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by wenc 3y ago
Unless it’s a stacked analysis when results of one study depends on another, usually experts just eyeball the frequentist results and take a judgment call — that’s been my experience (not generalizing but I think in business people like doi
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by wenc 3y ago
That’s a fair point particularly on the classes of answers that it solves. I’m not so much interested in the “how” because we’ll always find a way of there is a “why”. There are many applications of computational geometry today (which is no
813.
by wenc 3y ago
I’ve found that in many applications, the difference between a frequentist analysis and a Bayesian one is unlikely to make a difference in the decision making (even with UQ). I’m sure there are fields where such statistical rigor is called
814.
by wenc 3y ago
> Pretty applicable to data science. Could you expand on that? Maybe I'm missing something but I browsed the PDF and am having trouble finding anything that would be deployed to a production system or produced as part of an analysis
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by wenc 3y ago
Or Bayesian Data Analysis phase. This is a bit unfair since Bayesian techniques are useful for when you want to reason about limited data. But as soon as you have a fair sized dataset, frequentist techniques are typically computationally si
816.
by wenc 3y ago
I like that this is battle tested advice derived from a real context (between the author and co founder). There are tons of articles on LinkedIn written by people who don’t have lived experience in what they’re writing about so they read li
817.
by wenc 3y ago
Not sure if traffic correlates to market share. Prime video for instance has a lot of default subscribers (because a lot of us have Prime) but I don’t think I’ve ever watched anything HD. Most stuff is SD. Whereas on YouTube my default qual
818.
by wenc 3y ago
You missed those years when TSLA was being shorted and when it was ok the brink of going under. It’s easy to hate but going public is two edged sword.
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by wenc 3y ago
I've always been a fan the Jeeves series -- Blandings not so much. I also like the Psmith books. I need to try Ukridge.
820.
by wenc 3y ago
Typically optimal step sizes (α) along a descent direction in gradient descent are determined using a line search, which is itself a (cheaper) univariate optimization problem. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_search
821.
by wenc 3y ago
Sounds like they’re removing unsuccessful white labels. I haven’t heard of most of these brands. Basics and Essentials will still be there.
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by wenc 3y ago
This happens all over the Midwest. These seemingly inconsequential micro interactions, for me, matter a lot for my mental health (and I’m deeply introverted). I don’t care to chitchat with everyone but simply acknowledging people I come acr
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by wenc 3y ago
I see where you’re coming from but I just have a different view borne out of a different experience. I’m not one to tolerate interruptions well either but it’s not corporate leader woo to entertain unstructured serendipitous conversations (
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by wenc 3y ago
It’s fundamentally different. Barring the fact that it’s lower friction to approach someone in person because you can read if they’re busy (you can accomplish the same with a online status but they have to trigger it or you have to send a c
825.
by wenc 3y ago
Surveys capture stated preferences, not revealed ones. Capturing sentiment is useful in itself — it is a kind of data point. But to really see the productivity difference you need an instrument based less on what people say, but what they a
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by wenc 3y ago
How would you measure it quantitatively though? I know for me, I solve problems much more quickly when I can walk over to my co-worker's desk and talk it over. Or have someone walk through a problem with me on the board. Or just random
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by wenc 3y ago
Bram Moolenaar XX = :wq
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by wenc 3y ago
I think we have different expectations and that's ok. I see the benefits of remote work too (I did it for 2 years during COVID), but I myself prefer to be in the office at least some of the time. I was stuck on a problem for months and
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by wenc 3y ago
I'm not sure I see that as "worker exploitation" either. If you were hired remote and it's part of your employment contract, then yes, RTO is a breach of your contract. But most of us were hired for in-person, and remote
830.
by wenc 3y ago
> who are trying to get their employees to sleep at work I don't see it. It's optional. Google employees don't have to take up on the offer. The knee-jerk on this forum is always "worker exploitation" (not saying
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by wenc 3y ago
> written in word perfect. I think it was WordStar 4.0 https://www.theverge.com/2014/5/14/5716232/george-r-r-martin...
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by wenc 3y ago
I wrote my dissertation with vim+latex too but I would say it’s not distraction free. The output was beautiful but the writing process was far from easy. I had to google tikZ notation and math symbols and error messages to debug issues (inc
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by wenc 3y ago
Looks interesting and I could see this being adopted in limited situations. Most Latex users only use a tiny subset of its capabilities. Most non-math journals also easily accept non Latex manuscripts. The math part seems similar to Latex (
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by wenc 3y ago
I actually donated to the Pypy project in the past but I don’t use it. Two reasons for my hesitation: 1) Cpython is fast enough for most things I need to do. The speed improvement from Pypy is either not enough or not necessary. 2) Lingerin
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by wenc 3y ago
> Are they though? Does anyone actually use JupyterLab I always use JupyterLab by choice. However between JupyterLab and VS Code Jupyter, it’s VS Code every time. It’s just so much better.
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by wenc 3y ago
I prefer the iOS app to the website too. Plus you can use Siri to Ask ChatGPT stuff. Can’t do this through the web interface. https://help.openai.com/en/articles/7993358-chatgpt-ios-app-...
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by wenc 3y ago
The cash management account is operated by UMB which is a bank. Also does Zelle only work with banks?
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by wenc 3y ago
I've heard it said that "English is an easy language to speak badly and still be understood". Most Europe, even the French, muddle through in a sort of ESL because it's the most common intermediate language. If you'
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by wenc 3y ago
Fidelity Investments is one of the biggest financial institutions in the country. Zelle does not support it or vice versa (not sure which way).
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by wenc 3y ago
Meetings are not a waste but they are costly to ICs because they interrupt our context, and recovering from context switch is expensive. The unit of work for a manager is a meeting because they need to coordinate. The IC is more of an execu

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