georgefox

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by georgefox 4y ago
This is a fascinating discussion, to which I have little to add, except this. Quoting the article (including the footnote): > [I]f you carefully craft random data so that it does not contain a Dunning-Kruger effect, you will still find t
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by georgefox 4y ago
I'm probably nitpicking your language, but L1 regularization is precisely that: regularization. (See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regularization_(mathematics)#R... .) In your typical linear regression setting, it
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by georgefox 6y ago
Releasing any data or statistic based on sensitive data--even once--bears a privacy risk. The primary purpose of differential privacy is to quantify that risk, both for a single release of data and over many releases of data. As for the num
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by georgefox 6y ago
One of the interesting insights in differential privacy is that to provide privacy protections that can't be reverse-engineered, the process has to be random rather than deterministic. The sort of algorithm that OP describes is really
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by georgefox 9y ago
16 in 10 is a startling overrepresentation.
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by georgefox 10y ago
Hmm, yeah. The linked video from the Globe and Mail says to avoid surfing the web during the procedure, but avoiding explicitly going to Facebook and Twitter (their examples, IIRC) won't stop all identifiable network traffic from your
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by georgefox 10y ago
A few of these articles are suggesting that uploads be performed from public places (e.g., Starbucks) for the sake of anonymity/deniability. But it would seem that performing these actions in public would potentially reveal your identi
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by georgefox 10y ago
Talk to a typical owner of an old house, and you'll likely hear something about how they love its quirks. But would they build a house the same way today? Some probably would, but others would certainly not. This actually probably appl
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by georgefox 10y ago
Just to be clear, I didn't mean my comment as a broad defense of zoning laws. Rather, I think it's only fair to consider that there's a very large difference between the relevance of zoning laws when the city is in its infanc
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by georgefox 10y ago
This comment likely also misses the point, but the zoning laws are not really intended to cover situations where the entire city is destroyed and rebuilt. Realistically, if the city were rebuilt from scratch today, much of what people love
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by georgefox 12y ago
I wouldn't mind a pause button.
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by georgefox 12y ago
http://www.odni.gov/index.php/carousel-items/916-the-intelli...
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by georgefox 12y ago
It appears the answer to the first question is yes: http://www.odni.gov/index.php/carousel-items/916-the-intelli... As for the second question, yes, it does seem strange.
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by georgefox 13y ago
I don't want to disagree with you, but I suspect there's more to this than just idle time. For example, there are plenty of retirement communities where idle time is the norm, and the social problems of poor urban American neighbo
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by georgefox 13y ago
Are there any government services you see as valuable?
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by georgefox 13y ago
> First of all the comment he was replying to was talking about services like housing, transportation, and healthcare, which already are provided by the market and aren't really things the government has any advantage in. As for all
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by georgefox 13y ago
Monopolies are really hard to avoid, which makes your statement seem a bit logically inconsistent. Combine that with the impossibility of avoiding services like military protection, the public education of your community members, the regula
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by georgefox 13y ago
It was never stated that the each of the men at the urinals was overtly taking photos of the next. The author has no way of knowing whether or not the men wearing the glasses and blinking were actually taking photos. The way I read it, that
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by georgefox 13y ago
> For the sake of argument, let's assume that the super-rich spend the same or a similar proportion of their income on necessities as everyone else (meaning that they buy more food, more clothing, more housing, etc.). What does this do
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by georgefox 13y ago
That's a good point and seemingly common reasoning (at least around here), but it does raise some chicken–egg questions.
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by georgefox 13y ago
Welcome to a very individualistic and, by consequence, antisocial society. As an American that's never stepped foot in California, this sounds surprisingly familiar, albeit with the unique addition of free food and free beer at work.
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by georgefox 13y ago
I get your point, but it may be a bit of a stretch to label governments providing things like roads socialist.
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How Colleges Are Selling Out the Poor to Court the Rich(theatlantic.com)
102 points by georgefox 13y ago|65 comments
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by georgefox 13y ago
You can test it online at pex4fun.com. Here are two tests, one using a function that takes built-in types as parameters and instantiates a Thing to operate on, and a second that takes a Thing input and operates on it directly. It seems to g
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by georgefox 13y ago
Sensible, perhaps, but I may not have figured that out if it weren't pointed out to me.
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by georgefox 13y ago
I'm normally pretty easy to please with UI changes, but even I'm a little frustrated with some of the new compose quirks. Personally, I've had a very hard time putting together bulleted lists in the new compose. To start the list, you need
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by georgefox 13y ago
I hate to comment only on details and not on the actual content itself, but the aggressive use of bold text led me to read only the bold text. I didn't even bother to give the full text a chance. I saw typography that seemed geared toward t
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by georgefox 13y ago
Reminds me of http://jacquesmattheij.com/The+worst+program+I+ever+worked+o... : > Some bug had popped up in this program and the guy assigned to fix it had come back alternatively laughing and crying babbling nonsense about ‘pizzas ca
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by georgefox 13y ago
From minor consumer decisions to fundamental issues like career, a lot of us struggle with painstakingly trying to maximize everything, which often leads to a less satisfying experience than accepting "good enough" for what it is: good enou
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by georgefox 14y ago
I largely agree with what you're saying, but I do believe that making an effort to be somewhat positive can have positive effects. Too much negativity in a workplace can be toxic and can have a paralyzing effect not unlike depression at the

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