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How Cities Lost Control of Police Discipline(nytimes.com)
1 points by NPMaxwell 6y ago|1 comments
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by NPMaxwell 6y ago
This article appears in my HN feed with an article about throwing away React. The React article explains that having code that prevents engineers from doing whatever they want to is essential. If we can't trust engineers coding, why
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by NPMaxwell 6y ago
The life concept here is so different from the recent post about the MIT media lab. "I watched two brilliant students organize two massive hackathons to improve the breast pump, challenging assumptions about who gets to invent the fu
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by NPMaxwell 6y ago
One example: https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2011/jan/19/undercover-police...
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by NPMaxwell 6y ago
Yes. The attack in question: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7vlKbR3Gcs
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by NPMaxwell 6y ago
Cool. HN timestamps show that took you no more than 5 minutes, maximum!
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by NPMaxwell 6y ago
I think maybe the issue here is that the press did not cover the unidentified federal agents arresting the BLM protesters. The result is that it looks like the treatment of the Portland protesters is different.
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by NPMaxwell 6y ago
It implies that your friend lives in Hong Kong or Taiwan, and that China employs people to read Facebook posts from those places. Unless you mean that she sent you a messenger chat (which now has end-to-end encryption). In that case, she
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by NPMaxwell 6y ago
Is that a typo? It makes more sense as "good results can be wrong, and being right for bad reasons isn't acceptable"
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by NPMaxwell 6y ago
And incredibly boring. The usual estimate is that data science is 80% data wrangling: finding, collecting, and cleaning up data. The term "data scientist" replaced "data miner", because miners are looking for gold. Sc
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by NPMaxwell 6y ago
At one point, the word "scientist" in "data scientist" was used to distinguish between people who took the time to develop domain expertise from statistical consultants who applied standard methodologies without referenc
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by NPMaxwell 6y ago
I'm sorry we have switched on resumes from reporting years to reporting years and months. It used to be that even 20 months off could just disappear. When you're ready, drop this Hacker News name. Switch to something like making
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by NPMaxwell 6y ago
A triumph of well-administered A/B testing combined with creative innovation in seeking out procedures to test
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by NPMaxwell 7y ago
This reads as if "blog" is a metaphor for "product". I'm guessing that blog process is a pretty good indicator of development strategy. Stale bland blogs predict stale bland engineering.
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by NPMaxwell 7y ago
Nice demonstration that the entire point and argument can be presented in one (animated) graphic -- like code that needs no comments.
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by NPMaxwell 7y ago
Music, like weaving, is a predecessor in using algorithms to do work. For hundreds of years, music theorists have been codifying the algorithms, or creating new algorithms, that create good music (for particular definitions of good). Like
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Flu Season Gets Bad Weeks Earlier Than Last Year, CDC Says (12/9/2019}(medscape.com)
2 points by NPMaxwell 7y ago|0 comments
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by NPMaxwell 7y ago
So naive then. That's reassuring. I guess
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by NPMaxwell 7y ago
What makes the increasing-Gini result confusing is ignoring variation. This is done by thinking of the full distribution as if it were its average. In this case, the pot is distributed using a pull from a uniform random distribution: The
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by NPMaxwell 7y ago
Part of what is astonishing here is the existence of a system that drives such gaming. It makes me wonder what the people who required a science publication were thinking. Were they naive or do they cynically disrespect scientific researc
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by NPMaxwell 7y ago
OP is about a hotel that has planters on its walls so that exterior walls are covered in plants. People approve of this hotel. It is not that ratings on a website are overwhelmed by fake raters established in positions where they can spoo
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by NPMaxwell 7y ago
Alternative summary About 150,000 Americans are homeless in the way you worry about homelessness: Suffering from addictions and other mental illnesses, they sleep on the street, and stay there for months or years. Most of these homeless pe
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by NPMaxwell 7y ago
Summary of details 66% of unhoused sleep in shelters, cars, or other protected sleeping sites. 33% sleep on the street. 84% are housed within a few weeks. 33% have a serious mental illness and would have been institutionalized before 1970&
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by NPMaxwell 7y ago
The fact that many theories are disproven is not evidence of pseudoscience. Popper suggested exactly the opposite: pseudoscience is when you cannot disprove theories.
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by NPMaxwell 7y ago
As part of reproduction, honey bees leave the hive and form honeybee-units-combined structures. In < 7 minutes: a presentation that, in such a structure, honeybees in low mechanical tension (stress) move to areas of high tension. No ov
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by NPMaxwell 7y ago
Before you invest in the Big Five, you'll want to check on how much it can change your posterior odds, and compare that to results of investing time and money into other approaches.
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by NPMaxwell 7y ago
Are there any non-pseudoscientific psychology theories? That's a good question. Here's an off-the-top-of-my-head list: Rescorla-Wagner, Pavlovian learning, Habituation, failure to thrive, opponent processes, dominance hierarchie
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by NPMaxwell 7y ago
"Some professionals recognised talk of colours from the infamous Myers-Briggs test, administered by less-respectable management consultants. It built on the mystical ideas of the Swiss psychoanalyst Carl Jung, active at the start of th
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by NPMaxwell 7y ago
I recommend remaining in ignorance of how good it feels to take heroin. You don't want to know
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by NPMaxwell 7y ago
Write up of methodology & results: https://www.andrewoswald.com/docs/AdvertisingMicheletal2019E...

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