jmalicki

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811.
by jmalicki 4y ago
1/36 is an estimate, it is not an estimator at all. An estimator is a formula based on data from the rolls.
812.
by jmalicki 4y ago
That's a known probability distribution. The optimal is about being the minimum variance unbiased estimator for the unknown probability distribution.
813.
by jmalicki 4y ago
Monopolistic pricing and anticompetitiveness has little to do with JIT or data analytics
814.
by jmalicki 4y ago
There are likely a lot of downsides to their PSC system, but Meta is way more rigorous than this. They take performance reviews written by the employee themselves, reports, peers, managers, and calibrate them in meetings involving peer man
815.
by jmalicki 4y ago
Meat is interesting... when I read this at first I was taken aback, thinking that while there might be 1-3 years lag in producers responding to demand, surely meat is nearly a pure commodity without market power being involved? Then I remem
816.
by jmalicki 4y ago
No, it is the NBER. Even the BEA says the NBER officially defines recessions: https://www.bea.gov/help/glossary/recession
817.
by jmalicki 4y ago
Serialization vs. what... Throwing away data? I mean yes, saving more to disk is slower than not saving it, computing more is slower than not computing anything... Or are you making a more subtle point?
818.
by jmalicki 4y ago
I mean it's not completely random, this is exactly the kind of thing the Delaware chancery court exists to deal with... almost all of their docket is high-stakes shareholder stuff.
819.
by jmalicki 4y ago
It's solvable if publishing the dataset counts as a paper, and citations of the dataset which should be required count as citations for e.g. tenure. For example, ImageNet for machine learning is a very expensive and difficult data set
820.
by jmalicki 4y ago
> 2) How does one define "re-runnable processing"? Software rots, dependencies disappear, operating systems become incompatible with software, permission models change. Does every researcher now need a docker expert to publish?
821.
by jmalicki 4y ago
> i think maybe that this is not a technical problem, but more an ethical one. under the open data approach, if you want to study humans you probably would need to get express informed consent that indicates that their data will be publi
822.
by jmalicki 4y ago
Not to excuse security holes, but at least they're adversarial - I would expect this code to generate all kinds of error logs if tested against any reasonable corpus along the "happy path" - if you ran your code against a sam
823.
by jmalicki 4y ago
Because of the foreign key, the query should reduce to "explain select count(*) from Department d;"
824.
by jmalicki 4y ago
So I'm probably ignorant, but the 787? I've seen it as a great aircraft that has moved the bar significantly... there have been some issues, but I'm surprised that you wouldn't even consider it a successful program?
825.
by jmalicki 4y ago
What you say is literally true - most of Santa Rosa is not WUI, but a significant proportion is: https://www.srcity.org/DocumentCenter/View/25294/CWPP-WUI-Ma...
826.
by jmalicki 4y ago
From TFA: "They have asked the court to block Tesla from securing separation agreements with laid-off staff, arguing that by offering only one or two weeks' severance, Tesla is in violation of the Worker Adjustment and Retraining
827.
by jmalicki 4y ago
What is "perfect negotiation"? The readme.md does not mention it, and does not discuss it... any claim about being unusually good in some way should be... at least discussed?
828.
by jmalicki 4y ago
Less than a 1000 conformance tests for a standard? Sounds Pretty simple to me, no way you could make an HTML compliance suite that small.
829.
by jmalicki 4y ago
Until very recently, they couldn't even arrest you for rape on the reservation if you weren't a member of the tribe... only the FBI had jurisdiction and it often wasn't a big enough fish to fry for them to bother. https:&#x2
830.
by jmalicki 4y ago
Speaking as someone who actually runs NVMe RAIDs for large-ish databases, the NVMe speeds quoted are usually only attainable for large sequential streaming loads. While they are not spinning disks with heads that need to seek, there is sti
831.
by jmalicki 4y ago
The statute calls them unorganized, which is arguably not well regulated... "(2)the unorganized militia, which consists of the members of the militia who are not members of the National Guard or the Naval Militia."
832.
by jmalicki 4y ago
0.2 watts is 172 (k)calories per hour, which isn't all that small (in addition extra load on the rest of the body, such as the heart, lungs, liver, etc. to support that metabolism)
833.
by jmalicki 4y ago
If you can do a statistical sample of a very small number of users, say 0.1%, and do very expensive detailed investigation of them that determines 5% are fake, you can easily extrapolate that 5% to the entire userbase with small confidence
834.
by jmalicki 5y ago
There was also the entire fiasco where postgres and Linux kernel developers discovered it was damn-near impossible to get the intended behavior with fsync as there were way too many pitfalls, underspecification, and filesystem-level incompa
835.
by jmalicki 5y ago
Yes, it's marketed as ZzzQuil an OTC sleeping aid! (as well as benadryl)
836.
by jmalicki 5y ago
The article is extremely short, but comparing 2-4 OTC doses of diphenhydramine to a level of alcohol concentration above what constitutes a DUI in most places seems like an odd choice? Or is that just a matter of proof of concept, go for t
837.
by jmalicki 5y ago
"Animal Liberation" by Peter Singer, a Princeton bioethics professor, is probably the leading academic treatment. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_Liberation_(book)
838.
by jmalicki 5y ago
lessor? Out of curiosity for legalese, I found a California assembly member is actually trying to change landlord -> lessor in its laws https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtm...
839.
by jmalicki 5y ago
"which requires crossing a major bridge." - The biologist quoted in your linked article believes the bear likely swam across the canal.
840.
by jmalicki 5y ago
If you examine the modification more closely, it is just finding the list that would exhibit worst case performance - once created, that list would always exhibit the worst case as a constant list. Once you have the resulting list, the indi

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