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Re:Statistics for Hackers [video] by harveywi on Wednesday June 15, 2016 @01:14PM (#11910586)
Similar in spirit to John Rauser's 2014 Strata Conference + Hadoop World keynote "Statistics Without the Agonizing Pain" (https://youtu.be/5Dnw46eC-0o).
Re:Statistics for Hackers [video] by sitkack on Wednesday June 15, 2016 @10:10PM (#11913512)
I am very glad that he referenced it, that talk was amazing and needs to be duplicated/replicated/spread 10x over.
Re:Statistics for Hackers [video] by jrauser on Thursday June 16, 2016 @12:40AM (#11914028)
:)
Re:Statistics for Hackers [video] by minimaxir on Wednesday June 15, 2016 @01:15PM (#11910595)
Previous discussion based on an earlier 2015 version of the slide deck: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10244950

Back then, I wrote a small tutorial on how to implement and animate the bootstrap technique in R/ggplot2 based on the talk: http://minimaxir.com/2015/09/bootstrap-resample/

Re:Statistics for Hackers [video] by benbenolson on Wednesday June 15, 2016 @03:10PM (#11911320)
I actually watched the majority of this, it's a very interesting talk. I'd imagine that all of us are going to need to use at least some statistics one day, so I consider it time well spent.
Re:Statistics for Hackers [video] by kensai on Wednesday June 15, 2016 @02:23PM (#11911000)
Really nice. Is there a similar video in R?
Re:Statistics for Hackers [video] by babo on Wednesday June 15, 2016 @06:07PM (#11912520)
Is python matters here?
Re:Statistics for Hackers [video] by kensai on Thursday June 16, 2016 @02:30AM (#11914395)
No. Does your comment answer my own question?
Re:Statistics for Hackers [video] by babo on Thursday June 16, 2016 @09:05AM (#11915798)
Is that code answers your question? No offense but the main message of that talk is if you can do a for loop than you can do statistics simulation in any programming environment. Like in R.

m <- 0 nexp <- 100000

for (i in 1:nexp) { if (sum(rnorm(30, mean=0, sd=1) < 0) >= 22) { m <- m + 1 } }

print(m / nexp)

Re:Statistics for Hackers [video] by hayksaakian on Wednesday June 15, 2016 @05:18PM (#11912213)
i wish there was a way to 'force mono' on youtube so i could get the same audio from two sides of my headphones.

sounds like a really interesting talk, but it's painful to listen to from only 1 ear.

Re:Statistics for Hackers [video] by babo on Wednesday June 15, 2016 @06:10PM (#11912532)
I found this comment on youtube by asperous helpful: If you are on a mac you can go under accessibility -> sound -> play stereo as mono. This will balance the sound.
Re:Statistics for Hackers [video] by quibit on Wednesday June 15, 2016 @06:01PM (#11912488)
Plug your headphones only halfway into the jack.
Re:Statistics for Hackers [video] by Normal_gaussian on Wednesday June 15, 2016 @06:12PM (#11912550)
Yet another brilliant argument for still using the 3.5mm jack
Re:Statistics for Hackers [video] by 746F7475 on Thursday June 16, 2016 @05:19AM (#11914964)
Yeah, because people don't know how to mix audio plug your jack only half way in and risk it getting loose.

This is like if some guy was punching people on the street, instead of removing the guy you'd just tell people to duck.

Re:Statistics for Hackers [video] by Normal_gaussian on Thursday June 16, 2016 @05:28AM (#11914993)
It was a cross between sarcasm and a reference to a previous HN discussion on phones looking to phase out the 3.5mm
Re:Statistics for Hackers [video] by 746F7475 on Friday June 17, 2016 @01:19AM (#11920818)
Yes, I am aware, but I'm very much in favor of removing the useless jack. I have already transitioned into using bluetooth earpuds and headphones with my mobile devices and laptops, and I will never go back to cables.
Re:Statistics for Hackers [video] by ricksplat on Thursday June 16, 2016 @11:03AM (#11916592)
This is "hacker" news after all ...
Re:Statistics for Hackers [video] by jameskegel on Wednesday June 15, 2016 @05:57PM (#11912469)
One could make a case for this feature by claiming it is an accessibility feature for the non-bilateral deaf / hard of hearing community.
Re:Statistics for Hackers [video] by vanderZwan on Thursday June 16, 2016 @05:46AM (#11915060)
As a non-bilaterally deaf person, I agree. Although TBF, I think it should be an OS-level feature built into the sound settings, instead of asking everyone else to reinvent the wheel all the time.
Re:Statistics for Hackers [video] by sceadu on Wednesday June 15, 2016 @05:40PM (#11912367)
I feed the URL into smplayer and force the audio to mono inside the program when it's unbalanced.
Re:Statistics for Hackers [video] by lozf on Wednesday June 15, 2016 @10:55PM (#11913618)
Alternatively:

      mpv --audio-channels=1  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5GVOFAYi8k
Re:Statistics for Hackers [video] by mnx on Thursday June 16, 2016 @06:50AM (#11915270)
Thanks, this works great.
Re:Statistics for Hackers [video] by voiceclonr on Wednesday June 15, 2016 @01:24PM (#11910655)
Nice one!