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zarang
5y ago
thanks
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zarang
5y ago
this is a really cool idea! Do you have any links to posts/videos that further describe, analyse, etc this trick?
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zarang
5y ago
Not that I know of…
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zarang
5y ago
Yes, He is legendary which is why i reference this page despite it being rarely updated.
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zarang
5y ago
yeah. I think his website is extremely old and hasn’t been updated in the last decade or so. Despite this I linked to it because he is a legend in this field and so i think this is still the definitive reference. As far as i understand, par
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zarang
6y ago
Although the rejection method easily generalises, for higher dimensions say d>8, it becomes extremely inefficient and so may become unduly slow.
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zarang
6y ago
For those interested in this problem, a while back I wrote a blog post listing all the well-known ways of correctly generating random points on the surface (or inside) of a d-dimensional sphere. It includes all the frequently used ones as w
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zarang
6y ago
I think this definition of "data intuition is a resilience to misleading data and analyses" is an elegant attempt to describe a notoriously fuzzy concept. Well done to author on this one. As a trained teacher, I believe this is o
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zarang
6y ago
preferably OP or moderators should add (2018) to the end of this title.
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zarang
7y ago
Like many others in this thread have said, it is often worth remembering the proverb: "Comparison is the thief of joy."
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zarang
13y ago
Developing a mobile phone app that can determine your blood pressure simply by placing your your fingertip on the phone's camera. Why is it cool? Currently 65 million Americans have high blood pressure, more than 380,000 die each year