Klye @khird@qoto.org
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@aluaces It appears to affect more than one desktop environment (but only Octave, not other programs on the machine). I'm experiencing it on Cinnamon, and [here](https://reddit.com/r/pop_os/comments/hg2xjm)'s a guy with the same kind of problem on something called Pop Shell.
Does anyone use GNU #Octave #GNUOctave on Linux? Every time I switch workspaces it keeps hoisting itself on top of the other programs I have running - I would love to learn how to disable this behaviour.
@shoshin I'm not sure what you gain from airing this publicly - if you violate the rules you won't be welcome on this server. I did you a courtesy by only removing the post and warning you since racism is technically a banning offence. Racist jokes don't get a free pass because they're humour; they are subject to the usual rules about racism which you can find at qoto.org/about/more.
tagging @freemo re: report 2181
@louisrcouture thanks for these posts! I really appreciate the very literal translations because I frequently learn a new word or two after puzzling over the French and then seeing the English later.
@worldsendless [Feeder](https://gitlab.com/spacecowboy/Feeder) is nice. I like that I can set specific feeds to trigger notifications while others just silently add their contents to the overview.
From its readme:
> Feeder is a fully free/libre feed reader. It supports all common feed formats, including JSONFeed. It doesn't track you. It doesn't require any setup. It doesn't even need you to create an account! Just setup your feeds, or import them from your old reader via OPML, then get on with syncing and reading.
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> Features
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> - Parses HTML and displays it in a native TextView
> - Offline reading
> - Background synchronization
> - Notifications
> - OPML Import/Export
> - Handy access to enclosure links
> - Material design
Anyone with a #stats #statistics background:
I have a record of several hundred events. Each event occurred at a particular univariate condition x and had a binary outcome y. I don't get to choose x; there are about a hundred values that occurred exactly once, up to a maximum number of fourteen repetitions at one value of x (to measurement precision). The samples are roughly clustered around a central value of x, not uniformly distributed.
Is there a recommended way to estimate the local probability of y as a function of x (that is, if I measure the conditions as x=X, how likely is it that y will occur)? Simply averaging all samples at x=X doesn't give a usable curve, because all the single-sample values swing it wildly to zero or one, regardless of what any neighbouring samples have done. Currently what I'm doing is summing the averages over all samples where x<=X and the average over all samples where x>=X, then subtracting the average over all x. It looks more or less like the smooth curve predicted by theory but I'm pretty sure this counts as "misuse of statistics".
I'm especially interested in identifying regions (intervals on x) where I can say the observed probability differs from the prediction of theory by a statistically significant amount. I think coming up with a formula for a confidence interval would be the way to go, but feel free to point me in another direction.
@valleyforge Well, for certain values of "you":
> City, county, state and federal agencies, public schools, public and private institutions of higher education, public hospitals and political subdivisions are eligible to buy from TCI.
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> Ineligible entities include, but are not limited to, non-profit corporations, private schools, private hospitals, private enterprise and individuals.
@valleyforge I'd say right-wing and left-wing groups are both deontological, but with different orders of preference in their rulesets. The political centre is where you find people who value pragmatism over principle.
@realcaseyrollins couple Canadian ones I know of relating to Sikh religious objections to dress codes:
Sikhs may not trim their hair, including facial hair, in respect for the natural state of their body as intended by God. In the military, they can legally be ordered to modify their hair for operational need (e.g. to accommodate gas or oxygen masks), but in the absence of such orders, are exempt from the normal regulations concerning hairstyles.
Sikhs must carry a dagger, to maintain readiness to defend the helpless. Schools cannot prohibit the wearing of the dagger, but can require it to be immobilised in its sheath so it cannot be drawn.
@louisrcouture Crazy Richard's
@Acer "cardinal direction" for north + east + south + west. Maybe "handedness" for the other pair, but that implies only a subset of the possible meanings of the original terms.
