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If you say that X is extremely possible does that mean that X is unlikely to happen (probably won't), or that X is very likely to happen (probably will)?

I'd never come across anyone using this phrase until Nate Silver did. Is it a US English thing?
Although the article somewhat implies it was intentional, an unintentional degradation that severe is still a big issue.

What incentive does Chromium/Google ever have to fix an issue that only affects Microsoft users or non-Chrome users?
and hopefully they'll be inept and it won't work.

and then they'll shop around some more.

it will cost them, more and more, and hopefully it will be deemed not worth it.
Sounds like commendable goal. Kind of like ATS without the pain
You can actually.... with very, very lean design....
We've been implementing PATCH operation using PUT. If a certain properties in not undefined, we update it, otherwise we don't.
"Without a single click"

but... how do I select a photo!?
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ONE Study? I am sure I can google you a dozen other studies that show that moderate alcohol consumption, red wine consumption oder resveratrol consumption (must be the resveratrol, can't be the alcohol) is healthy.

And had you actually read the article and not just vomited here into the forum then you would have realized that Pele cites and discusses many studies in the article.
Can someone explain just What it is? A planet?
I've just seen this research on this same subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYIQbfnS9jA
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> Any modern hard drive is likely to have 5-12x the sequential write performance

The data rate falls to the floor as soon as the access pattern isn't sequential though, which if you are using multiple readers it won't be. While an OS might be bright enough to organise data flowing out of write buffers so it isn't as random as it could be there is a limit to how far they will go with this because they are general purpose OSs and optimising for multiple bulk streams will punish more interactive activity. If you have a tool they bypasses the OS cache and works in large enough blocks you might see better results except if the write activity from each lines up at which point this will make things worse.

Pulling the data off multiple DVD drives onto an SSD, swapping to output to another once near full to continue while its contents are dumped sequentially to cheaper-per-Gb traditional drives, would probably be the way I'd suggest.

In fact, you would get away without swapping between two SSDs: the read activity pulling data from the SSD to a traditional drive is unlikely to have much effect on the write performance for the data coming off the DVDs unless you have a great many readers in one machine. If doing this all relatively manually, to reduce manual steps once a DVD copy is complete add it to a queue to be moved using something like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TeraCopy so you don't have to worry about manually coordinating the SSD-to-cheaper copy operation to keep it sequential.

Assuming 15 minutes to read each disk (it is a long time since I pulled data off a DVD in bulk so this is guess work based on old memory of it taking a little more than 10 minutes to read a full DVD9 disk, and rounding up to 15 to allow for manual process inefficiencies and some disks being slower to extract due to condition causing rereads, etc) you are looking at wanting 21 or more drives constantly on the go to get the job done in 3 solid 8-hour days (2,000x15/3/8/60 = 20.8). Five laptops each with an internal SSD (128G+) to extract to, five DVD readers on USB3 to extract from, and a 4+Tb spinning disk (also external) to finally write to, might do the job and have the space (2,000x8.5/5=~3.5Tb output per laptop). You'll need a powered USB dock/ for each laptop instead of a passive hub, and you are going to want to add more of everything to allow for the possibility of device failures.

Of course significantly less resource is needed (or you get more contingency time (and/or spare kit to deal with failures) from the same resource) if most of the media is DVD5 and/or not full disks. I've assumed the initial three days is just for obtaining the content - I've not accounted for any other processing (such as indexing and transcoding) or further distribution.
3 days isn't enough time to do a quality job on all of them given "one shot".

Better to just prioritize some sample of discs and do the best you can-- consider it a pilot run. If you monitor everything you'll be able to use the pilot run to estimate and propose what it would take in terms of equipment, time and process to do the whole thing in a reasonable time.
But there’s also an assumption here that 3 months is long enough to have a measurable impact, rather than that quarter’s results being largely dictated by decisions made earlier.
Colorado is another state where the ballot initiatives are getting out of hand. Very conflicted because there are some decisions I believe should go directly to the people.

My ballot this year was pages long. Took me over half an hour to fill it all out. The wording on some of the initiatives are so confusing you have to read them numerous times to decipher.
Genuine question from an astronomically-challenged person: why would this not be a planet?
No, but that isn't the same hypothetical.
Unlikely. Taleb seems to like how his argument has been summarised.

