scythmic_waves

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by scythmic_waves 3y ago
I second this. The fundamentals take you far, and Joe Blitzstein has fantastic material. Slightly off topic, but how do you feel about his “story proofs”? They were the one part of his lectures that never really clicked with me, but I never
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by scythmic_waves 3y ago
Honestly with the amount of charity fundraising that reddit does, I bet they could pull it off. Just recently someone accidentally gave $15k to charity and in response, a bunch of users raised an additional $55k [1]. If they did intentional
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by scythmic_waves 3y ago
I have no idea what this means. Can someone explain?
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by scythmic_waves 3y ago
> Past lack-of-progress is not an indicator of future lack-of-progress. Past lack-of-progress is not proof of future lack-of-progress. But it's most definitely an indicator. > "unlikely to be close" is unknowable, and i
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by scythmic_waves 3y ago
Your comment confuses me. You say the author > conveniently sidestep[s] the possibility of the development of new tools and techniques. I don't believe they did this at all. Here is their summary of their third point: > To automa
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by scythmic_waves 3y ago
Oh this is a good one. It halts if there’s an odd perfect number, right?
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by scythmic_waves 4y ago
It's also literally impossible for many modern tests. For example the WAIS-IV, a very popular measure, has a maximum possible FSIQ of 160. With a mean of 100 and an SD of 15, that's "only" 4 SDs from the mean (99.997 per
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by scythmic_waves 4y ago
No pi is 3.14159... which is 3.14 when rounded.
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by scythmic_waves 4y ago
From lecture 1 [1]: > Ok, so, we have an answer of 1000 plus or minus 30 thanks to "Mr. Binomial", the inventor of the distribution that bears his name. Lol, this is great. [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B
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by scythmic_waves 4y ago
The 10 recommendations found on the "cheat sheet" (page xv): Line of Effort A (Congress and OSD): Refactor statutes, regulations, and processes for software * [A1] Establish one or more new acquisition pathways for software th
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by scythmic_waves 4y ago
Agreed. Though I meant more the functionality of being able to click on it.
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by scythmic_waves 4y ago
I found myself nodding along with the author's musings and don't have much to add. I just want to say that I love their site. I'm putting together a personal site of my own and I want to steal some of their ideas, especially
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by scythmic_waves 4y ago
I happened to fall down this rabbit hole a few days ago because of another HN thread. In it, a commenter mentioned [1] a talk by Markus Winand where he goes over some of the more interesting additions to the SQL standard since 92, including
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by scythmic_waves 4y ago
In the comments, someone asked a similar question: > So what should the value of h be? To which the author replied: > It's about the journey, not the destination Also, the fit they did for lambda was based on simulations, not act
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by scythmic_waves 4y ago
Yeah I'm mentally filing that image [1] away for later use. [1]: https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/static-assets/images/blog-post/instr...
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by scythmic_waves 4y ago
Seems to be working now! Thanks!
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by scythmic_waves 4y ago
I was messing with the tutorials in the playground earlier but I'm getting a 404 now [1]. [1] https://www.crunchydata.com/playground
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by scythmic_waves 4y ago
> Why does our website look like this? At TI we believe we can change the world by displacing fossil hydrocarbon production at global scale. Like our website, our machines are simple so we can build millions of them as quickly as possibl
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by scythmic_waves 4y ago
This was a very helpful explanation of why dialyzer yells at me sometimes and I can't figure out why. Is it possible to analyze a particular function with `underspecs` or `overspecs` without affecting the rest of the code?
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by scythmic_waves 4y ago
Yeah I've tried a few and haven't found any to my liking. Other plant-based products like meat alternatives I've found to be OK, but dairy not so much. Also if you read this Perfect Day, I don't eat much icecream but I&#
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by scythmic_waves 4y ago
I didn't see it discussed in the article, but I'm very excited about possibilities like Perfect Day [1]. They provide "animal-free" milk. Unlike other alternatives, this product contains actual milk proteins derived from
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by scythmic_waves 4y ago
Yeah I had to look it up [1] > Eudaimonia (Greek: εὐδαιμονία [eu̯dai̯moníaː]; sometimes anglicized as eudaemonia or eudemonia, /juːdɪˈmoʊniə/) is a Greek word literally translating to the state or condition of 'good spirit
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by scythmic_waves 5y ago
Not OP, but the docs call out some "Tricky Cases" [1]. [1] https://difftastic.wilfred.me.uk/tricky_cases.html
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by scythmic_waves 5y ago
TIL! I bet I'll start seeing garden-path sentences all over the place now :)
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by scythmic_waves 5y ago
"Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so hard." - David McCullough I agree with many of the other posts here. Some of the translations highlighted in the article seem to either lose imp
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by scythmic_waves 5y ago
From the paper, participants didn't need to define the word. They just had to recognize that it was a real word [1]: > Participants and the vocabulary test used > > For each vocabulary test, a random sample of 67 words and 33
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by scythmic_waves 5y ago
Well that was frustrating [1]. I know I should have guessed a different equation but I was like "there's no way I won't get it"... [1] https://imgur.com/a/AclSjx8
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by scythmic_waves 5y ago
This is great! The hoverable footnotes are a nice touch.
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by scythmic_waves 5y ago
It took me a while to understand what was going on with your game. Once I got it it was fun, though! For anyone else confused: the goal is to keep the light colored "snake" moving through the dark colored "tunnel". When
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by scythmic_waves 5y ago
Got a 0! Does this mean I'm a superchromat?!

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