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by sanskritabelt 13y ago
I looked at some of the code and it's totally fine. If you say you can't read it because it's not PEP8, then maybe you ought to find another line of work.
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by sanskritabelt 13y ago
I don't see any kind of 1-based indexing in the chapter 7 py file.
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by sanskritabelt 13y ago
" during which here is literally nothing to do besides playing other games" Read a book.
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by sanskritabelt 13y ago
Thiomersal (note spelling) is no longer used in vaccines: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thiomersal and generally hasn't been in infant vaccines for over a decade: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T
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by sanskritabelt 13y ago
Whenever someone tells me they are "a gamer", I think of posts like these and my opinion of them drops a little.
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by sanskritabelt 13y ago
14 channels of shit on the tv screen.
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by sanskritabelt 13y ago
Hi! Welcome to the english language, is this your first week?
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by sanskritabelt 13y ago
That's not what I said at all???
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by sanskritabelt 13y ago
"most people in population centers use or have used the internet" 80% is "most" by lots of definitions.
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by sanskritabelt 13y ago
The article isn't loading for me, but there was the anon.penet.fi anonymizer, at least until it got shut down by, IIRC, the scientologists.
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by sanskritabelt 13y ago
Rough estimate from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territo... suggests that about 2/3 of americans live in a state bordering the ocean, so about 100 million americans further away from the sh
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by sanskritabelt 13y ago
Used to be, the economy decided tobacco was safe.
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by sanskritabelt 13y ago
I don't think there's any reason to (potentially) embarrass the wait staff. Always be polite, and tip big.
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by sanskritabelt 13y ago
It's a good post, btw.
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by sanskritabelt 13y ago
Reminder to all the HN/LW/etc Bayesians here that this is a frequentist analysis and therefore politically unacceptable.
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by sanskritabelt 13y ago
Sometimes one, sometimes the other, depends on airport and time and tsa crew.
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by sanskritabelt 13y ago
I've seen plenty of gas station restaurants use a touch screen to order, it works fine except there's a high risk of eating gas station restaurant food afterwards.
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by sanskritabelt 13y ago
bayesianwitch.com is those fucks that caused this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6780997 and in particular is run by this asshole: http://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2013/human_checksum.html
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by sanskritabelt 13y ago
Lots of places have a "WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO REFUSE SERVICE" sign.
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by sanskritabelt 13y ago
https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/01/17-2
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by sanskritabelt 13y ago
Is there an actual difference at that level?
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by sanskritabelt 13y ago
I am always willing to update the asshole registry.
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by sanskritabelt 13y ago
In my career, and maybe this is just the kinds of problems I've been presented with, I've found that assuming normality is, by and large, like drinking tequila. It's fun at the time, but I end up regretting it in the morning
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by sanskritabelt 13y ago
Maybe I was unclear. To be explicit, the experimental setup was: * Draw a sample of objects (in this case, an 'object' was a set of text documents) * Apply the OLD and NEW treatments to each sampled object * Show the results of
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by sanskritabelt 13y ago
He's solving for abcd, which is linear in powers of x. I'm not going to argue for what's the correct solution, but it's certainly not that mess.
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by sanskritabelt 13y ago
So you're basically just Monday morning quarterbacking here. It's kind of telling you didn't understand Wasserman's reply to you, it was perfectly clear to any practitioner. Here's an example of a real-world proble
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by sanskritabelt 13y ago
There's a Stanford professor that has the videos from his class about the Fourier Transform on youtube, go compare that to (just about?) anything on Coursera.
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by sanskritabelt 13y ago
Friendly reminder that in something like 48/50 states the highest paid public employee is the football or basketball coach, and the hockey coach in NH or VT.
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by sanskritabelt 13y ago
Yesterday my opinion about Penny Arcade was 'jesus christ that one dude is an asshole' and now I have a much more sophisticated opinion, namely 'jesus christ both those dudes are assholes.'
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by sanskritabelt 13y ago
Just out of curiosity, what kinds of statistical problems do you tend to solve, or are you just a fanboy? I saw you posted a link to something on lesswrong, which is confusing an application of Bayes Rule with Bayesian statistics. Maybe you

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