The crux of the issue taleb has with silver is showing probabilities without making a decision/declaration is cowardly. When asked about making a prediction he says one thing then follows it up with a “ but don’t be surprised if it could be completely random.” And that’s the point - the fact he covers his ass is the problem. Election forecasting is hard so don’t pretend you know something you don’t if you won’t stake something on your predictions. Oh so it could be anything and you don’t want to be held accountable? Then don’t say a damn thing. Basically Silver never wants to be held accountable for his models but always have uncertainty covering his ass as a cop out. so I’m
With taleb on this one. Either silver makes a claim and sticks with it or don’t show probabilities and pretend he knows things
This is a very good, concise explanation for what usually takes three chapters to explain. Bookmarked for the kids, thank you!
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We use ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) quite heavily for this at my company. It works, and it works well. We feed massive amounts of data into it--it's not unusual for our indices to grow by 50 GiB in a single day, which is quite a bit for a small company running a niche website.

It's expensive. Very expensive. Not just in terms of money, but also time: the countless hours spent maintaining it, upgrading it, expanding it, securing it, and actually using it.

And then, of course, there's the cost of actually knowing what's going on within your infrastructure. It's stressful: attacks are happening constantly. Most of them aren't worth investigating; the firewalls do their job and the attacks fail. But which ones are worth worrying about? Which bugs are actually worth patching? Is it really an issue if a small part of our site goes down for a few minutes--especially when it might cost us 80 hours of work to patch?

I doubt these problems can be solved by collecting and analyzing more data. Lack of data isn't a problem--there are already plenty of systems for collecting, analyzing, and storing data. The trouble is using that data in a cost-effective manner. Similarly, I have zero faith in anyone's ability to solve these problems by simply throwing more computing power at them, for much the same reason.

I really hope that's not what they're planning to do, but this is Google we're talking about, so I'm not holding my breath.

Edit: Clarification, wording
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Looking at several word examples I find it easy to get letters mixed up, the pixel position difference is quite precise and there's no other indicators to suggest what letter a letter might be if you know what I mean.

I'm aware of my own bias of using the language you grew up using i.e. English and the way capitalist society has encouraged its use for the sake of western convienience more than anything.
I do think a language that is logogram based would be the more optimum step and agreeable one.
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1978 bro. Doesn't hold up currently
It’s not just about the money. Some people can just be really persuasive and in reality most things are not really that black and white.
Can anyone elaborate how this code is actually executed?

If I download one of these images, which appears to embed CSharp Winform code, how does it actually run within the system?

I suppose it couldn't unless taking advantage of some other exploit along the way. And if that is the case, this article is perhaps a little incomplete.
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Are you already using GPU acceleration? I'm currently working on alpha matting for my master's thesis and found that it helps quite a lot.
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Yes, 20+ times sometimes. Totally user-hostile.
"It should be noted that the malware was not downloaded from Twitter and that we did not observe what specific mechanism was used to deliver the malware to its victims."
This method requires a video or at least multiple frames. It won't work for a single photo.
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When you are playing audio from a CD and there are read errors, you get a worse listening experience if you wait for the CD to spin around a couple more times trying to read the data again causing a pause in the audio than just playing the corrupted data block causing a short glitch in the audio. So that is what CD drives do for audio CDs. The entire format of an audio CD is different from a data CD, the audio tracks are not just files. At least early CD drives did the entire audio processing in the drive and they even used to have a separate audio cable that directly connected the CD drive to the sound card. All this means - or at least meant, I have not ripped CDs in ages - that you have to work pretty hard to get an bit accurate rip of an audio CD because a lot of the processing is done in the drive and the raw bit stream is not easily available to the operating system and applications. Especially error correction - which is best effort for audio CDs and does not guarantee the absence of errors - at least used to happen so early and transparently to the following processing steps that it was very hard to know what happened or did not happen to the data stream.
Yeah -- O(1) and O(n) are definitely simplifications and never tell the whole story.
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A guess would be more movie meta data than you can think of;
- show me movies with Swiss Alps settings
- show me movies with the quote "I'll be back"
- tell me which part of Back to the Future shows me where they have hoverboards
- actor/director/artist/crew: for my IMDB profile, tell me when my name is on screen (start credits, end credits)
The big question is: if forecasting with econometrics doesn't work, what other methods can we use?
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This is also available on the Homebrew repo for those of you on macOS.
"brew install bastet"
Really? So everyone else in CS isn't even a "decent human being" by default for you?
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How long will it be before they discover "Even Farther Out"?
The International Astronomical Union defined a planet [0] as an object that:

