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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 a…

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 woul…

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 ar…

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.

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 c…