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by thousandautumns 2y ago
Last November, DeepMind released the results of a generative AI model that created theoretical molecular structures for over 2 million undiscovered synthetic materials. Within days, materials science researchers were able to confirm 700 of
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by thousandautumns 2y ago
> We urgently need the expertise of social scientists to be able to make much-needed collective decisions about the future of generative AI that we want; we can’t leave it to business, markets or technologists. > Kean Birch is directo
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by thousandautumns 2y ago
Southern Indiana has lots of hills and forested areas, including the Hoosier National forest. The Great American Rail-Trail mostly goes through the upper third of the state, however, so you miss that and are mostly in the corn belt section
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by thousandautumns 2y ago
Must vary widely, because I went in August and there was 0 line at all. A lot of places are on Spring Break in the US right now, so that may contribute to your experience.
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by thousandautumns 7y ago
I'm not sure millenials or Gen-Xers are any less materially obsessed, I think we just generally have less money to spend on the things Boomers did. It isn't like we aren't spending thousands on tech, clothing, etc. I hesitate
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by thousandautumns 7y ago
More like lol at assuming your rent doesn't cover the other expenses of owning a house. You think your landlord is just taking the loss? When you rent, you are paying, if not directly, for every expense associated with the house, plus
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by thousandautumns 7y ago
Landlords absolutely incorporate home repair costs into rent. I'm shocked at the number of people who assume that landlords just eat the cost of maintenance. Just because you aren't forking over the money directly to the repairman
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by thousandautumns 7y ago
Its Brazilian Ju Jitsu, for those wondering.
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by thousandautumns 7y ago
> I’m not sure if this is just an attempt to down play their results or if it’s more academic jealousy because the funding goes to the “cool stuff” like AI/ML in the CS dept. and the Stats dept. is seen as old and boring. No one is
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by thousandautumns 7y ago
God I hate this paper. Perhaps it was relevant at its time. But that was 18 years ago. The described dichotomy between the "two cultures" isn't nearly as pronounced, if it even exists, today. There are few statisticians today
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by thousandautumns 7y ago
> I am not an expert and am still reading thru the article, but why is it such a strong dichotomy? There isn't. This paper is nearly 2 decades old and isn't nearly as relevant as you would think given how many times it gets tro
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by thousandautumns 7y ago
> The standard best practices in STATS 101 is to compute R^2 coefficient (based on data of the sample) > Null Statistical Hypothesis Testing (NHST), another one of the pillars of STATS 101 Best practices of statistics and what is taug
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by thousandautumns 7y ago
Too many excellent excerpts in this article. > “It’s such a strange service — who wants to be in the cold? You need to hear about it from someone you trust,” said Michael Garrett, the head of Reboot, a spa that offers cryotherapy around
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by thousandautumns 7y ago
And? The arguments about marketing are completely non-sensical. People treat pharma companies marketing budgets being as large as they are as some indictment of the industry, but its not like they are just throwing money at marketing becaus
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by thousandautumns 7y ago
You also see this kind of argument against housing a lot, which also ignores that housing is one of the few highly leveraged investments an individual can/will make, and that even if you don't buy a house you will have to pay for
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by thousandautumns 7y ago
Probably lots. Its a huge issue thats driving the reproducibility crisis in science and academia, so I imagine it would also be a problem for industry.
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by thousandautumns 7y ago
Well first of all, blockchain technology has become so overhyped that its bound to draw scoffs even if the business case were legitimate. "Blockchain" anything almost sounds like a joke at first pass these days. But in this specif
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by thousandautumns 7y ago
I've never looked at Data Science in R, but Hadley Wickam's R for Data Science is great in my opinion. Really applicable, down to earth, and focuses much more on the meat of data science (data manipulation and munging, visualizati
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by thousandautumns 7y ago
Why? There's no point. If the results come back indicating multiple authors, great. If the results come back indicating a single author, you could just make the argument that it is the result of the book having a single translator. Aca
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by thousandautumns 7y ago
> I could spend unhealthy amounts of my time in those 100 Yen stores (or whatever they are called, I might be misremembering their names) Daiso
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by thousandautumns 7y ago
There are two types of people consuming these projections. I'll call them the sportsbook type and the newspaper reader. The sportsbook consumers want to know what the probabilities are for the actual event, when it occurs (election day
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by thousandautumns 7y ago
This is not correct, or at least it isn't any longer. The current predictions by 538 are the "lite" (polls only), the "classic" (polls + other data driven indicators) and the "deluxe" (polls + other data d
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by thousandautumns 7y ago
You can't verify probabilities for any single given event, but you can look at the outcomes for all events for which predicted probabilities were given, and use that to estimate the accuracy of the methodology/models used. So, for
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by thousandautumns 7y ago
Renault is partially owned by the French Government I believe
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by thousandautumns 7y ago
It might possible that most of the people in SF who own property have owned it for a long time. So for someone buying a house now, they would be paying a ton of money. If you bought the house more than 10 years ago, when prices were much lo
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by thousandautumns 8y ago
> So instead of shunning white supremacists from media - tolerate them on and challenge them with arguments, explain how they are wrong, educate them, ridicule their nonsense; but never censor them. This takes the mistaken position that
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by thousandautumns 8y ago
It isn't censorship. Free speech does not equate to Twitter/Facebook/Google having an obligation to host any/all content someone might post on their site.
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by thousandautumns 8y ago
The flipside being that you are making the argument that private entities should not be allowed to choose what content they host. You worry about flat earthers censoring non-flat earth depictions, but a much more realistic threat is flat-ea
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by thousandautumns 8y ago
Japanese people like English a lot. They all learn it in school. Most aren't that great, but they are good enough that English words and phrases are appealing, even if many of those phrases end up nonsensical. If you visit Japan for an
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by thousandautumns 8y ago
Not problems that San Francisco isn't also having. People like to prop up SF as an example of inclusiveness, as if it isn't the pinnacle of gentrification. Things may feel inclusive if you are white/asian and working in tech.

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