my old D620).
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by Bill_Dimm 11y ago
Sidenote: I tried sending the link to my brother's work email and it was blocked by Symantec.cloud email filtering. I don't know if that means that Symantec is blocking links to spotthedrowningchild.com due to detecting malware t
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by Bill_Dimm 11y ago
it seems like it's a pretty important part of being a slashdotter to hate on the staff I wouldn't go that far. I was on Slashdot for a very long time and witnessed many changes of ownership. Sure, there are always a few people
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by Bill_Dimm 11y ago
Not really (at least for the US -- I don't know about the UK). The unemployment rate is only low because so many people have given up on looking for work. The labor participation rate is at its lowest level since 1977. Here is a nic
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by Bill_Dimm 11y ago
The China market is pretty limited in reach; not many foreigners and not even many institutional investors How much money do Chinese investors have invested outside of China? If they bought Chinese shares on margin, they may end up selli
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by Bill_Dimm 11y ago
Which is presumably done so that if you forward the newsletter to someone else they can't (accidentally or maliciously) unsubscribe you by clicking the link.
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by Bill_Dimm 11y ago
This is a bit complicated: what if you had some sort of capcha that required users to classify images as nsfw/sfw/illegal? If the user normally encounters photos on the site by requesting them (e.g., by entering a search query o
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by Bill_Dimm 11y ago
Backup drives stored in a vault probably don't have access to electricity.
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by Bill_Dimm 11y ago
https://blog.korelogic.com/blog/2015/03/24
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by Bill_Dimm 11y ago
While you have a point, weight doesn't go like height cubed (you don't grow equally in all directions). I read an article a while ago (can't find it now) that looked at the exponent for various species. I think it was typic
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by Bill_Dimm 11y ago
I remember thinking "I guess they want to get more of the tech community's mindshare to promote their job board" when Dice bought Slashdot. With the way they've alienated the tech community by trashing Slashdot and Sour

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