darkxanthos

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by darkxanthos 10y ago
Exactly. One can make an extreme example and ask how they would feel about someone lovingly slaughtering their husband/wife and children.
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by darkxanthos 10y ago
Just to make sure your comment is clear, the powerful portion of your quote "In short, don't use it." is strictly intended for the percentile bootstrap. Immediately after the paper says "Use the empirical bootstrap inste
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by darkxanthos 10y ago
Wait what? Public opinion surveys (if that's what you meant) are absolutely still subject to error. This is especially due to getting a representative mix of all of the different populations. Even without those issues, you still have t
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Break the Markov Chains of Oppression: Modeling Without MCMC(databozo.com)
4 points by darkxanthos 10y ago|0 comments
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by darkxanthos 10y ago
I was really surprised the article didn't mention this. To be fair it's apparently something that has been evolving for decades, so it wasn't so much prediction but they definitely aren't inventing something wild. http
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by darkxanthos 10y ago
PyMC is roughly equivalent to Stan. I think what you're getting at is more the applications of these statistical models. Stan can be integrated into Python via PyStan.
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by darkxanthos 10y ago
I think it's the most exciting. I love seeing nature effectively defending itself.
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by darkxanthos 10y ago
You're not a cynic, that's literally their business.
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by darkxanthos 10y ago
I seriously had no idea Heroku was still even actively being worked on. Nice to see a much needed upgrade!
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by darkxanthos 10y ago
Thanks for commenting! The whole technique is foundational Bayes. Doesn't use MCMC, but still bayes even with the use of credibility intervals. I don't make much of a use of priors to your point and that can definitely be seen as
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Event frequency analysis without arbitrary windows(databozo.posthaven.com)
4 points by darkxanthos 10y ago|2 comments
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by darkxanthos 10y ago
+1 to this. I recently just started toying with the idea of going sugar free and ketogenic... so I started trying foods without many carbs but wasn't even committed to it. All of a sudden I noticed I had lost 5-7 pounds in 3-4 weeks. S
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by darkxanthos 10y ago
I think Lean Startup & Customer Development transformed the way I looked at everything I did as a software engineer. It reignited my inner-entrepreneur as well. Now I'm a data scientist and I work in Finance and I help get others i
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by darkxanthos 10y ago
Exactly. I'm guessing most didn't fully read the article. What I got out of it was that the NSA was really concerned about being sure they were correct that Snowden didn't in fact officially raise any concerns and that all th
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by darkxanthos 10y ago
How does bit shifting prevent typos as opposed to just explicit numbering?
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by darkxanthos 10y ago
A better example is the Monty Hall problem. Very few people find this intuitive.
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by darkxanthos 10y ago
A co-worker pointed out to me the other day that PyCharm has SQL querying and refactoring built in as well. Starting to use it as a data grip like IDE as well.
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by darkxanthos 11y ago
My professional advice to people who make these unmeasurable changes is: Then don't do them. The worst part about unmeasurable changes is you can't verify if it has a negative effect either and you're essentially saying &quot
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by darkxanthos 11y ago
Salary.com, glassdoor and other resources are not random but they are useful.
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by darkxanthos 11y ago
One possible solution is that it may mean more sponsored content. Even in mainstream media a surprising amount of content is sponsored. If you aren't paying for your content, your content needs to pay for itself.
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by darkxanthos 11y ago
Standard deviations assume normal distributions... but ultimately when you look for some two standard deviations from the mean, you're just look for an event that only occurs 95% of the time. A technique that works regardless of distri
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by darkxanthos 11y ago
That's a really good point. I got so fixated on the jackpot but there's more to winning than 1st place. :)
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Is a Billion $ Powerball Finally Profitable to Play?(databozo.posthaven.com)
4 points by darkxanthos 11y ago|2 comments
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by darkxanthos 11y ago
In a world where hard core gamers will pay >$500 for a graphics card, this price will work fine for a 1st gen. It'll be a smaller audience at first but that will also help them out as they need to focus on their customer support for
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by darkxanthos 11y ago
Anything that can help make this subject more approachable is alright in my book. In my experience, the hardest part of Abstract Algebra isn't the abstract part of it. It's the lack of examples and clarity around how different nam
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by darkxanthos 11y ago
I don't think anyone has said this yet: Use your lack of time as a motivator to distill your side project down to the simplest thing that could possibly work (MVP). This is your opportunity to get really good at that. If you can't
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by darkxanthos 11y ago
With automated drones and Amazon brick and mortar stores the idea of large warehouses could be challenged. They could shift packages in an automated fashion to areas with more probable demand. Drones are crazy cheap as well. I can imagine h
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by darkxanthos 11y ago
All a UUID is really is an incredibly long random number (at least v4). I'm not sure exactly what you're advocating here.
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by darkxanthos 11y ago
Yup! I came here to post exactly this. Like you said, mathematically it isn't perfect but in reality it's basically rock solid. If space is a concern, this time stamp could also be converted into ascii or the like.
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by darkxanthos 11y ago
This. It is so important to separate the practices associated with Agile apart from Agile. One practice I use a ton is retrospectives and really it's useful just as a way of codifying how much and how to experiment with and change team

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