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Lab-Grown Diamonds Come into Their Own 10 years ago

"It's a Mossanite"

"...a...what-a-nite?"

"A Mossainite. Artificial, spurious, not-genuine and it's worth....fuck all"

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Ask HN: Cheap living and fast internet and cold climate? 10 years ago

Hokkaido.

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Probabilistic Data Structure Showdown: Cuckoo Filters vs. Bloom Filters 10 years ago

...which is why for determining if something is unknown, you ask SQL...are you indeed NULL? And SQL should say 'true' or 'false'.

    SQL null IS null

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Best Practices for Time Travelers (2003) 10 years ago

"There are no particles, only waves."

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Why squared error? (2014) 10 years ago

I agree with this comment because ML comprises some techniques that are still not understood [1].

I would like to think that statistics comes more from a pure math approach, loosely, while ML comes from an applied math approach, loosely. ML works spectacularly well on a class of problems. Why it does what it does is (in)conveniently brushed under the rug. How you treat that (in)convenience is left to you.

[1] https://www.quantamagazine.org/20151203-big-datas-mathematic...

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