a lot of the alcohol deaths were due to impairment, not outright overdose. as pot becomes more overt, these numbers will increase too, as they already have in Colorado.
i do agree with your point, and i'm quite sure that pot is still notably safer, but we'll be seeing more and more articles like this on cannabis.
A group I was working with had this strange phenomenon where their windowed machine learning algorithm would just crap out on certain training sets.
A few weeks later, I was presenting my results and casually mention that, hey, the dataset i got is just outright missing 20% of the data, but there's still enough to illustrate the results, next slide. One of the leads asks, "wait. why didn't anyone notice this?"
I had assumed that it was just my dataset. Nope, turns out that the data just wasn't there at all (this was our partner's fault). It's not quite as trivial as it may seem, since it was point data and required some amount of interpolation. It was just that the interpolation script was intended to fill in, oh, a few hours or maybe days, but it was filling in a year or two.
Back on topic, I noticed it at first because I plotted the covariates (apparently I was the first to do this) and noticed that they were rock-still for huge sections. Sometimes the problem isn't with the code, or even the theory. Visualizing fixed algorithms may or may not be helpful, depending on audience and application, but even a crude visualization of the actual problem and data can almost never hurt. If nothing else, it gives you actual slides to show people. Not really knowing what's going into your algorithm is generally a bigger problem than choosing the "right" algorithm. Of course, sometimes the data really is too big/complex to plot, so you have to look at various algorithmic reductions, which can always make things interesting.
Now to try to parlay my apparently rare insights into cash.
dear slashdot, i have great memories of jerking off to grainy GIFs i downloaded with my friends on a 2400 baud modem while my parents were away. unfortunately dosbox doesn't emulate modems at a low enough level, and my friends are married and/or moved away, except for one who just hung up on me when i suggested we enact our nostalgia. all this after i got telemate running! imagine my disappointment! i'm sure that at least one of those 1337 BBSes is still running, the sysops were so kewl.
so the only logical thing is to join the dosbox team to implement proper hardware support! i need some help on basic C programming. i'm awesome at computers like that javascript class i took at community college, but i'm having trouble with the next step. thanks, slashdot!
oh, it'll just be a different trillion dollar bureaucracy, don't kid yourself. maybe a better one (or maybe worse, who really knows?), but it'll still be a bureaucracy with a shitton more money than most people could imagine.
are we supposed to actually believe that your 'friends' at the university lab never speak to one another in person and just stare at their phones all day? and that all of your attempts to communicate verbally with these people are met with these oddly-worded rebuffs? if that's actually true (it isn't, of course), then fuck 'em.
you sound like an insecure, whiny loser. maybe that's the real problem here. people are lazy and fragile; your 'friends' are just using the facebook thing as an excuse to avoid interacting with you (maybe partly because you refused to interact with them in their preferred medium; people are weird that way.)
anyway, you don't have to be friends with your co-workers. many academics seem to have this problem. however noble your lab's mission may be, it is still just work. unless you live in some godforsaken hellhole, there will be other people with your interests somewhere around. look for them. maybe you just need a change.
you want more control over burning a cd? why? there are countless little micro-optimizations and hacks, do you want a few hundred pointless variables, or do you want to just click the "burn" button and be done with it? i know which one i wanted.
i take it you don't remember having to manually remount your cd burner on linux for each burn. christ, that was idiotic, and there were even GUIs that made you jump through these hoops. taking every bullshit step and turning it into a button is the worst way to design an interface.
uh, yeah, i've taught quite a few dumbfuck asians (mainland Chinese, no less) at an ivy league university.
raising your kid in a totalitarian hellhole where their major hope to avoid a life of reselling used cooking oil out of sewer is to force them to 'study' for 10+ hours a day imitating Americans is a pretty good motivator. would you do it to your kid?
sorry, man, it's not genetics, or at least not exclusively, as much as our capitalist overlords would like to have us believe that; never trust statistics out of a totalitarian regime. it's mostly misery and desperation, and the work ethic of a chinese once the whip is removed from his back is right around nonexistent. their society is sort of, barely, working for catch-up. if they ever get to the point where they are innovative leaders, they are going to have a really tough time.
what the fuck does the lack of a quality $50 oscilloscope have to do with "truth"?
