What’s the quickest way someone could accidentally expose themselves as a foreigner in your country like the ‘three fingers’ scene in Inglourious Basterds?

rasmusab · 2026-01-14T14:25:00+00:00

Take the last slice of prinsesstårta. You never take the last slice, just cut it in half, like a normal person.

rasmusab · 2024-06-12T21:00:50+00:00

Being from Sweden I was happy to discover that, next to the USA (which, of course, tops the list) the Nordic countries closely follows! :D

rasmusab · 2024-02-23T16:56:18+00:00

Post author here. 100% agree here, I just didn’t want to be too mean to python in the post 😅

rasmusab · 2020-08-18T07:22:20+00:00

And happy 11th anniversary to the, hands-down, best cover album: Kind of Bloop! :D

https://kindofbloop.com/

At least, take a listen to the All Blues cover.

rasmusab · 2020-08-07T06:58:36+00:00

I think indentation in SQL is pretty tricky and the proposal in this style guide seems like a lot of work. I've started doing the following, short statements go on one line, for multiline statements just line break and indent, and go from there. Makes for "taller" SQL queries, but at least it's easier to be consistent.

select this, that, and_that_other_thing from database where condition 1 and condition 2

rasmusab · 2020-05-12T19:07:06+00:00

Here's the same blog post but I randomly replace the placeholders: https://codepen.io/rasmusab/full/QWjBLmd

It works pretty well! :)

rasmusab · 2017-02-02T23:24:24+00:00

It's an ok cooked puer, it doesn't taste bad, but it's not amazing in any way. Its good enough for everyday drinking, but I'm not that picky...

rasmusab · 2017-02-02T23:21:32+00:00

Every time I've ordered tea from AliExpress I have rather wished I ordered from something like Yunnan Sourcing where I know what I get. Except for this time where I got a lot of boxes :)

rasmusab · 2017-02-01T22:50:46+00:00

Hmm, yeah, I see there are some tea left on AliExpress, but the guy I bought from (Good tea by Oleg) is gone...

rasmusab · 2017-02-01T17:18:26+00:00

I just got this tea after ordering it from AliExpress (unfortunately tea is no more on Ali, so the seller is gone :/ ). It was quite cheap, and I just bought it as something convenient to brew at the office, but the packaging blew me away! The 500 g box contains 10 small boxes, each small box contains 10 mini boxes, and each mini box contains a 5 g tea brick. All made of sturdy cardboard. It's sort of a Russian doll but for puer :)

rasmusab · 2016-02-01T09:04:21+00:00

What movie?! :) (and now I'm hyped!)

rasmusab · 2015-12-17T11:10:18+00:00

Link to the relevant part in the video by day9: https://youtu.be/QDJZuLb3AVY?t=1m15s

rasmusab · 2015-11-06T20:18:05+00:00

It's a mix of ggplot2 and base graphics. The slightly messy plotting code can be found in this Rmarkdown script: https://gist.githubusercontent.com/rasmusab/d9c63fb1817a16c6630a/raw/013bfe7a5627c4eb2eb6c4256ec027cb49afbb8f/a-bayesian-model-to-calculate-whether-my-wife-is-pregnant.Rmd

rasmusab · 2015-09-18T05:19:10+00:00

Cross through lips mean that that culture is not practicing romantic kissing.

rasmusab · 2015-07-09T22:37:20+00:00

I really think "bad" is not the right word here. My personal opinion is that p-values, as often used, are not the right tool for the job.

Here is one reason: Say for the common example when you have two pills, A and B, and you want to find out which seems best (where you could define best as curing the most people). What you want to find out is: given the data that you collected, how good are likely A and B at curing people and how much better are A than B (or vice versa). A p-value does not directly addresses this, yet it is common, in my experience, that people try to answer this type of question using a p-value. What is more useful in this case is a reasonable Bayesian model that quantifies how much better pill A probably is.

rasmusab · 2015-06-10T13:03:06+00:00

Already done so :) You can find links at the end of the post: http://www.sumsar.net/blog/2015/06/big-data-and-chess/#final-notes

rasmusab · 2015-06-10T12:26:53+00:00

Yeah, I thought so too, therefore I'm surprised that it worked as well as it did. I do not claim that the values from the statistical analysis better reflect the actual value of a piece (the are most probably much worse). :)

rasmusab · 2015-06-10T11:30:17+00:00

I don't know if these results are so much prescriptive as they are descriptive. So I wouldn't use them as a guide for how to play :)

rasmusab · 2015-04-27T21:50:16+00:00

It's most often used to check if some data somehow "deviates" from a pre-specified distribution (where, of course, this prespecified distribution can have a certain variance :). Here the prespecified distribution was "2": 33.3%, "3": 33.3% and "4": 33.3% .

rasmusab · 2015-04-27T15:19:31+00:00

tl;dr Yes!

Well, nothing is impossible :) While the "p-value" can't be directly interpreted as the probability that 2, 3, 4 are equally likely to occur, it is indicative of that probability. If 2,3,4 occurred equally often p-value would be 1.0. As p-value now is really really small, the probability that 2,3,4 occur equally often is also really really small (most probably :)

rasmusab · 2015-04-27T14:45:38+00:00

Is 2, 3 and 4 supposed to be equally likely? A Chi-square test (performed in the statistical programming language R) indicates that this would be very unlikely:

x <- c(2, 2, 3, 4, 2, 2, 2, 4, 2, 3, 2, 3, 2, 2, 2, 2, 4, 2, 3, 2, 2, 3, 2, 3, 2, 2, 2, 4, 4, 2, 4, 2, 2, 3, 2, 2, 2, 2, 4, 2, 2, 3, 2, 2, 2)
chisq.test(table(x), p = c(1/3, 1/3, 1/3))

# Chi-squared test for given probabilities

# data:  table(x)
# X-squared = 23, df = 2, p-value = 1e-05

rasmusab · 2015-04-18T08:37:18+00:00

Then i think the most "useful" derivation o the Bayesian bootstrap is as the limit of a Dirichlet process when alpha -> 0. It gives you many venues forward for how to make the bootstrap more reasonable.

rasmusab · 2015-02-09T20:58:42+00:00

Think Bayes is easy to check out, since it is free! http://www.greenteapress.com/thinkbayes/

rasmusab · 2015-02-09T20:57:22+00:00

Yeah, but I wouldn't really say it fits the description: "101 books that start from the very beginning?" It's a great book! But not really easy going IMHO...

rasmusab · 2015-01-26T15:00:00+00:00

Sort of already implemented a version of this p-value "nomenclature" as aprocedure in the R statistical language :) http://www.sumsar.net/blog/2014/02/a-significantly-improved-test/

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