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by pseut 13y ago
Firefox 21
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by pseut 13y ago
No, it does show multiple sample means. Each landing spot is the sum (scaled average) of the n - 1 bernoulli rvs, where n is the number of bins. The issue is that n is small.
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by pseut 13y ago
That's awesome. Did it have the inverse curve drawn on too? For some reason, the certitude expressed by "calling your shot" like that made more of an impression on my than the falling balls on their own.
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by pseut 13y ago
MCMC
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by pseut 13y ago
Kind of a misleading animation, since n is the number of switches (4) and not the number of balls (which diverges to infinity). Setting the bins to 500 froze the browser, unfortunately. The physical machines that do this are undeniably cool
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by pseut 13y ago
n = 4.
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by pseut 13y ago
Re: "The industrial design is solid, and though it is being manufactured in small batches, it has the build quality you might expect from something being mass-produced." I expect high quality from hand produced jewelry, art, etc. Knowing n
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by pseut 13y ago
Yeah, it's not a perfect relationship, I just wasn't sure if your constraint to [0,1] was intentional or incidental. Thanks for clarifying.
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by pseut 13y ago
I love this quote from the end: "Once you see the property and the location you’ll likely be thinking the same thing as me: This is like buying in Napa Valley or Santa Barbara fifty years ago, but with all of today’s modern amenities, and
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by pseut 13y ago
TPM and other political blogs often cover national security, etc. Recent posts on that site indicate that they spend at least some time and money on legal counsel, but not necessarily for libel.
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by pseut 13y ago
So you think that it's worse than min(idea, execution)?
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by pseut 13y ago
It's one thing if it's made clear that there's a probationary period; I've worked in (non-tech) companies where that was the case, although very different than what's been portrayed above. If it's not clear that's the case, which seems to h
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by pseut 13y ago
There's another approach from polya's how to solve it. If your problem is too hard to solve, find an easier related problem and solve it first. Which I guess is sort of like applying an MVP to parts of the project as well as the whole th
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by pseut 13y ago
I don't know that you need monads, but a lot of recent languages seem designed to guide programmers to certain types of good design. You don't need the language to emulate the design ideas.
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by pseut 13y ago
Unless things like equation numbering are important, using pandoc to convert markdown to PDF via latex will be much easier and get you 80% of the way there. Then you get decent HTML for free as well. org mode is another option for that too
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by pseut 13y ago
How do you want it read and what's the audience? Assuming it's technical material for an HN type audience, realize that no one's going to sit and read through it at once, so you need to think about making digestible chunks and having good n
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by pseut 13y ago
possibly dumb question: how is that better than subscribing to the github rss feed?
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by pseut 13y ago
Is this a hypothetical or have you actually done a PhD? For people considering a PhD, personal satisfaction had better be enough. If it's not, don't don't don't go to grad school.
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by pseut 13y ago
Forgot to mention the most important part: I let her pick the font and we set the point size to 72 (the max). Large letters help.
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by pseut 13y ago
I've been happy with newsblur.
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by pseut 13y ago
This isn't really a constructive observation. When MS was dominant, plenty of people still used Office. It didn't mean they didn't recognize that MS acted like a monopolist in a lot of ways. And it didn't mean that every aspect of MS was
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by pseut 13y ago
Maybe, if they're right. If they're wrong, the second one is a lot better than the first.
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by pseut 13y ago
She types by hunt and peck. The was a while where I'd have to help her find the "f" key, etc., but that's pretty rare now. She has a notebook with some words spelled out in it (names mostly: "Cinderella," "Ariel," "Mommy,"...) and she'll
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by pseut 13y ago
Just slapping a web interface over IRC channels would be 80% there. "Oh, I'm here to talk about hockey while I watch the Flyers game." But Facebook might be hurting themselves in this regard by forcing real names, one account, etc. And the
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by pseut 13y ago
It's not the legal consequences that matter in this example but the financial consequences. In this example, the acquisition apparently had a big stock component. So now his financial interests are aligned with the rest of the company's o
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by pseut 13y ago
The notes are nice, but this seems like a highly relevant detail: "I'm lucky to be friends with Scott VanDenPlas, who was director of dev ops for the Obama reelection tech team"
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by pseut 13y ago
My 4yo daughter can set the foreground and background colors in emacs on her own (the commands are written out in her notebook, but not in any particular order). We were both really proud the first time she pulled it off. a text editor wit
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by pseut 13y ago
I like "Tumblroo!"
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by pseut 13y ago
Usually I'd agree with you, but I could see that being true for Tumblr. When I was using Tumblr actively, more than half of the content I followed was some expansive form of advertising, e.g. http://magnumfoundation.tumblr.com/
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by pseut 13y ago
The title had the name in it too originally but it seems that a moderator changed it.

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