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by c2471 6y ago
This article is a low quality strawman. The owner of the laptop shop is one of the least credible witnesses I've ever seen - he never saw hunter biden drop off the laptop, and his story changes about 4 times in substanial ways during a
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by c2471 6y ago
The point is that the two are coupled. It is not clear why 0 false negatives is the aim. In almost all hard problems, you cannot have 0 false positives and 0 false negatives. Normally, getting to 0 false negatives requires a large number of
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by c2471 6y ago
I think this is touching on a key point about militarization of the police. I'm a non US veteran who went to Afghanistan. The police in the U.S. seem to think like they are in the military , in their training and tactics. One big probl
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by c2471 7y ago
I think you are missing the key part of the appeal here (or framing it as a negative). Let's look at your question. Writing an equation for a cat is hard, actually really hard. Humans cannot reliably explain their decisions here. If I
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by c2471 7y ago
I bring out a coin; I tell you nothing, and ask you to guess what the probability of heads is. What do you guess? Unless you have reason to believe I am trying to deceive you, it will be able 50% because you have a lot of knowledge from oth
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by c2471 7y ago
It doesn't. But the workflow of Bayes forces you be explicit. If you try and cook the books, it will be shown for the world to see. Can you provide a paper that quoted a p value for a regression and also validated all the asymptotic co
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by c2471 7y ago
This ignores the main strength of a Bayesian workflow. You can straight forwardly quantify the effect of your prior choice on your inference - pick a different prior; how much does that change the inference, etc etc. A good Bayesian workflo
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by c2471 8y ago
The OP you asked worked at an Investment Bank. This is not exactly the pinnacle of algo trading (at least in US/Europe) as they are hampered by regulations about prop trading etc. I work at a big quant/algo prop trading firm. The