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   by scishop 10y ago

   On the flip side of things, I might prefer to see a candidate come up with something like this as first stab rather than that 35-line mammoth of an isPalindrome() function in the article. function isPalindrome(str) { return (str.spl
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   by scishop 11y ago

   No. In Frequentist thinking; p=0.05 means that if there was in reality no difference in your A and B and you repeated the experiment many times, 5% of the observed differences would be equal to or greater than the difference you just measur
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   by scishop 12y ago

   Things that are likely to trip up new R programmers: * Function arguments are always passed by value. Objects are copied if they are modified in a function. * Function arguments are lazy evaluated. * Watch out for automatic factor conversio
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   by scishop 12y ago

   No. It's completely context dependent. A hill-climbing algorithm will take the lunch of every algorithm listed here if you have a clean convex optimization problem.
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   by scishop 12y ago

   Looks interesting! However, when posting a new package it is most useful to discuss it in comparison to established packages. Specifically, what are the pros/cons of this package compared to numericjs [1] and jstat [2]? Also, in genera
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   A slick pure-javascript calculator(herocalc.com)

   3 points by scishop 14y ago|0 comments