EvanMiller

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by EvanMiller 13y ago
It is satire, not farce.
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by EvanMiller 13y ago
Because for the first time, there is documentary evidence of massive government spying on the United States population. Until this week it was all hearsay from whistleblowers and unnamed sources. Because we care about individual rights an
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by EvanMiller 13y ago
Not the same document.
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Lazy Assignment and A/B Testing(evanmiller.org)
4 points by EvanMiller 13y ago|0 comments
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by EvanMiller 13y ago
Agreed 100%! As the introduction says this is supposed to be a "cheat-sheet" and a jumping-off point for further discovery... I'd love to see (and write!) more posts on when to apply things.
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by EvanMiller 13y ago
Thanks! I have relabeled it. (In a previous draft the entry was for unbiased variance and the inaccuracy slipped in during the transition.)
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by EvanMiller 13y ago
Uhhhh, Evan Miller here. Not sure why my name is in the submitted title, but whatever. The current selection on that page is somewhat limited, but I hope to grow it over time. The stuff at the beginning is pretty basic (e.g. standard deviat
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Announcing Evan's Awesome A/B Tools(evanmiller.org)
160 points by EvanMiller 13y ago|24 comments
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How To Get Great Ratings For Your Mac App(evanmiller.org)
45 points by EvanMiller 13y ago|6 comments
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by EvanMiller 13y ago
Ah yes, "the power of a society based on 10 times as much data". The best examples that the authors could come up with are: * A professor receiving an automatic notification about when his flight was delayed. This saved him approximately 2
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by EvanMiller 14y ago
It's time everyone understood a fundamental precept of startup acquisition rumors: If an acquisition price is leaked before the deal is completed, the acquiree has no intention of selling. In a private acquisition, there are only two part
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by EvanMiller 14y ago
Well, technically there is a difference between separate heaps and no shared memory. Data in Erlang is immutable, so processes could use a combined heap, but they still wouldn't have read-write shared memory. However, in my opinion separa
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by EvanMiller 14y ago
Man. This article, and the business-book morality that underpins it, is utter tripe. I heartily advocate that when it comes to managing their own time, employees do whatever they can get away with without getting fired. When it comes to neg
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by EvanMiller 14y ago
Why not return the favor and call it "Jobs"?
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by EvanMiller 14y ago
Julia's math library is starting to shape up: http://docs.julialang.org/en/latest/stdlib/base/#mathematica... It even has a digamma, Riemann zeta, and Bessel functions with fractional orders, which you won't find in Excel. The statistics
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by EvanMiller 14y ago
What, pray tell, is the hypothesis to be tested? Whether "my" or "your" results in more clicks? How do we know they aren't clicks borne of confusion? Whether "my" or "your" users visit the site more often? Over what time frame? A day? A wee
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by EvanMiller 14y ago
If I had one piece of advice it would be: Descend the rabbit holes! Rabbit Hole Syndrome is a symptom of having a curious, persistent, independent mind. If there were a drug that cured Rabbit Hole Syndrome, and everyone just worked on Shipp
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by EvanMiller 14y ago
> if you don't do proofs you won't get any better at understanding mathematics There is a vast world of mathematical understanding available to programmers who don't like proofs. I think there is some miscommunication here about what co
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by EvanMiller 14y ago
5) Take a random sample of 50,000 records and get 90% of the business intelligence value in about 2 seconds. If you're fitting a model with only 70 degrees of freedom then analyzing 150M records is a complete waste of time.
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by EvanMiller 14y ago
That's good to hear, because I am constantly running out of doorstops in my home. With current technology I have to go the hardware store 2-3 times a week just to pick up new doorstops. If I had a 3D printer in my home, I could simply print
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by EvanMiller 14y ago
The (1) next to your name is your "karma", which is designed to make the primitive hoarding and status-seeking parts of your monkey-brain feel inadequate when no one upvotes your comments.
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by EvanMiller 14y ago
Looks nice, but arranging the elements as a sphere, spiral, etc. completely defeats the purpose of the periodic table. Also, your atomic numbers are off by one.
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by EvanMiller 14y ago
There is more information on Michael Minovitch's website: http://www.gravityassist.com/ He sounds rather bitter that his story has not made him more famous, and comes off as something of a crank at that ("How Did Minovitch Discover (Creat
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by EvanMiller 14y ago
The money quote of this article is: "I propose to term such correlations... the serial correlations for the given series." The basic idea here is that observations in a time-series are not actually independent because each observation is
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by EvanMiller 14y ago
MYTH: 3D printers will never be able to print underwear FACT: Wrong. Hard plastic underwear provides amazing protection and support MYTH: 3D printers will never be able to print the Mona Lisa FACT: Wrong again. Today you can download a 3D m
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by EvanMiller 14y ago
Igor has been one of my programmer heroes for many years now, and I'm glad to learn more about his background through this article. The reading's a bit tough, as many verbs appear to be missing and a few Russian words remain untranslated. S
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by EvanMiller 14y ago
This is data visualization gone wrong. I am afraid you have drawn a wildly incorrect conclusion because the programmers were too lazy to deal with the political and historical inconvenience of Gov. George C. Wallace, the Southern Dixiecrat
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by EvanMiller 14y ago
Thanks. I've been testing on 3-4M records on a quad-core laptop, and it works great. I would guess that 10M records will be doable on an 8-12 core Mac Pro, but I don't have access to one to test this particular hypothesis.
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by EvanMiller 14y ago
The program uses the Objective-C run-time, but the core routines are written in C.
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by EvanMiller 14y ago
Thanks. I have updated the copy to better reflect the distinction between the two versions.

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