2. Difficulty of presenting results to people with different prior beliefs. (Strictly speaking, in Bayesian terms, the answer you give must always be relative to *someone*.)
3. Ease of 'cheating', even unintentionally, by choosing priors to favour a certain result.
Why not just report likelihoods instead and let the reader multiply it with any prior they want? In many cases, the prior won't make much of a difference anyway, I suppose.
4. Proliferation of methods that pretend to be Bayesian but are in fact probably not. (e.g. Empirical bayes methods)
Sure, do away with empirical Bayes. Anyway, I don't think "When using Bayesian methods, you run the risk of using non-Bayesian methods." is an argument for not using Bayesian methods.
I'm saying this because this always comes up, but people don't realise the bayesian approach is necessarily a magic bullet either.
Regardless of what practical obstacles there might be for using Bayesian inference, using something else would be wrong, leading to results that make you take the wrong actions!
I'd like to have a go at the database myself. Is it included in the article (which I don't have access to)? (It should be, IMHO, because how do you otherwise replicate their results?) Can it be found elsewhere?
Maybe it's obvious, but I'm clueless. Why did they not want him to report on "shootouts and other activities"? I would have guessed they rather wanted their brutal behaviour to be known. What activities was it they did not want reported on?
So editors aren't just too lazy to shape up submissions, they actively make them worse? This is really disappointing. What are you doing, Slashdot editors?
Feynman's "popular press photos" are all from his middle age when he was earning his 2nd Nobel
I'm not aware that Feynman received the Nobel prize more than once. (Sorry to pick on unimportant details here, I'm just so concerned about the children, that they don't get miseducated.)
Achieving MITM status is a very different thing from installing a rootkit, in my mind. The summary left out how the two could be connected but the article mention something about it:
Coderman’s report suggests that, like Wi-Fi MITM, which regularly harasses surfers at DEF CONs and other hacker conventions, the attackers were able to inject custom packets into the 4G and CDMA data stream. These forged packets allowed the attackers to create on-screen prompts that, if clicked, installed a rootkit on the PC or Android device.
So, to install the rootkit, you also need to exploit a bug in the user. Where do I file the bug report?
Thank's for the info. I suppose that would allow me to let my guard down against MeeGo, then. Now when someone only makes a phone with this OS and a physical keyboard and high performance and a good battery life, I might actually go ahead and upgrade from my current ten year old phone! Yay!
Why doesn't the submitter link to the actual articles? Why don't the editors make sure those links are included before the story is posted? Why is there at all a link to ScienceBlog? All relevant information the blog post contains would fit into a Slashdot summary.
Does anyone have the links to the papers so we can actually read about this work?
The casinos didn't care, nor should they, because the overall pay table was still 95% or 90%. In other words they still made their money on the masses. But if you as an individual watch closely enough, in the short term you can make money.
Why doesn't one adjust the payouts continuously so that it always stays close to 90%, or whatever the target is? I'm thinking you would like to maximise the payouts to those without the special insights (so as to inspire them to play more) and if you pay 105% to one, someone else is getting only 75%. I mean, you wouldn't want to pay 1 000% to those in the know and zero to everyone else, because then no one would play.
This proposal doesn't address that: a volume limit isn't going to provide an incentive to expand the dynamic range, since producers are just going to make sure every song bumps right up to the new brick wall.
Could an automatic gain system not make the average loudness (in some sense) equal for every song so that one with loud and soft parts is louder in its loud parts than a song that has an even loudness throughout?
I skimmed the article, but I don't see that they mention how they noticed the debris. How was that done? Because they crew went into the escape capsules, you'd think it was detected i advance. How long in advance? Otherwise, perhaps they just felt that after one piece had already passed them, others were likely to follow, motivating the emergency readyness.
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Why not just report likelihoods instead and let the reader multiply it with any prior they want? In many cases, the prior won't make much of a difference anyway, I suppose.
Sure, do away with empirical Bayes. Anyway, I don't think "When using Bayesian methods, you run the risk of using non-Bayesian methods." is an argument for not using Bayesian methods.
I'm saying this because this always comes up, but people don't realise the bayesian approach is necessarily a magic bullet either.
Regardless of what practical obstacles there might be for using Bayesian inference, using something else would be wrong, leading to results that make you take the wrong actions!
I'd like to have a go at the database myself. Is it included in the article (which I don't have access to)? (It should be, IMHO, because how do you otherwise replicate their results?) Can it be found elsewhere?
