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by chalst 6y ago
Any idea why Runnaroo gives you better results than DDG? It doesn't seem to have better data sources.
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by chalst 6y ago
I made the switch to DDG as my first search engine of choice a couple of years ago and when I am dissatisfied with my DDG searches, I usually compare them to !g and !b searches and find they are only infrequently much better. I think it tak
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by chalst 6y ago
In societies where most women eventually settle on one life partner, sexual success is much easier than career success. Your remarks on nature reflect incel fantasies, not the dominant reality.
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by chalst 6y ago
You're not contradicting the GP. If the bringers of the success stories are outgrouped, that is what determines the evolution of the culture.
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by chalst 6y ago
I don't deny the technique has its uses. The point is it is a poor technique to use if your goal is hypothesis testing, which, as I said, is what most statisticians care about. I didn't reply to you, but to goodsector, who claimed
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by chalst 6y ago
I made two separate points. The choice of N used in cutting out the N% most extreme results is not determined by widely accepted statistical best practice. Hence it is a source of forks. The algorithm might be deterministic but the choice o
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by chalst 6y ago
At no point did 538 make such a high forecast: their highest forecast was 88%. There's a joke that you should always express 60% confidence in your predictions, since if the prediction pans out, you can claim to be right, but if it fai
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by chalst 6y ago
Interesting. Isn't it the case that LLVM doesn't support all architectures that Linux does?
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by chalst 6y ago
Or use Nix to install these kinds of package and only create the symlinks you care about.
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by chalst 6y ago
Not my impression. The kind of outlier-culling technique suggested by civilized is not recommended these days because it adds unprincipled choice points to what Andrew Gelman calls the 'Garden of Forking Paths' [1, 2]. Thus they a
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by chalst 6y ago
Older post to this link attracted two comments, which articulated a difference of taste between those who prefer R to Julia syntax. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23737449
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by chalst 6y ago
It's straightforward in the text-based formats used to create man pages (troff) and in subsequent native documentation formats: Texinfo, various Wiki and Markdown-inspired syntaxes, etc. It might be that relatively little documentation
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Comparing Dplyr vs. Dataframes.jl (R vs Julia code comparison)(bkamins.github.io)
2 points by chalst 6y ago|1 comments
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by chalst 6y ago
Nazis were indeed rehired to senior positions, but sensitive parts of the civil service were purged of Stasi operatives, although this did take a long time, especially in Saxony. There has been some resentment of the fact that this often m
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by chalst 6y ago
In case you missed it, tptacek tackled this point: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23781397
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by chalst 6y ago
It is, of course, not any kind of substitute for critical thought. But the GP referenced dialectic by way of arguing for contrary materials to be presented in class: my point was that a living argument among the students is better for teac
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by chalst 6y ago
I'm inclined to say the biggest piece of value peer review adds is that it ensures that new research takes into account the most relevant past research. It also means that the argumentation in most peer-reviewed research passes appropr
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by chalst 6y ago
> But thus far they haven't been. They haven't been because the social media platforms have been chasing engagement as their only target and that favours toxicity. But many advertisers are allergic to toxicity: there may be spa
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by chalst 6y ago
> Nuanced discussion or having a deep engagement with a person is often impossible. Of course this is impossible if the other party is not interested, but the format doesn't prevent engagement. The problem is that this engagement ta
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by chalst 6y ago
"damaging to the intellectual future of your students" This might be true, if the teaching environment suppresses criticism of material presented. This is not what is supposed to happen, though: materials should be presented as an
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by chalst 6y ago
The TL;DR of the article provides two links to the preprint, and in fact there is a Springer version accessible without cost: https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.3758/s13423-017-131... Even less friction
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by chalst 6y ago
Slightly dated, but Guy Kawasaki wrote a guide to self-publishing: http://apethebook.com/
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by chalst 6y ago
Interesting to see this kind of work coming out of China. > The founding team of EMQ hails from Huawei, IBM, Amazon, and Apple with years of experience and a deep understanding of the industry. https://www.emqx.io/about
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by chalst 6y ago
Compare the Forth code to the Marc Feeley's C original: https://gist.github.com/seanjensengrey/874a1dcdb7b40407ac916...
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by chalst 6y ago
In some ways it is even more abstraction-friendly than C because of how easy it is to manipulate functions or redefine its own interpreter/compiler. There was a nice example of a Tiny C compiler written in Forth by Marcel Hendrix poste
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Tiny C compiler written in Forth(groups.google.com)
6 points by chalst 6y ago|1 comments
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The ANS Forth standard supports named local variables. Unfortunately Forth dialects vary quite a bit in their implementation and prefered use of local variables, and the semantics of local variables are a bit hairy. Cf. https://w
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by chalst 6y ago
Germany has traditionally had a political culture that was debt-averse, mainly because where in other countries the parliamentary left was Keynesian, the SPD favoured Ordoliberalism [1]. This resulted in the infamous constitutional amendmen
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by chalst 6y ago
> Germany has an issue with criminal clans from the Middle East, our law enforcement system isn't equipped to deal with them and our laws in general aren't either. There is a big disconnect between the crime statistics in Germa
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by chalst 6y ago
This is a good point, excuse a quibble: 'werman' did not seem to actually see usage in Old English, although 'wepman', meaning male human, did in Middle English. I'm basing this on a discussion at Wiktionary: > T

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