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Assuming shuffled list: estimate of mean, estimate of cardinality etc etc

I thought that smell was chloramines, rather than chlorine itself?

"HNHTD"?

I’m sorry to have to let you know that the pied currawong is in fact parasitised by the channel billed cuckoo (the world’s biggest cuckoo in fact).

The same way traditional media does? c.f. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_T%C3%A9l%C3%A9vision_Lib...

+1 for this, and for the equally good (but slightly different in tone) New York Review of Books

L1 regularisation is the usual way (see e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lasso_(statistics) )

> ...without being invaded by a dictatorship. Why only dictatorships?

IIRC the light coming from in front of you gets blue shifted, each photon increasing in energy, and the count increases because of the geometric changes you see in the video (the a…

Who's talking about "imminent terror attacks"? Do you think that is the majority of intelligence work? Do you need it to be to justify blackmail?

Can you give more detail about the fluorescing nucleus? I'm honestly amazed by this (and I have a degree in physics, which I guess is your point).

It looks totally fine to me (lines are wrapping normally). Are you sure it's not something to do with your own browser?

zipped file, with 33000 rows, and most columns chosen from a list of options, so it looks very easy to compress.

This is beautiful.

I only ever seem to see stories that look a whole lot like propaganda from thedrive.com. Who's behind this site?

I believe they're not, since it is designed to appear like something forbidden: https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/3907949/jewis... edit: reading more closely it seems …

This image [1] comes from "Converson to Islam in the Medieval Period" by Richard Bulliet [2]. The percentages inferred by Bulliet roughly track a sigmoidal curve. He makes an argum…

I think bit64 gives integer64, but like you I never need large integers - I don't do general purpose programming in R.

No it's different, and thought to have evolved independently. See e.g. http://journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/article?id=10.1371/jou...

Do you have references for the multiple migrations, especially from India? I know there was this paper: http://www.pnas.org/content/110/5/1803 , but I had the impression that hadn'…

I wouldn't have said "shit source", but I think he's better viewed as a reasonable populariser than a proper source. He is up with the literature (in the sense that the day after a…

It was easyish to visit around 10 years ago - though there was a problem with Al Qaeda. The civil war doesn't really seem to be a problem in Shibam iteself, (part of Hadhramaut, in…

Yes, but is there something that Ripple is doing here that could not be done by any non-blockchain distributed system? The chief value in blockchain seems to be in getting people t…

Australia, for one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_enforcement_in_Australia

In my experience most are, but there is also some work in operations management and optimisation, product design (e.g. financial products, digital products) and other areas. I thin…