Gaussian distributions are a natural phenomenon, like pi, e, etc. The distribution was not made up for convenience (ever tried to integrate it?). You can't will away the base behavior of the universe (or our number line).
Sampling any random variable which itself is a sample of smaller events will trend Gaussian by natural law. Noise is also often the sum of a huge number of random events, and is often quite Gaussian.
Like binomial, Poisson, Laplacian, etc, Gaussians make a lot of sense for certain situations. Gaussian is also an excellent estimator for large sample sizes on binomial and Poisson processes.
I don't really understand a general objection to Gaussian distributions, or their use in analysis. That would be like objecting to the use of the number e.
Maybe you are upset that people assume Gaussians without considering it might be a similar distribution with very different process implications? (I.e. you can map a binomial on to a Gaussian, but the idea of where your samples are coming from is very different.)
If the LED is in parallel to the camera power, it is better than a shutter. The only flaw in LEDs is that idiot designers put them on seperate switching...
Didn't you hear? Guassians are so 1893. And so are all of the other distributions with convenient sigma terms...
And TFS calls standard deviation "root mean square error", which is only true if you assume the mean is a constant estimator for the distribution:(
In any case, no one picked Gaussians because they are so easy to integrate... While we're at it, TFA should suggest we round the number e to 3, because irrational numbers are hard, and who cares what natural law dictates.
I may be biased from a technocratic standpoint but here is a summary of the events as I understand them:
* Agency 'A' is responsible for implementing policy 'P', which stipulates which applicants are to be awarded status 'S'. * 'A' has a database, 'D', containing the applications for 'S'. * Upon receipt of 'P', outstanding applications must be checked for compliance. * A set of database queries for 'D' are formed through non-algorithmic means (ie people came up with some terms they thought were common to political groups). * 'D' was queried and the results were held until further human review.
I don't really see any issue here, unless your problem is with: * Bureaucracy in general - But there is no other way to run a large organization, given the shortcomings of human beings. That is really a totally separate debate. * The method of generating queries, which could easily have been biased. But requiring queries to be formed algorithmically would generate large cost overhead, as would a full re-review of all applications. Perhaps allowing Congress to review the queries before hand was a solution? That seems like a bit of micro-management. * The policy 'P'. But 'A' did not form 'P'. Blame the Supreme Court and Congress? Poorly defined laws lead to poorly implemented policies.
To be fair, the law states that the "primary purpose" of the group cannot be political, which is generally been interpreted as >50% of financial resources going to "non-political" action, whatever that means.
It sounded like someone started doing database queries for words they thought were relevant for screening the database. Then someone else screamed that querying the database was unconstitutional.
The same people as always. They spun off "Global Foundaries", but are still using them. (They are contractually obligated to, for the foreseeable future.)
I've been hearing for years that AMD's Linux drivers are just around the corner. Still waiting...
Maybe SteamOS will get them off thier butts, but for the time being my money is still going to nVidia.
AMD performance in Linux is 3-10 times slower than Windows in most games I've tried on Llano. I love my Llano laptop outside of gaming, but it pains me to still dual boot, whereas my desktop has been Windows-free for 6 years.
It does not appear to be widely deployed in the USA. Looking at the pictures, I think I've seen one before, but I'm not even sure where. (My mother has an ecclectic collection of credit cards, so probably there.)
The only thing I've ever had in my credit card was an RFID chip embedded between the laminated layers of plastic. With consumers calling everything "smart" these days, I figured that "smartcard" was just a trendy new term for something old.:)
As long as it's not wireless, I'm for it. All of this don't-take-your-train-card-out-of-your-wallet stuff annoys me. (Especially if you have a seperate card for work.)
I assume by "smartcard" you mean RFID. I took a razor blade to two of my credit cards, cutting out embedded chips, because I didn't want it to be read from inside my wallet....
The quality of that comparison is rather like how a peanut compares to a car.
There are a whole lot of peanuts out there. The complexity of products is growing swiftly, and engineering hours are reasonably well paid hours. Complete vertical integration is pretty much dead, so comparing any empire of the past to any consumer front-end today is disingenuous.
As for whether or not overall worker pay is lower, nearly all free and competitive markets are a "race to the bottom" because consumers are rarely informed enough to purchase anything other than the least expensive (or most hyped) product. If this affects the job market. the consumers get the jobs they deserve. (Shit jobs for shit products and shit pay, because they wanted those shit products.)
The Internet doesn't kill jobs, people kill jobs. (TM)
MoO2 was so good I go back and play it every couple years. I was so sad when MoO3 came out and was garbage (IMO).
My favorite part of MoO2 nowadays is that you can keep the entire CD on your HDD and just tell it that the directory is your CD drive directory. Easy to keep the game backed up (unlike some other aging titles)!
While I generally agree with you, doesn't BBC have a mobile URL? Why are you taking your device to the non-mobile version in the first place? (I do not use mobile devices, so maybe I am missing something about "forced" URL mapping to icons or something?)
