Endemic

893 pts ยท April 8, 2013


I now make less money per year than I paid to go to school. Whee!

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I'm jealous of 30k "... $48,093 without financial aid. With room, board, and other fees combined, total cost of attendance is $67,751."

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Minimum wage is more like $7-$8 most of the US. I made about $19 as a computer programmer.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

1:1 or 1 in 2.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

and you can compute one from the other. If you have stated that the probability is 50/50, then you have implied that odds are >

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Yeah. I'm a math PhD. I said they are two ways of describing the same number and they are. Odds and probability are mathematically related >

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

So, yes. I'd hope it's just a terminology issue and that they don't believe it's 50% chance to win. But it's still correct in the post.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

there are two outcomes, because the number of outcomes doesn't really mean anything here. 3/3

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

equally likely to win or lose. That's what probability means. There isn't really a term for referring to something as 50/50 because 2/3

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

There's not. Probability and odds are just two ways of writing the same number. If you say the probability is 50/50 you mean that it's 1/3

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

This is the exact mistake mentioned... If it's one in 292 million the probability is 0.00000000342465753... 50/50 is a simplification of 0.5

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

As an American, I agree completely. We're not all like that though.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

I am American, still downvoting. I apologize to everyone else on behalf of Americans. We're not all bad.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

?1

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

This effect relies very heavily on a specific contrast. Screen settings / angle can quickly render it just a normal picture.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Wo-oah, lemon on a pear

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

2/20 Guess I'd better get that sex change.

9 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

If you're lucky...

9 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

"Being is about driving a German car to an Irish pub for a British Belgian beer..."

9 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 1

But my main point was that a lot of people were just throwing out generic criticisms without actually knowing anything. Maybe 1/2 valid.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Having seen the full code/context, I do agree more with the complaints. I was perhaps erring too much on the side of the coder.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Ha. Fair enough. I can only excuse it so far, but I prefer the criticism at least be correct... Apparently that's unpopular though.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

They aren't? Most of the inner if blocks were condensed onto the same line as the if statements, and the elses are nested.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

impossible to really comment other than linking to the equation?

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Yeah... I was going to write a big post about how if you wanted to implement like the solution to a fourth degree polynomial it would >

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

*must, dang it autocorrect.

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