snakeboy

I think it was a joke and not a failure to read the article. Still not contributing to discussion though.

Wow, that sounds like the perfect set up, yet I've never heard of anything like it. Where is this place?

It seems like it'd be useful for one or both of you to cite any research than has been done on this.

Seems more productive (and enlightening to all) than the agree/disagree dialogue here.

In very broad terms, PCA can be thought of as a pre-processing step to reduce the original data set to the "components" which account for the most variation in the data.

Essentially it's distilling your data down to what is most relevant, and thus helps say a classification algorithm work better by only training on the reduced "more manageable" data.

He was rebutting the claim of the previous commenter that these political murders are carried out exclusively by "leftists".

They in no way said it was more acceptable. Just that to the individual, it is more pleasant to have to deal with a company which is less explicitly racist. Certainly there is still room for improvement.

For reference on the logical fallacies used in your comment, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nirvana_fallacy and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_fallacy.

I suppose you will also enjoy the same shitty country?

It sounds like you are the apathetic voter in this scenario.

I would think that given different peoples' standards of "approval", ranked-choice voting is much simpler for the genreal public to grasp, and a more useful metric to base an election on.

I suppose we'll see how Maine handers their newly-implemented ranked-choice scheme in the coming election cycles.

Dan is definitely a bit long-winded at times, but for me, podcasts work best when the person behind the mic has a real persona that you can relate to. I tune in to Dan Carlin because he's a smart, insightful guy, but I also just love to listen to him talk and feel that I am connecting to someone when I do. To that end, I actually enjoy the intros and asides as much as the historical content of the episode!

I feel that Ira Glass (This American Life), Jad Abumrad (Radiolab) and Roman Mars (99 Percent Invisible) all have this same effect.

I've almost-exclusively seen "Commutative Groups" referred to as "Abelian Groups". Is there a reason you use "Commutative Groups"? I'll admit my algebra is quite limited and I may be missing a subtlety.

Glenn Greenwald wrote an excellent piece about this and another similar "Russian fear-mongering" story from the Washington Post.

https://theintercept.com/2017/01/04/washpost-is-richly-rewar...

I think his point was that the previous poster should not have been so quick to call it out as a partisan issue, not placing blame on Democratic governance.