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by geebee 8y ago
Wow, yes, that's exactly it. Normal numbers. It's been 20 years since I majored in math, so maybe I did encounter these and just don't remember. Looks like there is a proof that almost all real numbers are normal, but where i
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by geebee 8y ago
So... does this mean that this statement in the abstract: "Moreover, a better terminology for the so-called real numbers is "random numbers", as their series of bits are truly random" is demonstrably false? That there ex
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by geebee 8y ago
Here's the question I have: Are the bits of a real, non-rational number random. I suppose another way to think of it would be Are the bits of a real, non-rational number expressed as a decimal random integers between 0 and 9? I'm
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by geebee 8y ago
I'm curious about something, figured I'd ask since there are some math people on this thread (I was an undergrad math major but wouldn't include myself in that group, for the purposes of this question). The abstract contains
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by geebee 8y ago
There's a lot of emphasis on bad behavior from Airbnb guests, but I think that's only part of it. Another big issue is that formerly residential communities often resist the conversion of housing that used to host neighbors (and e
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by geebee 8y ago
Fantastic. There's an earlier article from the same blog that addresses this at a deep level https://blog.jooq.org/2014/01/02/why-your-data-will-outlast-... A couple of fundamental principles here: Syste
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by geebee 8y ago
I thought this was a decent article, with decent advice if you're in a situation where you have to make estimates under conditions of uncertainty. An example I've tried to use to explain software deadlines is the college term pape
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by geebee 8y ago
Nice comment thanks for posting it. I was a "business analyst" rather than "data scientist", but this was before the term was a thing (late 90s) - I was an industrial engineering grad student hired to analyze increasing
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by geebee 8y ago
I'm paraphrasing a bit, but I read somewhere "Programmers fail because they can't apply statistical methods. Statisticians fail because they can't get their data into a comma separated file". I don't really sha
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by geebee 8y ago
The business model I envy is actuaries. The exams are rigorous, but leave it open how you wish to prepare for them. I considered this about 15 years ago when I was leaving grad school in engineering. To get through he first few exams, it&#x
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by geebee 8y ago
That's a fine thesis, though I do think that software is one of those areas where a maker can under some circumstances, potentially have a vastly more powerful impact on an organization than a manager. Opportunities are fewer and the c
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by geebee 8y ago
In this case, it sounds more like moneyball than age discrimination. By "moneyball", I mean that in very intense recruiting environments, you have to get strategic about ways to find talent that may have been overlooked. https:&#
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by geebee 8y ago
The problem is, renting often ends up owning you too. I'm no stranger to the anxiety of leaky pipes, dry rot, flooded garages, water damage, crazy people you can't easily more away from. On the other hand, I know people who have h
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by geebee 8y ago
"But you still can't buy a house in San Francisco." Are you in a dual income family, and have you considered buying areas like the Excelsior, Ingleside heights (excluding Ingleside terrace), Oceanview/Merced Heights, Out
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by geebee 8y ago
Thanks for the link! I always enjoy reading about this. Interestingly, the study simultaneously staters that the players couldn't identify the older violins but also generally rated them lower. I'm wondering, was there something
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by geebee 8y ago
I love old instruments for that reason. I have a couple 100+ year old violins and people often think that means they're expensive, but it really doesn't. You can go to music or instrument festival and get a 100+ year old violin fo
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by geebee 8y ago
Is it unusual that HN discusses violins so often? Seems like this comes up a lot. One common theme is that extremely expensive old violins aren't better than modern, well crafted violins (these new violins are still expensive, but mea
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by geebee 8y ago
That's excellent, I might even call it extraordinary. Meaning, that is outside the ordinary. I knew a guy in college, at UCSD, who was trying to take a full CS load while working at Nordstrom. This was in the 90s, so rent, tuition, and
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by geebee 8y ago
I always refer back to the original agile manifesto when I read about how badly things have gone. http://agilemanifesto.org What a beautifully simple document, written in clear and plain language. Now consider a paragraph like t
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by geebee 8y ago
I played music as a kid and continue to do so, love it, both my kids are doing music. I'm for it. One thing I have noticed, as a parent, is that there are a lot of things you should be doing because they are 1) good, and 2) have good s
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by geebee 8y ago
You did leave out nursing. https://money.usnews.com/careers/best-jobs/registered-nurse/... Interestingly, nursing salaries are very high in San Francisco - avg salary is $136,610 a year. This is for registere
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by geebee 8y ago
I actually don't think that it's about who can make the criticism, I think it's more about what the criticism can be. A woman really isn't any freer than a man to make a sweeping generalization that is unfavorable to wom
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by geebee 8y ago
The point seems fairly clear to me. arkis22 is pointing out that this author is making unfavorable generalizations about men, and stating that these generalizations are probably partly due to biology. Here, it is that women assign greater v
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by geebee 8y ago
At this point, has "progressive" come to mean "will render without javascript (or css)"? I suppose eventually I will need to accept this definition, but I personally do think that this concept - a valid, valuable one - s
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by geebee 8y ago
People often discuss intelligence in a pet as an unqualified positive, and I understand it. We like to interact with pets, and the more human like intelligence they have, the more easily we can relate to them. Intelligence is of course some
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by geebee 8y ago
Were your friends wearing knee protectors? And if not, were the knee injuries the sort that would have been prevented (or lessened) by knee protectors?
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by geebee 8y ago
Those are interesting links. For me, San Francisco's decision to demolish the Fillmore comes to mind immediately when reading the bit on living vs mechanical cities. SF's ultimately (Imo) harmful decision to require garages and pa
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by geebee 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_carbon_... Texas has very high per capita carbon emissions, but Oregon and Washington, which is where a lot of the complaining comes from, are pretty comparable to C
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by geebee 8y ago
I'm not sure I agree. I think that density can lead to more desirable urban neighborhoods, which in turn attract higher income workers. Also, network effects can be dramatic. A higher concentration of knowledge workers can end up gener
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by geebee 8y ago
Do you think the value of your house would go up or down with this zoning change? (totally fine if you think it would go up! I suspect it would up and am curious if you agree)

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