graycat

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1. 3151.▲
   by graycat 12y ago

   Here's how I relax, avoid both frequentism and bayesianism, and just love probability: I assume that there is a non-empty set, commonly called Omega, which I regard as the set of all experimental 'trials' that I might observe
2. 3152.▲
   by graycat 12y ago

   Thanks. Last night I went shopping and for a mobo looked at the Asus M5A97 as at http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/M5A97/specifications/ and that Web page says that the mobo will use ECC (error correcting cod
3. 3153.▲
   by graycat 12y ago

   The PDF has "Calculus is the study of the properties of functions." Better would be: Calculus is some mathematics for analyzing systems that change continuously, usually over time. The first motivation, by Newton, was to analyz
4. 3154.▲
   by graycat 12y ago

   Why just "client"? Why not use it in a server? What am I missing? Cost per operation? Can get an AMD 8 core processor, 125 Watts, 4.0 GHz clock, for about $180. So, $1000 for an Intel processor with 8 cores with hyper threadin
5. 3155.▲
   by graycat 12y ago

   Here you are asking about me, personally, and not asking about science, policy, etc. But, I'll answer, this time. One thing I am demonstrating today, as I get voted down by about 50 points, is that there are a lot of really nasty, int
6. 3156.▲
   by graycat 12y ago

   Okay, I'm trying to understand The Rules, rules of HN? (1) No jokes. Ever. (2) Global warming and climate change are real, no matter temperature measurements there are, not just flim-flam, fraud scams, are severe dangers to all life
7. 3157.▲
   by graycat 12y ago

   I thought that the question was, why didn't the universe collapse into one black hole right at the beginning? With the argument I tried to outline, there was no black hole. The reason is, in short, the situation was not like where b
8. 3158.▲
   by graycat 12y ago

   His arguments for the advantages of statically typed language agree with mine. So, for my programming, I continue to prefer static typing. Sorry 'bout that!
9. 3159.▲
   by graycat 12y ago

   Okay, I just followed your [1] and, there, the first link, S. Solomon, et al., "On the Depletion of Antarctic Ozone", Okay, just as I recall: There have been some measurements of an ozone hole over Antarctica during the late wint
10. 3160.▲
    by graycat 12y ago

    I did follow the arguments when the ozone hole stuff was making a big stink. As I already wrote here, I know a guy got a Nobel prize in chemistry for his work on CFCs and ozone. But I also know that for "garnered international collabo
11. 3161.▲
    by graycat 12y ago

    I discussed that below, i.e., in an earlier response here. A big part of that old scam was that there is a big ozone hole over the Antarctic. Wow! Nearly all the CFCs were released in the northern hemisphere, but somehow the ozone hole t
12. 3162.▲
    by graycat 12y ago

    Yes, likely we know what the effects of ozone depletion would be if we in fact had some significant ozone depletion. I've never seen any meaningful evidence of ozone loss. Yes, yes, yes, I know, there was publicity and/or propaga
13. 3163.▲
    by graycat 12y ago

    So, we're all supposed to be all concerned about CFCs and ozone, again. Hmm .... Sorry, guys. Net, I just can't accept the null hypothesis and have to reject it. I know; I know; a guy got the Nobel prize in chemistry for his
14. 3164.▲
    by graycat 12y ago

    Maybe the OP is saying that at the big bang, there was our present universe, and it was small, maybe the size of our solar system, maybe a baseball, maybe smaller. But, whatever, it was small, and, most important, that's all there was.
15. 3165.▲
    by graycat 12y ago

    Looks very nicely written.
16. 3166.▲
    by graycat 12y ago

    > delivered through a shell company You lost me. Suppose from here, where I am, in the US I set up a foreign corporation, and it buys a nice house in NY State. I move in as a 'renter'. Then too soon the IRS notices that I am
17. 3167.▲
    by graycat 12y ago

    I know next to nothing about Reddit. I do know a joke.
18. 3168.▲
    by graycat 12y ago

    The exclamation point means that it was a joke, guys. 250 MLY of arrogance is not a joke?
19. 3169.▲
    by graycat 12y ago

    Except for the full of answers part, the arrogance of the US Federal Government! Correction: They are full of answers, just not good answers!
20. 3170.▲
    by graycat 12y ago

    > If the NSA is your adversary just forget about PGP. Why? Last I heard, breaking PGP was equivalent to being able to factor large integers into a product of prime numbers. So, NSA is able to do that, and no one else can, no one in th
21. 3171.▲
    by graycat 12y ago

    Consider also continuous time, second order stationary of known power spectra, say, for dimension integer n > 0. For n > 1, consider Brillinger's book on time series. Then, sure, bring along some FFT code.
22. 3172.▲
    by graycat 12y ago

    Thanks. I just looked up "map/reduce" on Wikipedia. Gee, I've been speaking 'prose' (an old joke) all along! So, I was procrastinating from working on my code, and there I have some data base data split, for
23. 3173.▲
    by graycat 12y ago

    I'm sorry, but from the OP I can't be at all sure I can understand notation such as: ;;reducing function signature whatever, input -> whatever or ;;transducer signature (whatever, input -> whatever
24. 3174.▲
    by graycat 12y ago

    I didn't pay much attention to the fitted line. To take such a line seriously, need a lot of mathematical assumptions in practice nearly always impractical or impossible to get. I did pay attention to what I said, the temperature data
25. 3175.▲
    by graycat 12y ago

    Many thanks for the link. Thanks, I needed that. So, the link has not only temperature data but the IPCC predictions. Terrific. I put the link where I can find it easily and won't lose it. I'd been hoping for just some such a
26. 3176.▲
    by graycat 12y ago

    Porn? No, not necessarily at all, or as I said, "safe for work or not". Spam? No, not at all. Instead, as I said, searches people want to do and results they want to find, and those are nearly never spam. Nothing tricky; take m
27. 3177.▲
    by graycat 12y ago

    What: A new Internet search engine. Why cool: To be the best for the roughly 2/3rds (safe for work or not) of Internet content, searches people want to do, and content they want to find at best poorly served now.
28. 3178.▲
    by graycat 12y ago

    You are guilty of letting a lot of really messy data ruin some really nice theory! So, with assumptions of stationary and independent increments, the Maunder minimum shown in the graph would have probability less than zip and zilch of hap
29. 3179.▲
    by graycat 12y ago

    > Far from it, What? While I'm reading your references, let's be clear on what you are saying: On the one hand, in the context of the OP, we're talking about flairs, as essentially discrete events, 'points' in
30. 3180.▲
    by graycat 12y ago

    Of course what I mentioned is also called the 'axiomatic' derivation of the Poisson process. In part it's nice because it starts with 'qualitative' assumptions and ends up with the full algebra of the process and i