lottin

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by lottin 1mo ago
Social status is a big part of what makes a person attractive especially if you're a man.
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by lottin 6mo ago
Statistical inference is based on random sampling. The data has to be random, otherwise it doesn't work. I wrote another comment here clarifying my point, if you're interested: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=
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by lottin 6mo ago
Imagine we want to know the ratio of men to women in a particular population. We could count all men and women one by one, but it would take too long, so instead we take a random sample and count the men and women in the sample, and from th
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by lottin 6mo ago
> Bayesian inference assumes the observed data are fixed and aims to quantify the evidentiary support for all possible levels of treatment effectiveness based on the data at hand. The problem with this approach is that we can only observ
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by lottin 6mo ago
> In Bayesian statistics, on the other hand, the parameter is not a point but a distribution. To be more precise, in Bayesian statistics a parameter is random variable. But what does that mean? A parameter is a characteristic of a popu
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by lottin 11mo ago
Retained earnings are not taxed per se. A company pays taxes on profits. Whether the profits are distributed to shareholders or retained makes no difference whatsoever as far as taxes are concerned.
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by lottin 11mo ago
How does exactly "breaking windows" improve the lives of people?
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by lottin 1y ago
I can't imagine a situation in which I'd want to explain what I want to do on the command line to an LLM, instead of typing the commands myself.
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by lottin 1y ago
I wish the scroll bar was a little less invisible.
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by lottin 1y ago
As expected. This is why we don't use nominal dollars for measuring changes in prices over long time periods. It's meaningless.
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by lottin 1y ago
I think it's just a meaningless sentence.
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by lottin 1y ago
If I deposit dollars in a savings account I will get paid interest, but that is different from the dollar itself being an interest-bearing asset. I think the same thing applies to stablecoins. Does USDC pay interest to the holder or do
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by lottin 1y ago
Considering that stablecoins don't pay interest to the holder, I don't know why anyone would be incentivised to move their funds into stablecoins.
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by lottin 1y ago
Why would a stablecoin granting yield keep the banking system from working?
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by lottin 1y ago
The whole point of working out is to stress the organism in order to induce a physiological adaptation. Inflammation is NOT the point, but rather an unfortunate side effect.
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by lottin 1y ago
By definition the average answer will be average, that's kind of a tautology. The point is that figuring things out is an essential intellectual skill. Figuring things out will make you smarter. Having a machine figure things out fo
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by lottin 1y ago
When I have a question, I don't usually "ask" that question and expect an answer. I figure out the answer. I certainly don't ask the question to a random human.
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by lottin 1y ago
I think the R standard library is quite excellent. It pretty much follows the Unix philosophy of "doing one thing right". The only exception being `reshape` which tries to do too many things, but it can usually be avoided. It is
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by lottin 1y ago
I didn't rewrite the whole thing. But here's the first part. It uses the `histogram` function from the lattice package. population_data <- data.frame( uniform = runif(10000, min = -20, max = 20), normal
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by lottin 1y ago
A "pipe" is simply a composition of functions. Tidyverse adds a different syntax for doing function composition, using the pipe operator, which I don't particularly like. My general objection to Tidyverse is that it tries t
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by lottin 1y ago
I disagree. In this example tidyverse looks convoluted compared to just using an array and apply. ggplot2 is okay but we already had lattice. Lattice does everything ggplot2 does and produces much better-looking plots IMO.
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by lottin 1y ago
Looking at the R code in this article, I'm having a hard time understanding the appeal of tidyverse.
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by lottin 1y ago
Seems like a lot of work, though.
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by lottin 1y ago
I think the issue is that it was advertised as having PhD-level intelligence, while in fact it can't count the letters in a word.
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by lottin 1y ago
The fact that it can't count.
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by lottin 1y ago
Yes. Learning assistance is one of the few use cases of IA that I have had success with.
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by lottin 1y ago
15 years ago they were predicting that AI would turn everything upside down in 15 years time. It hasn't.
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by lottin 1y ago
For the most part inflation threatens cash holdings and fixed-income instruments (such as bonds) which have not priced in inflation. Therefore in order to "hedge" against inflation you should reduce your exposure to such assets to
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by lottin 1y ago
It was NOT a mistake. Do you consider not buying the winning lottery ticket a mistake? No. You don't know which ticket is going to win in advance, and buying a random ticket is ill-advised because the odds are against it being the
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by lottin 1y ago
No, it's not just government economists. It's the standard definition in economics. But that's beside the point... the BIG mistake you're making is confusing an increase in nominal prices (inflation, or whatever you wa

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