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submitted 2 months ago by sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al to c/tech@programming.dev
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[-] Technoguyfication@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 months ago

For anyone who doesn’t read the article, the biases shown in the thumbnail are not the final result. After doing a million runs, every digit had close to the same probability of appearing.

[-] onlinepersona@programming.dev 7 points 2 months ago

Love it! He had an assumption, created a method of testing that assumption, tried it multiple times, was proven wrong and accepted it.

Now, if more people could operate this way...

Anti Commercial-AI license

[-] RonSijm@programming.dev 6 points 2 months ago

Pretty cool to show that sample size matters a lot during testing...

Sample size = 10: "There's 20% 8! WTF, should be 10%"
Sample size = 10k+: "Oh wait nevermind"

this post was submitted on 02 Jul 2024
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