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Any curve will leave someone disappointed. A 1% curve will disappoint people 2% short of their desired grade, and a 10% curve will disappoint people 11% short of their desired grade. Even a 100% curve will disappoint some people because every score is now meaninglessly high. Why Non-linear consequences . Point thresholds matter a lot in academics; the obvious example is GPA . For the grading scale…
Say you pick door 1. There is a ⅓ chance the car is behind door 1 and a ⅔ chance it is behind door 2 or 3. Say the host reveals the goat is behind door 2. There is still a ⅔ chance that the car is behind door 2 or 3, but you know it is not behind door 2. Therefore, there is a ⅔ chance that the car is behind door 3. So, switch. If you value the goat more than the car Don’t switch. However, even…
In his 1968 letter, A case against the GO TO statement (known only by that name), Dijkstra said “[t]he go to statement as it stands is just too primitive, it is too much an invitation to make a mess of one’s program.” Unfortunately, scheme programmers aren’t given that invitation. That’s no fair! Fortunately, scheme has a procedure, call/cc , that we can use to emulate the style of control flow…
hx-boost is an attribute provided by htmx that makes your website better with no downside. Really! As the page in the documentation describes, it makes <a> s that point within your website use AJAX. It swaps the body and pushes a history state, so it works exactly like an anchor normally does from the user's perspective. This might sound like overcomplicating things with JavaScript for a potential…
I wanted to describe the origins and variations of some phrases that I often say to myself and others (mostly myself), so I did. Try and stop me (actually please don't you'd probably succeed). Thaaaaaat’s politics! Bear guy in Snowdin says it in Undertale . Twice, apparently! He then returns in Deltarune to say it again . These are short, funny jokes, but I just repeat the punchline until it's…
Awesomebark was the username the PlayStation Network gave me when I played Minecraft online on the PS3. I messed around with the adjective for a while (and made a truly vomitous r/wholesomememes post that I would never subject you to), but I eventually stuck with meh in a somewhat self-deprecating fashion. It's a good username though! Unlikely to be taken (unless I get super famous, which I guess…
Reverse-chronological ordering is perfect for when you care about the relative order of things but want to see the latest stuff first. they use it in the legal world i think. the bit is that this is actually for testing reverse chron but i'm going to turn it into a little piece about reverse chron. very little. as little as possible actually
I was inspired by this website and this blog post to get my act together website-wise. My old site was easy to edit because it was just a single HTML file, but it felt a bit too limited. My blog , on the other hand, is a fancy schmancy Pollen affair. Pollen is fantastic! But I had made it too difficult to actually do stuff, and the refined design made it psychologically difficult to make quick…