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New comment by sin7 in "The case for a pipe assignment operator in R"

sin7 — Sun, 31 Dec 2023 01:12:48 +0000

There's a free community version.

New comment by sin7 in "Almost half of Californians speak a non-English language at home"

sin7 — Fri, 24 Nov 2023 20:18:30 +0000

I misread your comment. Sorry about that. I misread it because I think of a generation as twenty years and a lifetime as what you described. Sorry again.

New comment by sin7 in "Almost half of Californians speak a non-English language at home"

sin7 — Fri, 24 Nov 2023 16:53:44 +0000

De facto is not the same as official.

New comment by sin7 in "Almost half of Californians speak a non-English language at home"

sin7 — Fri, 24 Nov 2023 16:41:45 +0000

Lies, damn lies and then this. 85% counts Hispanic people as white. The 35% does not. Ain't no way this is an innocent mistake. Hispanic people have always been a large portion of California.

New comment by sin7 in "Children of alumni no longer have admissions edge at Carnegie Mellon, Pitt"

sin7 — Thu, 20 Jul 2023 04:30:59 +0000

If a 'fair' coin came up 70% you lose, you'd be ready to fight the person trying to scam you. At the very least ready to call the cops on them.

New comment by sin7 in "People can be convinced they committed a crime that never happened (2015)"

sin7 — Sat, 17 Jun 2023 17:10:02 +0000

Yeah. So?

Make no mistake about it, there is no argument. We are not negotiating. I'm not recognizing anything that was said. Like hearing my nephew cracking up over saying poop, it was cute the first time. It's time for new material yungin'.

New comment by sin7 in "People can be convinced they committed a crime that never happened (2015)"

sin7 — Sat, 17 Jun 2023 13:58:33 +0000

Even worse, a good portion of the population believes that a good portion now believes that ... whatever you just said. And this good portion is annoying. Bring up nonsense like this in conversations where it does not fit, in the middle of dinner, in the middle of pumping gas. Like damn, I'm watching out for one of those kids with a gun just waiting to exhibit his mental health and you want me to worry about the guy in a dress?

New comment by sin7 in "Joe Rogan Issues Warning After AI-Generated Version of His Podcast Surfaces"

sin7 — Thu, 13 Apr 2023 16:45:04 +0000

Sir, you have made my day. This is the funniest thing related to Joe Rogan.

Thank you.

New comment by sin7 in "What I Think About LeBron Breaking My NBA Scoring Record"

sin7 — Thu, 09 Feb 2023 16:19:41 +0000

Luka is currently playing in his 5th year. He has 4 years behind him. Not the best comparison, but seems fair.

New comment by sin7 in "An experimental program in Austria that creates work for the unemployed"

sin7 — Sat, 10 Dec 2022 21:21:21 +0000

Can poor people take out a loan and create new money?

New comment by sin7 in "Reinstating our SAT/ACT requirement for future admissions cycles"

sin7 — Mon, 28 Mar 2022 19:33:15 +0000

No need. Just attribute an unmeasurable quality such as creativity to your racial group.

New comment by sin7 in "Reinstating our SAT/ACT requirement for future admissions cycles"

sin7 — Mon, 28 Mar 2022 18:24:52 +0000

Whites also have lower average scores on them. Lower than Asians and Jews.

At the elite level this would make a huge difference. At the state level not at all.

New comment by sin7 in "White Castle wants to install robot cooks in 100 new locations"

sin7 — Mon, 14 Mar 2022 23:25:42 +0000

I already have a machine that makes white castle burgers at home. It's called a microwave. The results are not the best.

New comment by sin7 in "Heuristics that almost always work"

sin7 — Mon, 21 Feb 2022 21:21:59 +0000

    runs <- 100000
    x <- vector(mode = "numeric", length = runs)
    for (i in 1:runs){
      while (sum(sample(1:8, size = 3, replace = TRUE)) != 24){
        x[i] <- x[i] + 1
      }
    }

    summary(x)
     Min. 1st Qu.  Median    Mean 3rd Qu.    Max.
      0.0   146.0   353.0   511.8   708.0  5112.0 

    quantile(x, c(0.5, 0.8, 0.9))
     50%  80%  90% 
     353  824 1187

Strangely enough the mean agrees. The other ntiles are off a bit, but that's randomness for you.

New comment by sin7 in "Heuristics that almost always work"

sin7 — Sun, 13 Feb 2022 01:38:53 +0000

    runs <- 10000
    x <- vector(mode = "numeric", length = runs)
    for (i in 1:runs){
      while (sum(sample(1:6, size = 3, replace = TRUE)) != 18){
        x[i] <- x[i] + 1
      }
    }

    summary(x)
    quantile(x, c(0.5, 0.8, 0.9)) 

    > summary(x)
       Min. 1st Qu.  Median    Mean 3rd Qu.    Max.
        0.0    62.0   149.0   216.2   300.0  1902.0
    > quantile(x, c(0.5, 0.8, 0.9))
    50% 80% 90%
    149 350 495

A simple simulation. Run 10K times. Count the number of times it takes for three dice to add up 18.

The numbers very much agree with you. The median is 149. The 90th is 495 in the simulation, which is close enough to 496. There is very much a long tail in the data. So, the median and the average will not be the same. Is it a coincidence that mean is a 216?

New comment by sin7 in "Heuristics that almost always work"

sin7 — Sun, 13 Feb 2022 01:37:51 +0000

    runs <- 10000
    x <- vector(mode = "numeric", length = runs)
    for (i in 1:runs){
      while (sum(sample(1:6, size = 3, replace = TRUE)) != 18){
        x[i] <- x[i] + 1
      }
    }

    summary(x)
    quantile(x, c(0.5, 0.8, 0.9)) 

    > summary(x)
       Min. 1st Qu.  Median    Mean 3rd Qu.    Max.
        0.0    62.0   149.0   216.2   300.0  1902.0
    > quantile(x, c(0.5, 0.8, 0.9))
    50% 80% 90%
    149 350 495

A simple simulation. Run 10K times. Count the number of times it takes for three dice to add up 18.

New comment by sin7 in "Heuristics that almost always work"

sin7 — Wed, 09 Feb 2022 04:36:01 +0000

What am I missing? 6 x 6 X 6 = 216 or about 7 months.

New comment by sin7 in "A Quick Introduction to R"

sin7 — Sun, 06 Feb 2022 12:57:05 +0000

1*0 = 1 1*1 = 1 1*-1 = 1

2*0 = 1 2*1 = 2 2*-1 = 1/2

When 1 raised to any power equals 1, does the power matter at all? Even if it's unknown, the answer is 1.

New comment by sin7 in "PRQL – A proposal for a better SQL"

sin7 — Tue, 25 Jan 2022 04:22:34 +0000

Is it too deeply entrenched to change? The number of times I have had a data.frame grouped when it wasn't supposed to be, I can count on my fingers. But the hours that I spent trying to figure it out must amount to a paycheck or two.

New comment by sin7 in "How Much Does Education Improve Intelligence? A Meta-Analysis [pdf]"

sin7 — Mon, 13 Dec 2021 16:38:13 +0000

Are you talking about black kids? Because I can assure you that no one gives a single fuck about their feelings or any uncomfortable differences.