Submissions from johndcook.com

		Can AI models reason: Just a stochastic parrot? (johndcook.com)
		2 points by zdw 5 days ago \| past \| discuss
		LLMs and Regular Expressions (johndcook.com)
		4 points by ColinWright 8 days ago \| past \| discuss
		Do 5% Less (johndcook.com)
		3 points by KqAmJQ7 10 days ago \| past \| discuss
		Bi-elliptic transfer orbit maneuver (johndcook.com)
		64 points by ColinWright 16 days ago \| past \| 25 comments
		Writes large correct programs (2008) (johndcook.com)
		148 points by gavinhoward 36 days ago \| past \| 108 comments
		Buggy code is biased code (johndcook.com)
		2 points by todsacerdoti 38 days ago \| past
		Resolving a mysterious problem with find (johndcook.com)
		33 points by chmaynard 42 days ago \| past \| 45 comments
		The Postage Stamp Problem (johndcook.com)
		6 points by azhenley 44 days ago \| past
		Floating point: Everything old is new again (johndcook.com)
		4 points by chmaynard 53 days ago \| past
		Band-limited expansion and approximation – sinc expansion (johndcook.com)
		2 points by chmaynard 57 days ago \| past
		Why does FM sound better than AM? (johndcook.com)
		261 points by zdw 72 days ago \| past \| 267 comments
		Where has all the productivity gone? (2021) (johndcook.com)
		49 points by tie-in 3 months ago \| past \| 41 comments
		The Cauchy distribution's counter-intuitive behavior (johndcook.com)
		2 points by KqAmJQ7 3 months ago \| past
		Compressing data with sample points and polynomial interpolation (johndcook.com)
		63 points by speckx 4 months ago \| past \| 11 comments
		Interpolating the Gamma Function (johndcook.com)
		3 points by RafelMri 4 months ago \| past \| 1 comment
		Evaluating a class of infinite sums in closed form (johndcook.com)
		160 points by beefman 4 months ago \| past \| 34 comments
		Fast conversion of seconds to hours (2022) (johndcook.com)
		3 points by azhenley 4 months ago \| past
		The algebra of rock, paper, scissors (johndcook.com)
		3 points by azhenley 4 months ago \| past
		Why do medical tests always have error rates? (johndcook.com)
		2 points by alexmolas 5 months ago \| past \| 2 comments
		Rényi's Parking Constant (johndcook.com)
		3 points by azhenley 5 months ago \| past \| 1 comment
		Calculating when a planet will appear to move backwards (johndcook.com)
		6 points by RafelMri 5 months ago \| past
		Choosing a Computer Language for a Project (johndcook.com)
		2 points by alexzeitler 6 months ago \| past
		Power Method and Centrality (johndcook.com)
		3 points by azhenley 6 months ago \| past
		Technical Notes on Math and Software (johndcook.com)
		2 points by alexzeitler 6 months ago \| past
		Eigenvector Centrality (johndcook.com)
		3 points by KqAmJQ7 6 months ago \| past
		Duct Tape Value Creation (johndcook.com)
		3 points by KqAmJQ7 6 months ago \| past
		Can you look at experimental results along the way or not? (johndcook.com)
		35 points by tie-in 6 months ago \| past \| 13 comments
		Archiving Data on Paper (johndcook.com)
		4 points by archagon 7 months ago \| past
		Small probabilities add, big ones don't (johndcook.com)
		5 points by azhenley 7 months ago \| past \| 1 comment
		MCMC and the Coupon Collector Problem (johndcook.com)
		2 points by gulced 7 months ago \| past
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