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The fine folks at FOPEAS would never tarnish their good name by stooping to such a stunt. I mean, we might expect such shenanigans from the likes of SMURGBLOZ, KINSURGE, or GSIROOZ…

The year is 1900. College-bound nephew says "what's the point of a physics major anymore?" I asked "what do you mean?" and he goes "Newton's Laws".

Each year Kaggle creates a for-fun, Santa-themed optimization problem. This year's is about controlling a robotic arm to efficiently print cards.

The digits of pi contain every pdf that ever could and ever will exist.

Any dog ever would gladly trade a few zaps for a wide open place to explore outside. Cruelty is depriving dogs of exercise and outdoor time and stimulation and the chance to run, n…

Same issues here. I dread having to unplug or shutdown my MBP connected to 2 external monitors because it means I'll have to reconfigure the displays.

As of 2015, there were 9 car models without recorded deaths - https://www.nbcnews.com/business/autos/record-9-models-have-... I'm not sure how statistically significant the numbers…

Yeah, my above comment was not using a text search, hence no "relevant" option (i.e. if you just drilled down the department hierarchy to, say, the TVs department). > the core need…

Amazon has the default "Featured" sort (I'm not sure what is behind this, but it intuitively seems like some combination of popularity + availability + rating). If this default doe…

Anyone here have thoughts on why, all these years later, Amazon still doesn't have a sort option along the lines of these proposals? It seems like such an easy win and an easy tech…

Nothing warms our icy, cold, statistical hearts quite like hearing that a randomly chosen person is near the median. <3

I don't know who this James Mickens fellow is, but I like the cut of his jib.

Sort by rating you say? Sure, here's 3 pages of sketchy, out of production, third-party seller items with one 5-star review, followed by the 4.97 star item with 3,880 reviews that …

> Our results suggest that automated systems for monitoring demographic trends may effectively complement labor-intensive approaches

But who has access to writeStatus.txt? Classic rookie mistake. You needed a writeStatusWriteStatus.txt.

I agree, and suspect many people (outside of the statisticians who have had the time and space to digest the philosophical underpinnings) who claim to love Bayesian methods do so b…

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Can confirm. I've been running this bot for 8 minutes and currently have a $7.8 million short position against the fake NYT. SEE YOU IN COURT, @maxbbraun!

Hey, wait, aren't you that guy that does the funny nerd keyboard thing? Type me a sentence. Dance monkey, dance!

> Sorry, but, this required a new study? Yes, it requires study, unless all of this is obvious to you: "The twin cohort displayed distinctive pathway enrichment based on sleep dura…

I always said the hallmark of a great tool is something that can do 50 things in a shitty way. "ALEXA. ALEXA. SIRI! OKAY GOOGLE? Come here self-driving roomba. Play NPR podcasts an…