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by johnmyleswhite 6y ago
It seems like it would be pretty easy to make a REPL mode that did the big conversions automatically. Not sufficient to protect a naive user, but arbitrary precision floating point is never safe.
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by johnmyleswhite 7y ago
This headline is somewhat misleading; just changing to the wording of "cell cultures" instead of "cells" would make the stage that this work is in more clear.
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by johnmyleswhite 7y ago
Can you link to a proof of the equation starting at "The standard error of the sample Median approximates to"?
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by johnmyleswhite 7y ago
Mypy types don't usually have any runtime enforcement.
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by johnmyleswhite 7y ago
Is this an Ask HN thread? If so, why is the title a statement rather than a question?
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by johnmyleswhite 7y ago
Not sure if Spain is the best example since AC is already very popular there and growing in popularity: http://www.ine.es/jaxi/Datos.htm?path=/t25/p500/2008/p01/l0/...
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In Defense of Fahrenheit(lethalletham.com)
28 points by johnmyleswhite 7y ago|90 comments
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Looking Back at Postgres(arxiv.org)
1 points by johnmyleswhite 8y ago|0 comments
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Applied Linear Algebra Textbook by Boyd and Vandenberghe(vmls-book.stanford.edu)
13 points by johnmyleswhite 8y ago|1 comments
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by johnmyleswhite 8y ago
But the Financial District was much emptier at night historically than it is now, so I'm not sure this is closely linked to the article's claims.
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Birdseye: Graphical Python Debugger Using the AST(github.com)
2 points by johnmyleswhite 8y ago|0 comments
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by johnmyleswhite 8y ago
Small nit: if the curve is continuous, should the y-axis be labeled density rather than probability? Closely linked: is anything being done to ensure the curve integrates to 1? I imagine the answer is "the scale changes as you draw&quo
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by johnmyleswhite 8y ago
Perhaps I've misunderstood your desire to be sarcastic, but I think your timeline is off. To give two concrete examples, Geman and Geman's "Stochastic Relaxation, Gibbs Distributions, and the Bayesian Restoration of Images&qu
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by johnmyleswhite 8y ago
All of Statistics by Larry Wasserman is the book I recommend for anyone who knows calculus and linear algebra and wants to learn statistics.
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by johnmyleswhite 8y ago
Prop 13 passed when California was a red state: http://www.latimes.com/projects/la-pol-ca-california-voting-...
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Ryu: Fast Float-To-String Conversion [pdf](delivery.acm.org)
1 points by johnmyleswhite 8y ago|0 comments
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by johnmyleswhite 8y ago
As a person who knows both of the people involved in that debacle, I think it's fair to say that there's a lasting interpersonal conflict between two specific people (one of whom is the author of the post you've linked to) th
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by johnmyleswhite 8y ago
The easiest way to think about Julia's performance is closely related to the observations that inspire tracing JIT's for many languages -- most code in dynamic languages doesn't make use of the features that make efficient co
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Facebook’s Field Guide to Machine Learning Video Series(research.fb.com)
1 points by johnmyleswhite 8y ago|0 comments
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On Open Source(discourse.julialang.org)
2 points by johnmyleswhite 9y ago|0 comments
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by johnmyleswhite 9y ago
Christopher Chedeau's original post clearly doesn't represent Facebook's official stance on functional programming (nor does it ever purport to do so from what I can see), but I'm not sure that describing him as "a
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Fifth Amendment – The Right to a No Adverse Inference Jury Instruction(scholarlycommons.law.northwestern.edu)
2 points by johnmyleswhite 9y ago|0 comments
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by johnmyleswhite 10y ago
I'm not a big fan of the percentile bootstrap, but that reference is a little too cavalier with material that deserves to be treated more rigorously. Chapter 8 of Wasserman's "All of Statistics" is much more careful abou
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Daniel Kahneman Admits Priming Studies are Underpowered(replicationindex.wordpress.com)
4 points by johnmyleswhite 10y ago|1 comments
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Modes, Medians and Means: A Unifying Perspective(johnmyleswhite.com)
1 points by johnmyleswhite 10y ago|0 comments
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by johnmyleswhite 10y ago
Thanks! I really should have finished and written the post about the SVD as well. One of these days...
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by johnmyleswhite 10y ago
Glad you enjoyed that post so much. It really is a shame that we do such a bad job of teaching students about the inherent subjectivity of descriptive statistics and let students leave their courses with dangerous ideas about the existence
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by johnmyleswhite 10y ago
Note that the first sentence of the linked page says that: > This is a draft textbook on data analysis methods, intended for a one-semester course for advance undergraduate students who have already taken classes in probability, mathemat
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Julia vs. Haskell Type System(reddit.com)
2 points by johnmyleswhite 10y ago|0 comments
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by johnmyleswhite 10y ago
This argument would seem to assume that a frequentist is required to use maximum likelihood estimation for all problems. If you remove that assumption, the distinction between Bayesian and frequentist methods becomes murkier. If you ultimat

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