Your method of sampling could be improved further, unfortunately at the expense of ease of use. If the dictionary was sorted according to difficulty, then you could use stratified sampling.

I comment on the related aspects here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48599769

It would have paired well with an exposition of vanilla Monte Carlo and the benefits of stratified sampling.

Although stratified sampling is good, one can do better in this case by using adaptive sampling, where one uses a runtime (Bayesian) estimate of vocabulary to maximize information gain per question -- preferrentially sample from those strata where the current strata specific estimate has higher variance.

It is usually (i) anxiety triggered over reactions on the part of humans or worse, plain abusive behavior (ii) such as kicking, beating the dogs or driving/riding dangerously.

People familiar with dogs have no problems with them.

Fake vaccines are an issue though, only heard of such cases in North India, but then one should be going after those who are behind that.

Absolutely yes.

Properly vaccinated and properly treated they can be part of the fauna of the city.

Man and dogs have befriended and helped each other for tens of thousands of years. Turning our backs when we don't need them anymore is positively shitty behavior that humans are capable of.

Apparently I have lots to say about terraform, kubernetes and docker. I certainly don't :)

I would have to remind myself what terraform does, just in case my past self ever knew.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48263398

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48258915

It did suddenly worsen though. I was checking if it's assesment was deterministic or not.

The only criticism of Belgium that I have heard are the horrors of colonialism under Leopold.

Its a picturesque country.

Political parties are very good at making elections about manufactured issues. They strategically polarize the voters by amplifying and creating fault lines within the society.

If what you say is true in your world, I would be sincerely interested to know where would that be (my guesses would be Uruguay, New Zealand). This is not sarcasm, I am genuinely interested. In my world, India, it is as untrue as it can be.

Remove the corvids.

I am a complete newbie, so I might be asking about something obvious -- does anyone know how some of these would relate to plotting random Polya vector fields ?

For example, one can take a sum of complex rational functions of the form

    f_i(z) = r_i / (z - p_i) 

One needs to plot the conjugate of sum_i f_i(z).

EDIT: so many lovely pages pointed to in the comments ! Let me convey collective thanks to all, rather than clutter this page with individual thanks.

@ttctciyf you are marked dead. Not sure why.

It gets tiring to watch over autocorrects

It is trivial to concoct believable lies as compared to the effort needed to debunk them in a way that is effective at social scale.

Perhaps the only weapon is to teach how to think for oneself. Who is going to invest in that in a scale necessary? Those who have the resources to do that do not have sufficient motivation. Often the motivation to do the opposite is stronger.