I added some RAM and reformatted some aging work machines a few years ago, and they were running amazingly fast (compared to before the format). Then I re-installed Norton and they became unbearably slow immediately. I never knew before that just how bad Norton had become (having not used it personally since ~2000).
With forced version changes, Norton makes entry-range computers unusable within a few years, in my experience.
I can't believe they willingly produce such a system-crippling product. It is really shocking.
Strip heat is included as an auxiliary in case of emergencies and unusually cold nights. Properly engineered systems are designed to handle all but the coldest days of the year without activating the auxiliary heat, which only kicks in if you are several degrees below the target range. As for your house's strip heat coming on throughout the winter, blame your shithead developer/previous owner, and yourself for hunting a "bargain" at all costs. (hint: There are upfront costs of good engineering and proper insulation/pump sizing, but the economics are not there for the developer when potential buyers only cares about the tag price with no consideration for future savings.)
What horrors? (Actually asking. I have not heard of any.)
My experience with the nVidia blob drivers has been entirely positive. I have had an equal or better experience with the nVidia Linux blob as I have with the Windows blob for ~8 years running. (Okay, I did have to run the installer from the command line way back when.) In fact, installing the driver is _easier_ on Mint (ergo all Debian-type systems?) than on Windows. Mint may have even come with an up-to-date driver already loaded. Optimus could be a problem. I don't use dedicated graphics for laptops any more.
ATI, on the other hand, has given me nothing but nightmares. Both open source and blob drivers give terrible experience vs the Windows blob, and I still have issues with the package installs bricking my OS from time to time (pending recovery-mode driver uninstall).
Does anyone else find it upsetting that the local CVS is packed with whole aisles of homeopathic "remedies" with no proven efficacy (or worse, disproven), but some company can't tell you what your genes might mean? Apparently the FDA is about protecting what goes in your eyes than what goes in you mouth?
Off topic, but that journaling feature sure helps a file system "just work" sometimes:)
That said, I'm not sure I could figure out how to open a notepad in Ubuntu, let alone a whole journal! (Finding your tools without learning some crazy interface is not "just working" by most definitiions. Learning a novel interface takes way longer than googling a driver issue. And they will probably "innovate" some more soon.)
My favorite was that the Unity bar was smack in the middle of my two monitors regardless of which monitor was the primary. Good thing they didn't want to let anyone move the damned thing.
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Gaussian distributions are a natural phenomenon, like pi, e, etc. The distribution was not made up for convenience (ever tried to integrate it?). You can't will away the base behavior of the universe (or our number line).
Sampling any random variable which itself is a sample of smaller events will trend Gaussian by natural law. Noise is also often the sum of a huge number of random events, and is often quite Gaussian.
Like binomial, Poisson, Laplacian, etc, Gaussians make a lot of sense for certain situations. Gaussian is also an excellent estimator for large sample sizes on binomial and Poisson processes.
I don't really understand a general objection to Gaussian distributions, or their use in analysis. That would be like objecting to the use of the number e.
Maybe you are upset that people assume Gaussians without considering it might be a similar distribution with very different process implications? (I.e. you can map a binomial on to a Gaussian, but the idea of where your samples are coming from is very different.)
If the LED is in parallel to the camera power, it is better than a shutter. The only flaw in LEDs is that idiot designers put them on seperate switching...
Didn't you hear? Guassians are so 1893. And so are all of the other distributions with convenient sigma terms...
And TFS calls standard deviation "root mean square error", which is only true if you assume the mean is a constant estimator for the distribution :(
In any case, no one picked Gaussians because they are so easy to integrate... While we're at it, TFA should suggest we round the number e to 3, because irrational numbers are hard, and who cares what natural law dictates.
I may be biased from a technocratic standpoint but here is a summary of the events as I understand them:
* Agency 'A' is responsible for implementing policy 'P', which stipulates which applicants are to be awarded status 'S'.
* 'A' has a database, 'D', containing the applications for 'S'.
* Upon receipt of 'P', outstanding applications must be checked for compliance.
* A set of database queries for 'D' are formed through non-algorithmic means (ie people came up with some terms they thought were common to political groups).
* 'D' was queried and the results were held until further human review.
I don't really see any issue here, unless your problem is with:
* Bureaucracy in general - But there is no other way to run a large organization, given the shortcomings of human beings. That is really a totally separate debate.
* The method of generating queries, which could easily have been biased. But requiring queries to be formed algorithmically would generate large cost overhead, as would a full re-review of all applications. Perhaps allowing Congress to review the queries before hand was a solution? That seems like a bit of micro-management.
* The policy 'P'. But 'A' did not form 'P'. Blame the Supreme Court and Congress? Poorly defined laws lead to poorly implemented policies.
To be fair, the law states that the "primary purpose" of the group cannot be political, which is generally been interpreted as >50% of financial resources going to "non-political" action, whatever that means. It sounded like someone started doing database queries for words they thought were relevant for screening the database. Then someone else screamed that querying the database was unconstitutional.
The same people as always. They spun off "Global Foundaries", but are still using them. (They are contractually obligated to, for the foreseeable future.)
