jgoodwin

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   by jgoodwin 13y ago

   I would play up the extension as an accessibility enhancement, and cite the ADA and accessibility guidelines. This makes the point about the users' 'right to transform data' more clearly -- access and transformation is about
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   by jgoodwin 13y ago

   A bit off topic, but most of statistics also breaks. If you go back to _Mathematical Statistics_ by RA Fisher, early in the last century, and look at his arguments about binning 'big data' into histograms, he has a nice little con
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   by jgoodwin 13y ago

   I think there is a mathematical theory here people should become acquainted with -- differential privacy. So far it has found use in the context of a large data set, e.g. search engine query logs, to try to determine how invasive a statist
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   by jgoodwin 13y ago

   One of the very nicest things about the ReactOS project is their build chain -- you can download one project and have a very nice toolchain for building open source software targeting the windows platform, with very little fuss. Consider th
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   by jgoodwin 13y ago

   I haven't used a Mac since a bit after the introduction of quadro or whatever it was, so I don't have a dog in most of the discussion above. I also don't own a mobile device. Those facts probably date me as a Linux user. He
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   by jgoodwin 13y ago

   One thing that concerns me is that many Americans are adopting what is essentially a Tory/Loyalist attitude towards these events, without understanding the Tory/Loyalist political philosophy of dissidence, which differs from &#x27
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   by jgoodwin 13y ago

   Someone should verify the 'large entity' discovered by Shamir is distinct: http://eprint.iacr.org/2012/584
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   by jgoodwin 13y ago

   I have both bitcoin and dwolla, and between the two I've found Bitcoin much more useful. Dwolla has a difficult business model these days, and I will be sorry to see them fail. But they will fail.
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   by jgoodwin 14y ago

   Perhaps. However the standard deviation for a Bernoulli trial is sqrt(N p q) where p = 0.00049 and q = 1 - p. The two trials are not significantly different.