equark

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by equark 15y ago
What is limiting this to be jQuery/Zepto specific? Is it possible to write a generic server-side remote control so that other libraries can be used?
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by equark 15y ago
Website is down but the project continues. Email beta@statsia.com if you want to be put on our insider's list.
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by equark 15y ago
Yes, clearly. I stated that too strongly. Sampling procedures can definitely matter enormously, but stopping rules are within a class of ignorable rules. The link above gives a more precise definition.
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by equark 15y ago
You're stuck in frequentist thinking. "Bias" is a property of repeated sampling -- the expectation over repeated samples. But we just have one! The relevant question is what is your best guess for p, the probability the coin will be heads.
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by equark 15y ago
Changing stopping rules is perfectly fine in a Bayesian setup. It's the likelihood principle. This is one of the central differences that arises when you condition on the data (Bayesian) rather than the parameter (frequentist).
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by equark 15y ago
For many things it's not hard to get 60 frames per second with javascript and you have tremendous flexibility that is hard to replicate css, in my experience. For instance, I had a hard time synchronizing all my css animations but found it
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by equark 15y ago
If Rosyln is written in C# does this mean Roslyn can run on Mono?
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by equark 15y ago
Despite R's problems -- and they are significant -- I see very little benefit towards ditching it for Python. Python's libraries are getting better, but if you spend any time in both systems you'll quickly realize how much Python is missin
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by equark 15y ago
You really need to make a list of these types of response on your webpage.
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by equark 15y ago
Any other sources? There's a #dart channel on freenode and Google's Dart Team just updated their twitter feed http://twitter.com/#!/dart_lang .
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Live coverage of Dart Keynote at GOTO(dartinside.com)
13 points by equark 15y ago|3 comments
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by equark 15y ago
Here is Eric Schmidt on Steve Jobs' technical knowledge, I think the point is pretty clear: -- He was exactly the same way he was at Apple: strongly opinionated, knew what he was doing. He was so passionate about object-oriented programming
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by equark 15y ago
There's a terrific paper by Christopher Jencks in Ethics called "Whom Must We Treat Equally for Educational opportunity to Be Equal?" http://www.cems.uvm.edu/~sweaver/educationalequality2.pdf His point is that equal opportunity is not a
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by equark 15y ago
Any benchmarks?
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by equark 15y ago
I'm talking about dynamic languages. This performance penalty is a reason why CoffeeScript has rejected adding an operator overloading mechanism: https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/issues/846 But the question is whether a tracing
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by equark 15y ago
Is there a tracing JIT that has been compiled on top of this? It would be interesting if inherent problems with Javascript as a target language could be partially avoided by implementing a tracing Javascript JIT on top of Javascript. For i
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by equark 15y ago
The video gives the idea, but full details here: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2011/09/29/...
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SpaceX reveals fully reusable, vertically landing rocket design [video](spacex.com)
152 points by equark 15y ago|86 comments
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by equark 15y ago
The more I see these little languages on top of javascript the more I think that JS.next should not be distracted by syntax wars. Syntax problems are solvable today. We need some core improvements for things that are impossible or highly
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by equark 15y ago
See McKinsey's report: http://www.mckinsey.com/mgi/publications/big_data/pdfs/MGI_b...
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by equark 15y ago
This statement is false. TARP cost $19 billion compared to NASA at $18.5 billion per year. http://www.housingwire.com/2011/03/30/cbo-drops-estimate-of-...
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by equark 15y ago
Yes, examining the data will mess up the sampling distribution and invalidate the standard Wald test. But it's absurd in the AB testing context to advocate not acting on your data. Of course it's also absurd to look at conventional p-value
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by equark 15y ago
No this is actually a common misunderstanding and gets to the heart of the difference between conditioning on the data vs considering the sampling process. At the 70th flip your best guess is that it is 57%, given a uniform prior. It's per
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by equark 15y ago
Somebody really needs to write a Bayesian takedown of all these A/B testing articles. A/B testing is a Bayesian decision problem. There's really no other way to think about it. Determining sample size and frequentist confidence intervals
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by equark 15y ago
This list is missing a big one: become an expert in an application domain. The rest is pretty much worthless if you don't have a grip of the application.
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by equark 15y ago
Interesting, thanks. Do you have a guess on what the Dart means by "Dash is designed with performance characteristics in mind, so that it is possible to create VMs that do not have the performance problems that all EcmaScript VMs must have
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by equark 15y ago
> Dart will not be 2x (or more) faster than JS. Why are you so sure of this? The people involved appear to be big believers that dynamic languages can be extremely performant provided they are designed with the VM in mind. LuaJit prove
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by equark 15y ago
I still have not seen a clear explanation of where .NET and the CLR are in this WinRT story. Anybody have a good sense for what's new, renamed, and deprecated?
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by equark 15y ago
Google has two efforts in this direction, the Dart VM and PNaCl. On many levels both are about as ideal as you could possibly imagine. However there is virtually no chance either is going to be adopted by other browsers. Neither are stand
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by equark 15y ago
Thanks for the expanded comment on Dart. I don't fear forking the developer community in terms coffeescript vs. GWT vs. Javascript vs. Dart-to-JS. The web development experience, from front-end to back-end and at the language and framework

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