graycat

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   by graycat 4y ago

   I can have some interest in, hope for, etc. machine learning . One reason is, for the curve fitting methods of classic statistics, i.e., versions of regression , the math assumptions that give some hope of some good results are essen
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   by graycat 4y ago

   What I wrote is just a guess and partly a joke: Cookies and requests to permit them are now so pervasive on the Internet that NOT making such a request might cause some people to assume the site WAS using cookies WITHOUT permission and mak
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   by graycat 4y ago

   I agree and don't like Web pages that are complicated, require time, clicks, and effort to learn to use, have page content jumping around, cover the page with images requiring the user to stop what they are trying to do, change the w
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   by graycat 4y ago

   Glad you like the writing. Hope the details on cooking help. As I recall, but it was a long time ago, there was an N. Waite at IBM's Watson lab.
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   Beef Stew, BBQ Pork, Slow Cooking

   3 points by graycat 4y ago|2 comments
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   by graycat 4y ago

   Yup!! We had a neighbor with a propane fueled electric generator. He wanted to get it running so that he could use it on his boat. Soooo, Dad helped him in his garage. They kept cranking the generator trying to get it going. Right, they
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   by graycat 4y ago

   The way I learned how to resolve the Russell paradox: Over here on the left in a pile we have the elements we will work with. Now, for the sets , they are made of the elements and are in a separate pile, are over here on the right. So
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   by graycat 4y ago

   Yes, in pure/applied math, we know a lot about various cases of approximation . But in practice there are more cases of approximation, and, right, the Euler equations are another such case. Or, to be a little flippant, generally in
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   Xmas Gift for 7th Grade Boy?

   2 points by graycat 4y ago|1 comments
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    by graycat 4y ago

    During parts of the Cold War, near DC, some knowledge of some STEM topics, e.g., assembler, Fortran, PL/I, C, the algorithms in the relevant book by Knuth, the fast Fourier transform, Kalman filtering, Maxwell's equations, algebra
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    by graycat 4y ago

    Good grief! Logistic regression ! Back when I was studying such things and saw that it looked fishy and I tried to forget it and was fairly successful! For just regression , there are some supporting arguments, even with minimal assumpt
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    by graycat 4y ago

    Right: Some people here at Hacker News like to attack others that don't fit in with some of the norms . Mere technical discussions are not always welcome. My background is quite different, is with people who can engage in technica
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    by graycat 4y ago

    > Spoken like a dude who's never lived in a place with air inversions. Right: I have no idea just what that is! Generally I like the NIH, but I would not be the least bit worried about the increased probability of cancer in actual,
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    by graycat 4y ago

    > The very first search result for "windows dev kit" Somewhere I saw a link, URL, to a Microsoft Web page describing the Dev Kit and followed that link. The link was not the one you gave. And I didn't get the link from a
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    by graycat 4y ago

    Looks like you are correct: E.g., this ESP (ESC -- electronic stability thingy) is now required nearly everywhere. Now I'm especially glad my car, used I bought recently, is too old to have ESP. It has ABS which doesn't work -- f
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    by graycat 4y ago

    Ford has a new vehicle? Okay, if Ford is interested in new vehicles, then here is one I'd like to see: Cars are a big chunk of the US family budget. Here should be a good way to save a LOT of money: Start with a Ford 2-door sedan fro
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    by graycat 4y ago

    Thanks for the overview. At the end, your many "words" describe a situation that to me is amazing, "build the app binaries on a x64 Windows PC, and then copy the built binaries over to an Arm device upon which to run or test
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    by graycat 4y ago

    I just checked: I just followed the URL to a Microsoft site you gave -- somehow that is not the URL I followed in the hour I wasted. I checked my notes, and I did not bother to keep the URLs I did follow. I take a LOT of notes, but I&#x27
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    by graycat 4y ago

    Thanks. So far I'm developing software to run only on my hardware, 64 bit x86, and only on Windows, Windows 7 Professional or some version of Windows Server. The main purpose is just for my Web site. In time I will write more softwa
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    by graycat 4y ago

    Apparently via Google you found a good explanation of the Dev Kit. Gee, maybe the Microsoft Web pages should have given the links you found! Yes, eventually I did do a Google search. I found a little information, better than the Microsoft
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    by graycat 4y ago

    Thanks! Since I decided to base my startup on Microsoft, that is, write the software using .NET to run on Windows, a few days ago I noticed the Microsoft "Dev Kit" and wondered what it was. I clicked for a few HOURS at the corresp
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    by graycat 4y ago

    I've been using TeX for decades. No, not LaTeX, just TeX as in D. Knuth's The TeXbook . I've been thrilled with TeX from my first usage to the present. Of course, when I want to write some math, I use TeX. I also have a c
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    by graycat 4y ago

    > so it strongly recommends posts that are low on quality but high on emotion. Yup. In the 1930s movie "Meet John Doe", see how a newspaper can try to increase circulation by (a) publishing something, a continuing narrative ,
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    by graycat 4y ago

    I very much want the news , as a US citizen and for keeping up on what might affect me in the economy, business, e.g., my startup, medicine, technology, family, etc. Occasionally I get some quite good information and leads to good informat
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    by graycat 4y ago

    Gee, I didn't get any answers to my question. So, I did some investigating, and, yes, now there is a theme in both still photography and movie making: Don't use any film. Instead, detect the photons with an electronic sen
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    by graycat 4y ago

    I have a sack full of just gorgeous Nikon lenses and camera 'backs'. But the backs are all single lens reflex for 35 mm film. I have nothing that uses CCDs (charge coupled devices, solid state, electronic photon captures). But
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    by graycat 4y ago

    For background, need only some routine calculus and the most elementary probability theory. The chapter on the Poisson process, early in the book, is nice to amazing, e.g., his axiomatic derivation. You should be able to get the main ide
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    by graycat 4y ago

    As in the book, a Poisson process is an arrival process -- omitting the math, some of which is amazing, the vanilla example is Geiger counter clicks. One of the special things, actually an easy calculus exercise, is: Suppose the click
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    by graycat 4y ago

    The quote from the article in Encyclopedia of Biostatistics is awash in undefined terminology sometimes about peripheral issues. Clean, logical, all terms well defined and explained, with plenty of advanced content, is in (with some marku
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    by graycat 4y ago

    There is a cliche apparently so far not mentioned: "Girls pay attention to people and boys, to things." So, this cliche can be used to explain the Italian results: The girls did better when graded by people because girls are a LO