donovanr

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   by donovanr 11y ago

   The etymology of stir dates back to proto-indo-european roots [1], so you might be right. [1] http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=stir
2. 32.▲
   by donovanr 11y ago

   It's not necessary for the distributions to be normal for this approach to be relevant. A lot of the (very powerful) Gaussian machinery for e.g. graphical models, can still be rigorously applied to a many non-normal distributions by u
3. 33.▲
   by donovanr 11y ago

   That would be ideal. Unfortunately the boundary conditions are wrong. Since each end of the arrow is free, you get anti-nodes at the ends, just like in open air columns: http://ks.kumu.net/Units/Waves/Sound/W
4. 34.▲
   by donovanr 11y ago

   I think it's somewhat disingenuous of the article to claim to be a history but maintain an almost entirely adversarial tone. It's clear that consensus has issues at scale, but a more fair analysis might include some settings and c