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Re:Bayesian Workflow (2020) on Saturday June 25, 2022 @06:24PM (#31879236)
"Should" you be using Bayesian statistics? That simply comes down to personal preference. I like to use it because it makes it really easy to reason about uncertainty in downstream applications. It's also useful when I have strong prior knowledge about an estimate or am updating it from a previous measurement. Its also especially useful when the data generating process has multiple stages or subpopulations and the particular application can make use of those component measurements.

You can totally use Bayesian statistics to measure V = IR... You could also just bootstrap `V/I`.

Re:Statistical Rethinking [video] on Monday January 03, 2022 @12:50PM (#29783731)
Having just finished statistical rethinking, what do you recommend I read next?
Because when you're navigating, you generally want to orient to whats in front of you.

I definitely agree with you if you are just "studying" a map... But nobody wants to perform a mental re-orientation while driving.

Re:What's Next for R? on Friday December 27, 2019 @10:23PM (#21896841)
R has actually come a long way on the environments front. Check out “renv” from the good people at RStudio.

Link: https://rstudio.github.io/renv/articles/renv.html

Re:Principal Component Analysis Explained Visually (2015) on Wednesday May 24, 2017 @01:12PM (#14411585)
This is great, thanks for sharing.
Re:Movie recommendations based on your personal taste on Friday July 22, 2016 @10:33PM (#12148086)
Abomination? That was oone of my favorite movies of all time!
Re:IBM Watson's Visual Recognition Demo on Tuesday March 22, 2016 @02:00PM (#11338496)
Has IBM able to do anything Watson besides Jeopardy as yet?
Feature Request - Dots! The deputy loves Dots! Seriously though, I want bullet points and enumeration please.
Re:In Praise of Gnome Classic [pdf] on Friday February 05, 2016 @11:43AM (#11042572)
Why is this poorly formatted word document opinion piece on hacker news right now?
Types for clojure are a thing and are helping to clojures adoption by industry.

http://typedclojure.org/

Re:In Memoriam: Ian Murdock on Wednesday December 30, 2015 @02:04PM (#10813641)
Is this at all related to his statement on suicide and police brutality? What was the cause of death?

Source: http://techaeris.com/2015/12/28/debian-founder-ian-murdocks-...

Re:RSA Signatures in Emacs Lisp on Sunday November 15, 2015 @02:37AM (#10568843)
Every new thing I learn about emacs astounds me.
Nice work, very slick!

1. I couldn't figure out how to like a place

2. I was sort of expecting a bit more information when I clicked on a place. I mean this particularly with respect to the attractions section. I was hoping for more information on the attractions, like the ability click on it and learn more.

Re:From Vim to Emacs on Friday September 26, 2014 @12:13PM (#8373334)
But you can get Vim's modal editing with Emacs'evil-mode.
Re:Apple Pay on Tuesday September 09, 2014 @04:36PM (#8292881)
Correct me if I am wrong, but wasn't there no connection between Apple and the leaks?
Re:Apple is Totally Screwed on Tuesday September 02, 2014 @02:35PM (#8259311)
There is none.
Re:Apple iPhone 5 US Carrier Comparison Chart on Friday September 14, 2012 @01:16PM (#4522749)
Sprint seems to have it together on this one.