clircle

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1. 811.▲
   by clircle 9y ago

   GnuCash is wonderful! I have since switched to ledger-cli (via Emacs ledger-mode) but I gotta thank GnuCash for getting me into the good habit of tracking all my finances with precision detail.
2. 812.▲
   by clircle 9y ago

   Is there a stable (loaded word, I know) versioning file system available for Linux?
3. 813.▲
   by clircle 9y ago

   I like to use Thunderbird for reading RSS. It makes sense to me to have RSS in my usual email program.
4. 814.▲
   by clircle 9y ago

   Nothing gets HN more riled up these days than a good story about healthcare in America.
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   by clircle 9y ago

   You can't use a goodness of fit test to claim that your data follows a power law (or any distribution). You can only use a GoF test (such as Kolmogorov-Smirnov) to collect evidence that your data don't follow some hypothesized dis
6. 816.▲
   by clircle 9y ago

   It's not really clear to me how this differs from Firefox for Android. Removes some DRM? Anything else?
7. 817.▲
   by clircle 9y ago

   Are there any plain text accounting systems that provide an android app as well? I'm using gnucash, mostly because it has a nice companion app.
8. 818.▲
   by clircle 9y ago

   Awesome, I have to try this!
9. 819.▲
   by clircle 9y ago

   I have been using dumb-jump with some R packages recently and I'm happy to report that it works very well!
10. 820.▲
    by clircle 9y ago

    I suppose you aren't talking about Andrew Gelman... https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/09/20/upshot/the-er...
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    Manipulating the alpha level cannot cure significance testing(peerj.com)

    1 points by clircle 9y ago|0 comments
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    by clircle 9y ago

    It would be nice if there was a little bit more motivation for using this method. You claim that the performance is superior to other methods, but there is no evidence, not even empirical. Also what's the deal with the error plot? Is t
13. 823.▲
    by clircle 9y ago

    I have smooth scrolling disabled in about:prefs, which only disables it on my touchpad, not with vimium-ff
14. 824.▲
    by clircle 9y ago

    I am using this addon, but I'm having a hard time with it. I wish you could disable smooth scrolling when using "j" and "k"
15. 825.▲
    by clircle 9y ago

    What is going to happen to my Ubuntu GNOME desktop when I upgrade? Is it going to stay vanilla or will I have the Ubuntu-ified version of GNOME available in GDM?
16. 826.▲
    by clircle 9y ago

    Discrete calculus? I think you mean univariate.
17. 827.▲
    by clircle 9y ago

    Never thought I would see something like this from TechCrunch. I would never buy one of these but I'm just glad that word is spreading about these machines.
18. 828.▲
    by clircle 9y ago

    Ihaka (co-creator of R) may still be working on a new statistical programming language based on Common Lisp. https://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/%7Eihaka/downloads/Compstat-...
19. 829.▲
    by clircle 9y ago

    The post states that the accuracy of the GLM is reported for a test set (out of sample data), but I cannot tell if the other models' accuracies are reported for a test set or training set. Also the statement "Decreased model compl
20. 830.▲
    by clircle 10y ago

    I am so happy
21. 831.▲
    by clircle 10y ago

    daddy likes
22. 832.▲
    by clircle 10y ago

    Fake news?
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    Galton–Watson process(en.wikipedia.org)

    2 points by clircle 10y ago|0 comments
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    by clircle 10y ago

    For anyone who is interesting in correlation measures, have a look at distance correlation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distance_correlation http://projecteuclid.org/euclid.aoas/1267453933 It&#x
25. 835.▲
    by clircle 10y ago

    ?