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by jibiki 17y ago
One imagines: Precision = correct results / total results (E.g., what fraction of results are correct.) Recall = total results / total queries. (E.g., what fraction of queries are answered.)
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It is the amount of debt each American has to pay off each day. Except, you know, it isn't.
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A New Kind of Science
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I gave it "unemployment rate in germany in 1928". It correctly parsed my query, but didn't have the data. Google gives an answer (8.4%) but it doesn't come from trustworthy sources. EDIT: "first prime greater than 1000000" gives 1,000,003.
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Parkinson published his book in 1958 :) One imagines that there were counterexamples even in his day, though. Can anyone think of some companies that were rising stars in 1958? Did they have nice offices?
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> If she thinks he might be a shitty father who only contributes the minimum, then she shouldn't marry him or have kids with him. The law frequently provides protection for people who enter certain contracts, even when they ought to kno
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> Of course you pay child support if you fathered the kid But not alimony?
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The counterargument says that a marriage is basically an agreement where the woman agrees to lend her womb to a man in exchange for him supporting her and her children. That's way too sexist for me (if that's what marriage is, then we shoul
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> child support should be no more than 1/2 the minimum cost of raising a child Am I a horrible sexist if I disagree with this?
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> The second was just a instantly-typed reaction which should have been an edit Honestly, it's an annoying post, and it would be an annoying edit. "OMG WHY ARE PEOPLE DOWNMODDING ME?!" is just really annoying no matter where you put it
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The problem is that the most vocal opponents of abortion frequently favor causes like abstinence-only-education. Of course, the average pro-lifer cares much more about abortion than abstinence education, but the ones we hear on the radio s
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> double-your-bet-after-you-lose strategy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martingale_(betting_system)
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Here's a relevant graph: http://i263.photobucket.com/albums/ii139/tolsdogg_photo/life... The introduction of capitalism had a small but negative impact on life expectancy. If you were to compare life expectancy in communist countries to l
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That list says that Norway's public debt is 52% of GDP. (It puts the UK at 47%, and the UAE at 22%.)
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_oil_export...
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Ah, sorry.
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> "commons" I'm not sure if you were looking for help on this one, but "similarities" is the word most Americans would use.
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> the world you live in right now is chock full with nasty things doing their best to kill you. Really? For some reason, internet people are always talking about coevolution and not killing the host and all that. I'd assume you know b
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That's the opposite of egalitarian, isn't it?
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So there's this guy, and he goes to prison. It's his first day there, and everyone is lined up for roll call. Suddenly one of the prisoners shouts "seventeen", and the others all laugh. Another prisoner shouts, "one hundred and five" and
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I wouldn't have even noticed that it rhymes without the whitespace.
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> Ah, yes, the vaunted trick of slyly redefining a term out from under the interlocutor. While it is true that a patent is an exclusive right and thus a form of monopoly, this type of monopoly is not what I was talking about and you wer
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This looks like an easy one to protest. Just get a huge bunch of people to post the link: on personal websites, message boards, whatever.
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> the Coulter niche for a certain audience Michael Moore is the closest I could come up with. What makes Coulter unique is that she actively tries to offend liberals. I can't really think of anyone famous for trying to offend conserva
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"Since the late ‘70s, researchers have known that prime numbers themselves, when taken in very large data sets, are not distributed according to Benford’s law. Instead, the first digit distribution of primes seems to be approximately unifor
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I thought CA's top bracket was $47,000+...?
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California is notorious for its high income tax: "9.3 percent on taxable income of $47,056 and above". (From http://www.bankrate.com/brm/itax/edit/state/profiles/state_t... ) I think the relevant statistic would be tax burden per capita:
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He means his wife's sister's husband?
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I'll note that there are many religions in the world, and at most one of them can be correct. Some of these faiths require you to believe things which are much less likely than Maurice Jarre saying what Fitzgerald had him saying. My point
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Consumer reports seems to have rankings, but you have to register to view them. Fortunately, I found them (maybe) on google images: http://cache.consumerist.com/assets/resources/2006/10/laptop... My anecdotal experience is also that macs

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