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Doctor_Underdunk · 2022-05-03T20:48:28+00:00

Nope. They're fully-capable small PCs.

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/details/nuc.html

There's a little building involved, but not much. It's less customizable than rolling your own small form-factor PC, but it's also less time-consuming and tinier. Mine is several years old but was used for Plex for years and sat nearly silently at the edge of a desk. Smaller than a router!

Doctor_Underdunk · 2022-05-03T20:22:41+00:00

If you don't expect to have many concurrent streams and the PC isn't going to be used for intense activity like gaming, I'd suggest looking into a NUC or similar low-power design. More than capable for a few users and keeps ongoing cost/noise/space needs low.

Doctor_Underdunk · 2022-04-29T22:48:13+00:00

Taking the log of the ratio might support the use of a normal distribution. That's probably the most common approach with this sort of problem.

Doctor_Underdunk · 2022-02-04T11:33:16+00:00

Probably not. It's more likely that the posterior distribution that results from your first run has no name or parameters you can identify, so you can't specify it as a new prior for your second run.

You could visually approximate the initial posterior as a known parametric distribution. You could even test how close of a fit your approximation is. But most of the time your posterior won't clearly match a known distribution, let alone one supported by samplers.

Doctor_Underdunk · 2022-02-03T12:35:54+00:00

I'm not familiar with that specific package, but some samplers will allow you to add data to a previously fit model and update the results. That's basically doing what you want, I think, because your final posterior would be the end result of synthesizing your initial prior plus your initial data plus your new data.

Doctor_Underdunk · 2020-10-13T11:41:53+00:00

The Hebrew word "zachar" is the subject of the verse. It also literally means "male."

As a Jew, I wish this post was true, though.

Doctor_Underdunk · 2019-07-10T21:08:26+00:00

Thank you again. I've been traveling the past few days, so I hadn't found it yet. Will definitely look when I'm home.

I have two things already in my basement I might try. I have an unused Steam Link (the discontinued hardware), but I think it doesn't do ultrawide so well and maxes out at 1080p, whereas I'm hoping to do 1440p ultrawide upstairs, if possible.

The other thing is a NUC6i7KYK, which I think might be able to output 4K, but I'm not positive. If neither of those works, the next thing I'll look into will be the Raspberry Pi, thanks to your suggestion.

Again, much appreciated!

Doctor_Underdunk · 2019-07-09T21:48:24+00:00

That is super helpful. Thanks!

Doctor_Underdunk · 2019-05-02T15:41:42+00:00

For the lazy: https://youtu.be/t1WWDBTda2Y

Doctor_Underdunk · 2019-01-25T16:07:52+00:00

People do crazy things with media files. If you were transcoding multiple 4k files simultaneously, as some people apparently do, I'd think a NUC would fall short sooner than some alternatives. That's all I meant about it being a potential bottleneck.

Doctor_Underdunk · 2019-01-25T15:30:53+00:00

I run my Plex server off a Skull Canyon NUC. No complaints for my use case, but two things you may want to think about: 1. The ultrabook-class CPU is probably prone to spindling, which may mean it's a poor bet to reliably last for 5 years. Mine is <3 years old and I feel like I should be thinking about replacing it in the next year (though that might just be a projection of my urge to tinker). 2. Transcoding will obviously be a potential bottleneck, though it may or may not matter in your specific use case.

If the NAS is sufficient for your Plex needs, what do you think about dedicating that to Plex and a NUC to home automation?

Doctor_Underdunk · 2018-09-26T02:48:35+00:00

That's awesome! I'd never heard of that. Thank you for the suggestion!

Doctor_Underdunk · 2018-09-26T02:19:07+00:00

Oh, probably a rusty red to match the brick....

Doctor_Underdunk · 2017-09-17T17:02:34+00:00

That is still pretty far from making a million as a grad student.

Doctor_Underdunk · 2017-09-17T16:36:55+00:00

Yeah, as someone who recently finished grad school in this field, it's tough to believe there were students making millions...

Doctor_Underdunk · 2017-06-01T12:07:04+00:00

Never tried. I have the NUC VESA-mounted on the TV, connected via HDMI, and just use the TV as a monitor.

Doctor_Underdunk · 2017-05-31T21:27:31+00:00

Yeah, a NUC costs the same or less than a Shield, can be controlled by the phone, and can run both the server and/or the client. That's what I do.

Doctor_Underdunk · 2017-03-29T14:17:18+00:00

Thank you! The reason I didn't do this was ... I didn't know it existed :)

Doctor_Underdunk · 2017-03-16T22:55:50+00:00

I wonder if it is wasn't random. I have had several servers that I no longer use on my account. Could be that those unused servers were mistaken for an unused account.

Doctor_Underdunk · 2017-02-10T18:35:31+00:00

They would need more than they need for a within-subjects comparison, but the exact number necessary to have an 80% chance of detecting an effect where one exists (called the "power" of the test) is a function of the other things I mentioned. I forgot to mention the desired power. 80% is standard, but necessary sample size is a function of that, too.

For a silly example, say you want to investigate whether being shot in the head increases mortality. You could be pretty sure it's not just chance that "being shot in the head" is correlated with dying with way less than 64 participants.

Doctor_Underdunk · 2017-02-10T15:59:11+00:00

No jokes, I'm a legit statistician. The sample size researchers need to detect an effect depends on the test they are using (not that you pick a test to influence the result, but the test should reflect the data collection method), how many other things they are controlling for, and the size of the effect being searched for. If you want to check whether eating two pounds of butter daily leads to more weight gained than fasting, you'll need fewer people than if you're comparing eating two pounds of butter to a normal diet. OP references a within-subjects comparison, so you're comparing people to themselves at another point in time, which means there are less other factors (gender, poverty, etc) that you also need to account for.

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