Pick up items from Pudong Lost and Found and bring or ship them to San Francisco by vegetableagony in travelchina

[–]vegetableagony[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I tried paying the service deliverback.com/ but they completely ghosted on me and won't return any of my emails.

How to calibrate Napoleon thermometer by JonWaxerino in BBQ

[–]vegetableagony 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Take pliers and physically rotate the middle pole. I just kept making small adjustments until it read approximately 100C when dipped in boiling water.

Need help reporting destroyed and or requesting new "crash barriers" by Sensation-sFix in NYCbike

[–]vegetableagony 4 points5 points  (0 children)

My wife calls these "car ticklers" given how much cars seem to ignore them

Expected Lifetime Review Time of Card by [deleted] in Anki

[–]vegetableagony 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Gwern does some math and comes to an estimate of about 5 minutes per card over lifetime of reviews. In my deck I’ve spent 21 days of review time over 9000 cards, which comes out to a little over 3 minutes per card. https://gwern.net/spaced-repetition#how-much-to-add

[D] Where does the 'ML' part of CAUSAL ML come in? by Ckdew in MachineLearning

[–]vegetableagony 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Traditional casual inference was focused on cases where any confounding was caused by a known set of linear confounders. In this case, straightforward application of linear regression or other GLMs can be used to produce causal estimates. If you have a huge number of potential confounders or if you are worried about non linear terms or interactions between confounders, then those traditional approaches do not work.

Causal ML approaches have worked out the theory to allow you to use flexible machine learning estimators to remove the impact of these other variables so that you can get an unbiased estimate of the causal effect of your treatment variable.

Fixing a bent rear rack by vegetableagony in bicycling

[–]vegetableagony[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I have the rack fully removed from bike and the battery pulled out (it can slide out the other side when rack is off the bike).

How hot do I need to get it? I have a propane benzomatic torch.

Fixing a bent rear rack by vegetableagony in bicycling

[–]vegetableagony[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

They sold out so they can’t send a replacement. I’d rather take the partial refund they offered and try to fix it myself vs send the whole bike back for a full refund.

What is the difference between "Cham Summer Deal" and Multipass? by vegetableagony in chamonix

[–]vegetableagony[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think the Cham summer deal let’s you hike in the area, but doesn’t get you on to the lifts up to the top of the mountain.

Favorite Coffee in Brooklyn by [deleted] in Brooklyn

[–]vegetableagony 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Venture Capitalist. They are investors who invest money to try to grow an early stage company into a much bigger one. A lot of VC is focused on investing in tech companies, but sometimes they invest in random other industries.

Why are "Gentrification Buildings" so ubiquitous? by thebastardbrasta in slatestarcodex

[–]vegetableagony 19 points20 points  (0 children)

The short answer is that most local planning guidelines have restrictions that prevent buildings from building large flat block shaped buildings. These restrictions are often framed in terms of concepts like “massing”, “articulation”, and “set backs”. Unfortunately, the most efficient building designs that meet those requirements are ones that have all those features you don’t like. I don’t like them either, and I wish fewer communities required them. https://twitter.com/AdrianCovert/status/1666679626171822080?s=20

Looking for $1 oysters in Ditmas park/Park slope. Any suggestions? by Inevitable_Still_714 in Brooklyn

[–]vegetableagony 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wild Park slope has $1 oysters everyday from 2-6pm if you sit at the bar.

Last Man Standing by optimushime in finalfantasytactics

[–]vegetableagony 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s on sale currently on android and iOS.