jamietheriveter

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   by jamietheriveter 2y ago

   Just because such a thing is beyond your experience doesn’t mean it’s rare or unimportant. I see this attitude in students who have worked mostly on toy (assigned) problems, but at least they are aware this is the case.
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   by jamietheriveter 2y ago

   > Is it worth making the algorithm slower just to have it work on extreme edge cases? Yes! If an API has no documented (and preferably enforced) limits on its arguments, the caller has every right to assume the full range of the argumen
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   by jamietheriveter 2y ago

   There’s a photo of him in the hall outside my office (@ NCSU), with his Emmy award. It’s nice to read stories here from people who knew him. He left big shoes to fill.
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   BestGuess: A command-line benchmarking tool(jamiejennings.com)

   3 points by jamietheriveter 2y ago|1 comments
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   by jamietheriveter 2y ago

   BestGuess obtains CPU time measurements with little overhead, analyzes the distribution of run times, and ranks them with nonparametric stats. The tool shows you when your results do not follow a normal distribution, which is almost always
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   by jamietheriveter 2y ago

   The comment about statistics that I wanted to reply to has disappeared. That commenter said: > I stand firm in my belief that unless you can prove how CLT applies to your input distributions, you should not assume normality. And if you