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Tom

Mar 31, 2013 02:06

@DouglasZare I'm sorry to hear that, that sounds like injustice to me but of course I don't know the details

Tom

Mar 30, 2013 20:27

stats.stackexchange.com/questions/54750/… :(

Tom

Mar 30, 2013 15:56

and that's all I will say since I am not really qualified to join this discussion..

Tom

Mar 30, 2013 15:56

@DouglasZare maybe I am wrong but I do feel like they appreciate your input, even though they don't seem to agree with it. Maybe you can post it as a separate answer and let other people decide on who's arguments are most convincing

Tom

Mar 29, 2013 17:38

alright

Tom

Mar 29, 2013 17:37

somewhere I feel like it could be made easier if people would be more lax, i.e. if something is useful for statistics then it can be posted on stats -- if it's useful for both statistics and data management than it could be found through both stats and SO sites

Tom

Mar 29, 2013 17:36

it's quite confusing though, all the different stackexchange sites

Tom

Mar 29, 2013 17:36

Alright, I'm sorry then

Tom

Mar 29, 2013 17:25

@AndyW nevertheless it seems like I just got a sublime answer which I probably would not have gotten on SO considering this person's experience with STATA

Tom

Mar 29, 2013 17:23

To be honest this question belongs in stats, SO and superuser

Tom

Mar 29, 2013 17:22

can you transfer it to SO for me?

Tom

Mar 29, 2013 17:22

-- ignore this --

Tom

Mar 29, 2013 17:22

@AndyW people tend to tell me the opposite on SO..

Tom

Mar 29, 2013 17:12

Q: Ignoring weekends when using time series operators in STATA

Is it possible to tell STATA to ignore saturdays and sundays when using time series operators such as L and F? For example, consider this dataset: date price L1.price (currently) L1.price (wanted!) tue 5 . . thu 7 . . fri...

Tom

Mar 29, 2013 17:07

When using L2.price, it would have to return the price for thursday, etc.

Tom

Mar 29, 2013 17:06

Hey, do you know if it's possible to tell STATA to ignore weekends (saturdays and sundays) when using the time series operators? For example, when using L1.price on monday I would like to get the price of friday.

Tom

Mar 28, 2013 20:34

How come when I add both a log transformation and a raw (identity) version of an independent variable both are statistically significant in a fixed effects logistic regression?

Tom

Mar 28, 2013 19:37

very significant too, at the 1% level

Tom

Mar 28, 2013 19:37

Also I'm getting very many significant results.. most of my predictors are significant even though I would not expect so

Tom

Mar 28, 2013 19:00

when using too many variables

Tom

Mar 28, 2013 19:00

I was hoping if anyone could explain to me if logistic binary regression is very suscesptible to overfitting

Tom

Mar 28, 2013 18:36

Hey

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Not for the faint of heart or those easily triggered by Englis...

Tom

Dec 29, 2012 09:31

Thank you @simchona. Please consider putting a comment up elaborating on your decision to close a question in the future.

Tom

Dec 29, 2012 09:09

Q: Easy to read exciting books for ordinary (Indonesian) people?

I have an Indonesian friend, he's 23 years old and on his way to learn conversational English. I told him that he needs to start reading books, but he's an ordinary Indonesian guy (they do not read books), so he's not convinced. Maybe there is an easy to read, thin book that's exciting enough t...

learning books

Tom

Dec 29, 2012 09:07

I will convert this into a question.

Tom

Dec 29, 2012 09:01

Hope that describes his level of English roughly.

Tom

Dec 29, 2012 09:01

Currently he speaks like so:
"you are so kinds"
"could you help me and friend to practice about english on tusday?"
"what time will you free?"
"what place will you like?"
"we will go to swim, are you agree?"
"I'm less busy but layer I will join but I will late"
"yes I will wait you"

Tom

Dec 29, 2012 08:57

Maybe there is an easy to read, thin book that's exciting enough to keep someone like him entertained?

Tom

Dec 29, 2012 08:56

I told him that he needs to start reading books, but he's an ordinary Indonesian guy (they do not read books), so he's not convinced.

Tom

Dec 29, 2012 08:56

I have an Indonesian friend, he's 23 years old and on his way to learn conversational English.

Tom

Dec 29, 2012 08:55

Hey there, maybe someone can help me out.

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Tom

Oct 4, 2012 04:57

besides Ubuntu is far from perfect ^^

Tom

Oct 4, 2012 04:57

a broken system is worse than an imperfect one

Tom

Oct 4, 2012 04:57

I don't care

Tom

Oct 4, 2012 04:52

gksudo brightness_down.sh seems to work, but I have to enter the root password for each tick..

Tom

Oct 4, 2012 04:48

Ugh that sounds complicated.

Tom

Oct 4, 2012 04:47

So there is no way to make them function as keyboard shortcuts?

Tom

Oct 4, 2012 04:46

(my ultrabook Asus Zenbook prime's brightness function keys do not function)

Tom

Oct 4, 2012 04:45

Any way to make them runnable without sudo? Reason is I need them to function as keyboard shortcuts.

Tom

Oct 4, 2012 04:45

@AbrahamVanHelpsing thanks. So now I have a binary in /usr/bin, it's brightness_dec.sh and brightness_inc.sh but they require sudo to be executed.

Tom

Oct 4, 2012 04:39

Quite confusing :) thanks

Tom

Oct 4, 2012 04:39

Ok, so that is allowed.

Tom

Oct 4, 2012 04:38

And about /opt, should I also create a /opt/bin for binaries?

Tom

Oct 4, 2012 04:37

Tom

Oct 4, 2012 04:36

Another related question, is it possible to make a keyboard shortcut run a binary in /opt ? I think the command has to be prepended with sudo, but the user using the shortcut may not be an administrator

Tom

Oct 4, 2012 04:35

Hmm, great.

Tom

Oct 4, 2012 04:18

After reading tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Filesystem-Hierarchy/html/usr.html /usr/local/lib seems like a proper choice

Tom

Oct 4, 2012 04:11

but where to extract the directory?

Tom

Oct 4, 2012 04:11

In this case I am wanting to install Sublime Text 2 manually

Tom

Oct 4, 2012 04:11

Is there somekind of "definite" guide on where to install or extract portable applications? E.g. in usr/lib or usr/local or /opt