(a) orbits the sun, (b) has sufficient mass to be round, or nearly round, (c) is not a satellite (moon) of another object, and (d) has removed debris and small objects from the area around its orbit

The dwarf "planets" often suffer from not being round (enough), and even more from not clearing out their debris in their orbit.

[0]: https://www.space.com/25986-planet-definition.html
> Whether you follow the FSF's lead is up to you!

Sure, but my response was to the statement:

> You DO NOT, however, get to also define the meaning of the word "proprietary."

And to clarify that I am not defining the meaning of proprietary, I'm using the definition the FSF uses (and has used for significantly longer than the span of this comment thread). Whether you think that's a reasonable definition is a different point, but I was being accused of (effectively) moving the goal-posts.
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Well, that sounds like it would never work!

(Yes, I know.)
Very happy about this as an avid Qt and Python user. People looking to get started may be interested in my tutorial [1] and open source build system [2] for Qt for Python apps.

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Maybe a question to ask is why do you want to learn or develop faster? For its own sake, or for some other goal?

One perspective (that I don't completely agree with) is that consuming information is an input, and is wasted effort until, perhaps at some later date, you use that information to produce some output.
It's different at SO. Generally a poster would follow up on their question. At Quora, posters would ask questions and not say a peek after. Lots of copy-and-pasted answers as well.
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I think the difference in opinion is caused by Taleb modelling the election as though all of the uncertainty is caused by the fact that people might change their minds, whereas Silver is also including the uncertainty from polling errors.

Silver's predictions fluctuate a lot as time passes. Taleb is assuming that all of these fluctuations are caused by the electorate changing who they're going to vote for. Then he says "if you knew people's opinions were as volatile as this, you shouldn't have been so confident earlier!", or words to that effect. If lots of people will change their minds, then early polling won't be very informative about the final result.

But the fluctuations in Silver's predictions are actually caused by his changing certainty about how accurate the polls are. Silver does take into account that people might change their minds, but this isn't the cause of most changes in his predictions. So people actually change their minds a lot less often than Taleb's model of Silver's model suggests. This is why Silver can make strong predictions early on.
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https://opensource.org/licenses/0BSD

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THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND THE AUTHOR DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.

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I will never use a less permissive license. I think it's irresponsible to put any restriction (including attribution) on how all of current and future humans and machines can use information.
As far as I understand, the advantage of Chinese production is their network of subcontractors. If they need a custom screw, they can order it from the factory next door and have 10k delivered that afternoon.
I actually remember to have had severe headaches when I was something like 4 or 5 and I experienced the passage from deliberate reading and automatic reading.
It was much worse being around in a car and just looking outside and unwillingly read all the signs because it added also elements of motion sickness to it...
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It's completely bizarre that it is taught in this way. Knuth is absolutely right. Recursion is easy but the problem is computers don't actually work that way. I don't understand how anyone who has programmed for a while can think recursion is the cool or tricky thing to do.

Even worse is that recursion is taught using stupid examples like the fibonacci numbers rather than something that actually needs it like quicksort.
One could imagine him thinking about him taking the job as a sacrifice. He will sacrifice his morals and what he cares about for the security of his family and children. He knows that he will sell his soul and be crushed, but he also knows that his family will be okay.

It's one of the reasons suicide bombers blow themselves up too.

