JackeJR

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by JackeJR 5mo ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47676174 Dropbox is a lot more than file storage. The syncing itself has been through serious tests to characterise its behaviour. Sure, some may not like the decisions taken to direct i
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Mysteries of Dropbox: Testing of a Distributed Sync Service (2016) [pdf](cis.upenn.edu)
106 points by JackeJR 5mo ago|26 comments
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by JackeJR 5mo ago
There was a discussion of a self-built dropbox on the frontpage ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47673394 ). This is just to show that dropbox is thoroughly tested for all kinds of wierd interactions and behaviours acro
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by JackeJR 6mo ago
Actually it can. See https://youtu.be/FUQwijSDzg8?si=LWd5gVNYRd3HH9rJ Or just search for the James-Stein paradox.
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by JackeJR 9mo ago
For (1) you can prepay i think up to 10 years? And every year you just prepay 1 year again and you will have 10 years to remember that you forgot to pay a domain registration bill.
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by JackeJR 10mo ago
Well a good surveyor would take into account order effects, i.e. the order in which questions were asked for example using Latin square designs.
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by JackeJR 1y ago
The thing is that with such a sample, we don't really know 1. If the effect is real. i.e. had the patient not been given the injection, would his/her condition improve spontaneously. 2. Assuming the effect is real, what are the ci
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by JackeJR 1y ago
N=1 study should not have made it into headlines. > Although the research marks a milestone in the search for treatments of type 1 diabetes, it’s important to note that the study involved one one participant, who received a low dose of c
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by JackeJR 1y ago
And also have parity built in for file recovery. The alternative will be to use par2 to create parity files.
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by JackeJR 1y ago
Just have sane firewall rules and you are good. E.g. if I install openssh-server and it auto starts, it doesn't make it out of my machine because my nftables does not allow inbound on port 22. It's just knowing the default behavio
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GenAI-Powered Inference(arxiv.org)
1 points by JackeJR 1y ago|1 comments
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by JackeJR 1y ago
causal inference with GenAI
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by JackeJR 1y ago
It swings both ways. In some circles, logistic regression is AI, in others, only AGI is AI.
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by JackeJR 1y ago
There are many reasons this comparison is not made. I will just touch on one. The target medium is different. For html, you have monitors of different sizes as well as windows that can be resized. For latex, you choose your target at the st
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by JackeJR 1y ago
browser() ?
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by JackeJR 2y ago
Granger's causality is a very restrictive and incomplete view of causality. Pearl's counterfactual system with do calculus is a more general way to think about causality. This SURD appears to be a souped up version of Granger.
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by JackeJR 2y ago
I have not found an employer that values skills in multiple languages + quick at learning new ones. I assume these are the basic req for your type of work. Please share if you can how you got started .
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by JackeJR 2y ago
I am quite curious about your approach, Do you have an example code somewhere?
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by JackeJR 2y ago
Mindstorms is an example of what did not work. I want to provide an example of what does. BBC microbits. It has a visual programming interface that is translatable to python or JavaScript .
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by JackeJR 2y ago
For this problem specifically, I have found that turning off auto mic volume helps to eliminate the "mute for first x secs if speaking".
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by JackeJR 2y ago
The claim may just be a result of how cause of death is determined.
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by JackeJR 2y ago
The screening target should be for malignant cancers, not all cancers.
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by JackeJR 2y ago
Use this to get the functionality without setting up a windows server instance https://github.com/kimmknight/remoteapptool
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by JackeJR 2y ago
I can't find a privacy policy and it's free so...
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by JackeJR 2y ago
one reason is to make sure that the best and brightest are distributed amongst different industries.
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by JackeJR 2y ago
Append to that "x years before I was born"
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by JackeJR 3y ago
The researcher was studying dishonesty... So I gather that she was more interested in dishonesty?
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by JackeJR 3y ago
Not sure I buy the interest is theft comment. Interest is paid for opportunity cost.
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Party of Crooks and Thieves(partyofcrooksandthieves.com)
2 points by JackeJR 3y ago|0 comments
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by JackeJR 3y ago
For the case of Syria, it is damned if you do and damned if you don't. Red lines were crossed (chemical weapons) and it was only when ISIS emerged that there were boots on the ground.

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