_fnhr

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Ask HN: Any way to hide all posts from specific domains?
18 points by _fnhr 5y ago|9 comments
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by _fnhr 5y ago
This is quality writing for a blog post. Bet it would be accepted for publication as a review article in a suitable scientific journal.
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Life on the Command Line (2011)(web.archive.org)
3 points by _fnhr 5y ago|0 comments
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Textfiles.com(textfiles.com)
47 points by _fnhr 5y ago|4 comments
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Analog: A simple productivity system(ugmonk.com)
152 points by _fnhr 5y ago|89 comments
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by _fnhr 5y ago
It also follows his own "fibonacci web design" style [1] [1]: https://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/fibonacciwebdesign.html
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Jürgen Schmidhuber's Home Page(people.idsia.ch)
28 points by _fnhr 5y ago|8 comments
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by _fnhr 5y ago
> If you don't mind me asking, do you suffer from any of the things he discusses in the book? Yes, the book was recommended by my therapist. There were interesting and helpful parts to the book, in my case specifically the idea that
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by _fnhr 5y ago
There are different NAs for different types of objects. And that's why you get: 1^NA_complex_ # NA But: 1^NA_real_ # 1
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by _fnhr 5y ago
Agree about 1^NaN being strange. Also R's cleverness with NA's is not so consistent. For example: median(c(1,1,1,NA)) Should return 1, since no matter what value is behind NA the median is still 1. But it returns NA.
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A Quick Introduction to R(github.com)
171 points by _fnhr 5y ago|103 comments
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by _fnhr 5y ago
But this "aren't clearly delineated" gets pedantic sometimes. The same issue is true for assigning hours into morning/day/evening/night, yet no-one talks about issues there. Stratifying something continuous int
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by _fnhr 5y ago
I am not sure if there is a linear trajectory. With some hypes the "othering" starts early and itself acts as a booster for hype, by creating the "initiated" group that everyone wants to be a part of. Also, unrelated, bu
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by _fnhr 5y ago
I second the Freedman, Pisani, Purves "statistics" recommendation. This book explains the concepts without using mathematics, but even people with phDs in mathematics praise it as one of the best textbooks on statistics [1] [1] h
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by _fnhr 5y ago
> I do not understand this argument. The unfortunate thing is that, I think, I understand your side. But something happened, I read some book or heard some talk that placed a seed of doubt in my mind. At first it was just a seed and I os
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by _fnhr 5y ago
Google, when used with double quotes and exact title, finds aggregator sites, but I was simulating looking for the original: https://joshmitteldorf.scienceblog.com/2020/07/08/politics-i... Here is one more, s
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by _fnhr 5y ago
Here is one example in Brave's favour, seach: politics influences the science of covid-19 Brave - first result. Google - no first page, no second page, no third page, stopped checking. Let's try that in quotes - it's the exac
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Doomsday Prep for the Super-Rich (2017)(newyorker.com)
50 points by _fnhr 5y ago|66 comments