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961.
by jmount 13y ago
A-10 was a Boyd sponsored aircraft, a fun topic: http://www.win-vector.com/blog/2010/04/deming-wald-and-boyd-...
962.
by jmount 13y ago
I have owned the book for quite a while, the quote was originally about science- but it is so harsh it stuck with me.
963.
by jmount 13y ago
"If I had before me a fly and an elephant, having never seen more than one such magnitude of either kind; and if the fly were to endeavor to persuade me that he was larger than the elephant, I might by possibility be placed in a diffic
964.
What is Verification by Multiplicity?(ninazumel.com)
19 points by jmount 13y ago|0 comments
965.
Drowning in insignificance(win-vector.com)
2 points by jmount 13y ago|0 comments
966.
by jmount 13y ago
Henry Petroski has a 30 failure cycle for bridge technologies (see http://www.amazon.com/Success-through-Failure-Paradox-Design... ).
967.
by jmount 13y ago
Thats his schtick- publicly speculating on this is a big part of his fame.
968.
by jmount 13y ago
Book seems nice, but its discussion on the German Tank problem sets up code to calculate posteriors from priors that are more detailed than the Bayesian argument in the Wikipedia article. That is useful, but you don't get the problem
969.
February 22: Half off Practical Data Science with R. Use code dotd022214au(affiliate.manning.com)
1 points by jmount 13y ago|0 comments
970.
The gap between data mining and predictive models(win-vector.com)
1 points by jmount 13y ago|0 comments
971.
by jmount 13y ago
Not a biologist or chemist (but have worked a lot of them). I was very suspicious of "acid bath" being a secret sauce. Chemists and biologists always work through PH range studies early and often. It is one of the things that i
972.
by jmount 13y ago
I would guess you are correct: that the signal is pretty weak per individual couple (to the point of not being usable) but shows up with this nice tight graph when you aggregate data.
973.
by jmount 13y ago
Love Moon, here is my article on Gerty http://www.win-vector.com/blog/2011/07/gerty-a-character-in-...
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Unprincipled Component Analysis(win-vector.com)
2 points by jmount 13y ago|0 comments
975.
by jmount 13y ago
I guess you could go back to 1957 and lecture John Myhill on this, or we could all just ignore the academic priority and rename the problem as you like and after you. For some problems with obvious racist or sexist "jokes" we do
976.
by jmount 13y ago
Unfortunately seems like a great opportunity for wastes like free energy, perpetual motion, homeopathy and a so on.
977.
Evidence Emerges That Google’s Quantum Computer May Not Be Quantum After All(medium.com)
8 points by jmount 13y ago|0 comments
978.
Bad Bayes: an example of why you need hold-out testing(win-vector.com)
1 points by jmount 13y ago|0 comments
979.
by jmount 13y ago
I like that. Even worse would be "an actuary who lives in SF."
980.
by jmount 13y ago
Try our upcoming book: "Practical Data Science with R" http://www.manning.com/zumel/
981.
Popularity and Social Networks: Life is still like high school(ninazumel.com)
1 points by jmount 13y ago|0 comments
982.
Use standard deviation (not mad about MAD)(win-vector.com)
7 points by jmount 13y ago|0 comments
983.
The Extra Step: Graphs for Communication versus Exploration(win-vector.com)
2 points by jmount 13y ago|0 comments
984.
by jmount 13y ago
For specialized tasks expert systems have been better than doctors since the 1970s (Mycin, infection/antibiotic assignment). So I would guess there is some resistance.
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Unspeakable bets: take small steps (dynamic programming example)(win-vector.com)
1 points by jmount 13y ago|0 comments
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Australian Dept. Store Chain's Website Crashes and Can't Get Back Up(it.slashdot.org)
1 points by jmount 13y ago|0 comments
987.
by jmount 13y ago
If I had before me a fly and an elephant, having never seen more than one such magnitude of either kind; and if the fly were to endeavor to persuade me that he was larger than the elephant, I might by possibility be placed in a difficulty.
988.
by jmount 13y ago
Your startup will never live long enough to survive the procurement process.
989.
by jmount 13y ago
Cory Doctorow always is posting about Disney. It is usually slavishly, fawningly positive and inconsistent with his public politics. But still no lesson seems to be learned here.
990.
by jmount 13y ago
"Smarter" is a pretty judgmental term. I know we live in the era of "there already is a library for everything", but for small problems it may still sometimes make sense pick from the ideas you like and code directly. T

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