credit_guy

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3331.
by credit_guy 10y ago
Several hundred years? Research yes, but no applications? Why would anyone put in the effort to do the research, if they know in the best case scenario the applications would come in several hundred years? Now, I understand doubts in our cu
3332.
by credit_guy 10y ago
A food product for crying out loud ... I see what you did there
3333.
by credit_guy 11y ago
No, you are off by a factor of about 10. 16 oz ~ 500 ml. Body temperature - 40 celsius. 1ml water needs ~ 1 calorie to go up 1 degree celsius. The product is about 20 kcal. A medium dunkin donut is about 200 kcal.
3334.
by credit_guy 11y ago
Not a db specialist by any means, but this seems orthogonal to CAP to me. CAP is about distributed databases, RUM is about the trade-offs between read and write speed and memory; can be single node database or distributed.
3335.
by credit_guy 11y ago
Risk neutral model selection. In general, if your model has too few parameters, it doesn't capture some features, and if it has too many, it overfits. In statistics, the balance between fit and model parsimony is achieved by informatio
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by credit_guy 11y ago
That number was based on a silly division that went something like this: nb bombs (~20k) x average yield (~ 200 kT TNT) / nb people ( ~ 4 bn at the time) = 1 ton of TNT per person, which is enough to kill you about 100 or 1000 times, p
3337.
by credit_guy 11y ago
What is the relationship between energy and entropy? (Genuinely curios, I'm not a creationist, I personally rank Darwin right up there with Newton and Einstein)
3338.
by credit_guy 11y ago
I guess you mean to say he is presumed innocent, at this point.
3339.
by credit_guy 11y ago
On my ipad i can see the date in landscape mode, but not in portrait mode.
3340.
by credit_guy 11y ago
Very insightful comment, thank you for posting it. Let me put a positive spin on it. While the unconditional variance is so large that the statement is meaningless, if you condition on your 3 factors, I think you can obtain a pretty good p
3341.
by credit_guy 11y ago
Maybe he means that Xinu is Unix backwards.
3342.
by credit_guy 11y ago
Prior to meeting you I wasn't too sure, but after our last few conversations I became more and more convinced you study Bayesian statistics.
3343.
by credit_guy 11y ago
I study ontology, therefore I am.
3344.
by credit_guy 11y ago
Not only water (vapor) is a greenhouse gas, it's by far the most important. Per wikipedia, its contribution to the greenhouse effect is 36-72%, while the next contribution, of CO2, is 9-26%. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w
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by credit_guy 11y ago
Per wikipedia [1], fiber does actually provide calories: "Fiber contributes less energy than sugars and starches because it cannot be fully absorbed by the body. [...] Dietitians have not reached a consensus on how much energy is actu
3346.
by credit_guy 15y ago
If you assume the problem is correct, in other words one and only one of the four answers is correct, then you have to exclude the two identical answers (25%). You are left with 50% and 60%. You pick one of them at random, and the chance to
3347.
by credit_guy 15y ago
Most likely if the borrower wants to refinance the next month he will have the surprise that the principal will be equal to the original principal plus the "negative points" (and of course minus the principal amortization for the first mont