you're right in a round-about way; "China and Walmart" got everyone used to paying almost nothing for a bunch of shiny shit, so when you actually have to pay $$ for something useful or quality it feels like an outrage for no directly-relevant reason.
the benefit is that once you can prove something "obvious" (what is obvious, anyway?) is a sufficiently radical way, it's then easy (or at least possible) to start proving incredibly non-obvious things.
what the fuck are you talking about? if you want anyone to listen to you, explain yourself why running Shor's is inadequate to illustrate sufficiency; don't link to a wikipedia article about something you don't understand.
we do have bona fide quantum computers already. it's just that they have so far, at most, 7 qubits, and the registers persist for only ~100 microseconds. but they do exist.
well, we are 100% certain that the computations are not on the individual quantum bit level. what d-wave claims is to have quantum adiabatic computation, which achieves some quantum speed-up on some optimization problems by (roughly speaking) quantum-parallelizing hill-climbing algorithms.
and it seems so far that they are full of shit, even on that vague claim...
nor is there a magic difference between a licensed and an unlicensed "pirate" medication, but we recognize the difference quite forcefully through state power because we "have to" for free markets to work.
also there are no champagne grapes, per se. there are grapes which are generally used for champagne (and sometimes legally required), but they aren't specific to champagne.
Generally, programmers think of themselves as artists who happen to be paid a bunch of money for their irreplaceable genius, as opposed to the artists they sneer at and 'monetize'. A union as we know them doesn't really make sense for creative work; some kind of mutualist support system would make more sense. I think the major point is that programmers are the ones automating tasks. Maintenance takes some persistent labor, but at this moment we have a, shall we say, "bubble" of big ideas.
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a lot of the alcohol deaths were due to impairment, not outright overdose. as pot becomes more overt, these numbers will increase too, as they already have in Colorado.
i do agree with your point, and i'm quite sure that pot is still notably safer, but we'll be seeing more and more articles like this on cannabis.
A group I was working with had this strange phenomenon where their windowed machine learning algorithm would just crap out on certain training sets.
A few weeks later, I was presenting my results and casually mention that, hey, the dataset i got is just outright missing 20% of the data, but there's still enough to illustrate the results, next slide. One of the leads asks, "wait. why didn't anyone notice this?"
I had assumed that it was just my dataset. Nope, turns out that the data just wasn't there at all (this was our partner's fault). It's not quite as trivial as it may seem, since it was point data and required some amount of interpolation. It was just that the interpolation script was intended to fill in, oh, a few hours or maybe days, but it was filling in a year or two.
Back on topic, I noticed it at first because I plotted the covariates (apparently I was the first to do this) and noticed that they were rock-still for huge sections. Sometimes the problem isn't with the code, or even the theory. Visualizing fixed algorithms may or may not be helpful, depending on audience and application, but even a crude visualization of the actual problem and data can almost never hurt. If nothing else, it gives you actual slides to show people. Not really knowing what's going into your algorithm is generally a bigger problem than choosing the "right" algorithm. Of course, sometimes the data really is too big/complex to plot, so you have to look at various algorithmic reductions, which can always make things interesting.
Now to try to parlay my apparently rare insights into cash.
dear slashdot, i have great memories of jerking off to grainy GIFs i downloaded with my friends on a 2400 baud modem while my parents were away. unfortunately dosbox doesn't emulate modems at a low enough level, and my friends are married and/or moved away, except for one who just hung up on me when i suggested we enact our nostalgia. all this after i got telemate running! imagine my disappointment! i'm sure that at least one of those 1337 BBSes is still running, the sysops were so kewl.
so the only logical thing is to join the dosbox team to implement proper hardware support! i need some help on basic C programming. i'm awesome at computers like that javascript class i took at community college, but i'm having trouble with the next step. thanks, slashdot!
well, they probably also have some level of public sanitariums, like we used to before we decided it was cheaper and better this way.
