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by acscott 9y ago
Now, having read some comments, do not get lost in your assumptions (which implies you should know your assumptions). It's really that simple.
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by acscott 9y ago
From the question without even reading a thing, why would any set of events follow a gaussian?
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by acscott 9y ago
No evidence to support the thesis. No special personal perspective to share the secret sauce. The unfilled job number of 6 million is an interesting data point. I'll give them that. But a job does not equal having a good life. In sh
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by acscott 9y ago
My grandpa who still legally drives turned 100 last year. He loves to eat meat (rare to raw), rich foods, and wanted to share with me his stash of liver pate in the refrigerator on my last visit. When I asked him about how he could hook m
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by acscott 10y ago
This reminds me of setting noatime for disk mounts ( http://askubuntu.com/questions/2099/is-it-worth-to-tune-ext4... ) Now I want to know the number of other configs to reduce the number of system calls. This all a
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by acscott 10y ago
Today's db optimizer builds a set of execution plans and chooses the best one based on "cost". Number of rows, memory access vs. disk access, and other things factor into this cost. Also, the higher the number of joins, the
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by acscott 10y ago
Interesting discussion as it considers how SQL is implemented, what is an abstraction, etc. On the topic of concept-rightness you quickly veer into a language game. gcc transforms c code into machine code (and may also output error messages
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by acscott 10y ago
"Science" has now many definitions. My personal understanding of "science" is this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYPapE-3FRw
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by acscott 10y ago
Didn't see any answer on how to "raise a genius". The presumption is that we want more geniuses and that Ph.D.s are precious resources to society. Is there also a tacit belief here in the Great Man theory of history? The me
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by acscott 10y ago
It's junk. Tried to get something useful done and version incompatibilites and poor documentation made it a losing battle. Type theory is over-wrought for getting things done. My boss doesn't care that I have to cast an integer
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by acscott 10y ago
Microsoft does not grow food, build houses, create clothes, cars, or protect you from foreign invaders. The basic human needs are not met by MS. The business that claimed that open-source was a cancer is just a marketing company with meme
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by acscott 10y ago
Maybe consider moving away from Windows/ You are living in their world. If they want PowerShell to be adopted their whole program management will make sure you can only get things reasonably done with PowerShell. It's their wor
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by acscott 10y ago
Microsoft operates as though, and under the assumption that their software is needed. It's a faulty premise. The presumption is arrogance incarnate. As a business I can fully, completely operate without any of the their software, pro
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by acscott 10y ago
Didn't even see a mention of what science really is. I bet you many "scientists" don't know (pun intended) and couldn't tell you what science is. Knowing an experiment or observation is not repeatable _is_ knowledg
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by acscott 10y ago
Thanks for the rant! I'm with you. Many people probably would not read an article about incremental advances in science. As an economics topic, genomics may be turning into a bigger influence. For a scientist working incrementally, a
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by acscott 10y ago
Cool essay written 1930. If you get a standard income for being a citizen that gives you shelter, food, clothing, healthcare, education. You then will be working for improving the quality of those items. And there will be some people who
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by acscott 11y ago
It's also bigger than necessary when a sequence will do. Large PKs mean larger indexes. For very large databases or very high volume every little inefficiency adds up. As I always say, if we don't split hairs now, we'll be
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by acscott 11y ago
Feynman said he scored 124 on an IQ test. IQ is not a good predictor for the kinds of meritorious achievement that SV mythologically prefers. Once you get lucky at findind the gold mine, you want people who are best trained in mining. Tha
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by acscott 11y ago
Dis-ease. Semantics. There can be morphological ( http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2785515/ ) and biochemical indicators of depression and anxiety. To make mice depressed they will do a forced swi
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by acscott 11y ago
Upper estimation of human population is 7.4 billion. With average number of devices at 5, that is 37 billion. In decimal that is 11 digits. In HEX (‭89D5F3200‬) that is 9 digits.
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by acscott 11y ago
Consider this: what are the odds that a coincidence won't happen?
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by acscott 11y ago
Just feedback if you want to improve the discussion. 1) The example rows use first name and last initial for Client primary key attribute (e.g James H.). No one uses this in the real world for a name-based primary key. In fact, in a suffi
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by acscott 12y ago
1. Feelings can be useful tools. "Confidence" is not "worth" or "value". Self-Esteem can be confused with confidence. It's important to be precise. Being snubbed by a co-worker, your question is reall
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by acscott 12y ago
Recommended reading: Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and its Consequences: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innumeracy_%28book%29
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by acscott 12y ago
Agreed. They taught this in high school economics class--a public high school economics class. I think the article is playing into the political rhetoric. For a politician to use the Unemployment Rate as a benchmark is fine as a delta si
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by acscott 12y ago
from wikipedia: "The attack on Pearl Harbor was intended to neutralize the U.S. Pacific Fleet, and hence protect Japan's advance into Malaya and the Dutch East Indies, where it sought access to natural resources such as oil and ru
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by acscott 12y ago
You can correlate most anything with most anything. I'm not saying don't try, just to don't give correlations much credence in and of themselves. Thinking globally, what are the odds a coincidence doesn't happen? And
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by acscott 12y ago
If you randomly sampled a set of 93 dice floating in space from a set of 200,000, what are the odds that 20 of them are closely aligned along the same axes? Is this a fair analogous question?