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by llasram 6mo ago
Neat! I work on a system with some very similar math, but a slightly different model. I really like how in bayesect making the error rates asymmetric via independent Beta priors on bidirectional errors allows the computations to be nice a
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by llasram 8y ago
Say you somehow have advance knowledge of the burning of the Library of Alexandria. Is it legal to steal as many books as you can from the Library prior? Of course not. Is this the only way to save unique volumes from irrevocable destr
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Does It Beat the Minimal Standard? [for a PRNG](pcg-random.org)
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by llasram 9y ago
I think the broad market trends are pretty suggestive -- consumers in general don't care about DRM or wouldn't see e.g. Amazon's success in the ebook business. For more specifics I think we'd need hyper-detailed data.
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by llasram 9y ago
I'm just a consumer, but Google Play Books are in fact available for DRM-free download when so-requested by the publisher. Or least that's the reason Google gives when directly providing the book as a DRM-free download.
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by llasram 9y ago
I agree that innumeracy of various degrees is a widespread problem, but I do think the last example is because the term "false positive rate" sounds to many people like it should mean the false discovery rate. I'm sure there
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by llasram 9y ago
That we're modeling the outcome of a coin toss as a sample space set containing at least two event elements, one of which we call "heads," and that we have a probability measure which assigns 0.5 to the subset consisting of o
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by llasram 10y ago
Worth it just for finding out about `stty -ixon`. I never would have guessed from the `stty` man page description that this option would give me back C-s and C-q to bind to something actually useful.
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by llasram 10y ago
My take from the introduction is that the books is going to mostly be about probabilistic graphical models (PGMs). I look forward to reading this book when finished and hope they find success with this presentation of the core ideas. As a p
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by llasram 10y ago
If you want more detail on this story, I found Peter Nichol's book A Voyage for Madmen on the race as a whole quite engaging.
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by llasram 10y ago
I've been enrolled in an MS Statistics program part-time while working full-time. I'm around half-way done, and by the end it will have taken me three years total taking two classes at a time, although that includes a few extra c
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by llasram 10y ago
I had a pretty different reaction to "Story of Your Life." I can maybe see the description of "nihilist," but only in the sense of "positive nihilism" -- nothing outside of conscious life defines value, so it&
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by llasram 10y ago
That's a really good question. The best people I've seen so far have had a willingness to rigorously align their models with reality, plus the knowledge and/or experience to know what to check. Verifying assumptions, pickin
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by llasram 10y ago
And in my experience the opposite applies as well. Having a PhD in a field providing the necessary background in theory doesn't necessarily imply the skills and experience required to produce useful models.
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by llasram 10y ago
I think this is a good example of the problems with autodidactism. For all its flaws, structured education is what makes common knowledge common. When you study on your own, you don't know what you don't know, and there's n
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by llasram 10y ago
Which perhaps is evidence for their claim of personality-based self-selection?
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by llasram 10y ago
I agree, both in the "mostly agree with" and disagreeing with the list regarding timbre. Adding yet another logging library to the mix doesn't fix the mess of Java logging libraries. Especially given that timbre seems to sh
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by llasram 10y ago
Wikipedia has a list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_commercial_video_games...
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by llasram 11y ago
Quad and squad. The joys of a character-set derived by the character overstriking your original development teletype could produce.
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by llasram 11y ago
No. Even in toy examples with little internal structure, consider the length of the sequence generated. For both models we can include a synthetic "end of sequence" token which the model can produce when run generatively. In th
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by llasram 11y ago
Ok, bad example :-) Rust's mutable-iterator model of abstract collections supports this directly, but Clojure's functional-reduction model does not. I'll see if I can think of a better example, but it might be hard -- mutab
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by llasram 11y ago
I could have been clearer. By the scare-quoted "collection" I meant a value which implements the relevant collection-like interface. In Clojure this is any object `reduce` works on, in Rust is any struct implementing the `Iterator
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by llasram 11y ago
Kind of. Rust iterator adapters are closer to the previous Clojure reducers namespace and the Java 8 streams API. All three take a "collection" and return a new "collection" which includes additional behavior/tran
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by llasram 11y ago
Unless the attacker controlled the domain TTL, maybe? But good point -- I was thinking of a similar attack using random domains.
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by llasram 11y ago
I bet the observed "random" source addresses are open recursive DNS servers. For this kind of attack they provide essentially free traffic-washing for whatever actual traffic-generation mechanism the attackers have.
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by llasram 11y ago
I'd noticed too that the winner claimed to use just a variety of hand-rolled strategies, and wonder why that is. Has anyone had the time to dig into the code? Is this a case of well-writen "naive" code trumping theoreticall
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by llasram 11y ago
I agree that makes intuitive sense when applied to explicitly constructed experiments we could attempt to exactly repeat, but the intuition begins to break down in more complicated circumstances, such as retrospective or longitutinal studie
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by llasram 11y ago
For some context (relegated to the very end of this HTML version), this is Iverson's Turing Award Lecture article following his winning the 1979 ACM Turing Award. Here's the ACM's PDF photoscan of the original publication:
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by llasram 11y ago
Out of curiosity, and if it isn’t impolite to ask, where/when did this bizarre class occur?
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by llasram 11y ago
I've recently been learning J to try something different, and have worked through the first 60-odd Project Euler problems using it. My current assessment is that J combines the powerful computational primitives of a language designed b

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