gregsexton
Re:A good day to trie-hard: saving compute 1% at a time
on Wednesday September 11, 2024 @10:55AM (#41511967)
The presented data for demonstrating a win doesn't have enough power to actually show this - not enough samples were taken.
A very simple analysis in R:
> prop.test(c(9, 4), c(1103,1171))
2-sample test for equality of proportions with continuity correction
data: c(9, 4) out of c(1103, 1171)
X-squared = 1.4915, df = 1, p-value = 0.222
alternative hypothesis: two.sided
95 percent confidence interval:
-0.002409831 0.011897193
sample estimates:
prop 1 prop 2
0.008159565 0.003415884
A p-value of 0.22 isn't below the magic 0.05 and the 95% confidence interval suggests that the trie might actually be slightly worse.I imagine the trie is better, given the prior analysis, and there is weak evidence for this. But take (a lot) more samples and know with confidence how much better.
Re:How a car works (2012)
on Friday July 17, 2015 @02:09PM (#9904219)
I would love to own a print copy. Do you have any plans to publish?
Re:Show HN: Emacs org mode integration with IPython
on Tuesday June 09, 2015 @03:08PM (#9687932)
Yes. I use evil mode with it.
Re:The single most useful Emacs feature
on Wednesday December 07, 2011 @04:51AM (#3323184)
Have you tried `:help :match`? I'm not sure if I'm missing anything but this seems to do the same thing.