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Why except Holland? Or parts of Denmark and Germany for that matter? It seems that 30-40% of bike share is definitely already happening in the harsh reality [1]. Add in another 30% walking and public transpor and a majority car-free city is definitely possible. And highly desirable for a myriad of reasons (public health, quality of life, sustainability, energy independence) [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modal_share

OT: This website is on a new (to me) level in the cookie wars. After I "change my preferences", which is already hidden behind purposely confusing wording, it has to "save my changed preferences", with a progress counter, that seems to get stuck on 90-something percent for a long time, with a big, handy "cancel" button visible.

It's hard to interpret this as anything other than maliciousness.

I suppose it was https://panopticlick.eff.org

90 GB is what was left, not what was used. But even 38 GB seems a bit too much for a fresh OS, I assume that includes a recovery partition or the good old GiB/GB mix-up.

The creators themselves are apparently rather confident that it will indeed count, at least for the guiness record. The World Cube Association doesn't have a "robot category" as far as I am aware.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Cubers/comments/42ank6/worlds_faste...

I have no professional experience with ML, so I might be missing something obvius here that's part of the industry paradigm.

But the article gives two points why you shouldn't use coefficient values to determine feature importance, which I think are only valid to some extent.

>a) changing the scale of the variable changes the absolute value of the coefficient

and

>(b) if features are multi-collinear, coefficients can shift from one feature to others.

Regarding a), well, that's what standardized coefficients are for.

b) is a bit trickier, but most regression models are based on the assumption of non-collinearity. This is of course a problem with real-world data, because you will quite often find some level of collinearity. That's when you (1) test for this issue and (2) look towards multilevel models.

>Collection and use of customer information

>Every access to our website and each download of a file on this website are logged. The storage serves internal system-related and statistical purposes. The following data is logged: name of the file, date and time of access, data volume transferred, notification of successful download, web browser and requesting domain. In addition, the IP addresses of the requesting computers are logged.

While I'm sure you have your reasons for this, a service like this naturally attracts users who value privacy and anonymity. Ever thought about adding a warrant canary of some kind?

>More or less no newspaper will do this. Reputable newspapers will have fact-checkers who will verify stated facts and direct quotes but giving people sight of the finished article before publication is something that no-one does.

No newspaper in the US. It is standard procedure for german newspapers to ask the interviewed for "authorisation" of the transcript before publishing anything. The german journalists association distanced itself from this practice more than a decade ago, [0] but it's still very common. This comes with all the problems you would imagine, especially a tendency for soft-ball questions.

Some journalists tried to draw attention to this issue by publishing a "redacted" version of interviews [1], but at the end of the day, if single journalists or entire newspapers refuse to follow the unwritten rules, they may find themselves out of interview partners very quickly [2][3].

[0]http://www.vap-deutschland.org/beitritt-en.php

[1]http://www.journalist.de/fileadmin/Bilder/Handwerk_und_Beruf...

[2]http://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/medien/autorisierung-v...

[3]http://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/jul/16/us-campaigns-qu...

A few blog posts earlier, the author writes about "Network Analysis application in Genetic Studies ", so I am confident to say this isn't a typo.

And for a quick-and-dirty custom analysis of big data sets, the unix tools might be a lot more convenient than databases.