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jwp729··on A silent epidemic of male suicide (2011)
I'm sorry to hear about your loss. I'm glad you're able to get help through counseling.
jwp729··on Musical preferences mainly shaped by a person’s cultural upbringing
Shouldn't this article have appeared in Nurture magazine?
jwp729··on Ask HN: Microsoft Computer Vision API or Google Cloud Vision API?
Facial recognition is possible using the IBM Watson Visual Recognition service.
jwp729··on Ask HN: Microsoft Computer Vision API or Google Cloud Vision API?
If you tried the Watson vision offering when it was "AlchemyVision" then you may have tried a now out-of-date version of the service. The AlchemyVision and Visual Recognition tiles on Bluemix have recently been combined in a way that utilizes their complementary strengths. Consider retrying the updated service if you'd like!

Disclosure: I work at IBM Watson.

jwp729··on Commodities Are Crashing Like It's 2008 All Over Again
It could also be indicative of future market moves in other markets too, even if these moves are not crises. The large moves in commodities has been anomalously _uncorrelated_ with equity markets, though historically over long enough windows the two move together. This raises the question of whether this trend has broken or if one (commodities markets or equities) will budge in the direction of the other soon. My crystal ball is too smudgy to know this myself...
jwp729··on Understanding Mathematical Notation as Code
Surprised there's no mention of the Curry-Howard correspondence between proofs and programs.
jwp729··on What's Really Warming the World?
I think the information theoretic approach to modeling concerns actually implies such "simpler is better" approaches as Occam's Razor. At least that's my take on [http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/9601030], which derives a quantitative form of it.
jwp729··on “Considered Harmful” Essays Considered Harmful
Maybe not self-referene but reference to the class to which it belongs, cf. Quine's paradox:

"Yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation" yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation.

jwp729··on Deep Convolutional Inverse Graphics Network
Can you explain a bit more why the recurrent network structure becomes necessary at some point? Is that because reversing a CNN naturally means rendering by (de)convolution?