jhales

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by jhales 14y ago
It would be interesting to see this same question asked for income brackets and ethnic groups.
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by jhales 14y ago
Yes, I would find this very interesting. Doesn't matter if the indicator is now defunct.
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by jhales 14y ago
um... the first thing I looked at: http://www.bitcoinstore.com/hp-folio-13-b2a32ut-13-3-quot-le... vs. the first google hit: http://www.amazon.com/HP-Folio-B2A32UT-13-3-Inch-Ultrabook/d... It would be nice if there were some concrete ex
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by jhales 14y ago
Reminds me Einstein arguing God doesn't play dice. (Not claiming Chomsky is wrong,just a similar figure making a similar claim.)
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by jhales 14y ago
Surely you are not so innumerate to think that your vote has a discernible impact whether voting for a major party or a third party.
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by jhales 14y ago
Can some one explain what the benefit of this over using something like imageMagick? Is there a hidden cost to imageMagick that I am missing?
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by jhales 14y ago
no, it's a common misunderstanding of the lifespan metric. mberning is pointing out that the 'maximum' lifespan hasn't really changed. The change has primarily come from infant mortality so one possibility is once infant mortality is elimi
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by jhales 14y ago
I'm doing a math PhD and I feel ambivalent about this statement even for myself. In Devlin's article, doing math is conflated with a formal education in it. He should know better as he has previously endorsed heavy criticism of the latter:
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by jhales 14y ago
me too. I got through at first, but now nothing but that.
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by jhales 14y ago
I'm not quite sure I understand the value added over "!ls" etc on iPython. Is this module primarily for use on the vanilla interpreter?
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by jhales 15y ago
Yea I felt the same way. I found this app to visualize how long it takes the law of large numbers to take affect with a die: http://www.math.usu.edu/~schneit/CTIS/LawOfAverages/
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by jhales 15y ago
I get what you are saying, one has to read between the lines a little, but if you read carefully I think that is what is implied: "Albert Einstein called her the most “significant” and “creative” female mathematician of all time, and others
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by jhales 15y ago
No doubt she is a very signifigant figure, but (Although you do qualify your statement later) I have to disagree with: "If anything, the article probably understates her importance ..." In the second paragraph of the first page the author s
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by jhales 15y ago
In real life, the financiers Lloyd Blankfein represents are not simply "defectors." I would argue that they contribute (or at least could). However, a less contraversial point, especially in light of the recent crash, is that they cause a
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by jhales 15y ago
Good point, my mistake :)
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by jhales 15y ago
I just saw Norvig give this talk. The quote cuts off before he offers his explanation: the 1.5 means 'trust this data set more.' For whatever reason (e.g. bigger sample size) the probabilities from that set tend to be more accurate. It's
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by jhales 15y ago
Possible, but if this were true, one would expect denials from anonymous mouthpieces as well.
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by jhales 15y ago
There is actually already a lot of free market arbtration. It is just in the civil sector. Business tend to like them for their speed. David Freedman's "Machinery of Freedom" is a nice introduction to anarcho-capitalism which free market