He doesn't need your 'physics'. He's a capitalist, you see, and understands that the market makes things work!
oh, it'll just be a different trillion dollar bureaucracy, don't kid yourself. maybe a better one (or maybe worse, who really knows?), but it'll still be a bureaucracy with a shitton more money than most people could imagine.
lasers and 'splosions. maybe some time travel. whoa.
are we supposed to actually believe that your 'friends' at the university lab never speak to one another in person and just stare at their phones all day? and that all of your attempts to communicate verbally with these people are met with these oddly-worded rebuffs? if that's actually true (it isn't, of course), then fuck 'em.
you sound like an insecure, whiny loser. maybe that's the real problem here. people are lazy and fragile; your 'friends' are just using the facebook thing as an excuse to avoid interacting with you (maybe partly because you refused to interact with them in their preferred medium; people are weird that way.)
anyway, you don't have to be friends with your co-workers. many academics seem to have this problem. however noble your lab's mission may be, it is still just work. unless you live in some godforsaken hellhole, there will be other people with your interests somewhere around. look for them. maybe you just need a change.
you want more control over burning a cd? why? there are countless little micro-optimizations and hacks, do you want a few hundred pointless variables, or do you want to just click the "burn" button and be done with it? i know which one i wanted.
i take it you don't remember having to manually remount your cd burner on linux for each burn. christ, that was idiotic, and there were even GUIs that made you jump through these hoops. taking every bullshit step and turning it into a button is the worst way to design an interface.
uh, yeah, i've taught quite a few dumbfuck asians (mainland Chinese, no less) at an ivy league university.
raising your kid in a totalitarian hellhole where their major hope to avoid a life of reselling used cooking oil out of sewer is to force them to 'study' for 10+ hours a day imitating Americans is a pretty good motivator. would you do it to your kid?
sorry, man, it's not genetics, or at least not exclusively, as much as our capitalist overlords would like to have us believe that; never trust statistics out of a totalitarian regime. it's mostly misery and desperation, and the work ethic of a chinese once the whip is removed from his back is right around nonexistent. their society is sort of, barely, working for catch-up. if they ever get to the point where they are innovative leaders, they are going to have a really tough time.
what the fuck does the lack of a quality $50 oscilloscope have to do with "truth"?
you're right in a round-about way; "China and Walmart" got everyone used to paying almost nothing for a bunch of shiny shit, so when you actually have to pay $$ for something useful or quality it feels like an outrage for no directly-relevant reason.
the benefit is that once you can prove something "obvious" (what is obvious, anyway?) is a sufficiently radical way, it's then easy (or at least possible) to start proving incredibly non-obvious things.
what? i thought you were "not going to have this discussion". lol.
what the fuck are you talking about? if you want anyone to listen to you, explain yourself why running Shor's is inadequate to illustrate sufficiency; don't link to a wikipedia article about something you don't understand.
btw, this was referring specifically to d-wave.
we do have bona fide quantum computers already. it's just that they have so far, at most, 7 qubits, and the registers persist for only ~100 microseconds. but they do exist.
we have quantum computers with seven qubits, so strictly speaking we do have them already. scaling seems to be an issue, but progress is being made.
and of course we'll still be doing research into them in 50 years. we're still doing research into classical computers after all.
well, we are 100% certain that the computations are not on the individual quantum bit level. what d-wave claims is to have quantum adiabatic computation, which achieves some quantum speed-up on some optimization problems by (roughly speaking) quantum-parallelizing hill-climbing algorithms.
and it seems so far that they are full of shit, even on that vague claim...
it was a typo. if he's talking about DC in the summer, 100% relative humidity is much, much more likely than 10%. FL is the same, and it's hell.
Time of year is pretty irrelevant when it comes to how you perceive it.
oh, don't be an ass.
I'm getting all verklempt. Topic!
Snowden is neither snow, nor a den.
Talk amongst yourselves.
it's the Gibbs entropy.
i guess it's there because entropy is cool.
nor is there a magic difference between a licensed and an unlicensed "pirate" medication, but we recognize the difference quite forcefully through state power because we "have to" for free markets to work.
also there are no champagne grapes, per se. there are grapes which are generally used for champagne (and sometimes legally required), but they aren't specific to champagne.
Generally, programmers think of themselves as artists who happen to be paid a bunch of money for their irreplaceable genius, as opposed to the artists they sneer at and 'monetize'. A union as we know them doesn't really make sense for creative work; some kind of mutualist support system would make more sense. I think the major point is that programmers are the ones automating tasks. Maintenance takes some persistent labor, but at this moment we have a, shall we say, "bubble" of big ideas.
Anyway, this fleeting glory will pass, and probably not exactly the way they think it will.
true, but that is a perniciously relative standard, as you will probably learn eventually one way or another. :)
i don't understand; were they contractually required to sleep there?
that's nice, dear. go back to bed.