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by lalaithion 3y ago
from the link: > PS. Note that I am using // instead of / -- this is Python 3 syntax
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by lalaithion 3y ago
To be fair, Python's `/` creates floats, and this article is about a second operator `//`.
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by lalaithion 3y ago
Doesn't the same question appear with bandwidth? I don't care about my bandwidth to my router or the backbone, I care about my bandwidth to Google, Cloudflare, Netflix, etc.
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by lalaithion 3y ago
Here’s another example: Say you have a lazy researcher. They flip a coin, and if it comes up heads, they do the experiment. If it comes up tails, they just write down a random number. If you _only get access_ to the final number, then you s
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by lalaithion 3y ago
From _Probability Theory: The Logic of Science_: > Then the possibility seems open that, for different priors, different functions r(x1,..., xn) of the data may take on the role of sufficient statistics. This means that use of a particul
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by lalaithion 3y ago
Here's a link: http://www.med.mcgill.ca/epidemiology/hanley/bios601/Gaussia... And if you want to read what he has to say on the optional stopping problem, you can scroll down to page 196 (166 in page nu
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by lalaithion 3y ago
Yes, this is addressed in the original article... there are multiple "lawful" ways of adding integers which all give the same results, and likewise in probability all "lawful" ways of analyzing data should give the same
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by lalaithion 3y ago
Imagine you have a machine that rolls a d20 and lies if the die comes up 1-19, and tells the truth on a 20. Should you trust this machine usually? No. But if you can _see that the die comes up 20_ then you should trust it. The fact that it
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by lalaithion 3y ago
What do you mean by 'results'? They would not have different distributions of results on their first die roll. They would have different distributions of results on their reported die roll. If I am looking at their first die roll,
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by lalaithion 3y ago
Both events have the same probability of happening; 1/20. The fact that the researcher intended to do something in a reality that didn't happen isn't relevabnt.
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by lalaithion 3y ago
If you see two people roll a d20 and get a 20, you get to say "wow, that was unlikely" to both of them, even if one of them privately admits they were going to quickly re-roll their die if they got below a 10. What matters is thei
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by lalaithion 3y ago
If you have two researchers, and one is "trying" to p-hack by repeating an experiment with different parameters, and one is trying to avoid p-hacking by preregistering their parameters, you might expect the paper published by the
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by lalaithion 3y ago
> the number of roots even for the same quadratic equation may depend on "private" thoughts such as whether complex roots are of interest You are confusing ambiguity in a problem statement due to human language being imprecise
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by lalaithion 3y ago
P(B|I saw E, P) = P(I saw E|B,P) * P(B|P) / P(I saw E|P) P(B|E was false, I saw E, P) = P(E was false|B,I saw E,P) * P(B|P,I saw E) / P(E was false|P, I saw E) This is a pretty basic application of Bayes' theor
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by lalaithion 3y ago
I understand the theory, I was looking for an example of the same text tokenized with the two different vocabularies.
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by lalaithion 3y ago
I understand the theory, I was looking for an example of the same text tokenized with the two different vocabularies.
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by lalaithion 3y ago
What does tokenization look like in 256k vs 32k?
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by lalaithion 3y ago
> I don't think most people even realize it is not SMS/MMS Nobody knows what SMS or MMS are either.
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by lalaithion 3y ago
I wrote a script that takes in my credit card statement line by line and categorized the transactions into a custom set of categories that I cared about as well as generating a human readable description of the transaction.
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by lalaithion 3y ago
> They'll say things without knowing that the words they're using are a term of art with a different meaning in the law than it has the way they're using And this is what we need to change. We need a presumption that when
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by lalaithion 3y ago
We don’t live in a closed system though.
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by lalaithion 3y ago
When I was a child, I voraciously reread all of my favorite books over and over, and I loved the book jackets because – well, they were an extra few words from my favorite books to enjoy!
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by lalaithion 3y ago
Ideally this lint would ignore if (false) and if (true), even though these are still constant binary expressions, they aren't vectors for similar bugs like the constant expressions in the blog post. Although "real" production
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by lalaithion 3y ago
Universal health care is important, necessary, cheaper than our current system, and I support it. But it's a completely orthogonal concern to the state of the tech economy.
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by lalaithion 3y ago
The US has half the homelessness rate of the UK or France. Childbirth is due to lack of universal health care and gun violence is due to the massive number of guns – not the tech economy.
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by lalaithion 3y ago
Ah, but this assumes a fixed unfairness; with this result, you could pretend to do the von neumann method but change starting sides on each flip, giving a biased result.
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by lalaithion 3y ago
One major simplification you can make is that due to purity, older values _never_ point to newer values. This means when doing generational GC, you don’t have to check for pointers from older generations into newer generations.
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by lalaithion 3y ago
This is amazing, it will help a lot of people have access to a drug that can vastly improve quality of life without being gatekept by their doctor. Just one note about the phrasing of all the headlines: they’re phrased as if the FDA did a g
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by lalaithion 3y ago
My experience with Goroutines is that eventually you run into the limits of working with them and your code explodes in size. Your for item := range channel { // code goes here } becomes for { va
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by lalaithion 3y ago
Based on my reading of the article, they _also_ allow that; they call that behavior "muting" and distinguish it from "blocking".

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