johndcook

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What Happened to the Hiccups?(statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
1 points by johndcook 7y ago|0 comments
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Ambitious Projects Completed Quickly(patrickcollison.com)
4 points by johndcook 7y ago|0 comments
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by johndcook 7y ago
Right. Sorry for the confusion. The post hit HN while I was editing.
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by johndcook 7y ago
I thought there was a difference between a C and C++ implementation, but it was an error on my part. When I fixed the bug, I changed the post title. But the post hit HN while I was in the process of fixing it.
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Why deep learning is turinging to low-precision arithmetic(linkedin.com)
1 points by johndcook 7y ago|0 comments
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SQRL: Secure Quick Reliable Login(grc.com)
12 points by johndcook 7y ago|4 comments
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Why we created LFortran(lfortran.org)
12 points by johndcook 7y ago|8 comments
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by johndcook 7y ago
Here's an example. It's not mentioned in the OP, but in a link in the OP. Microsoft's LINQ was designed using principles from category theory. They didn't use category terminology in the final product, and rightfully so.
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by johndcook 7y ago
Not everything that has happened once can have its own code. There must be things that happen more frequently that don't have their own code.
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by johndcook 7y ago
Traditional Chinese Medicine? That would be interesting.
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Psychopathy by State(sciencedirect.com)
6 points by johndcook 8y ago|0 comments
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by johndcook 8y ago
I said "We're out of office space. If you want to keep hiring, we have to let people work from home." He accepted that immediately, and we moved on to logistics.
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by johndcook 8y ago
Thank you for maintaining this package. I wish I'd run across it sooner.
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Word Spectrum: Visualizing Google's Bi-Gram Data(chrisharrison.net)
4 points by johndcook 8y ago|0 comments
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by johndcook 8y ago
Yes, the author does write a lot of scientific code and is in the habit of using SciPy. -- the author :)
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The 129 Essential Jazz Albums of the 21st Century (So Far)(playingchangesbook.com)
3 points by johndcook 8y ago|1 comments
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by johndcook 8y ago
Rumor has it that his most recent proof also received private criticism and he rejected it. But the experts are being discreet. They're not jumping on twitter. Instead you had unqualified people who hadn't seen the papers or the t
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What wish would you ask a math genie to grant?(blogs.ams.org)
4 points by johndcook 8y ago|0 comments
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Random Points on a Sphere(johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com)
120 points by johndcook 8y ago|29 comments
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Update on Polynomial Regression in Lieu of Neural Nets – R-bloggers(r-bloggers.com)
1 points by johndcook 8y ago|0 comments
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Virtual Tour of the International Space Station(assets.go3dnow.com)
2 points by johndcook 8y ago|1 comments
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Roadmap for choosing between statistical modeling and machine learning(fharrell.com)
2 points by johndcook 8y ago|0 comments
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by johndcook 8y ago
Posits are a hardware-friendly implementation of unums, a sort of halfway house on the road to Gusafson's full vision of unums. Posits have a fixed size and are meant to be a drop-in replacement for IEEE floats. They can and are being
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by johndcook 9y ago
True, but the article doesn't mention a more accurate theory. It implies that the rule works better than we have theoretical reasons to expect. (But as I commented above, the article contradicts itself to some degree.)
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by johndcook 9y ago
The Wikipedia article is contradictory. As you quoted, it says that the law works well in simulation and in observation, and yet it's just a coincidence. Of course it's not exact, but it looks like a very good first approximation.
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by johndcook 9y ago
re book recommendation: Lawrence Evans's book Partial Differential Equations. Functional analysis etc.
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Cracking random number generators (xoroshiro128+)(lemire.me)
109 points by johndcook 9y ago|56 comments
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Python Plotting for Exploratory Analysis(pythonplot.com)
4 points by johndcook 9y ago|0 comments
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An adventure in C++ compilers(cs.uni.edu)
2 points by johndcook 10y ago|0 comments
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Tangledown: Self-contained, one-step literate markdown(github.com)
4 points by johndcook 10y ago|0 comments

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