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by neilkk 3y ago
Didn't our whole software industry come to a consensus to stop doing things like this because the results were fundamentally inaccurate and the invariable outcomes were stakeholders feeling hard done by and/or ICs being victimised
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by neilkk 3y ago
Same. I read it cover to cover multiple times. The only part I didn't understand was the bit about Quicksort. I was a C programmer by the time I finally grokked it.
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by neilkk 3y ago
It's not a generalisation, it's just the definition of the word 'competent'.
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by neilkk 3y ago
You're claiming that police chiefs deliberately overreact to these calls in order to put pressure on lawmakers via the FBI and the media?
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by neilkk 3y ago
All communication is communication with people in the future.
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by neilkk 3y ago
But Github and similar tools actually solved this problem where Git failed to do so. Nowadays people have a setup with Github or bitbucket where they can navigate from a piece of code right to the pull request, where they can read the code
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by neilkk 3y ago
Right. You've given an example of exactly what I said was the only reasonable use case for detailed info in the commit message: someone in the future will need to know the history of that particular piece of code. It seems like the poi
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by neilkk 3y ago
The thing is that writing a good commit message for future people doing `git blame` is only worth it if it's a line of code which someone in the future will look at and need to know why it was changed from its previous form to the cu
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by neilkk 3y ago
There are 100 cents in a dollar fyi.
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by neilkk 3y ago
The youngest person who was able to drive when gas was a quarter dollar a gallon is now in their early nineties.
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by neilkk 3y ago
In other words they have attempted to rebrand themselves after justified criticism that they were promoting the mindset that sees climate change as fictional and academic enquiry as a waste of time.
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by neilkk 3y ago
> In October 2005, John Mainstone and the late Thomas Parnell were awarded the Ig Nobel Prize in physics, a parody of the Nobel Prize, for the pitch drop experiment. Embarrassing that the Ig Nobel prize has so little understanding of wha
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by neilkk 3y ago
The implied probability of Brexit a few days before was around 25%. The implied probability of Trump beating Clinton a few days before was around 20%. Neither the time value of money nor the cost of trading explain these dislocations.
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by neilkk 3y ago
No, that's not right. Do those first four steps. You wouldn't (necessarily) cover every black point in your rectangle. Choose a remaining black point and flood fill from that, say green. Keep on doing this with different colours u
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by neilkk 3y ago
Suppose you choose such a rectangle, let's say it incorporates the 'fringe' of the main cardioid and the fringe of the biggest circle. Within that rectangle, color green all the pieces which connect to the main cardioid and b
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by neilkk 3y ago
Right, so it was just as much in their interest as it was in Clifford Stoll's to pretend that this was an international espionage incident?
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by neilkk 3y ago
Past a certain point optimism simply becomes wilful naivety.
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by neilkk 3y ago
Don't have exact figures but it's a lot less than zero.
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by neilkk 3y ago
Surely this (unlike many other environmental and social issues) is effectively solved by price? If helium balloons cost $100 each vastly fewer of them would be sold. If they cost $100 but you could get $90 back by bringing them back to the
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by neilkk 3y ago
"Will you ban Finsta?" was not an example of such a question. It was a profoundly stupid question from someone who had the resources to educate themselves before asking it.
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by neilkk 3y ago
The package in transit belongs to Amazon not to the addressee.
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by neilkk 3y ago
Why do you think that the survey wouldn't include drug dealers in the respondents?
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by neilkk 3y ago
Crime survey data often removes many of the noise in recorded crimes data. Basically surveying a cross section of people and asking them if they've been a victim of crime in the last X months, and what type of crime.
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by neilkk 3y ago
The Great Wall of China is military technology, would you consider that its effectiveness is proven?
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by neilkk 3y ago
Right so by analogy, it's possible that medieval castles were built a) for a reason that we don't understand or b) for a reason we do understand, but where the justification for why castles fulfil that requirement is dubious.
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by neilkk 3y ago
Egyptians built pyramids in order that their kings would live forever. The pyramids were not effective at allowing their kings to live forever so why did they build so many? Stone Age people painted the animals they were going to hunt on ro
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by neilkk 3y ago
Your reference definitely doesn't show a calculation of the type you are trying to do. Likelihood ratios are not the same as odds ratios; they do not have the problem I described. I would be very surprised if you can find any reference
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by neilkk 3y ago
I'm having a hard time understanding why this is better than CLOCK. It seems like a hack to make updates easier which however makes both practical performance and conceptual justification much worse. The elements which are between &#x2
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by neilkk 3y ago
Yes, you are doing math with odds as though they are fractions or ratios, which is deeply incorrect. 20:1 is not the reciprocal of 1:20 but the complement. Odds ratios and similar calculations do not work like this. You can do this type of
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by neilkk 3y ago
This isn't how the mathematics of odds works, as the GP correctly pointed out. An event which is 20:1 on is not 20 times more likely than certainty. Going from 1:4 to 1:2 means that the event has become twice as likely. But going from

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