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by eamsen 11y ago
It looks like he does have an idea. The average is influenced by outliers, so in cases with high income inequality, it does not necessarily represent central tendency well. In such cases, the median (or other percentiles) can be used for mo
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by eamsen 11y ago
Code isn't poetry, but the craft of code writing resembles writing poetry in terms of rhythm and aesthetics in a highly abstracted form.
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by eamsen 11y ago
In 2014, Germany's exports to Greece grossed ~5 billion Euro [1] which is less than 0.5% of Germany's total exports. [1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirtschaft_Deutschlands (for the lack of a better source)
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by eamsen 11y ago
Nicely written article, but the writer failed to do any research on practical solutions for route planning. "The result of such an explosion is that problems, like shortest path problems, grow so quickly as to become practically incom
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by eamsen 12y ago
These are separated teams. Cloud services: https://wiki.mozilla.org/CloudServices Content services (tiles): https://wiki.mozilla.org/Content_services
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by eamsen 12y ago
The Mozilla Foundation publishes an annual report[1] on that, which includes statements on its subsidiary, the Mozilla Corporation. [1] https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/foundation/annualreport/2013/
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by eamsen 12y ago
Here is some info and a great explanatory video for William Thurston's geometrization conjecture, which laid down some of the work for the proof: http://terrytao.wordpress.com/2012/08/22/bill-thurston&#x2
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by eamsen 12y ago
The new default search engine is changing, so if you are using the current default engine for your country (Google in the US), then your search engine will change to the new default (Yahoo in the US). It will not affect users who are not us
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by eamsen 12y ago
The natural way to discount outliers is to use medians instead of averages.
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by eamsen 12y ago
Missed the "Stripe blog post" part, sorry for the misdirection.
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by eamsen 12y ago
Side note: you can set you Y axis format to "ms" in Grafana to make the values more descriptive and add the "Points" chart option under display styles to make the mean values visible, which are obscured by the 90th perce
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by eamsen 12y ago
We don't need to tie this behavior to a new video extension or a specific video format. A more sensible approach would be to allow video sources in <img> and restrict their profile to GIF-like behavior. See https://bug
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by eamsen 12y ago
You're right about him putting out a few little games, which do not share the same game mechanics, but a lot of his work is based on repetition and refinement. Or to quote [1] himself: "I am forever cursed to keep making the same
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by eamsen 12y ago
It wasn't meant to be dismissive. To me, Bob Ross's art wasn't so much in painting as it was in creating that synergy of education and relaxation by taking you with him through the joy of creation. Something in Notch's l
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by eamsen 12y ago
Watching Notch hacking on the Ludum Dare competition is such a comforting experience - to me he is the Bob Ross of game development. He also seems to end up developing the same thing over and over again with different shades of green on the
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by eamsen 12y ago
Let's summarize, £5000 worth of equipment on a £2000 trip and the best picture has been taken by a monkey. The monkey took "hundreds of pictures", increasing the likelihood of producing a few quality shots. Its quantitative a
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by eamsen 12y ago
I would expect that to be more constant when individuals are addressed. My interest was towards addressing men and women as a group, which - to some degree - would reflect the 'relevance' of the group for the given time in media.
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by eamsen 12y ago
Some interesting symbolic stats: [1] http://chronicle.nytlabs.com/?keyword=computer.smartphone.mo... [2] http://chronicle.nytlabs.com/?keyword=security.freedom [3] http://chronicle.nytlabs.com&#x
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by eamsen 12y ago
"Oxfam estimates that the richest 85 people in the world own half of all wealth." This is not what Oxfam's estimates say, it contradicts them. Here is the original quote: "The bottom half of the world’s population owns t
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by eamsen 13y ago
Exactly my thoughts and I don't see a reasonable person/group filter to construct averages without introducing some kind of bias. And with the graph's axis starting at a non-zero value, I'm not convinced that the goal wa
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by eamsen 13y ago
That's a good point. To delegate your sign-up/log-in to a third party, you have to put some degree of trust into that service provider. The numbers show that most people "trust" Facebook, Google and others enough to do s
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by eamsen 13y ago
...people would be naturally great at probability, and we know we suck at probability Human bodies are based on molecules, it doesn't imply that people understand chemistry. Computer chips are based on transistors, it doesn't im
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by eamsen 13y ago
It's funny you mention this, because I read "PrivateBrowser" both in the link and headline instead. I didn't know that there is a Freudian slip effect for reading. I agree with you about the negative connotation of the w
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by eamsen 13y ago
Flash is installed, no blocking add-ons were used. For that matter, I have disabled all other add-ons, that could be interfering and still get the same result. It could be a flash (64 bit) issue. Also, that's not the video that would s
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by eamsen 13y ago
I have Firefox 26.0 installed, it still fails on both Windows 7 and Ubuntu 13.10 (64 bit both).
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by eamsen 13y ago
Snowden is #97 for me. I suspect that the results are localized (Germany for me).
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by eamsen 13y ago
Google Zeitgeist 2013: black box. The video doesn't load for me on Firefox. It is probably just a bug and will be fixed but it coincidentally prints the correct picture of Google's current stance on browser compatibility. Anyone e
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by eamsen 13y ago
If you have to monitor all online communication, then infiltrating private message boards by means of technology or human interaction is essential. An in-game chat is just an additional communication protocol next to email, Skype, etc. Leav
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by eamsen 13y ago
I love the book and its gorgeous illustrations, so I welcome this project. However, the interface needs a lot of work. The current version is really difficult to view due to the way overlay is handled. Also, there is a reason why pop-up com
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by eamsen 13y ago
It's lovely and refreshing, but I agree. You can't run the course in 7 seconds, so there is no way to quickly get a picture about you and whether you fit into the position the recruiter tries to fill. I would just add an overview

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