Timeline for Why is it so cool to square numbers (in terms of finding the standard deviation)?
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| Mar 6, 2023 at 16:11 | history | edited | Alex M. | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 9, 2015 at 10:37 | comment | added | Lazzaro Campeotti | @MartinHairer: I agree. The original phrasing reminds me a little of en.wikipedia.org/wiki/… | |
| Jul 9, 2015 at 9:56 | comment | added | Martin Hairer | @potentially dense: Oops, you are right, I was being too quick. But there is surely a less confusing way to say this... | |
| Jul 9, 2015 at 9:54 | history | rollback | Martin Hairer |
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| Jul 9, 2015 at 9:16 | comment | added | Lazzaro Campeotti | @Martin Hairer: I think the duplicate words in the first sentence were intentional. Darsh Ranjan seems to be saying that people who say "People are missing Point A" are in fact themselves missing Point B. | |
| Jul 9, 2015 at 8:06 | history | edited | Martin Hairer | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Duplicate words in first sentence
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| Oct 24, 2009 at 20:31 | comment | added | Ilya Nikokoshev | Though I agree may be I should have been more respectful to L^2 argument. | |
| Oct 24, 2009 at 20:30 | comment | added | Ilya Nikokoshev | But no, I think you're stepping on a bit confusing path. Yes, if you just define the variance, it is convenient. But why is it convenient? You should say something about the reason, otherwise you're just changing a mystery as for why to use variance into a mystery as for why variance is convenient. | |
| Oct 24, 2009 at 20:27 | comment | added | Ilya Nikokoshev | Interesting (and +1) | |
| Oct 24, 2009 at 12:10 | history | answered | Darsh Ranjan | CC BY-SA 2.5 |