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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 e…

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 diff…

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…

Here's another tutorial for creating zsh completers using the built-in functions: https://github.com/vapniks/zsh-completions/blob/master/zsh-c...

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

I've forked the repo and created a zsh version: https://github.com/vapniks/shell-secrets

Yes, you need a good tutor to help you navigate through such a complex topic.

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 recomm…

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 hypoth…

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 ma…

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...

Does anyone have any tips on how to persuade non-techy friends & family to switch from WhatsApp to element-x?

Someone should train an LLM on all the kernel documentation, code, mailing lists, etc.

but what if H0 = Hewlett Packard did not plan to eliminate Mike Lynch and Stephen Chamberlain...

So I guess we'll never know the p-value of that event...

Yes, it would be nice to know how things change for different weightings of the null and alternative priors.

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 misinterpretat…

When I click on any of the pdf's it says: Error rendering embedded code, Invalid PDF

@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) ≃…

@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 ther…

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…

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 apar…

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 …

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…

(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 almo…