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by pseut 14y ago
It was terse, but the parent's comment was helpful. Wouldn't you want to correct misspellings on your site? Especially in the part where you ask for money?
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by pseut 14y ago
Really? I'm back and forth on this, and the unlocking usually comes after periods of urgency even if I've moved on to something else. But "urgency" definitely is different than "panic" or "frantic".
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by pseut 14y ago
Not to be (too) dismissive, but anyone can work a crap job for a summer in college. Have a shit full time job after college (hypothetically: file clerk at a nursing agency in in emeryville) -- that teaches you a different level of life less
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by pseut 14y ago
I have to say, an rss reader that depends on numpy and scipy is pretty intriguing.
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by pseut 14y ago
If you're text only already, check out newsbeuter.
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by pseut 14y ago
I can ignore the auto-playing video well enough, but jesus, why anyone decided to bring back auto-playing video WITH SOUND is beyond me.
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Customizing Bootstrap(coding.smashingmagazine.com)
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by pseut 14y ago
It looks nice, but I'm still waiting for someone to figure out how to do multiple columns well online -- I'd like to use more than a 6 inch wide column of my laptop or desktop screen if possible.
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by pseut 14y ago
Real time collaborative writing might be unusual, but real time collaborative editing happens all the time.
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by pseut 14y ago
From https://draftin.com/about : >You don't need writing software; you need someones feedback on your writing. It should be "someone's" or, ideally "you need feedback on your writing." I don't usually do this, but in the spirit of th
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by pseut 14y ago
At a more abstract level, the reason is "money," which is also the reason for a lot of other good content.
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by pseut 14y ago
> Google's basic premise of ranking the importance of a site based on how many links it gets and where from is wildly inaccurate in the era of social networking. Normal people mostly don't run their own public web sites or blogs any mor
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by pseut 14y ago
I don't know the father's motives aside from the article, but I have a 4yo daughter and try to do whatever I can to encourage her to have, "I can change/fix that" as her first instinct when she runs into obstacles or problems. Whether there
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Nate Thayer is a plagiarist(jeremyduns.blogspot.se)
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by pseut 14y ago
The community isn't a given. Some of the stack exchanges that allow more open ended questions are somewhat useless. I'm thinking of the stats one in particular[1]: you get a ton of questions where it is clear that the questioner will be u
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by pseut 14y ago
Double-check your code for the stalker social networking buttons; they're about mid-screen on my ipad. Even if they were well-positioned they'd be annoying, but as it is they're super annoying.
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by pseut 14y ago
So those are some pretty bad decisions coming from statistical analysis; I wonder if you think that those people (the marketing group in particular) would make good decisions generally? It seems like some people are hell-bent on making bad
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by pseut 14y ago
The books by Howard Wainer, Edward Tufte, and Bill Cleveland are good starting points; it also depends a lot on your particular interests. Andrew Gelman's blog [1] is very good if you're at all interested in non-experimental data and/or po
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by pseut 14y ago
I'm not sure how much you're kidding, but locally perturbing the comments might help a lot. Similar to simulated annealing.
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Microcontent: How to Write Headlines, Page Titles, and Subject Lines (1998)(nngroup.com)
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by pseut 14y ago
The basic approach to empirical modeling is pretty labor intensive and ad hoc. It is feasible for small to medium datasets but can't scale to massive datasets -- in particular where there are lots of potential covariates. For those datase
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by pseut 14y ago
I included the word reliable for a reason. That's one thing that's interesting about this stuff from a statistics perspective, how you can draw conclusions that are reliable even after some sort of search process. See, for example, the r
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by pseut 14y ago
I'm not really sure about the main point of this comment, and I don't do 'big data' even though I dropped the buzzword into a recent annual report, but I thought the main focus was on "discovery" of reliable relationships in the data. The s
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by pseut 14y ago
The phrase "hand- whatever " has lost its novelty. I'm reluctant to make such a short and flip comment, but I can't be the only person who cringes every time I see it.
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by pseut 14y ago
Dude, surgeons basically wear pajamas all day. Occasionally they'll throw on a white coat over top.
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by pseut 14y ago
Honestly, git's the only program on this page that I'm fine with it being explicit and pedantic about what it's going to do. There are many situations where it could probably guess what I wanted to do but be wrong... I mean, christ, I fe
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by pseut 14y ago
I've been in that situation at a car dealership and the service was pretty poor (AAA pre-negotiates prices with many dealers; if you call in advance you get the car at AAA's price without haggling). Basically, they know you're not going an
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by pseut 14y ago
Yeah, I should clarify that I meant you could do it if you control whether they're released under DRM or not. If a group of indie developers wanted to pool together and run an experiment, they could do it in a way that was really informa
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by pseut 14y ago
> I'm far from a statistician, but the difficulty in the study seems to be that you have products which are radically different from each other in demand structures. >How do you tell whether the sales delta is driven by DRM or a muc
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by pseut 14y ago
I like "number theory" as a favorite example of practical reasons to fund seemingly impractical and useless academic research. A quote from Hardy (who I think was a number theorist, but could be misremembering) that I like is: "I have neve

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