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The Math Problem That A/B Tests Should Be Trying To Solve(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by ewjordan 16y ago|1 comments
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by ewjordan 16y ago
Fully in agreement here. And actually, I agree with the moral of what you've said almost elsewhere else on this thread; I meant this post to be a bit more tongue-in-cheek than I suspect it came across, I definitely should have made it more
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by ewjordan 16y ago
By that same interest rate argument, the marginal utility of money should increase on both ends the further you get from zero, since interest earned on the money you have compounds, too. That said, the interest rate is much larger when y
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by ewjordan 16y ago
Tangent: Not at all. In fact, I wrote this up because of a conversation I had a while back with a man buying a lottery ticket at the gas station. I was talking with him about how bad the odds were, and he fully admitted that he was gett
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by ewjordan 16y ago
I'm either gonna win $130 with 47% chance or lose $130 with 53% chance. My $250 bill is sunk and completely independent of this decision and outcome. Otherwise any time I have an expensive bill to pay and will be left with only about $130
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by ewjordan 16y ago
The notion that "this is probably negotiable" is one of the things that persistently separates rich people from poor people in my experience. When I landed myself in this situation, that was exactly the problem: I felt like the Big Bad Co
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by ewjordan 16y ago
1. Money has a declining marginal utility. Winning that $130 isn't nearly as positive as losing it would have been negative. I question this because you're already in the red: do nothing, and you'll be left with $130 in the bank but $25
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by ewjordan 16y ago
If she gambles and loses, then she's basically dead broke and can't even buy food, and if we're assuming she has no outside sources for help, then she is supposedly going to starve to death. Yes, this is a very good point, perhaps the way
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Poor People Should Probably Gamble More(ewjordan.blogspot.com)
50 points by ewjordan 16y ago|54 comments
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by ewjordan 16y ago
Another interesting comparison, IMO, is to banking and finance, where the atmosphere is even more distinctly "big swinging dick", yet the gender ratio is still not as imbalanced as in IT (IIRC, the ratios in finance are more like 65:35, whe
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by ewjordan 16y ago
The trick is, the optimal trade-off between variation and selection pressure is highly dependent on the problem domain (selecting to maintain variation is great when navigating a broad fitness landscape with many sparsely distributed peaks
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by ewjordan 16y ago
I have absolutely no idea whether any of this is new or not, I'm a complete novice to bio and evo psych. For the most part I've been exclusively focused on taking inspiration from what seems to work in natural evolution as a guide to impro
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by ewjordan 16y ago
Agreed, this is pretty much a shallow version of the same argument that many people have been making for quite some time now. It would also seem to suggest that we should see major shortages of women in other fields that are extremely inte
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by ewjordan 16y ago
An evolutionary argument could be made that it's because a man that does extremely risky things (like, say, sleeping with every woman that he is able to) can spread his genes far and wide as a reward for such behavior (he'll have a lot of c
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by ewjordan 16y ago
I run a company, work ridiculous hours, and the other devs on my team are male. I don't think any of us puts it fewer hours or energy based on the number of ovaries each has. All of which is completely irrelevant. It's great that you ende
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by ewjordan 16y ago
All of the graphs in this article were of 'childhood wakeup time.' AFAICT, it appears to be a graph of childhood IQ vs. adult wakeup time - unless, that is, the average child is going to bed around midnight, which seems wrong to me. In an
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by ewjordan 16y ago
I didn't put it in the title, but it's worth noting that a student was apparently tasered and beaten into unconsciousness during this incident, with the cops involved screaming "Anybody else? Who's next?" after it happened; several student
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Police Raid Yale Party With Assault Rifles To Catch Underage Drinkers(yaledailynews.com)
8 points by ewjordan 16y ago|2 comments
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by ewjordan 16y ago
Let's talk again when you're dealing with a codebase with >1000 classes, 5 different programmers of varying ability that you don't have direct control over, a build process that takes 5 minutes to complete as it works its way through a
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by ewjordan 16y ago
It's still massively inconvenient, in that I have to understand their ridiculously complicated scheme in order to understand what I can do with my game. Eh, as you mentioned, this post is aimed at people like us - to the normal end user t
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by ewjordan 16y ago
The tl;dr bullet points: 1) Sharing with friends and family is allowed, and encouraged 2) Your e-mail is your registration key - when you try to activate on another computer, an activation link is sent to you via e-mail, and you can do this
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DRM done right: Puppygames(puppygames.net)
63 points by ewjordan 16y ago|57 comments
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Oracle working on cloud-based office suite using JavaFX(theregister.co.uk)
1 points by ewjordan 16y ago|0 comments
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by ewjordan 16y ago
That's largely true because the SEOs and spammers were so successful at gaming Google's competition that the other search engines were all but useless when Google hit the scene.
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by ewjordan 16y ago
Not at all a dealbreaker, no - if you're buying the systems, it makes sense to buy what you are able to afford and support the best. I was more responding negatively to the idea that other machines wouldn't be allowed to be used in developm
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by ewjordan 16y ago
2) the majority of HN readers have liberal-leaning beliefs Really? What I tend to see around here is that people are liberal socially (homophobia, anti-drug sentiment, religious fundamentalism and bigotry seem to be mostly absent here), b
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by ewjordan 16y ago
I suspect a lot of people using OS X would be perfectly fine with Linux, but Apple's hardware and support go so far above and beyond what you get from most stock Windows laptop manufacturers, it just feels like you have a better product in
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by ewjordan 16y ago
Nonsense - everyone knows that the only proper remapping for caps lock is CTRL! ...oh, wait, I get it. You're one of those , aren't you? :P Editor holy wars aside, on OS X it doesn't appear that you're even able to remap caps lock to esca
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by ewjordan 16y ago
If your stuff runs in Linux, your stuff runs in Linux - people can deal with that. I love OS X, but will use anything that's necessary to do a job...I have a desktop at home running Win7/Ubuntu specifically for that purpose, though I almos
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by ewjordan 16y ago
That's not even close to the logical conclusion: the statement was "Enforce minimum wages that people can actually live on", not "Higher minimum wage is always better." Contrast that with many right wing arguments about taxation, which usua

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