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by nanis 8y ago
> Bayesian probability is emphatically not about an experiment being repeated in the future. That's the frequentist interpretation of probability. I am saying something different, but this seems like a futile discussion. What does
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by nanis 8y ago
> By your logic, every proposition is either true or false, and therefore the concept of probability is useless. That would be nonsensical interpretation of my logic. In cases where it is possible to conceive of an experiment being repea
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by nanis 8y ago
Either John wrote the song or Paul did. Therefore P(Paul wrote it) either one or zero. It cannot be anything else. We do not know which one and we are not going to find out by counting or doing arithmetic. After listening to the song one
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by nanis 8y ago
I am not understanding what you are saying because it sounds like you are claiming it is OK for people on electric vehicles to slam into pedestrians in pedestrian crossings because a lot of people have died in accidents involving cars. And,
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by nanis 8y ago
> We agree that a probability is a ratio, right? No, probability is a normalized denumerably additive measure defined over a σ-algebra of subset of an abstract space. (see Kolmogorov). Probability is a completely mathematical constru
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by nanis 8y ago
The statement was made from the perspective of a pedestrian who grew up safely in a very non-pedestrian friendly and extremely congested city. There are ways in which pedestrians communicate with drivers to ensure both sides' safety.
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by nanis 8y ago
If it takes a nineteenth century law to keep pedestrians safe from vehicles whose drivers obey neither convention nor signals of all kinds, so be it.
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by nanis 8y ago
Edit, FYI: When I posted this comment, the link title repeated the story's title "Math Proves John Lennon Wrote 'In My Life'". More like "arithmetic suggests" ... There is no mathematical proof here. See a
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by nanis 8y ago
You might have to be Turkish to appreciate the humor in this. City government decides to sanction the U.S. by canceling their social media advertising.
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Turkish city announces sanctions against the U.S(hurriyetdailynews.com)
1 points by nanis 8y ago|1 comments
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by nanis 8y ago
Turkish and computers don't get along.
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by nanis 8y ago
> that's sure not what I think liberalism is I haven't read the article, but he is probably referring to Classical Liberalism[1]. Up until around 1900, this ideology was generally known simply as liberalism. The qu
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by nanis 8y ago
And, still, asks me to log in.
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by nanis 8y ago
Note[1]: The decrease in the number of listed firms is a recent phenomenon. Figure 1 shows the evolution of the number of listed firms since 1975.1 The number of listed firms follows an inverted U-shape: It increased by 54
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by nanis 8y ago
> Are you claiming this doesn't work? No, I am not. I misinterpreted the "larger than all coefficients" because I was sure that the condition that at least one of the coefficients other than the constant term had to be pos
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by nanis 8y ago
[redacted because I was completely wrong, missing the obvious ;-)] ... See child comment.
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by nanis 8y ago
> I find it odd that you think the question is not well defined. You must assume that at least some of the coefficients of the x terms are non-zero. > Do you not find that surprising? No. > how would you explain it? I think
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The Noah's Ark Problem [pdf] (related to endangered species act)(scholar.harvard.edu)
1 points by nanis 8y ago|0 comments
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by nanis 8y ago
The Endangered Species Act is not a good way to protect endangered species. It bars consideration of cost at any level, and basically destroys the property rights system thereby providing incentives to preemptively destroy habitat. Anyone w
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by nanis 8y ago
The question is not well defined. If m is the degree of the polynomial, you want ∀ i ∈ {0, ..., m}, c_i ≥ 0 and ∃ i ∈ {1, ..., m}, c_i > 0 . Otherwise the solution is either trivial or not unique. > Do you find this interesting?
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by nanis 8y ago
Required reading for all you neo-Malthusian types: https://www.econlib.org/library/YPDBooks/Jevons/jvnCQ.html
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by nanis 8y ago
> Hi, Jimmy from Optimizely here. The practice you describe is actually perfectly fine, so long as ... Lotsa things are OK so long as you are doing X and Y etc. Take a look at a portion clinical trial[1] guidance from FDA. Note specifica
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by nanis 8y ago
They operate in the someone else's problem field[1] while spending other people's money[2]. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somebody_else%27s_problem [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2F
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by nanis 8y ago
People use classical methods because it is easier for them to understand than Bayesian. When using classical methods, the least one can do is to fix sample size before the experiment, and not peek until the experiment is over. That is easie
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by nanis 8y ago
Once at a programming conference, I was talking with a very senior developer at a well known company. He was going on and on about their A/B testing efforts. I asked how they decided how long they would run an experiment for. The answe
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by nanis 8y ago
This, of course, is not really about the startup mentality, but about the mentality that sees nothing wrong with a kid's school being determined by a lottery instead of parents' choices. There was education before there was govern
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by nanis 8y ago
Here is the license. https://xvc.io/license/
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by nanis 8y ago
Yup, DRM-like required ticketing blob in the firmware. The car can write the tickets and transfer funds from your bank account to the appropriate government entity without you having to lift a finger. Great! I can't wait for what'
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by nanis 8y ago
> Local calls have been unlimited on landlines in most US markets for a very long time. For some definition of very long .
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by nanis 8y ago
I would not recommend spending time on this article: many cities balance their budgets using money brought in by cars: gas taxes, vehicle registration fees, traffic tickets, and billions of dollars in parking revenue. But

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