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by jpfed 10y ago
If some mice are housed near rats and others are not (or simply vary in how far they are from the nearest rat), that will introduce variation into your measurements. For experiments not specifically about mouse/rat interactions, this
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by jpfed 10y ago
D'oh! I just squared 28 instead of getting the 28th triangle number.
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I wonder how kendall-tau distance (effectively, the number of bubble-sort swaps required) would work as a scoring metric.
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( Jonathan Frink voice ) If there are more than 784 people assigning ranges, then your argument is contradicted by the pigeonhole principle.
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These positions aren't contradictory; there are a ton of people that voted for Trump not because they're Nazis, but because Trump's terrible ideas about race and sex are just not very relevant to them. They just didn't
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I am under the impression that MS has a lot of different parts, and that these parts have different cultures and goals. MS Research and their developer division seem really open-source-friendly, but that may or may not say anything about th
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by jpfed 10y ago
This set of simulations ( explanations: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dzt-q6Gb8PHAgkLBv2j7Uhii... , graphs: http://rpubs.com/Jameson-Quinn/vse3 ) shows that basically anything is better
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by jpfed 10y ago
Well, one can imagine a smart enough language could perform some trivial mappings to reduce the zoo of potential function types: a -> b can be trivially mapped to both (a -> eventually b) and (eventually a -> eventually b).
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by jpfed 10y ago
That makes it look like the "display" property will turn into a css shorthand for "inner" and "outer" display properties... is that the case?
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I didn't imply it was desired or wasn't possible...? Another reply to my comment clarified that Optional also only applies to value types, which makes it analogous to Nullable. There's no reason to port it (as opposed to any
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by jpfed 10y ago
I'm unfamiliar with Java's Optional type, but the .NET type Nullable can only be parameterized over value types. It is there to add the concept of null to value types, not allow you to more precisely characterize the nullability
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And one of munificent's bird-named programming languages.
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I tend to look at it this way: hard work improves the probability of financial success, but it is neither a necessary nor sufficient condition. So yes, people benefit on average from hard work, but because of the uncertainty of the situa
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by jpfed 10y ago
>The whole Correct the Record thing is on a par with pizzagate. Do you mind clarifying in what respects they were similar to you? I haven't heard much in the way of specifics re CtR, but pizzagate was just... zero percent true. Was
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by jpfed 10y ago
I can't see a table like what's in the article without poking at it some more in Excel. Anyway, as you go down the table, the increasing cores do indeed have a higher cores*GHz. If you look at dollars per core-GHz (yes, I recogni
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>Depression, the disease, is not coherent with reality or circumstances. Where are people getting this idea? I mean, I suppose I could accept it as a definitional exercise in the same way that I can accept the idea that "gurple&quo
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by jpfed 10y ago
Regarding your first point, I agree that it doesn't constitute a justification for "this is the best way" so much as justification for "this is worth trying". When you say > It proves little since only the first
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by jpfed 10y ago
That's not what the person I replied to said. They said >However, depression is a disease independent of external factors. Which sounds like "all depression is a disease independent of external factors". Further supporti
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>However, depression is a disease independent of external factors. Just to clarify, are you saying that systems as intensely interconnected as brains in bodies in the world only ever enter depressive states... for no externally visible r
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DISCLAIMER: I am the noobiest noob that ever noobed a noob. I'm not sure there's "no other justification". A couple reasons I find the structures given above should be expected to work: 1. It roughly parallels the progre
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by jpfed 10y ago
>Create a subreddit for a news site, and each new article on the news site automatically gets a new post on the subreddit. Amusingly, https://www.reddit.com/r/hackernews/
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by jpfed 10y ago
Wouldn't "bite" in French sound more like "beet" in English?
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Well, unless your plan is actually to destroy the world, or in this case, make i7 owners slightly more entertained!
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<Yes, send me offers!> <No thanks, I like to waste money and wallow in ignorance>
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>enjoying the danger This is a hilariously bad attitude for any software that other people will use. When software crashes, people lose work and time. When software has vulnerabilities, bad guys take advantage of them and build stronge
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Forgive my ignorance, but it's not like that methyl group just becomes a free radical, right? Does it stick to either the aspartate or the phenylalanine, and if so, wouldn't that potentially change the body's reaction?
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>The attempts at building an interconnected globalised world are beginning to fail. This is what Russia wants.
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Maybe mutual information?
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It was a cubic, but the point is that calculus so obviates the need for any degree-specific tricks that I don't have any particular memory for them.
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>Finding the maximum of a relation using Calculus is much easier than strictly using algebra for this reason I recently-ish helped my stepdaughter with an algebra assignment where she was asked to find the maximum of some polynomial. I

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