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aliquote.org
Personal blog · aliquote.org/memosdataprogramming
aliquote.org is a personal blog at aliquote.org about data and programming. Since 2011, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-30, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN commenters link this site for statistics and machine learning material: a note on a logistic-error model of judges' decisions and a directory of Python stats/ML libraries.
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What Hacker News says?
For anyone who's curious, the procedure used is described in http://www.aliquote.org/pub/odds_meta.pdf . The standardized mean difference is given by: log((65/35)/(5/95))/(pi/sqrt(3)) = 1.9646484930140864 The justification for this procedure is that the judges are assumed to make decisions by dichotomizing a continuous variable with logistic distributed error (this one statistical justification for logistic regressi…
Comment linking /pub/odds_meta.pdf
on “Impossibly Hungry Judges”Submitted Diving into Lisp for statistical computing as a story · 7 points
HN discussionHere's a directory of stats/ML-related Python libraries: http://aliquote.org/memos/2011/02/07/python-for-statistical-...
Comment linking /memos/2011/02/07/python-for-statistical-computing
on “Machine Learning for Hackers Table of Contents”