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bob_bob_bobon The leading cause of death in the US on Apr 6 was Covid-19

The chart is showing deaths per day

bob_bob_bobon Sheryl Sandberg Is Said to Have Asked Facebook Staff to Research George Soros

I'm not sure what "this" you're referring to is, but assuming it's Definers: where did you learn she was involved the entire time? This article says:

  Ms. Sandberg [...] asked for the information in an email to a senior executive in January[...]. The email came within days of a blistering speech Mr. Soros delivered that month at the World Economic Forum, attacking Facebook and Google as a “menace” to society and calling for the companies to be regulated.

This seems like a pretty reasonable reaction. As far as I understand this has nothing to do with Definers.

bob_bob_bobon A foundation for scikit-learn at Inria

It's true that scikit-learn was started and originally written mostly by PhD students (most were in fact CS PhDs), and the API they designed is amazing! A lot of the python ML ecosystem has adopted it and uses it - fit, predict, transform. I don't think any language has something comparable.

4 years ago they removed a misleading class - and even at the time the documentation was clear about what it was doing. I'm not sure how this reveals some huge flaw about scikit-learn. At best it shows that the contributors can realize their mistakes and solve them, without even needing people to point it out? That's great!

Also pointing to a bad implementation 4 years ago, for a project which has since then had way more funding for engineering time, and who's use has exploded, seems a bit misleading.

bob_bob_bobon Facebook finally hands over leave campaign Brexit ads

Getting people to vote leave because they don't like some foreigners (Turkey or Syria) is quite literally the definition of xenophobia. This is especially true when Turkey is not even close to joining the EU.