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by acscott314 1y ago
Glad this is getting some attention For central limit theorem to hold, the random variables must be (independently and identically dustributed) i.i.d. How do we know our samples are i.i.d.? We can only show if they are not Add to that http
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by acscott314 2y ago
Humans have 100 billion https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4689008/
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by acscott314 4y ago
Was 14 and on a Friday boss gave me some money to go find a book on C. He would take care of the expense form. I read the book over the weekend, and he had me writing code on Monday. (The book had a diamond on the cover and didn't tur
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by acscott314 4y ago
moonchild supplied a link: https://web.archive.org/web/20200607225553/https://www.funct...
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by acscott314 9y ago
Presumably, to consider productivity the purpose is to get the most bang (output) for your buck (input). The cost, C, to create app, A, that generates income I, varies with the pool of talent that will actually do the work. Also, consider
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by acscott314 13y ago
Why is this article on HN? Come on. Select * is just a construct. When is it bad? That would be a better discussion. In any case the article demonstrates a lack of fundamental understanding of relation database technologies such as a c
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by acscott314 13y ago
Desktop client disk space is large enough to have a VM for many sites. In the future, if it increases enough to have a VM for every web application _and_ work offline you have the selling point that the app can work during infrastructure f