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kuusisto··on A Single Male Cat’s Reign of Terror
Found it in the Results section:

> On average, 83% of captures were consumed by the cats (88% of invertebrates, 79% of reptiles and amphibians, 78% of mammals and 50% of birds) and the remaining items were left at the site of predation.

kuusisto··on Mysterious gut doctor begging Americans to throw out this vegetable. But which?
For those who don't want to read the actual interesting story about chumbox advertising:

"Anyway, seems like the vegetable is corn."

kuusisto··on Burger King is rolling out meatless Impossible Whoppers nationwide
Total percentages of vegetarian and vegan Americans do appear to be quite low, and they skew more liberal and lower income[1]. I'm not the person you're responding to, and it requires some extrapolation, but the liberal skew does at least suggest that vegetarians may skew "metropolitan" as well.

[1]https://news.gallup.com/poll/238328/snapshot-few-americans-v...

kuusisto··on Specification gaming examples in AI
https://www.newyorker.com/cartoon/a16995
kuusisto··on Ask HN: How did you learn Machine Learning?
I got my start by getting a PhD, but that's perhaps not a practical recommendation. In reality though, you might say I started learning ML by reading Mitchell in class: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/mitchell/ftp/mlbo... It's dated, but it's quite approachable and does a great job explaining a lot of the fundamentals.

If you want to approach machine learning from a more statistical perspective, you could also have a look at An Introduction to Statistical Learning to start: http://www-bcf.usc.edu/~gareth/ISL/ Or if you're more mathematically inclined than the average bear, you could jump directly into The Elements of Statistical Learning: https://web.stanford.edu/~hastie/ElemStatLearn/

If you want something a little more interactive than a book though, you might have a look at Google's free crash course on machine learning: https://developers.google.com/machine-learning/crash-course/... I checked it out briefly maybe six months ago, and it seemed pretty good. It seemed a bit focused on Tensor Flow and some other tools, but that's okay.

kuusisto··on Reddit’s April Fools’ experiment
Drawball
kuusisto··on Why I Would Raise Chickens
I'm pretty sure the chickens tied together on the bike are alive. I imagine it's just a lot easier to transport a bunch of them with a bike when they're tied together like that.

https://youtu.be/MwZxBPYqiLg?t=17s

kuusisto··on Why I Would Raise Chickens
That was a concern of mine too. It seems hard to guess how that might play out in practice though without a lot more information. For example, I wonder how localized the market effects might be. That is, how much do local populations sell chickens to one another, and how much does that affect market equilibrium.
kuusisto··on Show HN: Coderust – Prepare for Programming Interviews
At least one of the reviewers posted separate 5-star reviews for the paid and free version on the same day.

Edit: And on more careful inspection, they do say that they bought the paid version after liking the free version. I may have jumped the gun on that one.

kuusisto··on LogMeIn to discontinue free remote access product
Michael Pryor I think, actually.
kuusisto··on NSA collects millions of text messages daily in 'untargeted' global sweep
I think you mean 3% instead of .03%. Still.
kuusisto··on Bootstrap 3 RC2
Still no official Datepicker I guess, unless I missed it.
kuusisto··on The Awesomest 7-year Postdoc
I saw this through a friend on Facebook and it really resonated with me. I'm slowly approaching the completion of my PhD and it occurs to me that I'm not entirely certain what I plan to do with it. At this point though, I'm fairly certain that I don't want to go the R1 route.

I sometimes forget this myself, but I don't really have a master plan. I just do whatever seems most interesting and important to me at any given time, and I really don't think it's too terrible a philosophy. Interestingly, that would make this PhD the longest pet project of my life so far.

Edit: Just noticed that this article was already posted

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6081501

kuusisto··on The Constitution Applies When the Government Bans Americans From the Skies
It may not be illegal to fail a driving exam, but it is illegal to drive without a license. You acquire said license by passing the exam.
kuusisto··on So, you want to study computer science
For the record, this is not my blog, but a colleague's.