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by jmount 11y ago
The Box–Muller transform method (also mentioned int he article) is kind of fun. You generate two Gaussians at once. You rejection sample from the unit square into the largest contained circle (generates a point about 3/4 of the time)
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Hope Chinese aren’t collating AM with every American with a security clearance(brucesterling.tumblr.com)
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by jmount 11y ago
Standard medical terminology. For example a rat with burned lungs could be "a model for human asthma" (probably not a good one).
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by jmount 11y ago
Pretty much I agree. The "car deal back out" is because somebody passed a law to encode that. Similarly if you want employees to have reasonable rights- you have to pass the matching laws. I definitely think nobody should be wa
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by jmount 11y ago
(I am not a lawyer, this is not legal advice or even my full opinion) I think that is the point. Terminating at-will employment isn't considered a threat/duress. One can't be for at will employment and against allowing emp
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by jmount 11y ago
Wasn't this one of the points of Perl? New languages seem small, but tend to grow.
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Edit Distance Can't Be in Strongly Subquadratic Time (unless SETH Is False) [pdf](arxiv.org)
1 points by jmount 11y ago|0 comments
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How do you know if your data has signal?(blog.revolutionanalytics.com)
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Gizmodo on Rob Rhinehart and Soylent(gizmodo.com)
3 points by jmount 11y ago|1 comments
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by jmount 11y ago
skateboard
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by jmount 11y ago
A quote I have always enjoyed: "Finding your bug is a process of confirming the many things you believe are true, until you find one which is not true." Norman Matloff 2002 http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/~matloff&#x
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Efficient accumulation in R(win-vector.com)
2 points by jmount 11y ago|0 comments
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by jmount 11y ago
Hand drawn alternative to QR codes? Writing the URL down in letters?
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Text encoding is a convoluted mess(win-vector.com)
3 points by jmount 11y ago|0 comments
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by jmount 11y ago
Thank you, that seemed to help.
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by jmount 11y ago
I know this will be considered un-gracious and get me the "learn emacs NOOB" award (an editor I have been using for 20 years, just not a huge fan of the package environment). But, I notice emacs packages don't give the specif
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Bug in latest version of OS X gives attackers unfettered root privileges(arstechnica.com)
1 points by jmount 11y ago|0 comments
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by jmount 11y ago
I don't see why that had to be an insulting animated "let me Google that for you link."
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by jmount 11y ago
Persi Diaconis did a lot of experiments- the biases are very low.
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by jmount 11y ago
My small take: http://www.win-vector.com/blog/2015/04/i-still-think-you-can...
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by jmount 11y ago
I thought the issue with GO garbage collectors wasn't so much speed as correctness (as they GO team historically has gotten GCD speed by sacrificing correctness, or is correctness a goal past version 1.3?).
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by jmount 11y ago
Upton Sinclair — 'It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.'
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by jmount 11y ago
I love that observation. Here is the reference for fun: http://cva.stanford.edu/classes/cs99s/papers/myer-sutherland...
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by jmount 11y ago
I've seen the phrase "please provide" a lot. And I agree with you, I've never seen it actually used politely- it is always comes off like a strong demand. Maybe part of the problem is it is a stock phrase on exams.
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by jmount 11y ago
No, it really is not.
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by jmount 11y ago
Which do you want to know? (as it affects the answer greatly). And how short is "SHORT TIME"? For certain small values of "SHORT TIME" the answer is come back when you have more time. How to apply machine learning usin
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by jmount 11y ago
Definitely an interesting read. Mostly I am with Pao. But I do feel Reddit has been in the business of supplying a troll friendly environment that is just interesting/safe enough to monetize for quite some time. So, in my opinion, nobo
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Working with sessionized data 2: variable selection(win-vector.com)
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by jmount 11y ago
Sure, pay me my consulting rate to run it down and fill out the forms.
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by jmount 11y ago
WebRTC, a protocol proposed by Google to W3C has applications in user tracking and detection of bots. Cui bono.

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