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by vcdimension 11mo ago
Furthermore, there is no evidence that anyone else had the idea of using thermionic valves to greatly increase the speed of the code breaking computer, so if Tommy Flowers didn't exist it probably wouldn't have been discovered unt
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by vcdimension 11mo ago
Exactly, in your words: "being built by a lot of people", i.e. not just Bill Gates and Steve Jobs. If Bill Gates & Steve Jobs didn't exist those employees would be working for different computer companies such as IBM, Oli
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by vcdimension 11mo ago
The value that companies such as Microsoft & Apple provide is supplied by all their thousands of employees, not just their CEO's. So its not a fair comparison to compare the output of Microsoft & Apple with the output of a sing
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by vcdimension 1y ago
Here's another tutorial for creating zsh completers using the built-in functions: https://github.com/vapniks/zsh-completions/blob/master/zsh-c...
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by vcdimension 1y ago
In zsh you can use the _gnu_generic function for simple completion of commands with a --help flag. Just put a line like this somewhere in your startup file: compdef _gnu_generic <CMD>
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by vcdimension 1y ago
I've forked the repo and created a zsh version: https://github.com/vapniks/shell-secrets
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by vcdimension 1y ago
Yes, you need a good tutor to help you navigate through such a complex topic.
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by vcdimension 2y ago
and if anyone is interested in delving more deeply into the statistical concepts & results referenced in the paper of this post (e.g. VC-dimension, PAC-learning, etc), I can recommend this book: https://amzn.eu/d/7Z
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by vcdimension 2y ago
I had a look at Eric Stansifer's write-up of his decision, but I didn't read all of it (83 pages!). He does seem to have a good understanding of Bayesian decision making and hypothesis testing. What confuses me however, is his di
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by vcdimension 2y ago
Which means this; it gives further weight to the lab leak theory, and shows the reasoning behind it. I don't have time to watch the 3hr debate or read all of that article (which makes some misrepresentative statements, and like your re
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by vcdimension 2y ago
rootclaim gave the lab leak theory an 87% probability using Bayesian analysis back in 2020: https://www.rootclaim.com/analysis/What-is-the-source-of-COV...
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by vcdimension 2y ago
Does anyone have any tips on how to persuade non-techy friends & family to switch from WhatsApp to element-x?
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by vcdimension 2y ago
Someone should train an LLM on all the kernel documentation, code, mailing lists, etc.
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by vcdimension 2y ago
but what if H0 = Hewlett Packard did not plan to eliminate Mike Lynch and Stephen Chamberlain...
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by vcdimension 2y ago
So I guess we'll never know the p-value of that event...
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by vcdimension 2y ago
Yes, it would be nice to know how things change for different weightings of the null and alternative priors.
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by vcdimension 2y ago
This article is very interesting and informative, however it's a bit ironic that an article about misinterpretations of the meaning of the p-value, misinterprets the misinterpretation; in the first blue box it's clear that Bernste
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by vcdimension 2y ago
When I click on any of the pdf's it says: Error rendering embedded code, Invalid PDF
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by vcdimension 2y ago
@justk The R^2 value of 0.01 calculated on that webpage uses both states, not just one: the variance of the predicted values across both states is 0.55^3+0.45^3 - (0.55^2+0.45^2) ≃ 0.497 ≃ 0.5 I don't think it makes sense to use a mixe
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by vcdimension 2y ago
@justk What you're talking about might make sense if there were more independent variables to consider, but in this case there's only one, state. So in fact you could say that there are two conditional linear models in the example
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by vcdimension 2y ago
I am a statistician, and you're right, for this kind of thing we would normally use a binary response model such as a logit or probit model that constrains the response variable to be between 0 & 1. However in this case it doesn&#
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by vcdimension 2y ago
I thought about averaging the scores, which gives you a point inside the circle, and then projecting onto the circle with a ray from the centre, which is continuous everywhere apart from where the average is at the centre (e.g. for two vote
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by vcdimension 2y ago
Remembering all those unix tools and their uses can be tricky. I wrote a couple of shell scripts that allow you to build command pipelines one step at a time, choosing a tool from a menu at each step, and with the ability to preview the res
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by vcdimension 2y ago
Not sure how much immigration is really needed; due to improvements in healthcare, working conditions, and machinery, the length of time for which people are able to stay in active work and contribute positively to the economy is increasing
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by vcdimension 2y ago
(1) more than just a grain of truth, more like the elephant in the room; net migration into the UK is more than 4 times higher than France, and population density is currently almost 3 times higher, and rising.
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by vcdimension 3y ago
what about guix? could that be used for this purpose?
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by vcdimension 3y ago
Unfortunate name; it clashes with the builtin zshell editor.
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by vcdimension 3y ago
In emacs you can use syslog-mode for analyzing strace output: https://github.com/vapniks/syslog-mode It allows you to easily navigate, filter, highlight lines, and lookup documentation.
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by vcdimension 3y ago
Just to clarify, the pattern language is a more powerful alternative to using regexps (but you can mix them). My bank statements are pdf's which can be converted to ascii using pdftotext, however this destroys the structure of the docu
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by vcdimension 3y ago
Cheers Kaz, I'll make the changes. There's still quite a few TODO's in that code that I intend on fixing up at some point.

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