• @merari42
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      103 months ago

      Best Linear Unbiased Estimator

      • @[email protected]
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        323 months ago

        Check this shit out (fig 1).

        Lmao there’s so much gold. I got frustrated for him while reading it.

        • @Benjaben
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          103 months ago

          That line, and then just by instinct going to Fig 1, and seeing its caption…incredible lol

      • @credo
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        73 months ago

        I had a hard time reading. Could not stop laughing enough to get past the fourth paragraph. Sides hurt, would not recommend.

    • Codex
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      133 months ago

      Going into physics was the biggest mistake of my life. I should’ve declared CS. I still wouldn’t have any women, but at least I’d be rolling in cash.

      Honestly, there wasn’t all that much cash to roll in and there’s less all the time now. Plus, if you think busted equipment is bad, wait until I tell you about inheriting legacy code.

      • @[email protected]
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        113 months ago

        From what I heard, the guy actually did change to a CS major shortly after writing this.

    • @[email protected]
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      23 months ago

      This relation between temperature and resistivity can be shown to be exponential in certain temperature regimes by waving your hands and chanting “to first order.”

      for some reason this is the line that got me

  • NegativeNull
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    533 months ago

    One Line to rule them all
    One Line to find them
    One Line to bring them all
    and in the data bind them

  • @merari42
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    3 months ago

    Machine Learning enthusiasts: Why settle for linear regression when you can deploy a Gradient-Boosted Random Deep Neural Net Surface Vector Cluster that consumes the entire power of Iceland to trace a perfect ∞-dimensional hypersphere around those blue points? Overparameterization is the future!

  • @reinei
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    183 months ago

    Fine! I’ll use a second order polynomial to fit this instead. But that’s the last order I’m willing to go to!

  • @badbytes
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    153 months ago

    Oh, it’s trending up. That’s progress!

  • Engywuck
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    113 months ago

    Well, some students of mines actually put some figure like that in al lab report…

    • @Whelks_chance
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      163 months ago

      You asked for a line, they gave you a line, what more can be asked for?

      We used to intentionally add wrong data to our datasets so we could circle it afterwards, declare it “outlying data” and gain the extra points for spotting and documenting it.

      I’m not bitter about my formal education, honest…

      • Engywuck
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        33 months ago

        We used to intentionally add wrong data to our datasets so we could circle it afterwards, declare it “outlying data” and gain the extra points for spotting and documenting it.

        Nice trick!

  • Troy
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    43 months ago

    How can you argue with a word like "best’ anyway ;)