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by graycat 2y ago
The more such evidence about new cars means the more I'm glad I got a used car, a 2001 GMC in good condition!!! Car makers: For some people your new cars can't compete with your 20+ year old used cars! Right, 20 years of changes
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by graycat 2y ago
> Hey, wait – is employee performance Gaussian distributed? Well, the Gaussian distribution gives positive probability to any interval of the real line, including the whole real line (probability 1), so, strictly speaking, no. But maybe
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by graycat 2y ago
Error correction? Took a graduate course that used W.\ Wesley Peterson and E.\ J.\ Weldon, Jr., {\it Error-Correcting Codes, Second Edition,\/} The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1972.\ \ Sooo, the subject is not nearly new. There was a lo
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by graycat 2y ago
Reasons for kids to do math: (1) It's a chaotic world out there that kids have to learn about. From math: In some respects it's possible to get rid of the chaos and separate junk from reliable truth. (2) Later in life, in career
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by graycat 2y ago
> the most likely dominant player right now cares very much to not give you any privacy. I've installed a recent version of Chrome, but likely your point is some of why I've never let that program even execute. Firefox seems to
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by graycat 2y ago
> update could make a website inaccessible There are billions of Web browser users and, from a fast Google search, 1.1 billion Web sites, still a large number if count only the ones that still have traffic. So, billions of listeners an
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by graycat 2y ago
Might want to grow the audience?
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by graycat 2y ago
So, from the example of Peanut the Squirrel, that NYS agency wants to gather up all those Tardigrades, kill them, and test the remains for rabies?
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by graycat 2y ago
Uh, symbols and math??? Uh, as I read mathematical physics, I get the impression that certain symbols in certain equations are accepted throughout physics as already defined. But in math, we have, e.g., "For the set of real numbers R
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by graycat 2y ago
I suspected some of that, and your explanation looks more general and good. Or, for a joke, LLMs plagiarize!
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by graycat 2y ago
Read some dozens of words of the article and see that the subject is "fault injection" ON A CHIP!!! Good clarification for me since just now have some new code (on Windows in IBM's interpretive, scripting language Rexx) for d
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by graycat 2y ago
What???? I'm posting on a case of social media and am not a "publisher" and am not writing a column for a "publisher". Just what was I supposed to do but "failed" at?
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by graycat 2y ago
Starting with first algebra through my applied math Ph.D., nearly everything important that I learned I got heavily from independent study. (1) Loved plane geometry. Slept in class then worked ALL the more difficult supplementary exercises
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by graycat 2y ago
Get book on high school algebra, plane geometry, trigonometry, solid geometry, and calulus. Study all of them. Then take tests, e.g., SAT, to confirm excellence. After high school, keep living at home, and get a job, even just mowing gra
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by graycat 2y ago
In the south, this is flat right, Memphis State University, University of Tennessee.
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by graycat 2y ago
Right. In the US, on politics and the issues, getting the information and "evidence" is a really big problem. I have and/or have seen good evidence for all that I mentioned, but such evidence is NOT wanted by or common in th
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by graycat 2y ago
It's been a long time! Glad you are interested. I gave a talk on it at the main NASDAQ computer site. The null hypothesis is that some one point (a vector in R^n for the reals R and positive integer n) is from an independent, ident
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by graycat 2y ago
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by graycat 2y ago
Prejudice? Uh, I'm a native born US citizen and have lived in Tennessee, Indiana, Maryland, Ohio, and NY. Once visited Oregon. Point: They are all different, no two much alike, and for each it took some effort to understand. Even C
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by graycat 2y ago
Welding Example: Brother and I bought and old Chevy. Front end parts so badly worn that could turn steering wheel about 20 degrees before the wheels moved! Used bumper jacks to raise the front end and rest it on concrete blocks. Took out
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by graycat 2y ago
Hmm, how to do a statistical hypothesis of nearest neighbor data? Distribution free?
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by graycat 2y ago
The recent political speeches at the economic clubs of Detroit and Chicago were a little deeper than Dick and Jane! Also 21 Nobel Prize economists found the content to be deep enough to disagree!
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by graycat 2y ago
Sorry, while I have a lot of the Graham essays, hopefully all them, now also including this one, here I nearly fully disagree with Graham: (1) Due to computer-based word processing and spelling and grammar correction, writing, and good writ
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by graycat 2y ago
> But what if those just aren’t interesting to someone? The school I went to grades 1--12 tried to be especially good so taught Latin, French. Some of the girls were in ballet. MIT came recruiting. The year before me two guys went
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by graycat 2y ago
Thanks. Don't know what happened: Intended to comment on "Show HN: HN Update – Hourly News Broadcast of Top HN Stories (hnup.date)" at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41893524 but apparently somehow pos
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by graycat 2y ago
Sounds good. Listened to some of it -- good. Suggestion, have better audio: (1) Enunciate the words more clearly. (2) To help with (1), slow down and speak fewer words per minute. (3) At the end of a sentence, don't drop voice volume
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by graycat 2y ago
Virtual machine changes since CP67/CMS?
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by graycat 2y ago
Thanks! On a frustating day I call some of the system management problems "mud wrestling", or, due to lack of good documentation, just throw it up against the wall a dozen different ways to see what seems to stick -- and with tha
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by graycat 2y ago
The Media Creation Tool (MCT) I downloaded from Microsoft but running it on Windows 7 gives an error message and won't run on W 7. But I have a computer with W 11 that might run that MCT. Thanks!
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by graycat 2y ago
Where can I get the Windows 10 ISO or whatever so that I can install it?? I'll pay!! Also, what might I not like about Windows Server 2019????

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