throrthaway
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Comment · 6 years ago
Ah, just the right time to publish about numpy - right when everyone is moving over to Julia because of numpy's warts.
Comment · 6 years ago
>A what point?
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/intrinsic
>Do you have a reason to think that means PCA is bad at representing similarity and kinship because of this?
I suggest you read up on the definition of "distance" and "similarity" before drinking the PCA kool-aid. You don't get to define an ad hoc distance just because it fits your ideas about ethnicity. But then, I only have the popgen community to back me up on this. What do you have?
>As for the Slate Star Codex source - that wasn't to prove anything, just to define the "weak man" term.
SSC, providing ammunition to online HBD proponents since 2013.
Comment · 6 years ago
Now my opinion may seem controversial but I personally believe having feature requests that are old enough to legally drink is not a sign of healthy project management
Comment · 6 years ago
Are they still paid by Mozilla, though?
Comment · 6 years ago
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/issues/233
16 years and still pending! All bets are off for this dark horse
Comment · 6 years ago
Pretty moribund. They got dropped by Mozilla so it's entirely community-driven, and there's only so many things you need to add to an email client, unless you want it to turn into emacs or something.
That said it's a damn good product that's damn good at what it does.
Comment · 6 years ago
Just in case people don't know, although the name sounds French I've literally never seen one in France. I guess it's like Mexico's Taco Bell or something
Comment · 6 years ago
Using a PCA to prove an intrinsic point about ethnicity is as laughable as it gets. You're aware the vectors in a PCA are just linear combinations of the observed features, right? You're just staring at the same data a different way.
But of course I didn't expect any less from someone who quotes Slate Star Codex of all sources to prove a point.
Comment · 6 years ago
Who knows, we might even see GNOME getting thumbnail previews in its file picker!
Comment · 6 years ago
If you've just now taken the venv plunge wait until you learn about conda. Python is more or less a shitshow when it comes for packaging and it's the reason I'm drifting away from it little by little
Comment · 6 years ago
If people freak out that the Vikings weren't pure-bred Scandinavians, wait until they learn about the identical ancestor point [0]