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by primelens 10y ago
I'll repost what I wrote on a previous discussion of this article on FB: Most versions of this discussion lament the fact that students come into graduate programs with little idea of what the academic job market is like. One could res
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by primelens 10y ago
I find this to be fairly involved but a good follow-up to introductory texts. Casella, George, and Roger L. Berger. Statistical Inference. 2nd ed. Duxbury Advanced Series. Australia ; Pacific Grove, CA: Duxbury/Thomson Learning, 2002.
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Introducing Jupyter Notebooks in Azure ML Studio(blogs.technet.com)
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by primelens 11y ago
I found the "preachy" bootleg strip referred to in the first paragraph to be rather poignant and wonderful.
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by primelens 12y ago
On medium format film - I can't tell if this is 120, 220, or 620, or something like 616 - many cameras can take pictures of varying width. For example, on a camera that makes 6x9, or 6x7 pics, you might be able to put in a masking atta
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Boston Uber Driver Accused of Raping Passenger in Back Seat(huffingtonpost.com)
4 points by primelens 12y ago|1 comments
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The Philosophy of Computer Science (2013)(plato.stanford.edu)
116 points by primelens 12y ago|34 comments
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Show HN: Early English Print N-Gram Browser(earlyprint.wustl.edu)
9 points by primelens 12y ago|0 comments
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by primelens 12y ago
Chaucer and Dante certainly make any greatest hits list -- definitely worth reading.
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What John Coltrane on the Billboard Charts Tells Us About Music Sales in 2014(forbes.com)
5 points by primelens 12y ago|0 comments
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Rental America: Why the poor pay $4,150 for a $1,500 sofa(washingtonpost.com)
64 points by primelens 12y ago|50 comments
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by primelens 12y ago
You misunderstand my argument if you read it as "the West is dumb and mean". What I meant to emphasize was that the West made the (IMHO right) decision, to spend on research etc while it was working on other social problems. It is
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by primelens 12y ago
Thank you! After reading this same statement about toilets vs space missions dozens of times I could hardly muster anything more articulate than "aaargh!" Apparently the West had solved all of humanity's problems and ensured
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by primelens 12y ago
My dad had a cerebral stroke a few years ago. As everyone else was trying to arrange an emergency ambulance, his doctor was on the phone with him asking him to stay awake. Apparently, he said "if you fall asleep, you'll die."
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by primelens 12y ago
Yes. Perhaps hitting the optimum form at 45 would be ideal. So 4 would start becoming clearer at 40 and then start degenerating after 45.
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US cable giants calls on FCC to block cities' expansion of high-speed internet(theguardian.com)
460 points by primelens 12y ago|154 comments
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by primelens 12y ago
Most contemporary art needs to be illuminated by some mumbo-jumbo narrative about what it "means" before one can appreciate it. I get the fact that one of the things that makes art great is that it pushes the envelope on accepted
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by primelens 12y ago
They missed their opportunity in mid to late 2012 when NFLX hovered around $65. They're in the high 400s now.
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by primelens 12y ago
Apart from Russel's book, Will Durant's _The Story of Philosophy_ provides a fun light introduction. If you'd rather read primary texts there are many choices - the history of philosophy can seem like a summit conference betw
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by primelens 12y ago
Here's my version of Pascal's wager: Even if there is/are god(s), she/he/they obviously don't want to be known/found as she/he/they have left no obvious clues from which we might deduce such a be
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by primelens 12y ago
This! Horseshoes might be the work of the devil! :-)
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by primelens 12y ago
Yes, it is. In certain cases it might be harmless superstition unlike the kind of militant superstition that prompts people to oppress others, but superstition it is.
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by primelens 12y ago
If moves from all these games are available I am wondering if ngram type analysis could be used to tease out the emergence of new opening strategies etc. Given enough games, someone could build a markov-chain "Kasparov simulator"
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Eurovision's 'bearded lady' winner divides Russia(bbc.com)
1 points by primelens 12y ago|1 comments
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"How Hip-Hop Failed Black America"(okayplayer.com)
3 points by primelens 12y ago|0 comments
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US senators remove requirement for disclosure over drone strike victims(theguardian.com)
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by primelens 12y ago
I appreciate the sentiment and I use film all the time, but it's rather out of context here.
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The depth of the problem – MH370 Search Visualized(apps.washingtonpost.com)
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by primelens 12y ago
While you might not agree with his account of Scala, saying that folks who only know "simple languages" like "Java, JavaScript and Python" are unqualified to comment on Scala is just bizarre. Pray tell what you consider
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by primelens 13y ago
But if true, it would be explained by the plane sitting somewhere at the edge of a jungle, for instance on the remains of an old WW2 strip, passengers dead, and cargo gone. _Flight 714_[1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki

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