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by _deh 11y ago
Formidable argument.
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by _deh 11y ago
This line of thought seems to rely on existence and verified existence being co-extensional (if not equivalent). Perhaps Kurt Gödel showed us otherwise.
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by _deh 11y ago
It's an excellent list. A little amusing as Dennett's own debating style is a touch more robust than this might suggest. Though in all fairness, if it's him vs. another philosopher of similar standing, both with subtle and co
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by _deh 11y ago
To expand on the free point - it's not just that SAS and SPSS have a price tag. You're then supposed to pay for a load of bolt-on modules. The extreme case is if you want to do decision trees in SAS, they've made a commerci
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by _deh 11y ago
Agree entirely. Academics led and industry followed.
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by _deh 11y ago
SAS a bit, but as another comment notes, nothing like CRAN. SPSS not at all, at best you could publish some sort of script.
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by _deh 12y ago
Yup, my first thought too. Though presumably different roots - player and pliers. There's also another stringr (crowdsourced video content platform) and caret (text editing for Chrome).
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by _deh 12y ago
That could make for an interesting filter bubble
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by _deh 12y ago
I've found Evernote's web clipper to be a good replacement for that same process.
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by _deh 12y ago
This starts with something on measure theory: http://www.metacademy.org/graphs/concepts/bayesian_parameter...
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by _deh 12y ago
'Big learning'
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by _deh 12y ago
Gorgeous. I'll throw in mentions for two more, both in London - Peckham Library and the Reading Room at the British Museum.
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by _deh 12y ago
I remember my German teacher struggling to get the class to remember Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte (admittedly two words). So she taught us Vierwaldstätterseedampfschiffgesellschaftskapitänsmützensternlein instead. After that Schwarzwälder Ki
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by _deh 12y ago
Lovely piece of work.
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Twitter and IBM partnership(blog.twitter.com)
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by _deh 12y ago
So, doing things that don't scales?
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by _deh 12y ago
'Au contraire, mon ami, it is you and your programs that suck' retorted some languages. Though in fairness I think there was as much comic hyperbole as grating condescension.
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by _deh 12y ago
It looks like they released it yesterday
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by _deh 12y ago
I suspect he is the presenter. But agree totally - the tone of the talk works 100% better.
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by _deh 12y ago
Agree entirely, an excellent read. Fiercely imaginative blend of sci-fi, religion, time travel, horror, Keats & Chaucer.
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by _deh 12y ago
Very nice indeed. My team do statistical work, usually delivered in Excel, and we're going to be focused on automation / productivity quite heavily in the next few months. I need to put this through its paces a bit more than putti
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by _deh 12y ago
Great read
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by _deh 12y ago
Nice. Reading about an exit intent algorithm - and then a bit later triggering one - made me smile.
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by _deh 12y ago
Leaving the gratuitous sexism to one side briefly - a Black Tie Rave... 'champagne and caviar paired with glowsticks'... I ask you. And from the city that gave the world house music.
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by _deh 12y ago
Marketing are claiming a 91.3x.
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by _deh 12y ago
Phrased with admirable restraint: "The Swift parallel scripting language web is experiencing heavy load due to Apple's announcement of a new language by the same name. We'll have a raft of new web servers online shortly to ha
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by _deh 12y ago
Here's another paper that's relevant to this topic: http://www.qubitproducts.com/sites/default/files/pdf/most_wi... . And discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=
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by _deh 12y ago
Excellent - I don't know what yet, but something around here is in for a "hodgepodge brute" designation this afternoon.
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by _deh 12y ago
This is good as well: http://www.win-vector.com/blog/2012/07/minimal-version-contr...
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by _deh 12y ago
A ton is £100, you're thinking of an Archer.

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