strawcomb

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Implementing Naive Bayes in Python(sidsite.com)
2 points by strawcomb 7y ago|0 comments
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Piano Tuning(sidsite.com)
101 points by strawcomb 8y ago|68 comments
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by strawcomb 8y ago
Fans -> cool human via wind-chill [1] Air conditioning -> cool human by cooling environment [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_chill
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by strawcomb 8y ago
'How are your Golden Insight Nuggets today?' 'I've been collecting all these great Golden Insight Nuggets.' God it's horrible. Why not just: "GPUs Mine Astronomical Datasets for Golden Insights"
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by strawcomb 9y ago
Some examples: they admit in interviews to lying to obtain votes. They propose entrapping their client's opponents by bringing girls to them, or by giving them an offer 'too good to be true'. They give the impression there is
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by strawcomb 9y ago
Why is CA so evil? There's just been an expose: https://www.channel4.com/news/cambridge-analytica-revealed-t...
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by strawcomb 9y ago
What a great quantitative evaluation of bias you just carried out.
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by strawcomb 9y ago
It's actually one of the best value health care systems.. Sadly it is being made inefficient by the current government. If we are going by anecdotal evidence, the NHS has been absolutely brilliant for me. https://www.theguar
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by strawcomb 9y ago
> work for cats and dogs That could still be conditioning. > deep pressure touch improves subjective relaxation That could still be conditioning. I'm not saying it definitely is conditioning, but I don't see enough evidence
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by strawcomb 9y ago
> a weighted blanket can trigger an uptick in the brain’s production of serotonin Surely that could be a result of conditioning.
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by strawcomb 9y ago
Going fully digital with info, verifying with blockchain is all well and good, until a malicious actor forbids/prevents people from using blockchain somehow. if you've gone fully digital at that stage, you're in trouble
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by strawcomb 9y ago
I would suggest that we shouldn't ever rely on digital archiving of important information. There should always be a copy of the information in analog, that can be dated & verified with analog methods.
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by strawcomb 9y ago
> if a person tries and fails and I never try; at the end of the day we're both in the same place, no? What a bizarre statement. This is a generalisation that can easily be shown to be false. If I try and win Gold at the olympics, b
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by strawcomb 9y ago
So far the generative models I've seen (VAEs, GANs) really just seem to morph between images.
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by strawcomb 9y ago
Do you want one already very large company to be the only browser provider? That company could start to make its implementation less user friendly/less friendly to competition; but users would have no alternative but to use it. e.g. &q
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by strawcomb 9y ago
That is useful, thanks!
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by strawcomb 9y ago
I also use Keep and agree it's not ideal. Would be nice to easily export all the notes to file. Would be even nicer if could store and make changes to notes on local filesystem and have them sync to cloud, google drive style.
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by strawcomb 9y ago
From the article: > The complaint is that for several months in 2011 and 2012 Google placed ad-tracking cookies on the devices of Safari users which is set by default to block such cookies. Seems they used cookies for tracking despite Sa
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by strawcomb 9y ago
> We suggest that our personal awareness does not create, cause or choose our beliefs, feelings or perceptions. Instead, the contents of consciousness are generated “behind the scenes” by fast, efficient, non-conscious systems in our bra
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by strawcomb 9y ago
I also thought the delivery was pretty good. But found the image quality too low to easily read the notes in the background (and would also have liked audio for the videos).
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by strawcomb 9y ago
Matlab/octave
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by strawcomb 9y ago
Some things I'd recommend, off the top of my head: - Do not grab phone/computer etc. and mindlessly browse first thing in the morning. (Or before bed. Or at any time really.) But doing it first thing really starts your day on the
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by strawcomb 9y ago
I'm sorry, but where is the whining? He simply said that no-one would buy his work, and that he felt he owed it to the people who kindly shared some of their lives with him to try and get their story out there. The headline 'no on