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wikiwawa

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    Comment #23836984

    Yes, in this case, probably the peak.

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    Comment #19372775

    Good point, I was wondering why I was off orders of magnitude.

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    Comment #19372185

    The mean of a Beta Distribution (2, 348) ( https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=beta+distribution+(2,+... ) is roughly half a percent, much higher than the 1 in 11 million across …

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    Comment #16988302

    Note that the regression is on the differences, y_t - y_t-1 not the levels, just y_t. So the argument is more subtle, that the "change" in AirBnB share is correlated with changes i…

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    Comment #14822614

    Not to be a downer but put this one under the category of "it's not AI if a character based ngram model can do it". But fun regardless of the hype-y AI title.

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    Comment #12508684

    I understand sarcasm, that's for sure. As a matter develops, parties tend to drop out if they think that their chances have declined beyond some threshold. But if they continue, or…

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    Comment #12508509

    A large part of statistics is devoted to making valid inference from noisy samples, largely by making sensible assumptions. Even in your example, it is common practice to assess a …

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    Comment #9898052

    More ubiquitous, Coke: http://blog.premise.com/data/science/2014/09/26/introducing-...

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