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delib

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    Some of my gripes with Yazio: - It freezes. all. the. time. For an app that I use 10+ times per day that's just not acceptable. - When I update a shared recipe on my phone, it does…

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    I want to try that eventually, but I feel like I'm not quite there yet with just going on vibes.

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    Ask HN: What calorie-counting app are you using?

    Since January, I've been using the Yazio app to track my calories, and have lost roughly 30 lbs in the process. That's great! But Yazio is slowly driving me insane. Despite the slo…

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    Comment #36445838

    The CI is for the mean, not for the entire data. This is the difference between a confidence and a prediction interval: https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/225652/prediction-…

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    The concept is a bit confusingly named, but that doesn't make it "bogus". (Period) life expectancy at birth summarizes the current health status of a population, nothing more, noth…

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    Yes, the target does not need to follow a normal distribution, but the target conditional on the features (which is what the original authors wrote) follows a normal distribution i…

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    > it's linear regression on the log-odds Almost - logistic regression assumes that the function is linear in the log odds , i.e. log(p/(1-p)) = Xb + e. The problem is that you can'…

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    Comment #18350024

    Not all are: https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0644/8811/products/Staedtl...

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    Comment #18252578

    This is not the only reason, though. The U.S. spends a higher percentage of its GDP on defense than other countries.

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    Comment #18153706

    I think an overlooked aspect of the German-English comparison is the system of tenses. In German, you can get by with basically just two tenses: the present and the perfect. The pa…

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    Comment #18153678

    > I scratch my head at a society that makes its members memorize such useless information. Such a weird perspective on language and on the agency of societies. There are tons of "u…

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