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Re:The Second Half on Thursday April 17, 2025 @01:40PM (#43719983)
I believe this is referring to the probability concept of "Independent and Identically distributed".

In the usage in the book/page, it seems to refer to how tasks/problems are run in parallel and the learning averaged, whereas the author is advocating these problems run sequentially.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent_and_identically_di...

Re:Email apnea – are you breathing? (2014) on Tuesday May 30, 2023 @10:22AM (#36125205)
I've had similar issues with belching before, and it turned out I had an Ulcer (H. Pylori Infection).

You can pretty quickly get a breath test done at one of those cheapo lab clinics, but also after I got that test I went to a GI doc and did an endoscopy and there was some underlying acid reflux that I'm still figuring out how to handle.

Re:Create your own game engine but don't use it (2017) on Saturday February 09, 2019 @09:42AM (#19122493)
I've heard good things about Godot, MIT license written in Go I think.

I've seen it's praises on HN, but I'm not a game dev so YMMV.

Re:Schools are safer than they were in the 90s on Friday March 02, 2018 @11:28AM (#16502898)
Can someone say "Security Theater"?

In cases like these I like to take the Freakonomics formula for risk, that outrage factors more into observed risk than actual danger.

We're more worried about Terrorism than Heart Disease, even as we have far more control over the latter.