hessenwolf

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by hessenwolf 11y ago
http://freakonomics.com/2011/10/04/the-decline-and-fall-of-v...
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by hessenwolf 11y ago
How familiar with Russia are you, by the way? Maybe if we trade backgrounds, the conversation could proceed more interestingly... My contacts are mostly through my wife, so I hear it from St. Petersburg, North Ossetia, Georgia, and the Ukra
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by hessenwolf 11y ago
Do you remember pre-Putin? It was an effing disaster.
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by hessenwolf 11y ago
I think that Putin is the band-aid Russian needed ten years ago, but gone mouldy for a few years now. Mugabe, yes, initially wanted to redistribute the land wonderfully... didn't totally think that one through. I just mean to say that
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by hessenwolf 11y ago
Thanks for the reference. I was rather disappointed with Tufte's works, given all the hype. There were too many specialised "arty" graphs, and not enough standardised methods.
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by hessenwolf 11y ago
The rules of work. http://www.amazon.com/The-Rules-Work-Expanded-Edition/dp/013... For writing clean code, at least maybe start with the Python style guide. https://www.python.org/dev/peps&#x2
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by hessenwolf 11y ago
Every computer science major should build a portfolio? Ahem, excuse me, but I've been employed. I kinda don't live off Mummy and Daddy and need to eat and pay rent. May I throw in a gigantic go fudge yourself in there, you elitist
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by hessenwolf 11y ago
Would you rather a corrupt politician than made the country rich (Haughey, Putin) or an honest politician that made the country poor (Mugabe)?
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by hessenwolf 11y ago
Mmph. Ja. Skimmed the first three chapters. Not guru material.
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by hessenwolf 11y ago
I guess you mean clinical significance. http://www.bmj.com/content/348/bmj.g2130 This is a secondary issue. For most non-stats people, I wouldn't recommend the confidence interval as a measure of clinical sig
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by hessenwolf 11y ago
p-value testing and confidence interval testing are not interchangeable? also, p-values are used to determine the number of effects in a mixed model, or the number of factors in an ANOVA, etc. Sometimes confidence intervals on abstract para
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by hessenwolf 11y ago
p-values are extremely useful for two things: 1. Teaching people who specialise in context areas (chemists, engineers) a pragmatic way to make a decision from data in the presence of randomness. 2. Automating analyses. (remember your Benjam
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by hessenwolf 11y ago
Nah, the documentation package is about 40 pages. The cv though, yes, is about 2 pages. I included a 1 page resume, and a 3-4 page curriculum vitae, to get around the annoyance of having a wide variety of experience, yet wanting to be terse
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by hessenwolf 11y ago
Or you could all choose the German solution... 1. A photo on your cv. Or it goes in the bin. 2. Birth date. 3. Marital status and children. 4. Every educational achievement documented officially since highschool. 5. Every working position w
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by hessenwolf 12y ago
Ah. Good explanation. So that's why my ex didn't remember things. I read about it, but I could never quite put my finger on what the dissociation stuff was.
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by hessenwolf 12y ago
It happened at my university (and I did some moonlighting contracting statistical analyses for some). The salary rules changed to motivate them.
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by hessenwolf 12y ago
Is the idea to attack her early so it burns out early, or is this genuinely to attack her? These articles really read like an episode of House of Cards.
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by hessenwolf 12y ago
Expect a sweep of middle-aged professors doing PhDs with their mates supervising and examining.
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by hessenwolf 12y ago
Things I have screwed up: 1. No ability to do mental arithmetic whatsoever. 2. No ability to write standard template library-based C++ code from memory, except maybe cout and cin. 3. Being late. (3 times at least) 4. Being in a different co
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by hessenwolf 12y ago
Yeah, fear of landing in gaol/jail/prison, or your silly children landing in jail, is a pretty big thing. Consider also that jail in America is rather famous for being awful... % of population of Germany in prison: 0.076% % of pop
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by hessenwolf 12y ago
It looks like an enthusiastic newbie with some clipart and an equation. Fair play for trying. I would suggest adding the following. 1. What the poster above said. 2. The reason for the E[(x_{bar} - x_i)^2] choice. Why not E[|x_{bar} - x_i|]
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by hessenwolf 12y ago
Yeah, and it would be awesome if we didn't have to have squeaky clean, unrealistic politicians. That is a really small sample of people, who are a) weirdly repressed, or b) amazing liers.
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by hessenwolf 12y ago
Wasn't war always about stealing people's stuff or preventing your stuff from being stolen? I mean, my country had independence wars every generation for 800 years, but they were all about not getting our potatoes robbed.
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by hessenwolf 12y ago
America is unlikely to be dumb enough to fight a war in China and Russia, but a proxy war with China and/or Russia is likely. Russia had some key victories with really simple mass produced blanket bombing kit, simple tanks, ak47s, etc
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by hessenwolf 12y ago
35, and I get my preliminary overnight monitor on Monday. I usually sleep 6 hours, waking up every 90 minutes to check on the world, but I find it really hard to get out of bed. I recorded myself using snorecycle. Yeah, so, my snoring gets
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by hessenwolf 12y ago
Hell no. Crack, crack, knees and back.
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by hessenwolf 12y ago
Much like any fashion, I think it is a bit more likely it will be drawing on its k unique predecessors :). I saw jean flares in a designer shop yesterday. Really? Again?
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by hessenwolf 12y ago
I couldn't agree with you more. I have been working on trying to get some skills therein. I paste the notes from my personal expertise board. Graphic Design: Relationship Transition Layering Principles of Design: Repetition Opposition:
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by hessenwolf 12y ago
The solution is like the blog author's (maybe it was a different blog I read this morning): practice interview questions. Study for the exam. Yeah, I can do that. Mmmm. And maybe I pass. But other companies won't make me do that..
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by hessenwolf 12y ago
I expected it to pick up Big Data. (not that I am against key-value stores)

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