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U.S. Supreme Court to hear civil forfeiture case(nytimes.com)
575 points by wcbeard10 8y ago|235 comments
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Tostitos Bag Detects Alcohol, Orders Uber Ride(upi.com)
1 points by wcbeard10 10y ago|0 comments
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by wcbeard10 10y ago
The funnel shape of the scatter plot immediately reminded me of an article on the insensitivity to sample size pitfall [0], which points out that you'll expect entities with smaller sample sizes to show up more often in the extremes be
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by wcbeard10 10y ago
There seems to be a pretty wide spectrum of abstraction for DL tools, from writing by hand to Theano to Keras, for example. Will this course focus on any tool in particular?
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by wcbeard10 10y ago
I often find myself frustrated when an important decision is made with little explanation in politics or business by someone who I assume is intelligent. It may strike me as a bad decision, but I try to be charitable and assume they have a
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by wcbeard10 10y ago
My wife and I have done some of the same coursework (for different degrees), me on campus and hers online. I actually would have preferred online. Rigor seemed equivalent, but I find the ability to pause and rewind lectures invaluable.
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by wcbeard10 10y ago
On ios safari, holding down the refresh button in the url bar gives you the option to request the desktop site. As kludgy as that is, I've found it a worthwhile workaround until this is fixed.
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How Duolingo models language learning(making.duolingo.com)
22 points by wcbeard10 10y ago|2 comments
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Type Safety and Statistical Computing(johnmyleswhite.com)
1 points by wcbeard10 10y ago|0 comments
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by wcbeard10 10y ago
It's a tricky issue, and gas tax probably won't be enough going forward. The EV fee is a bit disproportionate because of the limited range and fewer average miles driven, but there's no easy fix.
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by wcbeard10 10y ago
> Georgia, which also has a $5,000 state subsidy Sadly, this is no longer the case. They've actually gone in the opposite direction, imposing an additional $200 annual fee on EV owners http://politics.blog.ajc.com/20
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by wcbeard10 10y ago
I occasionally use probabilistic programming systems, and find this project fascinating, but I've been wondering for a while what the vision is. Is it meant mainly as a research project/proof of concept (seems I've seen elsew
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Pyflux: Bayesian time series library in python(pyflux.com)
22 points by wcbeard10 10y ago|1 comments
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The economist who is influencing Trump most(bloomberg.com)
1 points by wcbeard10 10y ago|0 comments
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Why U.S. Infrastructure Projects Cost Way More Than They Should(citylab.com)
1 points by wcbeard10 10y ago|0 comments
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The federal judge behind Brazil's largest corruption probe(americasquarterly.org)
1 points by wcbeard10 11y ago|0 comments
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Introducing LastPass 4.0(blog.lastpass.com)
1 points by wcbeard10 11y ago|0 comments
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The Autodidact Ratio: A Better Way to Measure Bias Against Women(chrisstucchio.com)
1 points by wcbeard10 11y ago|0 comments
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JetBlue Shakes Up Pilot Hiring by Training Them from Scratch(bloomberg.com)
14 points by wcbeard10 11y ago|12 comments
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The Supreme Court could soon deliver a blow to the Sixth Amendment(washingtonpost.com)
181 points by wcbeard10 11y ago|115 comments
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Mix-And-match Markov Chain Monte Carlo Samplers in Haskell(medium.com)
8 points by wcbeard10 11y ago|0 comments
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Mix-and-match Markov Chain Monte Carlo samplers in Haskell(medium.com)
2 points by wcbeard10 11y ago|0 comments
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Federal Whistleblower Investigator Fired After Blowing the Whistle on Own Agency(nbcbayarea.com)
198 points by wcbeard10 11y ago|21 comments
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Scott And Scurvy (2010)(idlewords.com)
1 points by wcbeard10 11y ago|0 comments
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Bernie Sanders's radical idea: prizes, not patents(vox.com)
16 points by wcbeard10 11y ago|0 comments
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Uber Isn’t Causing New York City’s Traffic Slowdown(newyorker.com)
1 points by wcbeard10 11y ago|0 comments
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by wcbeard10 11y ago
A good summary and commentary here http://www.marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2015/08...
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Building a probabilistic programming interpreter(zinkov.com)
21 points by wcbeard10 11y ago|0 comments
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A gentle introduction to statistical relational learning(phdp.github.io)
57 points by wcbeard10 11y ago|6 comments
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Court rules against WI DOT's use of black box forecasting(cityobservatory.org)
2 points by wcbeard10 11y ago|0 comments

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