MaxMorlock

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by MaxMorlock 14y ago
...hmmm. Somehow I expected a blog entry about statistics. :-( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootstrapping_(statistics)
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by MaxMorlock 15y ago
Would you please be so kind and explain in some more detail what you mean? Thank you!
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by MaxMorlock 15y ago
You are really funny. You pretend to be the grown-up here and still write M$. :-)
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by MaxMorlock 16y ago
What hasn't been mentioned yet is that Kubrick was inspired by the short story "The Sentinel" by AC Clarke. The monoliths in the short story are placed by intelligent beings through space, typically on moons of adjacent planets. The monolit
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by MaxMorlock 16y ago
The 128-bit storage of ZFS reminds me a bit of TeX. As far as I can remember reading the TeX book, Don Knuth also wanted to play it safe. Internally, everything relies on integers (no floating point operations), and the smallest internal un
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by MaxMorlock 16y ago
It is four weeks (minimum). Please check: http://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/burlg/__3.html It is 24 working days and since Saturdays count as working days: 24 / 6 = 4 It is called "Bundesurlaubsgesetz" -- my translation: Federal Vacation
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by MaxMorlock 16y ago
It reminds me somehow of "Deconstructing My Car at the Detroit Airport" by Howard S. Schwartz. Originally published in "Organization Studies" 1993, Vol. 14, pp. 279-281. Link to the pdf of the publisher: http://oss.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint
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by MaxMorlock 17y ago
I wonder how large the proportion of social scientists is who actually know that Python is a programming language. (I am a social scientist myself). In my own experience, it is already pretty hard to teach them R.
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by MaxMorlock 17y ago
Uranus and Neptune, the two outermost planets? Still not used to the fact(?) that Pluto is not a planet anymore. :-/