jeffwass
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Comment · 3 months ago
An interesting statistical example if you haven’t seen it before is the Anscombe Quartet :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anscombe%27s_quartet
Four sets of X,Y datapoints that have exactly (or very close) common statistical parameters (mean, variance, correlation, linear regression, R^2), but with vastly different spatial distributions and “behavior” when looked at visually.
Comment · 4 months ago
It's the simplest AI nihilist!
Comment · 5 months ago
FYI - The actual BBC title is “Cherry Kearton: The eccentric influence on a young Sir David Attenborough” but I felt this wasn’t descriptive enough.
The article subtitle is “As a child, Sir David Attenborough was transfixed by the work of Cherry Kearton, a photographer and filmmaker who almost single-handedly changed the way we view the natural world.” which I tried to use but was way too long, so I abridged it.
Comment · 6 months ago
This submission is currently the main HN submission.
As of now the submission title is simply “Copy Fail”.
Given the severity of the exploit, can we edit the Title to add some context that it’s a major Linux vulnerability?
Eg the other submissions say this : “Copy Fail: 732 Bytes to Root on Every Major Linux Distribution.”
Comment · 6 months ago
This is a terrible take, and I say this having a PhD in Physics.
Many physicists have written popular articles and books for the general population. Eg Einstein, Stephen Hawking, Brian Cox. Improving accessibility of advanced concepts is nothing to scoff at.
Comment · 6 months ago
Somehow I got a 7 out of 9, even though I felt like I was mostly guessing. Surface vs deep lines have more rumble but that’s about it that I consciously knew of.
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