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Regaining Lost Knowledge | Deep Thoughts by Raymond Hettinger
https://rhettinger.wordpress.com/2010/02/06/lost-knowledge
Deep Thoughts by Raymond Hettinger. Ruminations on Computers, Programming and Life. Open Source Challenge: Open Your Source, More. A recent Python newsgroup query. Asked for an efficient solution to the problem of computing a running median as a large sliding window advances over a stream of data. One category of replies can be classified as clever. Another category of reply relied on education. A respondent remembered that QuickSelect. A more promising type of reply relied on research. The obvious way t...
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Your Future On Stack Overflow | Kevin Montrose
https://kevinmontrose.com/2013/05/22/your-future-on-stack-overflow
Larr; Jil: Serializing JSON Really, Really Quickly. Making Magic: How Sigil Works. Your Future On Stack Overflow. I recently spent a while working on a pretty fun problem over at Stack Exchange. Predicting what tags you’re going to be active answering in. Confirmed some suspicions, learned some lessons, got about a 10% improvement on answer posting from the homepage (which I’m choosing to interpret as better surfacing of unanswered questions). Why do we care? What we’d really like in there is your. State...
normaldeviate.wordpress.com
WHAT IS BAYESIAN/FREQUENTIST INFERENCE? « Normal Deviate
https://normaldeviate.wordpress.com/2012/11/17/what-is-bayesianfrequentist-inference
Thoughts on Statistics and Machine Learning. The Density Cluster Tree: A Guest Post ». WHAT IS BAYESIAN/FREQUENTIST INFERENCE? WHAT IS BAYESIAN/FREQUENTIST INFERENCE? When I started this blog, I said I wouldn’t write about the Bayes versus Frequentist thing. I thought that was old news. But many things have changed my mind. Nate Silver’s book. Various comments on my blog, comments on other blogs, Sharon McGrayne’s book. 1 Some Obvious (and Not So Obvious) Statements. Saying That Confidence Intervals Do N...
geekblog.oneandoneis2.org
Why doesn't Linux need defragmenting?
http://geekblog.oneandoneis2.org/index.php/2006/08/17/why_doesn_t_linux_need_defragmenting
Laquo; XGL Touchscreen = WoW! I've said it before. . . ». Thu, Aug 17, 2006. Why doesn't Linux need defragmenting? Bull; Post categories: Omni. That is a question that crops up with regularity on Linux forums when new users are unable to find the defrag tool on their shiny new desktop. Here's my attempt at giving a simple, non-technical answer as to why some filesystems suffer more from fragmenting than others. Top right is za. And bottom left is az. You get the idea, I'm sure. . . H e l l o . t x t.
taogaming.wordpress.com
A brief thought on game ratings | The Tao of Gaming
https://taogaming.wordpress.com/2011/12/03/a-brief-thought-on-game-ratings
The Tao of Gaming. Boardgames and lesser pursuits. A brief thought on game ratings. I believe actions speak louder than words, so a rating system should reflect it. I mean, BGG has a difference between 6 and 7 and 8, but these are pretty fine grained. For me, anyway. I’m comfortable with Michelin style ratings. Why not port it to board games, although I do think (unlike Michelin) there’s value in distinguishing “Mediocre” from “Crappy.”. Zero Stars — I avoid this. This is a truly bad game. 8221; but I ha...
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“Analyzing the Chapel” or Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics | Simulate Dominion
https://simulatedominion.wordpress.com/2011/01/10/analyzing-the-chapel-or-lies-damned-lies-and-statistics
Because tomorrow we take over the world. 8220;Analyzing the Chapel” or Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics. 8220;Analyzing the Chapel” or Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics. January 10, 2011. This article explores ways to gather insight from strategies. Why does a particular strategy do well? Against Big Money canonical. But first: pop quiz. If you play “Single Chapel canonical 1” against “Big Money canonical”, what are your win chances? A) Playing Chapel gives you roughly an 80% win chance. There is the expe...
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Dominion Card List | Dominion Strategy
https://dominionstrategy.com/card-lists/dominion-card-list
Cards, Combos, and Counters. Combo of the Day. Counter of the Day. Individual analyses of Dominion cards are linked below and also collected here. Discard any number of cards. 1 Card per card discarded. Trash up to 4 cards from your hand. Action – Reaction. When another player plays an Attack card, you may reveal this from your hand. If you do, you are unaffected by that Attack. You may immediately put your deck into your discard pile. 1 Card; 2 Actions. 1 Buy; $2. Gain a card costing up to $4. 2 Cards; ...
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Evidence suggesting that young computer programmers have “bilingual brains” | thecodingbrain
https://thecodingbrain.wordpress.com/2012/12/14/evidence-suggesting-that-young-computer-programmers-have-bilingual-brains
Just another WordPress.com site. Laquo; Newsflash: now 12 and 17 year olds can take part too. Evidence suggesting that young computer programmers have “bilingual brains”. December 14, 2012. After much procrastination, I am finally posting the results of my research into how the frequent use of computer programming languages affect the brain. Obviously, lots of bilingual people learn two languages from birth, and – young as some of them might be – this is clearly not the case for computer prog...If you do...
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