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Re:What are some examples of inefficient markets? on Friday February 07, 2020 @07:43PM (#22272788)
The parent post is referring to cryptocurrencies, not cryptography in general.
Re:Optimizing sample sizes in A/B testing on Friday February 07, 2020 @09:14AM (#22266075)
You don't need equal variances - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welch%27s_t-test
Re:Optimizing sample sizes in A/B testing on Friday February 07, 2020 @07:18AM (#22265263)
Even if you assume best intentions, A/B testing often comes down to a variation of a t-test, the interpretation of which can be fuzzy too - https://www.amstat.org/asa/files/pdfs/P-ValueStatement.pdf (TLDR - when it comes to statistical significance you can be either wrong or vague).
Re:CS246: Mining Massive Data Sets on Friday February 07, 2020 @03:55AM (#22264264)
The title of Bishop's book is Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning.