ploika

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by ploika 5mo ago
Logit is log odds, not log probability: logit(p) = log(p / 1 - p)
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by ploika 2y ago
Some decision tree algorithms use it to decide what variable to split on when creating new branches.
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by ploika 3y ago
Not necessarily. I don't know about other countries, but I remember there being a campaign here in Ireland (with one of the highest rates of cystic fibrosis in the world) to get Orkambi covered under the Drug Payment Scheme when it was
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by ploika 3y ago
Opinion columns are not the same as editorials. But anyway, the Financial Times is well able to publish pieces that say "this currently profitable endeavour will blow up in everyone's faces". It's a serious newspaper.
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by ploika 3y ago
HN is social media.
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by ploika 3y ago
I can't justify it - it's pure preference and opinion, irrationally held. A big part of it is probably that type of programming I generally need to do is closer to using an overgrown calculator (with DataFrames) than doing proper
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by ploika 3y ago
I also primarily write ML-focused Python. For me, having originally learned R and C at the same time, nothing has ever surpassed RStudio as a dev environment. For the past several years my preferred setup has been tmux and Vim with vim-slim
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by ploika 3y ago
Bit of a tangent maybe, but according to some expert I heard on the radio this morning, it's a submersible and not a submarine precisely because the vehicle is so totally dependant on the support ship. That includes everything from com
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by ploika 4y ago
Surely you don't consider your grandparents' childhoods to be "eternity" ago.
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by ploika 4y ago
It's not just about the USA. Twitter has to follow the law wherever it operates. The way the company went about announcing redundancies in the Dublin office could well fall foul of Irish employment law (IANAL etc), and people have legi
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by ploika 4y ago
My GP has extra qualifications hanging on the wall for things like minor surgery, ear syringing, that kind of thing. Others near me would mention things like asthma treatment on the website. Beyond that kind of stuff you're not really
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by ploika 4y ago
The EEC became the EU in 1993.
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by ploika 4y ago
Scientists aren't a monolith though. There few better career boosts than proving everyone else wrong, and the satisfaction of poaching work off a competitor who messed up isn't restricted to any one industry. Research into dangero
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by ploika 4y ago
You can (almost) always buy CDs and rip them. I'd be mildly surprised if an artist was selling music without either a presence on Bandcamp or a store on their own website that you could download from. I'm certain I've bought
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by ploika 4y ago
With Joyce it also helps if you're familiar with Dublin city accents.
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by ploika 4y ago
"Price to Entice" is a very real thing where I live. It's basically a way of getting your listing seen by more people, and increasing the chances of a bidding war pushing up the final sales price.
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by ploika 4y ago
I think cooking, and food in general, is a great one. There's endless creativity and depth in it. Exploring tastes from a cuisine/culture you're not that familiar with; figuring out what combinations of flavours do and don&#x
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by ploika 4y ago
Technical analysis (Bollinger bands and the like) would be treated similarly to horoscopes by many people who know how to work a Bloomberg terminal.
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by ploika 5y ago
Does photojournalism count as art? I'd say it's a relatively safe bet that some photos of the Twin Towers on 9/11 will still be very recognisable in several centuries.
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by ploika 5y ago
Especially with a young family to raise too. A big polytunnel in the garden might make sense as a time-consuming hobby with practical benefits (though I still think it would be more expensive than just getting groceries), but not a farm.
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by ploika 5y ago
I'm going to push back very hard on the notion that it's easier to feed your family by picking up farming than by going to the supermarket.
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by ploika 5y ago
How secure is your job/industry? Not every sector will be hit equally. Now might not be the best time to work in a startup that sells discretionary goods/services. If you've got a solid job in an industry not too vulnerable t
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by ploika 5y ago
Would TravelSky step in? To my very limited understanding they have a very similar offering, mostly focused on the Chinese market.
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by ploika 5y ago
A lot of Russians remember when their country collapsed in front of their eyes. It's probably fair to say that even Putin's harshest critics would be hesitant to go through that twice in 30 years. Not that I'm defending him b
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by ploika 5y ago
There are a couple of radio shows that cater to my music tastes quite well, I own a lot of albums, and I go to gigs pretty regularly, but I was surprised at how much value I get out of my Spotify subscription. I'd absolutely live witho
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by ploika 5y ago
> Trails of brown envelopes (bribes) have been sniffed out repeatedly, and then left to grow cold. Large scale developments were made and begun without any plan whatsoever to connect them to basic and necessary infrastructure such as sew
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by ploika 5y ago
A lot of the complete-but-unoccupied homes in rural areas are holiday homes I believe, but I can't give you a reference for where I read that. Another big chunk are basically barely-habitable hovels in probate. You won't find many
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by ploika 5y ago
He covered the empty estates issue well enough I thought: by the mid-2010s they were mostly fully constructed and occupied, including in rural areas. That chimes with my experience, having lived in a few different parts of the country (urba
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by ploika 5y ago
Interesting and accurate (though he's the academic, not me, so that's not really my call to make). Ronan Lyons is a fairly well known name for people who would read the Business section of the newspapers. He compiles a a quarterly
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by ploika 5y ago
What's happening in much of the world today isn't hyperinflation, it's just fairly high inflation, after a long period of very low inflation. The two options you describe sound to me like they're only viable in a very ce

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