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[featherynscale]

The F-Yous won by a wide margin over the You Rocks yesterday, in case you were interested. But it was Monday, and today apparently people are excited about some basketball thing, so if I were to run the experiment today, the results might be different.

In fact, let's do that.
[Poll #1167895]

Specific poll results aren't viewable, just the aggregate.

Comments

[liquidfun.livejournal.com]

Earlier this week I wrote a program to process ~120000 (n) observed data items in O(n^2) time. Each data observation has about 700 attributes so the table of data is only so-so in length but pretty darn wide.

While it was running, I re-wrote the program using a different algorithm so it would run in O(n) time.

The re-written program has produced an answer already (in under 2 minutes).

The original program is still running and looks like it will finish on, oh, Saturday, give or take.

This, for a geek like me, is a great day.

[saffronhare.livejournal.com]

OMG. A bell curve is forming before my very eyes!

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Part of the point of the question was finding out if I'd get a large enough sample set for a normal distribution. :)

[lilia-blackbear.livejournal.com]

No normal distribution for you! I do believe it is positively skewed now. Well, it looks that way from the histogram, and I'm not whipping out my calculator.

By the way -- some "people are excited about some basketball thing," and others still who actually live in Lawrence are relieved there was no cause for riots... and feeling pretty good about classes being canceled today.

[popefelix.livejournal.com]

I'd like to raise a complaint about this "normal" distribution thingy. I mean, who's to say what's "normal" and what's not for a statistical distribution? Personally, I think all this "normal" business is giving all the other distributions a complex.

[lexpendragon.livejournal.com]

Well, I could offer a big FU to where I work, the whole of my ire being targeted there, but I've got a wonderful wife and family to come home to, which is only getting bigger and better, so on the whole, as in how I'd answer that pole, I'm pretty positive.

So I don't think this pole directly correlates.