hvidgaard

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   by hvidgaard 14y ago

   Not just for reproducibility, but to avoid human errors. I always just get nervous when humans make changes to production environments. I'd much rather have a tested script do it.
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   by hvidgaard 14y ago

   http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/2346806 was not something someone came up with after a few days at it. They had deep understanding of the statistics behind the algorithm, and an almost unfathomable knowledge in the domain, not to me
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   by hvidgaard 14y ago

   I agree on almost everything you've written, but, getting the general userbase to understand this is... a challenge - the best we get is generally of the form: "It's crashing when I press this button", and a stacktrace (but that is thanks t
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   by hvidgaard 14y ago

   Not only that - you make sure that critical components, like hard drives (rotational or SSD, doesn't matter), are from different manufacturers or at least not the same production, or at the very least not put them to use at the same time. B