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Why squared error?
Someone recently asked on the statistics Stack Exchange why the squared error is used in statistics. This is something I’d been wondering about myself recently, so I decided to take a crack at...
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Venezuela’s Currency Just Had its Biggest Monthly Collapse
Bloomberg NewsNovember 24, 2016 — 1:02 PM ESTVenezuela’s currency - the so-called “strong bolivar” - is weakening beyond levels that analysts had forecast just a few weeks ago as an expanding money...
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Show HN: A visual guide to the most popular CSS properties
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NY explorers find 1872 shipwreck of rare Great Lakes vessel
By CHRIS CAROLAAssociated PressALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - The 144-year-old shipwreck of a rare sailing vessel that typically wasn't used for long voyages on the Great Lakes has been found in deep water off...
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Satellites Confirm Sinking of San Francisco's Millennium Tower
Satellites confirm sinking of San Francisco towerMillennium Tower sinking25 November 2016 The Sentinel-1 satellites have shown that the Millennium Tower skyscraper in the centre of San Francisco is...
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Speech-to-Text-WaveNet: End-to-end sentence level English speech recognition
README.mdA tensorflow implementation of speech recognition based on DeepMind's WaveNet: A Generative Model for Raw Audio. (Hereafter the Paper)Although ibab and tomlepaine have already implemented...
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Why pledge(2) or, how I learned to love web application sandboxing
I use application-level sandboxing a lot because I make mistakes a lot; and when writing web applications, the price of making mistakes is very dear. In the early 2000s, that meant using systrace(4)...
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My Life with Tourette’s Syndrome
If people know of Tourette’s, they will often say: “Oh, that’s that swearing disease!” A woman once said to me: ”At least you don’t swear! You would’ve been worse off!”Compulsive swearing is called...
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Geocities Cage at the Exodus Datacenter
This is what the inside of the cage looks like. Nearly all of the machines in the cage are Sun Ultra 2s. Attached to nearly all of these boxes are dual sets of MTI JBODs ("Just a Box Of Disks")...
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VLC 360° Technical Preview
This project wouldn't have been possible without the help of Giroptic, who has provided samples, cameras, code and expertise on those features. "VLC is one of the video players most widely used in the...
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The Thin Gene
“Nothing comes close to starting with people who are naturally different,” he said. This is why he searches out patients at the extreme ends of the spectrum — those who are wired to weigh 80 pounds or...
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'Millennium' is full of gratitude for the staggering advances of 1,000 years
Pause for a moment from your rapt attention to this review of Ian Mortimer's terrific new book Millennium and look up. Look around you. Try to see the layers of time that blanket every feature of your...
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Stripe has raised $150M more at a $9B valuation
Stripe, the online payments company that has essentially become the default acceptance service for startup companies in the U.S., has raised around $150 million in a new round of funding. The round...
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Transparent DNS proxies
Some ISP's are now using a technology called 'Transparent DNS proxy'. Using this technology, they will intercept all DNS lookup requests (TCP/UDP port 53) and transparently proxy the results. This...
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Amazon makes good on its promise to delete “incentivized” reviews
Amazon is making good on its promise to ban “incentivized” reviews from its website, according to a new analysis of over 32,000 products and around 65 million reviews. The ban was meant to address the...
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Married to someone with anxiety
I thought I would write a post about what it is like being married to someone who has anxiety.The charity MIND encourages us to talk about mental health so as we can break down barriers. My wife and I...
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Tesla Shock Means Global Gasoline Demand Has All but Peaked
After fueling the 20th century automobile culture that reshaped cities and defined modern life, gasoline has had its day.The International Energy Agency forecasts that global gasoline consumption has...
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Mars Ice Deposit Holds as Much Water as Lake Superior
Fast Facts:› Water ice makes up half or more of an underground layer in a large region of Mars about halfway from the equator to the north pole.› The amount of water in this deposit is about as much as...
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