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yeahboatson Making the Touch Bar useful by abandoning Apple guidelines

I believe this is a High Sierra addition.

yeahboatson Probabilistic Filters By Example

There is a comment elsewhere from the creator I think that explains this. The 5th "a" never gets added, you'll see that the cells turn red. After you remove 4 "a"s then you're back at 0 and it is correctly reporting that there aren't any.

yeahboatson Music for Programming

You might have meant to link to https://soundcloud.com/shawndumas/tracks , as the link you provided takes me to "my" tracks, of which I have none. Unless the idea was that I was the creator all along.

yeahboatson A Tale of Two Zippers

I think its more that the tiny tab prevents it from falling through the rail, acting as a pivot. Gravity pulls the rest of it down.

yeahboatson Some young adults disconnecting with 'dumbphones'

I have a nokia 301 that I bought for the smaller form factor, good battery life and some international use, and found that I used it a lot more for many of the reasons listed in the article. If I need to, I can still check my email/the weather/bus times, but every now and then I find myself switching back to my smartphone for the same reasons you list.

Not having maps is extremely limiting. Sure, if I'm going a few places I can check google maps beforehand, plan out a route, and get to my destination. The flexibility to deviate from that is completely lost, and why I have to alternate between the two phones.

yeahboatson How many draws of a random number [0,1] are needed to sum to 1

I found your explanation to be much clearer than this one, as I'm still having trouble seeing why the uniform density is that of a poisson RV.

yeahboatson Parrondo's Paradox: How two ugly parents can make a beautiful baby

I'm not very good at this stuff, but I don't see anything wrong with the graph. It hovers around 0. A Brownian motion starting which starts at 0, will, at time T be normally distributed with mean 0 and variance T.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Random_Walk_example.svg

Some of them go up, some go down, but all will cross 0 infinitely many times, and all the paths averaged will equal 0.

yeahboatson Prime number patterns

It also means pattern. The source page also uses patrón. http://www.polprimos.com/

yeahboatson Microsoft Store hacked in India, passwords stored in plain text

The store isn't actually run by microsoft, but rather Quasar Media. It tarnishes Microsoft's name, but it isn't their fault.

http://www.theverge.com/2012/2/12/2793459/microsoft-store-in...