22 August 2023

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Weighted Mann-Whitney U test, Part 2

Previously, I suggested a weighted version of the Mann–Whitney \(U\) test. The distribution of the weighted normalized \(U_\circ^\star\) can be obtained via bootstrap. However, it is always nice if we can come up with an exact solution for the statistic dis...

Against Automaticity

An explanation of why tricks like priming, nudge, the placebo effect, social contagion, the “emotional inception” model of advertising, most “cognitive biases,” and any fiel…

Raspberry Pi x OpenWRT Travel Router – Tristam

Updates: Wow, this post blew up – thanks to everyone who has been checking it out! 1. I’ve managed to get the oled display to work 🎉 check it out here -> Adding an OLED display to an OpenWrt router.2. I’ve replaced the Atheros AR9271 based USB WiFi card with …

Does my code get used to train GitHub Copilot?

Damian Brady shares how GitHub Copilot uses the prompt, suggestions and user engagement data. Learn more: https://msft.it/60509Hl6C

Why is a mood tracker from 2016 still the best?

In 2016, Boris Berenberg built MoodApp to track his mood and solve personal issues. Find out why it's still unbeaten in mood tracking functionality.

Folly of Forecasts, Big Short Edition - The Big Picture

Source: Adam Khoo, Twitter     A preface before we get into this: Michael Burry has proven himself to be a rare fund manager. He has a great ability to identify a variant perception versus the Wall Street consensus and express that view in a deeply researched …

What Do You Want? - Calvin Rosser

Figuring out what you want is the central task of adulthood, and it's not an easy one. Learn how to answer life's most important question.

My thoughts on the 2023 FTC robotics season

I have been involved in competitive robotics for a while now, starting with FLL at a young age and continuing on to VEX. This year, my school reformed our FTC team (8405 Millburn Robotics), after a 3 year hiatus. Out of our 15 members, 14 were new to the compe…

Unlocking Discord Nitro Features for Free

There are several modded Discord clients available that allow you to tweak the appearance or add certain features. However, some plugins can even unlock certain functionalities that require a paid subscription to Discord Nitro. How is this possible?

Learn AutoHotKey by stealing my scripts

tl;dr annotated AHK scripts here. Anybody who’s spent time with me knows how much I love AutoHotKey, the flat-out best Windows automation tool in the world. Anybody’s who’s tried to use AutoHotKey knows how intimidating it can be. So to help with that, I’m sha…

What's New in .NET and C#

In this playlist I will be going over cool new features coming out in .NET and C#. Follow along! #dotnet #aspnet #csharp #microsoft #visualstudio #coding #pr...

Beautiful Blazor UI Everywhere with Telerik

Becky is joined by Sam Basu from Progress showing off the latest controls for Blazor and Blazor Hybrid apps with Telerik UIhttps://www.telerik.com/blazor-uiB...

NonEmpty catamorphism

The universal API for generic non-empty collections, with examples in C# and Haskell.

5 years ago Valve released Proton forever changing Linux gaming

Has it really been that long? Apparently so. Valve originally announced their rebranding of Steam Play with Proton back on August 21st, 2018. Seems like a good time for a quick reflection being halfway to a decade old now with the tech that gave rise to the St…

Merge Conflict has a NEW home on YouTube!!!

Your weekly developer podcast, @mergeconflictfm, is moving to a NEW YouTube channel! Stay up to date by subscribing to https://www.youtube.com/@mergeconflict...

Folklore.org: Saving Lives

We always thought of the Macintosh as a fast computer, since its 68000 microprocessor was effectively 10 times faster than an Apple II, but our Achilles heel was the floppy disk. We had limited RAM, so it was often necessary to load data from the floppy, but …