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youainti
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Just as some basic context, there are two related approaches to A/B testing. The first comes from statistics, and is going to look like standard hypothesis testing of differences of means or medians. The second is from Machine Learning
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2y ago
I remember this and was really impressed by your approach.
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2y ago
I'm a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, and I have had the same observation as you that the access to community is so helpful.
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2y ago
An interesting resource is IDC 203, which describes how the US intelligence community discusses probability. The table in paragraph 2a says something similar to what you are saying: almost no chance / remote := 1%-5% very unlikely 
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To be a little more precise: 1. "Prophylactic or therapeutic administration of neomycin provided significant protection against upper respiratory infection and lethal disease in a mouse model of COVID-19." 2. "Furthermore, n
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2y ago
One change I expect to see over the next few years in API documentation is a series of complicated examples. This isn't for people to review, but for coding assistants to use as to inform RAG or something similar.
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I think they dropped a 1, i.e. they meant to type 1.19
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2y ago
I would disagree. As a counterexample, if there are two contradictory comments with high upvotes, the one that is most upvoted isn't necessarily the prevailing opinion.
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2y ago
Spending money on linux devs who are available to help work through problems and keep systems up to date.
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Would you be open to putting it on F-Droid or something like that?
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> (please note: this is not an anti-religious post, but the malware makers seem to target those sites much more than anything else I have seen.) I would guess it is because older people are more likely to visit, so setting up such a site
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3y ago
> What I'd expect instead, based on my having taken exactly one class in economics as an undergraduate, is subtler effects that play out over time. As a PhD student in Econ, I am glad to see that you learned something about how to a
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3y ago
Summary: "The upstream xz repository and the xz tarballs have been backdoored." It is known to be in version 5.6.0 and 5.6.1, and the obfuscated code is found in the test directory.
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3y ago
Happy to give it a go. There is a lot of emphasis on the importance of family, including raising kids. This is because we believe that before living on this earth, our spirits lived in the presence of God, our Heavenly Father. This world is
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3y ago
This is called menu pricing and is a way to segment your market [0]. It is used to separate high and low demand consumers. If you are on the low end of demand it will tend to extract most of what you are willing to pay. [0] https:/&#x
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Data tables tend to also be a standard ingestion format for statistical tools in many cases.
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As a PhD econ student, the mathematics just comes down solving constrained optimization problems. Figuring out what to consider as an optimand and the associated constraints is the real kicker.
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3y ago
If its stupid and it works, its still stupid and you're lucky. Maxim 43 https://schlockmercenary.fandom.com/wiki/The_Seventy_Maxims_...
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3y ago
I wonder if that was a true rate change or a change in detection.
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I am using a gl-inet router as a main router for my apartment. I picked it up on sale and it has been wonderful. Much better than the Linksys I got on sale 4+ years ago.
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3y ago
Is there a repo? I'd love to be able to summarize YouTube videos.
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This whole discussion highlights the point that timezones etc. are relatively arbitrary. Often the "time" isn't as important as the events that take place at a given time. E.g. 6pm is a reasonable dinner time on the west coa
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This is exactly why. If you are doing linux maintenance, this is really helpful because you can tell if you should be running a specific command as root or user. If you are just giving instructions on what to do for a normal user, omitting
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The goal is to prevent fraud. They don't want people passing fake transcripts.
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Statistics is partof the solid reasoning you need here. The technical name is called causal inference and it lets you figure out how the statistics would differ based on which is true.
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This separation of payment processing on the one hand and savings and loans on the other is something I hope to see in CBDC proposals.
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We focus on purchasing unisex stuff so we can use it for multiple kids.
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This blog post from Popehat has more context. https://feed.youainti.com/feed/10/entry/213
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Something I discovered accidentally was that searching for maternity bras got rid of most of the lewd content for a few weeks.
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Lonk to source?
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