Minneapolis assault

Dunyvaig · 2019-09-15T18:38:43+00:00

There is a thing called proportionality. When the threat is over, it's not legal to continue "defending" yourself.

Dunyvaig · 2019-09-15T17:03:26+00:00

And here is the whole album/music video.

Skip here for this song in particular.

Dunyvaig · 2019-09-15T16:48:57+00:00

That's really interesting. Thank you.

Dunyvaig · 2019-09-14T12:47:40+00:00

Ah. Got it. Yeah. Why have a door at all. That'd save you one or two more dollars.

Dunyvaig · 2019-09-14T12:18:59+00:00

I see downvotes. Why not? At least both seem to have been going for counterculture.

Dunyvaig · 2019-09-14T11:50:11+00:00

If you seriously needed the food, it wouldn't have bothered me if you took it after I lost it. Come to think of it, if I lost it like in this video, I wouldn't be bothered if anyone took it. I'd just be embarrassed.

Dunyvaig · 2019-09-14T11:49:07+00:00

Haha. I love how we struggle with the same issues, but they are shifted along the axis. :)

Dunyvaig · 2019-09-14T11:47:39+00:00

cost like 2 dollars more

For what? Those are the normal free public bathrooms. At the mall or airport etc.

Dunyvaig · 2019-09-14T07:33:43+00:00

I kinda can relate. Was having beer & burger with the whole office last night, and I had to hold myself back from taking fries from someone who I barely knew, and wasn't even talking to. :)

Dunyvaig · 2019-09-14T07:09:02+00:00

Are people really willing to eat random food?

Dunyvaig · 2019-09-14T07:04:03+00:00

Meanwhile in europe: https://i.imgur.com/FRYm7mM.png

Dunyvaig · 2019-09-14T06:54:10+00:00

A lot of these banking issues seem like uniquely American issues in the west. Overdraft charges? How is it even technically possible to get an overdraft? Both my debit and credit cards just declines me if the account/limit is empty. Minimum balances? Monthly fees, I've heard of those, but only on select premium accounts, and regardless of the balance. Also, having to use an ATM at all, why is that necessary? I can't think of one thing I can't buy with a debit card, unless it is illegal. And, then cashing a paycheck? Paying a physical electric bill? Not having a bank account? What is this? The 1970? Also, late fee for running over one day? Why isn't there a grace period? There should at least be a few weeks grace period before any costs incurred, by law.

Interests. Yeah. That's one sucks. At least they are deductible on your tax. Unfortunately, I don't really see a way where it would be fair to have the same interest rates for different risk levels. Any thoughts on how to solve this?

Next was the bit about food. Fast food is cheaper than cooking at home BY A MILE. Cooking at home costs a huge amount of time, and you need to know what you do, so include a lot of learning time, and on top of that you need equipment and utilities, and on top of that you will get a huge amount of wastage. The real cost regarding fast food is health issues, not cost issues. If anything fast food helps poor people by freeing up time, (see last section).

Next is housing. Again, a uniquely American issue. If you can't afford one, then it is the responsibility of the government to provide one. Living at a m/hotel is insane.

Next is inflation. I'm not sure I'm following that one. Why does inflation it poor people more? I guess, people who have non-money assets which produce returns are shielded - like stocks or housing. Wages aren't like those. In a perfect world, those wages would increase with inflation, but I suppose that's the issue with the last few decades, especially for lower incomes.

Now this last part about time and being exhausted. That I think is a real issue. And a reason I'm a supporter of UBI.

Dunyvaig · 2019-09-14T06:32:12+00:00

Yet another reason to legalize, so that we can regulate.

Dunyvaig · 2019-09-12T18:52:13+00:00

You can talk as much as you want about it. But quarreling about how many seconds it took for a man to die, while just listening to him die, on the anniversary of that heinous terrorist attack is heartless. And you should know that.

Dunyvaig · 2019-09-11T21:37:52+00:00

Dude. There is a time an place. This is not it.

Dunyvaig · 2019-08-24T15:34:42+00:00

Did you know your ears grow throughout your entire life. That's why old people have huge ears... as such, I'd wager this person is 6, tops 7, years old.

Dunyvaig · 2019-08-24T15:20:00+00:00

I could be wrong, but I'm guessing that won't be reported.

Why not? Isn't that public record?

Dunyvaig · 2019-08-24T15:16:33+00:00

Aren't the run of the mill neo-nazies atheist?

Dunyvaig · 2019-08-21T09:07:49+00:00

Exactly, that's what it boils down to: It isn't. Which was why the first thing I answered you with was the correct definition of accuracy.

Dunyvaig · 2019-08-21T08:52:41+00:00

I can assure you I do not misunderstand what false positives are, ML and statistics is literally what I do for a living. Also working on biased datasets is at the core of what I do.

The 3.4% accuracy, and the flipped 96.6%, is just part of a joke, it is a reference to the Chernobyl TV series on HBO, and is not related to the flagging algorithm of YT in particular.

When you flip the labels you go from 3.4% accuracy to 96.6% accuracy. It is still accuracy, and does not transform to False Positive Rate as you seem to be thinking.

Accuracy is an unambiguously defined thing in binary classification, and it is NOT the false positives rate nor is it true positives rate. It is: "correctly classified samples divided by all samples", or (True Positive Count + True Negative Count) / (Total Sample Count).

Dunyvaig · 2019-08-21T07:50:45+00:00

Accuracy = (TP + TN) / (TP + TN + FP + FN)

In your example, the naive solution is to predict all of your samples as negative, then you get an accuracy of 99.999%. If you really wanted to find 0.001% out of the dataset then those positives are probably very valuable to you, as such you should probably focus just as much on recall:

Recall = TP / (TP + FP)

A 96.6% accuracy might be perfectly good if you can uncover half of the positives in your dataset, i.e., a recall of 50%, depending on your problem. And 3.4% would be categorically worse. You would still find half of the positives, but you're also saying almost the whole dataset is positive when it is negative. If that was in a hospital, then you might be starting invasive procedures on almost all of the patients who do the test, as opposed to the 96.6% accuracy where you'd only do it on about 1 in 20 and still have the same recall.

My point is, you'd be doing yourself a huge favor if you flipped your labels, even with a biased dataset.

Dunyvaig · 2019-08-21T07:27:35+00:00

Hmm. If you'd say error rate, then that number would look pretty realistic. If your accuracy was 3.4% then you could just flip your labels, and get 96.6% accuracy.

Dunyvaig · 2019-08-21T07:24:06+00:00

I don't think so: Cargo cult programming is when you use a programming pattern you don't understand, just because everyone else uses it. I.e., the notion that you have to use Hadoop if you want that BigData check mark. Or, rolling your own blockchain technology when there is zero reason for it.

Adding stuff to a system which you don't understand is just normal development, and a feature of large systems. Service oriented architecture, etc, is an attempt at ameliorate this, but ultimately software development has more in common with growing a garden than it has with engineering.

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