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by fenomas 8y ago
Not as I understand it. Note that the author's argument there isn't "frequentism is bad because it gives an unreasonable answer here", it's "the fact that frequentism gives a different answer here demonstrates
902.
by fenomas 8y ago
This article is a year old; the law it discusses was approved last June.
903.
by fenomas 8y ago
Unless I'm missing something the author answers that here: > Edit, November 2014: ... Had we used, say, the Maximum Likelihood estimator or a sufficient estimator like min(x), our initial misinterpretation of the confidence interval
904.
by fenomas 8y ago
Not GP, but I think they're saying that the whole process unfolds nonsensically, not that people making comebacks specifically is odd. That is, one celebrity may quickly bounce back from the same kind of scandal that burns someone else
905.
by fenomas 8y ago
Thanks! For what it's worth I was looking at glass bakeware that advertises itself as heat resistant and microwaveable, from a company called Iwaki glass. Googling suggests they make a lot of borosilicate scientific stuff but I couldn&
906.
by fenomas 8y ago
What does the polarimeter test imply if neither of the described results happens? The glassware in my house doesn't seem to have any noticeable effect on the polarized light; it doesn't get more visible or have any particular patt
907.
by fenomas 8y ago
You can compare any groups you like, but only after you've decided who goes into which group. The point being made here is that with race, that decision is subjective, and heavily influenced by various social factors unrelated to peo
908.
by fenomas 8y ago
I am familiar with it, and I have no idea what you're trying to suggest.
909.
by fenomas 8y ago
> Whether you are white or black or have epicanthic fold or stuff like that is 100% encoded in your genes. Sure, but that doesn't mean your race is. Race is a subjective classification based on objective characteristics.
910.
by fenomas 8y ago
> In fact my example demonstrates ... loop over only what you care about without doing extraneous work, by iterating over a contiguous chunk of exactly what you need to update. Your example demonstrated iterating over a filtered list ins
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by fenomas 8y ago
In my ECS I do this by storing the actual data in a dense array, alongside a hash that maps entity IDs to array indexes. If you want to see the (javascript) innards: https://github.com/andyhall/ent-comp
912.
by fenomas 8y ago
The why is what TFA is about. If you think the person I replied to was asking for an introduction to the paradigm, you could probably reply to them directly instead of dragging me about it. Incidentally, FWIW I think your post about the why
913.
by fenomas 8y ago
> Showing the how without showing the why is probably not helpful IMO. Why is important here. I was replying to someone who asked about the What.
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by fenomas 8y ago
Here's my simple explanation. Making a game with object hierarchies, you might do the equivalent of this: monster = {} // create an entity monster.hp = 10 // give it properties m
915.
by fenomas 8y ago
They are considered variants of each other for linguistic reasons, but that's not what GP was talking about. GP suggested the characters look almost identical, and I'm pointing out that they clearly don't.
916.
by fenomas 8y ago
> the Japanese and traditional look almost identical They have different radicals on the lower right. Unless there's some reason to consider the two radicals equivalent (there isn't in JP, I wouldn't know about CN) they&#x
917.
by fenomas 8y ago
Super interesting! The creator makes sure that each puzzle has a unique solution, right? I don't know if this is intended, but after a few games I notice that knowing this makes it even the expert puzzles relatively straightforward to
918.
by fenomas 8y ago
I'm profoundly unconvinced by this. "Handle special cases, then do the thing" is such a widespread, nigh-universal pattern that I don't think it hides anything from the programmer. It's the pattern used by any funct
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by fenomas 8y ago
> some in this thread are calling for leniancy for 'swatters' Saying that swat teams need to safely deal with false reports is not in any way sympathizing with swatters. Of course swatting is bad - everyone knows that. But &q
920.
by fenomas 8y ago
> How do you think they are going to verify a threat? By showing up, right? I don't follow your implication - obviously nobody's suggesting the police not show up. The point is that swat teams should treat anonymous calls as p
921.
by fenomas 8y ago
Surely the robust solution is for police/swat teams to treat unverified threats differently? Any real world system needs to be able to handle faulty inputs. If this particular system wasn't so terrible at that, bad actors would ha
922.
by fenomas 8y ago
McCarthy's claims were far broader than that (and virtually all spurious). From a specialist historian: > But if McCarthy was right about some of the large issues, he was wildly wrong on virtually all of the details. ... virtually n
923.
by fenomas 8y ago
Again, the wikipedia link says nothing about the claim you're making except that a Texas school board controversially tried to promote it in its curriculum. From further reading, the claim itself seems to originate from an Ann Coulter
924.
by fenomas 8y ago
> The VENONA papers actually proved McCarthy right. That's a pretty ludicrous claim, and the link you posted does not support it. It says only that a Texas school board was criticized for making similar claims.
925.
by fenomas 8y ago
> They just published absurd papers in ostensibly serious journals. You and I can say the papers were absurd, but an argument is only meaningful to the extent that it has persuasive power to someone who doesn't already agree with it
926.
by fenomas 8y ago
> motivated reasoning You have things backwards. I agree with the hoaxers' motivation, and I assume that what they were trying to prove is presumably true. But their experiment didn't actually support those conclusions. >
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by fenomas 8y ago
Look past the false dichotomy - there can still be a gigantic problem even though this particular hoax didn't do a good job of exposing it. I mean, the social science journals targeted by this hoax could be awful, I have no idea. But t
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by fenomas 8y ago
As far as I can tell the hoax did fail. As I recall from the authors' writeup, the initial round of hoax papers they sent out all got rejected . By any reasonable standard they could/should have stopped right there and publishe
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by fenomas 8y ago
> Also never use Math.pow for squaring numbers (used in the distance function) because it is significantly slower... Modern JS engines optimize hot functions at runtime - advice like this won't affect actual performance.
930.
by fenomas 8y ago
One thing I do in my game is use pathfinding to find suitable places for doors connecting rooms. The process is, I randomly place some adjacent rooms, completely surrounded by walls. Then I set up a pathfinder (A*) where the cost of moving

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