John Doucette

New York, NY, USA

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How can I determine whether a student has written an excellent paper themselves, or hired someone else to do it?

plagiarism asked Mar 14 '14 at 20:51

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Is there an advantage to keeping a liquid emergency fund if one also has an untapped line of credit?

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What suggestions should I make when reviewing a poorly written paper?

peer-review writing reviewing asked Feb 18 '14 at 17:11

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29 votes

Why does my X11 forwarding attempt fail with “connect /tmp/.X11-unix/X0: No such file or directory”?

ssh x11 asked Nov 29 '12 at 14:08

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List of Defined Variables in R

r asked Mar 16 '12 at 19:49

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25 votes

Have more people been killed by automobiles than by all wars combined?

statistics cars death war asked Mar 6 '14 at 16:36

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22 votes

Forcing “date” to use a locale other than the machine default

bash unix date asked Oct 15 '12 at 13:21

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21 votes

Removing a stuck pedal

repair pedals diy asked Mar 13 '12 at 18:09

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21 votes

Is it possible to have connecting loop lines (like algorithm2e) in algorithmic?

algorithms algorithm2e asked Apr 18 '12 at 21:11

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Why is a static member function _declared_ static, but _defined_ otherwise in C++?

c++ static scope static-methods asked Nov 23 '12 at 14:46

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Does the TSA have a fail rate of 95% in breach tests?

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Have more people been killed by automobiles than by all wars combined?

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Is the Earth experiencing another mass extinction event?

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How can I avoid having my R script printed every time I run it?

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A lecturer is hard to understand, what to do?

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How can I interpret the intent of and respond to cars behind me honking?

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Did the USA kill thousands of people between 2001 and 2013 using UAVs to inspire terror?

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Strategies for introducing advanced statistics to various audiences

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Does marijuana impair driving?

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Keeping track of visited states in Breadth-first Search

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How do I choose which algorithm is best for something like a checkers board game?

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Do electric cars create more fine dust pollution than comparable petrol cars?

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Has the snowball approach to debt repayment been shown to have any advantages?

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Does AI rely on determinism?

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What exactly does 'representative sample' refer to?

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Cut U-Lock…Bicycle Left?

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Are “ectomorph”, “mesomorph” and “endomorph” valid and useful descriptors?

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Why don't the absolute value methods on signed integers return unsigned values?

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How can I avoid having a specific teacher?

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What are the domains where SVMs are still state-of-the-art?

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Is machine learning less useful for understanding causality, thus less interesting for social science?

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Why does naiveBayes return all NA's for multiclass classification in R?

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How to use statistics to help buy a house?

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Using rage faces in presentation

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Transitive copying - plagiarism?

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Why are derived features used in neural networks?

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Why doesn't Q-learning converge when using function approximation?

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What is the difference between search and learning?

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What are the mathematical prerequisites for an AI researcher?

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Does Monte Carlo Search (specifically used by AlphaZero) Qualify as Machine Learning?

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