michaeltoth

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by michaeltoth 6y ago
I just moved to the Bay Area and visited Big Basin for the first time two weekends ago. I had never seen trees that large in my life. I'm grateful that I took the opportunity to go and see it when I did. It's crazy to think that l
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by michaeltoth 7y ago
There's a big difference between saying Trump didn't conspire with the Russians (what Greenwald said" and saying the Russians didn't attempt to interfere. It's astonishing how people conflate these two things
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by michaeltoth 7y ago
I was expecting a generative art algorithm for drawing trees
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by michaeltoth 7y ago
I'm always shocked by the lack of integration among Google's various products. The amount of time my Google Home replies to a simple question with "I'm not sure how to help with that" is mind-boggling. Some variat
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by michaeltoth 7y ago
SEEKING WORK | Data Scientist Location: New York, NY or Remote Email: mt.toth [at] gmail.com Website: https://www.michaeltoth.me LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelttoth Github: https:/&#x2
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by michaeltoth 8y ago
This is a cool idea, but I imagine this isn't legal, right? Creating an actual business out of this would have to require buy-in from the content creators
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by michaeltoth 9y ago
1000x the current mining power is 10% of global energy consumption. So they'd be spending 10% of global energy consumption for a year. This is infeasible unless done by a consortium of world governments, and to what end?
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by michaeltoth 9y ago
It's doubtful that they would diverge significantly, unless the currency controls are so onerous that Bitcoin mining is the only solution to get money out of the base currency. Why would anybody choose to mine at a significant loss? Ce
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by michaeltoth 9y ago
Thanks for the detailed response. You point out some interesting challenges that I hadn't fully considered. Overall, do you still prefer to contracting process and role to a traditional position?
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by michaeltoth 9y ago
A bit off topic, but I'm curious - how did you get started in contracting and how do you go about finding clients? Is it through people you've worked with in the past, or do you somehow advertise yourself? This is something I&#x27
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by michaeltoth 11y ago
Yes, the payments are interest, so you need to pay tax on these even if you reinvest in further loans.
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by michaeltoth 11y ago
Scientists are also incentivized by the publishing system to find noteworthy results, which often leads to finding evidence where there is none, especially in fields like nutrition where the signal to noise ratio is so low
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by michaeltoth 11y ago
Except a ride from Brooklyn or Queens is $2.75 and a ride from Philadelphia is around $80 on Amtrak. Also, you're assuming that he lives directly above 30th Street Station and works directly above Penn Station, otherwise the travel ti
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by michaeltoth 12y ago
It's going to be harder to do just about anything related to data analysis in Haskell than in R. In R I can load a dataset, do some formatting, and produce a well designed plot in fewer than 5 lines of code. Haskell might run faster,
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by michaeltoth 12y ago
In the United States bonuses are taxed as ordinary income. Companies may withhold a higher percentage than a standard paycheck, but this is generally because they treat the bonus as if you will continue to receive that income throughout the
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by michaeltoth 12y ago
When people refer to interest they often are referring to investment gains, rather than actual bank interest. Specifically, it is generally assumed that a diversified investment portfolio will earn ~4% after inflation on average, and by spe
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by michaeltoth 12y ago
Thanks for the articles. I recall reading about this last year when the paper was published, but I had since forgotten about this form of attack. This is definitely interesting.
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by michaeltoth 12y ago
Not really. For an attack to be possible, the attacker needs to generate an alternate blockchain faster than the honest blockchain. This problem can be thought of as a binomial distribution where the "success" is the honest block
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by michaeltoth 13y ago
I wouldn't underestimate the effort of buying new Altcoins, especially with dollars. If you already own bitcoin it is easier, but buying new altcoins requires that you go through potentially untrustworthy channels on smaller exchanges
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by michaeltoth 13y ago
This chart plots the "share" of each question on the site, so the total is always 100%. If you read the chart from left to right you will see that the languages whose share increases become wider while those whose share decreases
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by michaeltoth 13y ago
It's a bit slow and prone to crashes, but mapnificent is a decent tool for this: http://www.mapnificent.net/
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by michaeltoth 14y ago
I think this is a good idea for a site, but I'd caution that it could give users a false sense of security. As the site gains popularity, the site-specific passwords are only as secure as the master password used to generate them. Therefo
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by michaeltoth 14y ago
What hosts does everybody use for these side projects? I'm interested in working on some of my own, but I'm just wondering if everybody is paying for hosting and as you expand into multiple projects how you keep it from getting too expensi