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by sesqu 16y ago
20€ worth of government work.
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by sesqu 16y ago
Please explain the proper way to form priors, then. 50:50 is widely used, as is "0 for obviously wrong stuff". The author here suggested "something sufficiently close to 0", which to me is indistinguishable from the second one. Should an ac
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by sesqu 16y ago
And to go the other way, it doen't happen like that because the rule of thumb isn't p=0.05, it's p<=0.05 - and p can be quite small indeed, if you run out of ideas before running out of data (such as might happen in a novel area).
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by sesqu 16y ago
Sounds reasonable. When some people find that their model doesn't quite fit, they make a more accurate model. Others make a less specific model. It's the difference between model parametrization and model selection. So when we get a dubious
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by sesqu 16y ago
Tolkien is dead and gone and made a comfortable existence on his work I'm sure. I wanted to check up on that, and found this: So far from losing money [as expected], sales so exceeded the break-even point as to make Tolkien regret that he
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by sesqu 16y ago
No, they would have bearing on who is looking at them.
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by sesqu 16y ago
Good-looking mazes are not necessarily fun to wander in. The important bit in a maze is the topology, imho, with navigation coming in second (turns can be painful, thin walls can be misleading, corridors can be trivial, etc) and appearance
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by sesqu 16y ago
HTTP Last-Modified: Thu, 06 Oct 2005 15:10:18 GMT
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by sesqu 16y ago
This is why I don't like self-study for mathematics. A lot of the stuff is very simple once you understand what it's for, but finding out what it's for from the formal definition is an uphill battle. And then, after you see the thing for wh
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by sesqu 16y ago
You excluded from consideration all the people who would see/rent/buy the movie, but are satisfied with the pirated copy (shifted to group 3). Why do you think them rare?
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by sesqu 16y ago
Vista SP1 changed the file copy algorithm to cache files, so that it would appear faster than it is (and other reasons): http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2008/03/actual-performance-...
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by sesqu 16y ago
So how do you get it to add? Specifically, what representation of arbitrary numbers are we using with our finite automaton? Infinite read-only tape plus infinite write-only tape for output, in base 10? If so, it should be simple to do multi
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by sesqu 16y ago
If you look at a Jefferson, da Vinci, Jobs – they shipped. A lot. I don't think that's quite true. Leonardo was known to miss deadlines and abandon works; perhaps a better approach would be looking at how confident they were of their abil
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by sesqu 16y ago
piz²a. Use Unicode.
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by sesqu 16y ago
The chart for the weekend specifically has just a few red points, which has shifted the range. Removing them would make the range better, but that's not really worth the time. What do you mean by this? Are you normalizing before col
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by sesqu 16y ago
For those watching at home, 100k from 13k in 92 years would mean 2.24% annually, 500k 4.05% and 1M 4.83%. I agree that over 5% is optimistic, but 3% for the century might be achievable. Note, though, the given that the rate of growth isn't
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by sesqu 16y ago
According to Wikipedia, tax records are public at least in Norway and Finland. I can't see them being leaked being as bad as, say, facebook messages.
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by sesqu 16y ago
Now? It's been a gender-neutral 3rd person singular for hundreds of years.
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by sesqu 16y ago
Thanks for that. I always thought that definition was somehow just very, very wrong, but it kept getting cited by people who didn't really care what the definition was.
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by sesqu 16y ago
It's a lot harder to automate abuse of a random person's semistructured data without metadata than it is to automate abuse of a random person's twitter account. Sure, it's also more lucrative, but I wouldn't worry about it for a couple more
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by sesqu 16y ago
Here's a thought: Archimedes's approximation approaches the target. That is, the perimeter of each subsequent approximation is closer to that of the circle than all that came before. The side of a regular polygon is √(sin²(τ/n)+(1−cos(τ/n))
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by sesqu 16y ago
Of course, the test of confession doesn't have 100% confidence either. See for example the Innocence Project's page on this: http://www.innocenceproject.org/understand/False-Confessions...
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by sesqu 16y ago
You do need names for some parts. I would modify that to: "It's a program that lets other programs see themselves."
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by sesqu 16y ago
What mystified me was all those mentions of {{$sitename}}. Is there an english community-based site somewhere that shares the funds, but not the name, of Wikipedia?
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by sesqu 16y ago
While their verbal development is delayed, it continues to get better. Their sentences are two or three words at most so far, and their enunciation is at first difficult to understand. Both the family, and researchers, anxiously await the
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by sesqu 16y ago
I'm pretty sure I don't agree. Many of the fundamental assumptions in economics aren't just first-order approximations; they're about tractability. You can leave out friction and get reliable ballpark figures, but when you assume monotonici
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by sesqu 16y ago
0 is not like any other number. It is of very special import, along with 1. In particular, when dealing with 2D graphics, people look at area. Area is defined by multiplication, and 0 and 1 are the two numbers y for multiplication such that
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by sesqu 16y ago
But that doesn't tell you whether it's important. Statistical significance is a measure of trustworthiness, given assumptions about the generating process. It tells you nothing about whether the data is in any way meaningful, after assuming
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by sesqu 16y ago
I disagree. I'd put that probability at 0 after n=7. In fact, according to the recent reddit thread, some test designers are encouraged to enforce equal proportions of each option. While stupid, it lowers the threshold to n=3 or so.
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by sesqu 16y ago
Not all societies. Fighting wars has usually been a profession for adults, and even today there are countries without military: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_without_armed...

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