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Re:Programmers Need To Learn Statistics Or I Will Kill Them ... by jerf on Tuesday May 26, 2009 @02:36PM (#627205)
Because when edu writes a blog post, he includes his entire life history, and, for that matter, the entire history of the universe in it.

I know you've already been smacked down but this is a big pet peeve of mine and worth pointing out. You can always complain that something should have had more information in it, and since that is always true no matter what, the complaint is information free. (A value that comes from a universe of one value contributes zero bits of information.)

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Re:Programmers Need To Learn Statistics Or I Will Kill Them ... by SapphireSun on Wednesday May 27, 2009 @03:34AM (#628162)
I'm not so sure about that. A request for more information can be incredibly important (for instance: Tell me who committed the murder! also see: stubs on Wikipedia). Essentially, there is a point of diminishing returns, and after a while, possibly negative returns as the work becomes too hard to assimilate.

However, in this case, I tend to think that Zed included just enough information to get someone who's clueless started - he even included references at the end so that if you DO want more, you can easily get it.

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