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901.
by sesqu 17y ago
This in chapter 11.
902.
by sesqu 17y ago
I would describe it more as a multiply-linked list. The important distinction in a skip list is that you get random access, in a different sense of the term, and so binary search makes sense. Similarly, you could justify a binary (or anothe
903.
by sesqu 17y ago
Graceful degradation. People would absolutely suggest that, and charge dearly for implementing it. Companies would pay for some of it, and in 5 years, it would either die out or there would be some sort of "cgi on rails"-framework that auto
904.
by sesqu 17y ago
If the choice would be a mutable one, making it expressly immutable after the fact serves no purpose. As it is, the compiler gets to choose an efficient list for the data provided, and then refuse to compromise on that efficiency later. You
905.
by sesqu 17y ago
I think the biggest problem here is the barriers that exist to reporting bugs. Often you have to start the program in a terminal for stderr output or look for logfiles, isolate relevant error messages and figure out what hardware or softwar
906.
by sesqu 17y ago
There is a significant difference between actually zero and merely very close to zero. Does Bayesian reasoning strike a difference between zero and asymptotically zero? It's my understanding that probability density functions are a method
907.
by sesqu 17y ago
Does being officially bilingual, northern, and woodsy have an impact on PISA rankings? If I had to guess: yes. I honestly do believe that winters and environmental controls (like pavement) affect your approach to a wide variety of problem
908.
by sesqu 17y ago
Assume "Chris" is an "it". Now "Chris's stuff" becomes "it's stuff". "Its" breaks the rule of the possessive suffix being -'s, except for plurals. What would that be, anyway? "Chris's' stuffs"? [edit] n/m, I see this was addressed below.
909.
by sesqu 17y ago
Canada and Finland are culturally far more similar than the US and Finland. Both are also bilingual, northern, woodsy and even share some genetics (Finns mostly migrated to Canada, Michigan etc. way back when that was happening).
910.
by sesqu 17y ago
Interestingly, I'm under the impression that Finnish research schools tend to be small and remote ones, but maybe that's just my poor geography showing.
911.
by sesqu 17y ago
Actually, Finland has been shutting down small schools in favor of less bigger ones for a while now, for administrative and financial reasons. So I guess you build three schools three times as big, or something.
912.
by sesqu 17y ago
More education is less time in the workforce prior to parenthood, which probably has a lot to do with founding startups (less work experience, frustrations, capital, confidence).
913.
by sesqu 17y ago
I assume you found the "autoplay" button? I just clicked through the whole thing, and the short animation-induced delays were actually welcome. It would have been unbearable if I couldn't control the speed, though.
914.
by sesqu 17y ago
15% looks great, but how confident are we? Running a one-sided Student’s t-test with a means difference of 14%, our experimental data yields a P value of 0.000051. This means that there is only a 0.0051% chance that we would obtain a 14% (
915.
by sesqu 17y ago
That last part was a joke.
916.
by sesqu 17y ago
And if I like some of what they do, but dislike some other bits of what they do, I should somewhat stop using them? Like only using Google search for products and services I wish to be notified of by their sponsors, and Baidu search for pro
917.
by sesqu 17y ago
And shouldn't it be PPI? DPI is a property of printers and CRTs, not scanners or prescaled images. edit: oh! and speaking of tagging digital formats with physical scale information, it took me ages to understand why text processors measure
918.
by sesqu 17y ago
There is some amount of theory to account for this effect, but I'm not familiar enough with any of it to restate particulars. In general, the two approaches I know of are to strongly favor simpler models, or to increase expected error as yo
919.
by sesqu 17y ago
I don't think that's as big a problem as you find it, currently. Maybe you just chase down more topics than others. There is definitely an abundance of introductory material on the internet, but more importantly, there is an abundance of to
920.
by sesqu 17y ago
Oh, it's because they think the account is compromised? Huh. I've had that message a few times before, noted that yes, that is the recovery address I told them about and yes, it's wrong, but no, I won't update it just because it's been a wh
921.
by sesqu 17y ago
I found that summary wholly unconvincing, and very disparate from how I might summarize the arguments. I guess that's just how these things go.
922.
by sesqu 17y ago
I really wouldn't trust Alexa on that either. As far as I know, their sole source of data is a toolbar.
923.
by sesqu 17y ago
The var statement declares a variable as local to the current scope and the entire current scope, not just from the var statement onward. These local variables shadow any existing variables from outer scopes. Err, I tested this on Chrome'
924.
by sesqu 17y ago
Tacking a box onto a wall is a horrible solution. You'd need two or three long tacks, a light candle, and I'd probably put the tacks in at an angle, too. And then you'd need to solve the problem of the falling candle. I'm not sure what wou
925.
by sesqu 17y ago
This is a pure guess, but I think it might be intended to illustrate a situation in which something previously unremarkable is put into a position of importance.
926.
by sesqu 17y ago
As you learn the mechanics of writing and running a program, start thinking about specific programs you want to write. This is what I never managed. I picked up programming very fast at school, but could never come up with anything I'd wa
927.
by sesqu 17y ago
That's what I got out of it too (well, substituting "natural centrality measures" for "means"), except it bothers me that for n dimensions, it looks like he uses L₂ for the vector norm. I'd much prefer argmin 𝐱( sum 𝐬∈Sⁿ sum j≤n |𝐬ⱼ-𝐱ⱼ|…
928.
by sesqu 17y ago
I absolutely agree. I can't see anything wrong with my calculation above, which leads me to conclude the blog post or the article it is based on misunderstands – or at the very least miscommunicates – the problem, if indeed there is one. Th
929.
by sesqu 17y ago
You use the cumulative distribution function, which is defined as P(X≤x). More specifically, denoting the cdf of the standard normal distribution by 𝛷, P(X̅-a𝜎<µ≤X̅+b𝜎) = P(a<Z≤b) = P(Z≤b)-P(Z≤a) = 𝛷(b)-𝛷(a) for large samples. Edit: