mr_pink

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by mr_pink 10y ago
> I do think the confidence intervals/prediction intervals should be accessible and should probably be adjustable (e.g. 99%, 95%, 80%). Definitely, this is arguably the most important feature.
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by mr_pink 10y ago
It's all smoke and mirrors, we're just a hologram: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_principle
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by mr_pink 10y ago
Eh, could say the same about anything. Replace self with Love, God, Satan, etc.
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by mr_pink 10y ago
Oh yeah, forgot about that. Well, then Russian terms are as stupid.
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by mr_pink 10y ago
Well I was answering the question about why is C considered numbers - it's a field, hence elements of C behave exactly like numbers. Moreover, it's an 'algebraic closure' of R, hence a more natural choice for "all n
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by mr_pink 10y ago
C (complex numbers) is a field, just like R (real numbers). It's an algebraically closed field, unlike R, so in some sense it's actually the most natural set to call "numbers". https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
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by mr_pink 10y ago
> Do you truly believe that specific DP book caused that effect? Yes, definitely. People used to cite the GOF book left and right while over-engineering crappy CRUD apps.
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by mr_pink 10y ago
> sugggests a new programming paradigm, which it is not No, you're just dismissing it without understanding it first. Which seems super common on this forum.
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by mr_pink 10y ago
Analytically differentiable (being able to derive a formula for the derivative) is not the same thing at all as analytic functions of complex analysis (which are infinitely differentiable, etc). If anything, the term "analytic func
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by mr_pink 10y ago
> I take it you don't live in NYC. I do. > Nobody I know pays more than $3k/m for their apartment. Few people I know pay under. We live in parallel dimensions I guess. > In my case, I chose to go for a non-luxury apartmen
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by mr_pink 10y ago
OK, it all depends on what the cash flow looks like :) You're leaving out that one very important piece of the puzzle... Also, the average apartment in Manhattan (if you do rent without roommates) is pretty close to your cited figure f
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by mr_pink 10y ago
> Maybe not, but you certainly don't need to be "eating garbage dumped by grocery stores". Nice strawman :) I was specifically talking about the situation conditional on saving the 100k in 18 months, my comment was a respo
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by mr_pink 10y ago
Well, good for you. I don't think your situation was "average" really, but kudos on the savings :) Coming from a guy in NYC whose monthly expenditures are through the roof...
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by mr_pink 10y ago
Paycheck calculator shows me that $120K [1] in CA leaves you with $6,220 after-tax monthly income. If you really made about as much, and managed to save ~$5.5K a month, then you spent only ~$660 a month, which is just impossible, sorry. Eve
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by mr_pink 10y ago
> It takes about 2 years to save up $100K on a typical Bay Area engineer's salary Have you actually done this? Know anyone who has? This seems completely implausible, outside of some extreme frugal lifestyle cases (I'm talking
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by mr_pink 10y ago
Yeah, you can't do half of these without understanding Calculus.
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by mr_pink 10y ago
Hmm, this says more about the current state of the "PhD in CS" institution and the hiring practices at 'Big 4'...
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by mr_pink 10y ago
Discovering new human and bot algorithmic artists on twitter by searching for #generated: https://twitter.com/search?q=%23generated&src=typd
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by mr_pink 10y ago
Similarly, Russian has two blues: goluboy (like the sky) and siniy (like the sea). Nobody, not even a child, would confuse the two, or consider them the same color. Even blue eyes are differentiated into these two categories, just like Engl
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by mr_pink 10y ago
What expected "rules of math" does it not follow?
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by mr_pink 10y ago
> In large part it's a symbol for fear of a religion, Islam. Weird reaction to an article about a non-Muslim woman who does not want to subject herself to medieval oppressive practices (let's not kid ourselves what Hijabs and B
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by mr_pink 10y ago
Iran is different. People trying to justify them with anecdotes like yours miss the point. What Iran is doing is ridiculous: there are minorities in Iran who are not Muslim, who've lived there for millennia even before Islam was a thin
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by mr_pink 10y ago
This is laughably incorrect, that's not how the world works at all
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by mr_pink 10y ago
Yes, sir, you're definitely part of the problem. No other way to put it :)
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by mr_pink 10y ago
Holy crap, Super Mario 64 is 20 years old now. I've never felt my age more than I do right now...
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by mr_pink 10y ago
Hate to be that guy, but saying "thousands of years of Turkish history" is exactly as ignorant as saying "thousands of years of American history"
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by mr_pink 10y ago
> I think a lot of coastal elites have no idea what they're talking about when they speak about the extreme danger of being different in middle-America. Here's a counterargument (counter-anecdote, really): I'm different in
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by mr_pink 10y ago
Not only that, another 'large mammal' in the room is the 'founder effects' that happen on every level (i.e. family, community, regional, ethnic) and their behavioral implications, that were common-sense non-taboo topics