Open the developer tools and check the network tab. Are you seeing a lot of JSON responses that say "rate limit exceeded"? I think their client software may be accidentally DoSing the servers.
@freemo From *Letters on Infidelity*, 1786:
> Pertness and ignorance may ask a question in three lines, which it will cost learning and ingenuity thirty pages to answer. When this is done, the same question shall be triumphantly asked again the next year, as if nothing had ever been written upon the subject. And as people in general, for one reason or another, like short objections better than long answers, in this mode of disputation (if it can be styled such) the odds must ever be against us; and we must be content with those for our friends who have honesty and erudition, candor and patience, to study both sides of the question.
@realcaseyrollins I'm glad it interests you!
Here's a simple demonstration. Grab something like a DVD case and toss it in the air three times, spinning it a different way each time:
- First, toss it with a flat spin around the shortest axis
- Second, toss it with an end-over-end spin around the median axis
- Third, toss it with a lengthwise spin around the longest axis.
What you'll likely notice is that the first and third spins maintain their direction a lot better, while the second one starts tumbling and twisting in midair, no matter how careful you are to spin it evenly. This is because a rotating object's response to a perturbation depends on its axis of rotation, and random currents and eddies in the air start affecting the DVD case as soon as it leaves your hand.
- If it spins around the axis with the greatest moment of inertia, the perturbations diminish, leading to stable frisbee-like throws.
- If it spins around the axis with the least moment of inertia, the perturbations diminish, leading to stable football-like throws.
- But if it spins around its intermediate axis, the perturbations tend to grow, so even small imbalances end up having large effects, and the motion is wild and chaotic.
The [Wikipedia article on the subject](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennis_racket_theorem) has videos and shows the mathematical analysis.
@realcaseyrollins It's actually a really important subject in my field. "Perturbation analysis" is a method of calculating how something reacts to being disturbed from the condition it's supposed to be in. For example, let's say you have an aircraft that's supposed to be flying level, and a gust of wind or something causes it to dip just slightly below level (it's been "perturbed" from level flight). It's important to know whether the aircraft will tend to return to level flight (the perturbation tends to diminish, so it's stable) or tend to dip further away from level flight into a steep dive (the perturbation tends to grow, so it's unstable).
Samurai movies are their own genre. Most of the elements that tie them to the others are due to Hollywood just ripping them off. Seven Samurai became The Magnificent Seven, Yojimbo became A Fistful of Dollars, and The Hidden Fortress became A New Hope. It's surprising how rigid the formula can be, which makes it all the more obvious when things like The Last Samurai diverge from it and don't fit into the genre anymore.
In the US, the Indian editions are often sold cheaply on the used market, especially online. As I understand it, the rearrangement of chapters and problems is to allow the publisher to charge higher rates in one jurisdiction than in the other by reducing this arbitrage. A student who buys the Indian edition still needs access to the American edition in order to figure out which chapter or problem corresponds to the one assigned by the professor.
@Shamar Interesting question. Amateur guess on my part:
Regexes are used for matching strings of characters, which are themselves pretty compact. So the more verbose your pattern-matching language is, the less it looks like the string you're trying to match.
For example, matching commonwealth and American spellings of a word:
Regex: "[Ff]avou?rite"
Verbose description:
[character('f', ignore-case),\
substring("avo"),\
character('u', optional),\
substring("rite")]
If you don't know regex syntax, the second one probably seems less cryptic, but once you get the hang of it, it's easier to quickly recognise what the first one's doing.
The story's been in a lot of outlets, but here's one. The hospital's wording isn't quoted verbatim, and it's a statement made directly to the newspaper so I don't think it's likely available elsewhere online.
> To deal with the influx in patients, the hospital is considering opening a fourth COVID unit and altering some ICU rooms so they can house two patients
I wouldn't know if they're doing that here - but in any case if their response is to add beds, it implies that it's beds rather than staff that is currently the limiting factor in treating everybody.
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