hillz

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data scientist, artist, hedonist, utilitarian, friend.
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Comment · 2 years ago
> clearly guilty as hell

I think you underestimate the power of neuroses. Good chance no money was involved.

Comment · 6 years ago
It sounds like they don't really use it. Their about page says:

  We’re collecting data to find out if humans' pattern- 
 recognition and puzzle-solving abilities make them more 
  efficient than existing computer programs at pattern- 
 folding tasks. If this turns out to be true, we can then 
  teach human strategies to computers and fold proteins 
  faster than ever!

Indicating that at some point they may use it, though judging from recent trends in reinforcement learning, they probably won't.
Comment · 7 years ago
> We’ve seen the opposite phenomenon happen in every market.

Not really? If buffalo wings are like a man's name, or men's pants, the same trend would be for women to adopt those things (which we do). Similarly, if you market only towards women, it is seen as somewhat shameful for a man (and sometimes, even for a woman) to purchase that good.

Comment · 7 years ago
> This [plot # 2] view wasn’t very useful

I disagree. It shows that far more gender-neutral or boy names become significantly more popular as girl names, compared to the other way around. That's pretty interesting.

This conforms to the idea that a boy with a girl's name (or other girlish attribute) is bad, whereas a girl with a boy's name (or other boyish attribute) is not as bad, or is even good.

Comment · 7 years ago
If a tree is planted, grows, and then for example is burned down and paved over, that'd be true. But if a tree grows and eventually dies in a forest, it'll be replaced with new trees naturally, cancelling out the CO2 leaked from the tree dying. This C02 can also be stalled by harvesting the tree and using it in some way that stops C02 from being released for a longer time than natural.
Comment · 7 years ago
> the bare edges of the canvas suggest that the woman has agency, physical and otherwise; in Morisot’s garden scenes or beflowered interiors, the dresses melt into the background, refuting the viewer’s possession of the figure. Morisot’s messy brushstrokes—some of the most daring among her contemporaries’—suggest that “woman” is pure fiction, an idea bursting at the seams of the experience it supposedly names.

Seems like the author is projecting their own opinions onto Morisot's art.

That being said, it's incredibly sad that women were so devalued and minimized in that time.

Comment · 9 years ago
I think s/he means evolutionary speaking.
Comment · 9 years ago
$0. Left a 108k job, now developing recipestasher.com for free and fun on my own. Will probably get a real job again soon...
Comment · 9 years ago
Living in a city does tend to produce fewer greenhouse gases. But the reason most people live in cities? Jobs.
Comment · 9 years ago
Why draw the lines by state? Wouldn't income or race be better dividers?
Comment · 9 years ago
That's like saying: let's ignore 58.55 million voters for no reason other than where they live. More than 18% of the entire US population.

States are arbitrary dividers, it's silly to think there's some great reason for allowing people in some random groups (states) have much more voting power than others. What if the dividers were based on income, race, etc? Wouldn't even that be more reasonable?

Comment · 9 years ago
I mean... He did lose the popular vote. So 'most' people didn't have an influence on the election. Or at least, the plurality of people.
Comment · 9 years ago
Yeah, that's fair. I'm doing the same thing with recipestasher.com. I lose about $400/yr on it, but I really like using it and so do a few other people. No ads, no clickbait crap. But, I realize that I'm quite privileged to be able to do it.
Comment · 9 years ago
I've tried asking multiple times (for non-emergency procedures) and each time they've said they don't know. (Kaiser)
Comment · 9 years ago
First I thought this was Jim Dale - the amazing narrator of Harry Potter - and was pretty confused.

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