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by clircle 8y ago
I'm always hearing about these and other problems that programmers have with the R language. In practice, none of them seem to be a big deal to statisticians. 64 bit integers? Never had a need for this, but maybe there is a package tha
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by clircle 8y ago
I'm a statistician that knows just enough about computer programming to be dangerous. It's hard to overstate how incredibly important R is to my discipline. No other language allows me to express my thoughts and prototype statisti
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by clircle 8y ago
That's fine, movie theaters can sell food for whatever price they want. My problem was that movie theaters don't sell anything we want to eat! candy and soda? No thanks!
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by clircle 8y ago
Interesting, I alt as control on Windows and Linux. I wonder if there is a way to map Space to Control when tapped on Windows.
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by clircle 8y ago
My wife and I are so frustrated by the movie going experience in the US. In Taiwan, everyone is permitted to bring food and drinks to the theater and that's pretty common. In the US I'm forced to pay an absurd amount of money for
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by clircle 8y ago
How well does Evil mode work with Gnus? I used mu4e for a while but eventually just went back to thunderbird.
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by clircle 8y ago
I wonder if fancy split keyboards are actually getting popular, or if all split keyboard owners are posting pics on the internet.
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by clircle 8y ago
It's precisely why my wife and I no longer eat meat.
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by clircle 8y ago
I started using Linux for FLOSS reasons about 15 years ago, but now that I'm older and mostly just care about my computer working the way I want it, without bugs and distractions, I have really shifted away from my old free software op
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by clircle 8y ago
Using Debian Mate on a T460 and I have to say I'm quite pleased. Sure Debian is stale, but as long as I can get a recent Firefox and Emacs, that's all the bleeding edge that I want. If I had a new Thinkpad T480, I would probably c
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by clircle 8y ago
Sequential techniques like Wald's SPRT don't have this problem.
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by clircle 8y ago
I have used Thunderbird on Elfeed on Mac, both are quite good. Just not standalone applications.
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by clircle 8y ago
Nice comment, echoes a lot of my feelings about ML. I have a question. You write > (2) Okay, when simple regression doesn't fit very well, we keep trying? Okay. Say, we try logistic regression, ridge regression, L1 or L2 regularizat
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by clircle 8y ago
I have not used a lot of mechanical keyboards, but I think there is a spectrum where laptop flat keyboards are on one end and clacky big mechanical keyboards are on the other end. For some reason I find that I like keyboards somewhere in th
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by clircle 8y ago
Right, I am an evil user myself. My question was about the vim equivalent of major modes in Emacs --- Does vim have a concept of major mode (a set of language specific functionality, one major mode per buffer)?
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by clircle 8y ago
As an Emacs user, I'm so curious about vim packages. Does vim have packages that are akin to adding a major mode in Emacs? Some of the packages on this list look like the vim version of minor modes or little helper functions.
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by clircle 8y ago
Preferences > Advanced > Uncheck Use Smooth scrolling works for me on Linux. Do you have this option.
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by clircle 8y ago
My wife and I were just at a McDonalds in Portugal that had about 10 kiosks placed in groups toward the front of the store. This was one of those multi-floor, 100+ customers at a time McDs. I like the kiosks for the reasons you mention, but
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by clircle 8y ago
I am reading _Command and Control_ right now, a book partly about a nuclear accident on American soil, but mostly about nuclear strategy and history up to 2000s. The writing style is not exactly beautiful, but I highly recommend to anyone i
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by clircle 8y ago
Interesting. How do you hit the Meta key if you swap on both sides? With a pinky?
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by clircle 8y ago
Thanks, I may try one of those. Which did you like better and why? I'm used to using Browns, which I find to be okay, but I really dislike Blue switches.
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by clircle 8y ago
Which switch did you use? I find that mechanical keyboards often cause more pain since many keys require a lot of force to activate.
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by clircle 8y ago
Definitely agree that if you are using thumbs to execute all Emacs commands, it's just as comfortable as modal editing. Since I started using Evil a year or so ago I have become very used to it and I'm now using a strange combinat
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by clircle 8y ago
For Emacs users, common wisdom is to swap control and caps. I urge you to try swapping left control with left alt instead. Thus you can use your left thumb to hit control and right thumb to hit Meta (alt). Map Esc to capslock if you use Evi
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by clircle 8y ago
I love i3. It's the only computer interface I have used where I feel like there is absolutely no friction between me and the applications I need to run. I don't really have to make any modifications to the config either. I change
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by clircle 9y ago
I've been running Lineage with microG on my Nexus 5X for about 5 months and I'm pretty neutral about the experience. I do cheat a little bit though -- I install Google Maps and Gboard. The biggest annoyance was updating from Andro
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by clircle 9y ago
Looks like the guy who invented the game also prosecuted Ted Bundy. Can't say I expected that.
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by clircle 9y ago
I love thinking about hot hand. When the Miller and Sanjurjo paper was published I ate it up. Here is a link to a version of that paper https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2627354 which has in my opinio
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A Powerful New Weapon in the Fight Against Shoddy Statistics(theatlantic.com)
1 points by clircle 9y ago|0 comments
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by clircle 9y ago
Carl Kasell was a low-key American national treasure. RIP

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