inverba

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by inverba 10y ago
How are you defining "objective" in relation to someone's inherently subjective utility function? That makes no sense. I understand the rest of your point, but the underlying assumption is very wrong.
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by inverba 10y ago
Unfortunately this is flawed in a very fundamental way. The NYC subways have different schedules for the morning rush, afternoon, afternoon rush, evening, and night. There should be at least three different distributions in the delay/w
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by inverba 11y ago
> I am convinced (although I do not yet have enough data to prove it) ... If anyone had any actual evidence that might support this conclusion, I would be grateful. This is the opposite of how useful research and/or data science w
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by inverba 11y ago
By most definitions, bias includes the negative prior as well as the refusal. For example: "Bias is an inclination of temperament or outlook to present or hold a partial perspective, often accompanied by a refusal to consider the possi
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by inverba 11y ago
I think the white text against blue background is a rough choice. On the right monitor and brightness, it's fine; on the wrong one, it's illegible. Text either needs to be thicker or the color schema needs work.
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by inverba 11y ago
The website is designed in a very jarring way. The transitions should be much more obvious.
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by inverba 11y ago
You can also just "color" the entire page and get a fairly high score.
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by inverba 11y ago
It's an example where the law suggested is in place and for the most part no positive result is being achieved.
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by inverba 11y ago
I tried it with three people all age 24. The ages I received in response were: 41, 33, and 22. It seems like beards strongly influence the result.
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by inverba 11y ago
These laws already exist. http://gothamist.com/2015/03/10/cash_in_on_idling_vehicles.p...
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by inverba 11y ago
It's worth mentioning that this is still bare minimum even compared to other Ivy League colleges. Harvard plans to expand their faculty by 12 members with Balmer's recent grant and Cornell is in the process of adding faculty for t
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by inverba 11y ago
One thing the author doesn't mention is np-completeness. You need complexity theory to introduce/explain the concept of np-complete problems and I would argue that knowledge of those are necessary for a good programmer. Otherwise
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by inverba 12y ago
As a long time reader, it seems like the content on Hacker News has been consistently trending towards "lighter" material (more articles about drugs, work flow, business concepts) and away from technical, actually "hacker&quo
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by inverba 12y ago
Does anyone have insight into how this fits into the market? I don't understand how this isn't a strictly worse phone (given that people carry phones with them all the time).
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by inverba 12y ago
A lot of teas need the water to be a specific temperature before they are put into cups/have the tea leaves inserted. Even if "the water ends up in the same uninsulated cup", the process of getting the water to the correct te
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by inverba 12y ago
But we're writing code, not a grammatically correct english essay. If incorrect grammar leads to shorter and simpler variable names that other programmers understand, then it should be encouraged.