I've been hearing for years that AMD's Linux drivers are just around the corner. Still waiting...
Maybe SteamOS will get them off thier butts, but for the time being my money is still going to nVidia.
AMD performance in Linux is 3-10 times slower than Windows in most games I've tried on Llano. I love my Llano laptop outside of gaming, but it pains me to still dual boot, whereas my desktop has been Windows-free for 6 years.
It does not appear to be widely deployed in the USA. Looking at the pictures, I think I've seen one before, but I'm not even sure where. (My mother has an ecclectic collection of credit cards, so probably there.)
The only thing I've ever had in my credit card was an RFID chip embedded between the laminated layers of plastic. With consumers calling everything "smart" these days, I figured that "smartcard" was just a trendy new term for something old. :)
As long as it's not wireless, I'm for it. All of this don't-take-your-train-card-out-of-your-wallet stuff annoys me. (Especially if you have a seperate card for work.)
Just because the shark is damned doesn't mean it's dead already! Extreme shark rodeo is real. I was awarded the red bandana.
I assume by "smartcard" you mean RFID. I took a razor blade to two of my credit cards, cutting out embedded chips, because I didn't want it to be read from inside my wallet....
The quality of that comparison is rather like how a peanut compares to a car.
There are a whole lot of peanuts out there. The complexity of products is growing swiftly, and engineering hours are reasonably well paid hours. Complete vertical integration is pretty much dead, so comparing any empire of the past to any consumer front-end today is disingenuous.
As for whether or not overall worker pay is lower, nearly all free and competitive markets are a "race to the bottom" because consumers are rarely informed enough to purchase anything other than the least expensive (or most hyped) product. If this affects the job market. the consumers get the jobs they deserve. (Shit jobs for shit products and shit pay, because they wanted those shit products.)
The Internet doesn't kill jobs, people kill jobs. (TM)
This game-changing laptop UPS idea was probably Xerox's.
MoO2 was so good I go back and play it every couple years. I was so sad when MoO3 came out and was garbage (IMO).
My favorite part of MoO2 nowadays is that you can keep the entire CD on your HDD and just tell it that the directory is your CD drive directory. Easy to keep the game backed up (unlike some other aging titles)!
You seem, to really, like commas. :)
While I generally agree with you, doesn't BBC have a mobile URL? Why are you taking your device to the non-mobile version in the first place? (I do not use mobile devices, so maybe I am missing something about "forced" URL mapping to icons or something?)
Don't worry. Norton will take care of your computer soon.
Amen, brother. I believe in the area we can't see. Letter has the larger spiritual area! Made from the one true tree!
I added some RAM and reformatted some aging work machines a few years ago, and they were running amazingly fast (compared to before the format). Then I re-installed Norton and they became unbearably slow immediately. I never knew before that just how bad Norton had become (having not used it personally since ~2000). With forced version changes, Norton makes entry-range computers unusable within a few years, in my experience. I can't believe they willingly produce such a system-crippling product. It is really shocking.
Strip heat is included as an auxiliary in case of emergencies and unusually cold nights.
Properly engineered systems are designed to handle all but the coldest days of the year without activating the auxiliary heat, which only kicks in if you are several degrees below the target range.
As for your house's strip heat coming on throughout the winter, blame your shithead developer/previous owner, and yourself for hunting a "bargain" at all costs.
(hint: There are upfront costs of good engineering and proper insulation/pump sizing, but the economics are not there for the developer when potential buyers only cares about the tag price with no consideration for future savings.)
What horrors? (Actually asking. I have not heard of any.)
My experience with the nVidia blob drivers has been entirely positive.
I have had an equal or better experience with the nVidia Linux blob as I have with the Windows blob for ~8 years running. (Okay, I did have to run the installer from the command line way back when.)
In fact, installing the driver is _easier_ on Mint (ergo all Debian-type systems?) than on Windows. Mint may have even come with an up-to-date driver already loaded.
Optimus could be a problem. I don't use dedicated graphics for laptops any more.
ATI, on the other hand, has given me nothing but nightmares. Both open source and blob drivers give terrible experience vs the Windows blob, and I still have issues with the package installs bricking my OS from time to time (pending recovery-mode driver uninstall).
Does anyone else find it upsetting that the local CVS is packed with whole aisles of homeopathic "remedies" with no proven efficacy (or worse, disproven), but some company can't tell you what your genes might mean? Apparently the FDA is about protecting what goes in your eyes than what goes in you mouth?
Better shove the participant out of the aircraft door just to be sure.
Off topic, but that journaling feature sure helps a file system "just work" sometimes :)
That said, I'm not sure I could figure out how to open a notepad in Ubuntu, let alone a whole journal! (Finding your tools without learning some crazy interface is not "just working" by most definitiions. Learning a novel interface takes way longer than googling a driver issue. And they will probably "innovate" some more soon.)
My favorite was that the Unity bar was smack in the middle of my two monitors regardless of which monitor was the primary. Good thing they didn't want to let anyone move the damned thing.
It's okay. PETA only blows up labs over cute animals.