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I honestly can't recommend a book for this. The best resource I've found is MathWorld. I've picked up a bunch of very helpful intuitions from it, including: - Cauchy: the horizonta…

I'm sorry! I misread your question as 'Would this be a good book for my level?'.

You'll have no trouble.

That's a good question and I was asking myself that I after I wrote that comment. I think my objection is more to the 'Bayesian' and less to the 'methods', if that makes sense. Tha…

Well, no, because I don't know any good reasons for using Bayesian methods (except when prior probability distributions can be found objectively through some previous experiment et…

http://www.amazon.com/Data-Analysis-Bayesian-Tutorial-Public... is short and reputable on Bayesian statistics. On MCMC specifically, I don't know, but MCMC is really a kind of algo…

I should like to give a contrarian comment about this, because it is on top of the front page and seems to be being received positively. This book is probably not a good way to lea…

That's an interesting point. In fact, the expectation of the random walk is always the same as its starting value, because, although most of the walks go to 0 like you observed, th…

I visited the site during the affected time on Mac OS X 10.7, with Safari - I'm worried I might be infected. How can I check?

Does anyone have any examples of Google lobbying against clearer legal documents? I would love to see this.

Yeah, exactly. I've used the mobile apps of both, and Rdio's has 9 confusing icons and requires you to learn a complicated mental model of your music library will work, whereas Spo…

Could you all send a similar letter for the patent reforms?

Hey. I voted 'use Coffeescript a lot and JS a little'. I like to use the best tools, so to me learning JS was just a step on the way to learning Coffeescript as soon as I had heard…

What info from the census would enable someone to steal an identity? From the looks of it there's only DoB and address in terms of personal info...

That's one of the funniest things I've ever read on HN

Clickable link: https://twitter.com/#!/appsonly

We read HN mostly for the Rate my Startup posts and the announcements of cool new apps. We thought, "wouldn't it be nice if there was one place that announced those, and didn't foc…

I'm so impressed with that. If I was getting that much criticism (for something so obviously excellent!) I'd be shaking in my boots. :-(

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaahahahahahahahahahahahahaha legendary.

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