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wfunction
14y ago
His comments about Windows are plain ignorant.
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wfunction
14y ago
The LOADALL instruction is certainly fun to get working though!
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wfunction
14y ago
I just looked up "regret" and it says: "to feel sorry and sad about something previously done or said that now appears wrong, mistaken, or hurtful to others" So, yes, if you regret something then, by definition, that means you wish you hadn
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wfunction
14y ago
> Why can't a college graduate be happy with his accomplishments and regret not starting a successful business during those years? If you regret a choice, it means you wish you had made some other choice. It doesn't make any sense to re
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wfunction
14y ago
> People who successfully graduate are almost never going to have that problem. And yet many people who successfully drop out of college to (say) pursue a business (through their blood, sweat, and tears, arguably sometimes even more s
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wfunction
14y ago
And yet people who drop out of college do so because they think they're doing the right thing, and yet they regret it much more frequently than the other way around. The fact that you think you're making a huge investment doesn't explain th
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wfunction
14y ago
You might want to reconsider the Bill Gates example, given that he says: “I didn’t leave college because it wasn’t suited to me. I left college because I thought I had to move quickly on the Microsoft opportunity. I had already finished thr
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wfunction
14y ago
It means you tried to find the cause that makes the effect most likely, rather than the most likely cause given the effect. The two are only equivalent if what you know a priori is that all causes are equally likely. In this case they aren'
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wfunction
14y ago
"The odds of this are just so incredibly low... It would perfectly fit your explanation though." Sounds like someone used Maximum Likelihood instead of Maximum A Posteriori.