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So the answer is just it's for backwards compatibility with MySQL 3?
I was kind of hoping for more.
Readit Newsmikorym commented on Storks Deliver Babies (p= 0.008) researchgate.net/publicat... · Posted by u/leoh
On the other side of the thought process, if you are interested in ways to completely ignore p-values, multivariate stats is a good candidate, and is rather pedagogically well suited, too.
For example, if you have a friend who hates chi-squared tests, instead teach them correspondence analysis.
A year later you can tell them they already know how to do a chi-squared test. To be fair, this latter comment depends a bit on how the library is implemented, and possibly it only does correspondence analysis while not giving you direct access to a way to generate p-values. Some libraries will have a function that you can call that runs simulations and then provides the p-values.
Many of these statistical techniques are an obligation only if you have to sample from a space and you have to somehow determine whether the sample is representative. If you presuppose that your sample is representative, then you move into a parallel world of statistics. An example would be a thermometer. If you sample it at 10:00 00 and again at 10:00 01, certainly you would expect both to be the same? If it's not the same or a close value I would rather say that the thermometer is broken, not that your within group variation for the minute 10:00 is high...
mikorym commented on Show HN: I made a site where you practice typing by retyping entire novels typelit.io... · Posted by u/Octouroboros
> Amazingly it's like music.
Maybe he means like jazz musicians? (I'm one.) Every musician I know has transcribed solos. You pick some solo you like but have no idea what they're doing, transcribe it, and learn to play it along with them. Bits and pieces perhaps will rub off in your own playing. You don't want to sound like them, but it's good to be able to if you want – and for that you need to absorb their style, so your body can just go into that mode, without having to think about it. I'm a piano player but have also transcribed sax, trumpet, bass lines, gospel songs, reggae, funk, .. even taps dripping, babies crying etc etc.
> transcribe solos
Do you mean learn other people's songs from sheet music, or do you mean write down, from the sheet music, the same song again on blank sheet paper?
Edit: Or do you mean write down the song via hearing?
I work in healthcare and by far the biggest production issues we've ever run into are people who run Excel spreadsheets through our file processing where the leading zero's have been removed from patient identifiers because that's Excel's default behavior and you CANNOT TURN IT OFF!
EDIT: I have no idea who downvoted my post because what I said is 100% true. We have to tell customers to stop opening CSVs in Excel and then uploading them to us because what they upload could be missing critical data. Excel interprets a number and then formats it as a number, but in healthcare, 10 digit numbers are really strings. Unless your IT team has created an Excel extension and had it preloaded onto your local copy, Excel will remove leading zeros and there isn't a way to get them back if you save/overwrite.
It is sometimes possible to write code to alter your CSVs to retain the strings.
The first thing would be to write them as: entry1,"0123456789",entry2 rather than entry1,0123456789,entry2. This has worked for me in some instances in Excel whereby I have to escape certain things inside a string, but I would not be surprised if Excel still messes this up. For example, giving the triangle exclamation mark box and then helpfully suggest to convert to number.
If you want to go further, you can do something like write a routine that alters the CSV, such as entry1,hospitalString(0123456789),entry2. Sure, there are problems with this too, but Excel can break a lot of things and the above examples I do use in practise (the first example I put the double quotes to escape single quotes in foreign language unicode).
Another thing Excel can do is break your dates, by switching months (usually only for dates < 13th of the month, but often a partial conversion in your data for < 13th and >= 13th) or convert dates to integers.
>I think one answer is tax cuts for charity.
>To be clear, not making your tax payments less, but rather choosing where it goes.
Giving to charities reduces your tax burden, at least in the US.
In fact, you can generally deduct up to half your income[0] based on charitable contributions.
Does that meet your desire to better direct your tax dollars?
[0] https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/charitable-organiz...
This I think is pretty much exactly how I think it should be. Half sounds decent.
But... I don't live in the US. We pay tax and received no services in return.
> Can they be otherwise somehow incentivized to invest in their Communities rather than evade? And how big is the contribution here? Is it worth pursuing
I like this question. It makes me wonder what society would look like if we had micro community councils that operated this way, where residents “donated” parts of their wealth and those donations gave them some sort of stake, naming right, or voting power in community projects.
I wonder if we’d get the same sort of donations we get by wealthy families to get hospital wards named after them etc.
I suppose it requires a shift in what we value as humans, perhaps we could work toward a society where the amount you’ve given away gives you the most social credit or prestige, rather than how much you’ve amassed. Is it too naive and childish to think this sort of society is possible and could be an improvement over the current one?
I think one answer is tax cuts for charity.
If I can give my tax money to someone of my choosing, I think it may incentivise people to feel better about where the money is going.
To be clear, not making your tax payments less, but rather choosing where it goes. Of course, if you have a network of nonprofits, this become a bit grey. In the USA I have gotten the impression that people do try to game the idea of nonprofits.
A bit OT - but having grown up in Finland, I always get extreme nostalgic feelings whenever tango comes up. For whatever reason, Tango was (probably still is) huge over there - unlike the other countries up here in northern Europe.
While other neighboring countries had what is essentially called "dance bands" (think smooth muzak version of country/western music), the Finns kept to their minor-keyed Tango.
RE: minor-keyed
This is an interesting topic for me personally, and the way I experience it is like this:
The starting point to a musical scale, classically, is major. Minor is the first alt-culture in key signature.
However, the next step to get a major minor like, is the major 7th, or other half tones, like the 6th. Then, you have the converse, making minors major like, such as the melodic minor scale, or the minor 7th.
Interesting songs, especially in popular culture, make use of this dualistic view. Examples are Wicked Game by Chris Isaak (in a mode, where you don't regress to tonic, giving it an incomplete and spooky theme), Clocks by Coldplay (major chord, minor on 5th rather than major; major on 4th).
Um, you would think the author would insert at least one audio link into such a specialized story for people to be able to hear the music?
Thanks to the others here who have posted links.
It brings back to mind a lot of Eastern European / klezmer tones and sentiments... and sighing because of your fate in life.
Polish Mazurka is kind of reminiscent of a 3/4 time Tango, so I think there is already an implicit cultural link.
Looks like the author has been using mac since 2014.
Pretty sure he will come back to MacBooks after using something else for a while.
MacBooks are considered one of the best not because they don't have any problems, but because they have the least amount of them.
I switched to Mac 2 years ago and not looking back. Even though I am using 2017MBP with garbage keyboard, I replaced it for free and can replace again for few more years so it's not even a problem.
I think that somewhere between 2006-2013 was something of a quality age for MacBooks.
The issues that came, like the keyboard, or lack of repair DIY ability coincided with the advent of the iPhone. The question at the moment is whether 2019 and 2020 is a quality age for MacBooks or not, and I don't know the answer to that, but it does appear like 2012 MacBooks are more resilient than 2019 ones.
I think a Frankenstein Dell XPS / MacBook is round about time now from some company X.
What stops me from encrypting things?