But, as in this case he will live and it ignores the lasting psychological damage on those around them - becoming malevolent will affect the people around, and not in a good way.
Neural nets are universal function approximations, so this sounds like a safe bet :) When I first read about them with this categorisation it made the subject click.
Is a plant being round a subjective thing? Just trying to understand how roundness can be measured.
It's about 1/5 the diameter of Pluto (500km to Pluto's 2400), so quite small and definitely not a planet. It's interesting because it could give evidence about the hypothetical ninth true planet-sized object that people have been hypothesizing for awhile.
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Gibson got caught. So for anyone else to not be caught they would have to be better than Gibson.
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I disagree. Probabilities can be useful even if they're not 0% or 100%. For example weather forecasts often give the probability of rain. My plans will be different if the probability is 20% vs 80%. My plans don't tend to vary based on who wins the election, but I imagine that that information is very useful to some people.

And if your data is telling you to be 80% sure, I don't think you should fudge it and claim 100%. Report the uncertainty that you actually have.
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All A are B does not lead to all B are A.

And arbitrary differential equations are a hell of a class.
good karma on you sir.

some companies/individuals would've jumped on it.

i dont know how engineers sleep at night who write spyware that track and ultimately contribute to people getting tortured to death, usually political dissidents.

also ppl designing new ways to kill humans. wtf is that shit? real contribution to humanity lol
Criticism is useful and welcome, but it doesn't have to be dismissive or in a negative tone.
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Interesting. What were the usability issues you faced?
Well, Farout orbits the sun, is round, is not a moon. The article is silent on item d.

I don't know what to do with the information that its diameter is 500km. I guess that makes it 1/5 of Pluto's diameter, and given that Pluto is called a dwarf planet...
It's this vogueish thing among a certain set of programmers to go around saying they learned category theory. I studied category theory as a math graduate student and frankly, if your goal is simply to become a better programmer, there are much more direct and productive ways to achieve that goal.
I am a huge fan of bandcamp, I buy most of my music because I can download the FLAC files and put them on my streaming server. I was rather disappointed that instead of providing polished, DRM free ebook files but went with a web based version that I cannot transfer to my ebook reader.

I would be more than happy to not only pay the authors but also for the work that you guys do by providing nice clean files.

There is another small thing that bugs me. Why did you choose to emulate books in your reader even down to turning pages? IMHO this is rather unnecessary, just presenting the book like a long article with well done typography would have been enough. (the reason, again IMHO, that ebook readers have virtual pages is that their displays are to slow to have smooth scroll)
correction: called it [as such, i.e swingy]
So what is the correct equation? Or has the article already been fixed?
An interesting technical point I saw on that is that you may be better getting out a little after the peak. The reason being on the way up there is no way of knowing where the peak is. For example in the recent bitcoin run up you might have bought at 1000 and sold at 2000 missing most of it. If however you waited until it looked like it was on the way back down you likely would have sold at around 16000 - 10000 and so done better.

I think the key is more to buy in early rather than near the top. Indeed if you time that ok you can sell half your stake when it goes 2x and so be kind of risk free for the rest.

If history is a guide bitcoin will go nowhere for 6 months to a year, then up up slowly, then have another silly bubble a few years later. So my infallible guide is buy in a years time, sell half when the price doubles, wait till there is a bubble and when it's super hyped but starts crashing sell out, probably about 1/3 below the next peak.
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Do you mean to use them for large attachments?
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Clickbait.

"displaying popup and clicking OK to dismiss" is not as harmful as blocking the internet.

They control all the traffic anyway...
Thanks! Hoping for that ninth planet :D
The final 538 pre-election forecast is available here: https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2018-midterm-election-f... (it moved slightly towards Dems in the last few days)

Silver's point is that their model results in a probability distribution of outcomes and, at the time he was commenting, in 10% of the cases Dems won 19 or fewer seats, resulting in a GOP majority, and in 10% of cases Dems won 51 or more seats, resulting in an overwhelming Dem majority.

That those extremes were approximately equally likely (in CDF terms) tails is willfully missing the point that the vast majority of the 80% of outcomes in the middle between those relatively fat tails involved Democrats winning, which is why the prediction was a 4 in 5 chance of Dems retaining control.

By missing that rather obvious point, D'Souza unsurprisingly comes off as a moron and Taleb also fails to cover himself in glory.
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