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by bacr 9mo ago
GDPR isn’t enforceable against foreign companies. It is enforceable against subsidiaries registered within the EU. Living in Germany means you are doing business with Google GmbH (or likely, the Irish subsidiary). Don’t want to comply with
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It's a Jax, Jax, Jax, Jax World(statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
2 points by bacr 1y ago|1 comments
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by bacr 1y ago
Car sharing in Germany such as Bolt and Miles. The pickup and drop-off anywhere model is so much more convenient than the point-to-point or round trip model that zip car uses. They are cost competitive with public transit or private car own
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by bacr 4y ago
What sort of programming did you use to work ok your mobility? I’ve been looking to do the same.
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by bacr 4y ago
It does indeed cover it, starting at the 35 minute mark. It’ll require some more digging if you want the primary sources they reference.
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by bacr 4y ago
I’d agree with this assessment. The American liberal arts education can do a fantastic job at producing well rounded and well read students. At the very least exposing people to arts and humanities — or conversely to the sciences.
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by bacr 5y ago
There has been a lot of work in this space, and it’s a lot of fun to read around and play with. The Magenta team at google developed a differentiable digital signal processing system that is what you are describing. Here it is doing some to
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by bacr 5y ago
I thought immediately of LightOns work: https://lighton.ai/photonic-computing-for-ai/ And this is very much already a vetted approach. They use photonics circuits to implement random projections, which can be used to s
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by bacr 6y ago
My understanding is that the Julia community is quite interested in having SIMD via e.g. AVX “just work”. I recall reading this post on it a while back: https://juliacomputing.com/blog/2017/09/27/auto-vec
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by bacr 6y ago
My take is that most modern PPLs have language bindings in JavaScript/Python/R because they are explicitly courting analysts/data-scientists/applied-statisticians, or they are taking advantage of modern technical stacks
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by bacr 6y ago
The article does reference that Chinese study, as well as a more recent one from researchers in Italy and Spain. It is great to see the scientific process at work — building evidence for a phenomenon. It also underscores one of the biggest
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by bacr 6y ago
The point still stands. Rental caps mean it is very difficult to find a place to live in desired neighborhoods. Of course, you can find places outside the ring, but those would have been cheaper anyway! That’s not to say it isn’t sensible s
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Playing with Time – Brian Eno and Will Wright (2006) [video](youtu.be)
1 points by bacr 6y ago|0 comments
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by bacr 7y ago
Great timing: I just finished “Objectivity” the book she co-authored with Peter Gallison. It is a phenomenal work on the history of science, looking at the development of the concept of Objectivity throughout the enlightenment through the l
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by bacr 7y ago
This was a thorough yet concise overview of the Structural Causal Models framework that has been gaining in popularity recently.
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An Introduction to Causal Inference(fabiandablander.com)
4 points by bacr 7y ago|1 comments
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by bacr 7y ago
Is there any chance the course material is available? I've been looking to better my Julia meta-programming. Most of the resources out there are geared towards other languages. It would be amazing to see some simple parser/interpr
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Paradigms of Probabilistic Programming (2018) [video](youtube.com)
2 points by bacr 7y ago|0 comments
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“An Overview of Probabilistic Programming” by Vikash K. Mansinghka (2015)(youtube.com)
2 points by bacr 7y ago|0 comments
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by bacr 7y ago
You have to look beyond CO2 emissions to assess climate change impact. The IPCC land use report from this past August does exactly this [1]. The associated reporting is also quite good [2]. The grandparent is right: cutting down forest to
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by bacr 7y ago
One thing this opens you up to is the average recommendation, which is biased towards inflammatory or click-bait content.
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by bacr 7y ago
There was a log-normal version of the Galton board making the rounds last month: https://stat.ethz.ch/~stahel/lognormal/bioscience.pdf It really clarified where a log-normal distribution comes from: the consequenc
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by bacr 8y ago
One of the more remarkable results in 21st human genetics was that the top two PCs of a genotype matrix captures geography to an amazing degree [1]. This is the PCA of a N x M matrix where you measure M genetic markers in N people in a rela
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by bacr 11y ago
Fun fact: they are nearly the same implementation. See: http://markmail.org/message/ktzomp4uwrmnzao6
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by bacr 12y ago
Those are fair points regarding energy expenditure for specific exercises. However, that doesn't take into account the effects of regular exercise on BMR. That normal exercise can elevate your BMR is certainly plausible, and many peopl
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by bacr 14y ago
Its great to see projects like these! First and foremost, this is the first project I've seen that defines a clear set of guidelines for structuring an analysis. So many of my projects have this "exploratory" angle to them that quickly grow
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Ask HN: Guidelines for organizing stats projects/analyses?
1 points by bacr 14y ago|0 comments
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by bacr 14y ago
I'm no expert in compression, so its no surprise that I've never heard of xz. What are it's strengths compared to gzip, or b2z? Efficiency? Convention?
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by bacr 14y ago
Nice simulation work! Initially I thought this was a one dimensional random walk problem where the answer is a function of n (as other comments have pointed out). In that case, there (n choose k) paths that take k steps in a single directio