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by sesqu 15y ago
I generally agree, but this instance is an example of the one situation in which it is reasonable, namely, trends. There really should be a zoomed-out view as well for people who aren't familiar with past developments, but it's okay to put
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by sesqu 15y ago
Writing has historically been very important for recognition, especially current writing.
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by sesqu 15y ago
There is interplay. "There are on the order of fifty birds at the bird feeder" is more informative than "there are on the order of zero birds at the bird feeder".
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by sesqu 15y ago
I also wouldn't construct the hierarchy in this way. I would put the statistics under modelling or summatory analysis, not under exploratory analysis. I wouldn't divide methods by sufficient descriptive statistics - I'd divide them by domai
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by sesqu 15y ago
Classification is regression with a discrete finite range. Regression is often used to mean regression with infinite range, but especially since so many classification techniques are just searching for a regular partition of an infinite ran
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by sesqu 15y ago
Right. I suspect the colloquial use keeps "learning" on the y-axis but has "progress" on the x-axis, instead of "training". That is, the psychologists consider learning a function of training, whereas others consider achievable work a funct
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by sesqu 15y ago
I agree. Quick, ugly and permanent are not qualities of a good solution to most problems, but quick, strong and pliable are. It looked fairly demolishable, too, so there might be something in using it for installations and wilderness constr
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by sesqu 15y ago
A good example of this might be Haiti. I believe there was very little wood around, which contributed the the crisis to begin with.
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by sesqu 15y ago
Linear algebra alone isn't enough, you also need complex geometry for Euler's formula - I can't just look at exp(0+xi) and go "hey, that's cos x+sin x i". And even then, you need to go a little way into linear algebra to encounter basis fun
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by sesqu 15y ago
This comment reminded me about the most overlooked detail of the whole shebang, in my opinion: There was a 9.0 earthquake near a population center. There are 15037 people confirmed dead and 9487 people missing. Estimates of material loss r
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by sesqu 15y ago
No, trees are multidimensional lists. Lists are one-dimensional lists, which are degenerate trees and a simple primitive for the more general (always a loaded term) structure.
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by sesqu 15y ago
We use different definitions. My trees are acyclic connected graphs with one root.
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by sesqu 15y ago
I lately lost a preposition It hid, I thought, beneath my chair And angrily I cried, "Perdition! Up from out of in under there." Correctness is my vade mecum, And straggling phrases I abhor, And yet I wondered, "What shoul
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by sesqu 15y ago
20%? That's a lot closer to Chernobyl, radiation-wise, than I expected. Why haven't the effects been anywhere near as bad, given that the released radioactivities are of the same order of magnitude?
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by sesqu 15y ago
The mail wasn't sent by a Facebook employee, it was sent by a PR firm. You know, someone who, by definition, would not do that.
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by sesqu 15y ago
ZS is defined by select. I don't believe Prolog will become any more popular than it is. The Japanese had some sort of a government project a few years ago, but I think that fell through. Now we have Erlang, Haskell and Java libraries that
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by sesqu 15y ago
That's an abuse of notation. Quicksort is expected O(N log N), where the expectation is usually over a uniform distribution of all permutations. The actual notation for proportional asymptotic dominance of expectation is too convoluted fo
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by sesqu 15y ago
If I had been asked, my reply would have been "It can't be done. If you want help from me or someone like me, you'll need to make a loose ranking of the qualities of the ideal solution, and we can try some approximations". I might even have
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by sesqu 15y ago
Showing why acquiring data is essential to the future I have a feeling that headline wouldn't do all that well, but it does seem to be keeping with google's culture.
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by sesqu 16y ago
Hard to say. The page and the files both report recent timestamps. The wayback machine saw the page in '96, has the windows version appearing between '97 and '00, and after that pretty much the only changes have been to the list of ftp serv
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by sesqu 16y ago
That's a needlessly complicated example. You could just write (function(){alert(this)})() -- and in fact, that's what was the very first example.
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by sesqu 16y ago
The original price candidate, derived from the logarithm, that is second closest to integer cents is 62.91998, with 162.85966 coming in 6th and the other positions filled by implausibly large numbers. Neither number has integer cents, since
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by sesqu 16y ago
If you're willing to jump through hoops and js-compress your content, you can deal with this issue, unless your compressor uses something like crc. That way, you can grow the plaintext faster than the b64 - though you'd still need to do cle
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by sesqu 16y ago
The math of research-level statistics is so hard many statisticians don't do it, and economists often gripe about not being able to justify even basic statistical approaches. The financial industry has in the past had a great deal of intere
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by sesqu 16y ago
When you look at lisp code, all you have to go by are the names of functions. The code could do anything, and you won't find out what until you dig. By contrast, other languages have hints like types and standard, well-understood libraries
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by sesqu 16y ago
The log-scale suggested in the comments would also be interesting. I graphed all three with S&P's data: http://img715.imageshack.us/img715/3978/caseshiller.png It's only from Jan 1987, and they've set Jan 2000 as 100. I accidentally f
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by sesqu 16y ago
When talking about the design philosophy of Erlang, it helps to remember that it was originally implemented atop Prolog, so some of those choices may not have been intentional.
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by sesqu 16y ago
Is that a bad thing? Global variables keep cropping up in programming languages, so large objects (context-globals; namespaces) might be just the right compromise between encapsulation and coherence.
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by sesqu 16y ago
No, but random does mean uncertain, and the uniform distribution has maximal entropy. In other words, uniformly distributed numbers are most random, colloquially, and so you can improve your ability to generate random numbers by sampling fr
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by sesqu 16y ago
I should also note that it's not very surprising that AVL restructurings show up as expected O(1) empirically, since many AVL trees are BB-trees, and it's been shown for BB-trees under the assumption that the root approximates the median -

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