Grab a pair of shoes and start walking. Let us know when you've solved the travelling salesman problem.
Found him! He's right now in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. Well, that was easy enough.
What tablets are to recommend for running some more ordinary operating system, like Debian or Ubuntu?
Once you find a profitable strategy that works, and scales to large large amounts, Kelly is really useful to know.
Did you find such a thing? Tell us more, please, as much as you are comfortable with!
Maybe it's obvious, but I'm clueless. Why did they not want him to report on "shootouts and other activities"? I would have guessed they rather wanted their brutal behaviour to be known. What activities was it they did not want reported on?
Blame samzenpus. My submission said 1e-18.
So editors aren't just too lazy to shape up submissions, they actively make them worse? This is really disappointing. What are you doing, Slashdot editors?
it surfaced in gas-powered form, now the company has released video of a fully-electric version
First there was gas light, now we have electric light.
Why would all this put the prosecutor in any sort of favourable light (so that anyone would be interested in offering him sought-after positions)?
Inventor of the text file?
Feynman's "popular press photos" are all from his middle age when he was earning his 2nd Nobel
I'm not aware that Feynman received the Nobel prize more than once. (Sorry to pick on unimportant details here, I'm just so concerned about the children, that they don't get miseducated.)
Achieving MITM status is a very different thing from installing a rootkit, in my mind. The summary left out how the two could be connected but the article mention something about it:
Coderman’s report suggests that, like Wi-Fi MITM, which regularly harasses surfers at DEF CONs and other hacker conventions, the attackers were able to inject custom packets into the 4G and CDMA data stream. These forged packets allowed the attackers to create on-screen prompts that, if clicked, installed a rootkit on the PC or Android device.
So, to install the rootkit, you also need to exploit a bug in the user. Where do I file the bug report?
Is BlackBerry being a responsible part of British society, or is it overstepping its bounds?
These useless questions at the end! Is Slashdot trying to look like journalism or is it mocking it for its wicked ways?
Thank's for the info. I suppose that would allow me to let my guard down against MeeGo, then. Now when someone only makes a phone with this OS and a physical keyboard and high performance and a good battery life, I might actually go ahead and upgrade from my current ten year old phone! Yay!
Maybe one of these companies can start selling MeeGo phones for those of us who want pocket computers.
Yes! Or, even better, Meamo, which I understand is more Debian-like (deb packages, for example), rather than Fedora-esque as MeeGo (RPM packages).
Why doesn't the submitter link to the actual articles? Why don't the editors make sure those links are included before the story is posted? Why is there at all a link to ScienceBlog? All relevant information the blog post contains would fit into a Slashdot summary.
Does anyone have the links to the papers so we can actually read about this work?
The casinos didn't care, nor should they, because the overall pay table was still 95% or 90%. In other words they still made their money on the masses. But if you as an individual watch closely enough, in the short term you can make money.
Why doesn't one adjust the payouts continuously so that it always stays close to 90%, or whatever the target is? I'm thinking you would like to maximise the payouts to those without the special insights (so as to inspire them to play more) and if you pay 105% to one, someone else is getting only 75%. I mean, you wouldn't want to pay 1 000% to those in the know and zero to everyone else, because then no one would play.
This proposal doesn't address that: a volume limit isn't going to provide an incentive to expand the dynamic range, since producers are just going to make sure every song bumps right up to the new brick wall.
Could an automatic gain system not make the average loudness (in some sense) equal for every song so that one with loud and soft parts is louder in its loud parts than a song that has an even loudness throughout?
The Jet Age couldn't imagine the Age of Social Media clearly, but they got a few things right. And many more hilariously wrong.
Perhaps we are the ones who got it wrong.
Go read about Tesla and Edison
Please provide more specific references and summarise what they say.
Thanks. That "New User Script" thing lowered the barrier just enough to make it worthwhile. :-)
Is this script out there somewhere so I don't have to refresh how you set up your own scripts and then maintain it myself?
I don't get it. What are those horrible thing operating system does when you plug in a USB memory? Mine shows me the files store on it, at most.
I skimmed the article, but I don't see that they mention how they noticed the debris. How was that done? Because they crew went into the escape capsules, you'd think it was detected i advance. How long in advance? Otherwise, perhaps they just felt that after one piece had already passed them, others were likely to follow, motivating the emergency readyness.