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Statistics Filter: How to pick a red ball from
n buckets, when there could be multiple red balls in one or more of the buckets, and multiple bucket sets?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Blazecock Pileon
at 11:55 AM on August 7, 2008
(11 comments)
How do I know if a tin-lined copper pot really needs re-tinning? Are there reliable re-tinning services in or around Seattle?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Blazecock Pileon
at 1:57 AM on July 28, 2008
(2 comments)
Why isn't GNU
uniq 6.12 working as I expect?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Blazecock Pileon
at 12:00 PM on July 17, 2008
(3 comments)
Looking for a post about a programmer who worked at Atari and blogged about his work...
posted to MetaTalk by Blazecock Pileon
at 8:52 PM on July 8, 2008
(19 comments)
Whether you want to learn to lace shoes, tie shoelaces, stop shoelaces from coming undone, calculate shoelace lengths or even repair aglets,
Ian's Shoelace Site has the answer!
posted to MetaFilter by Blazecock Pileon
at 11:47 PM on June 27, 2008
(22 comments)
What basic, personal accounting software do you recommend?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Blazecock Pileon
at 11:30 PM on June 24, 2008
(15 comments)
What clustering technique to use?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Blazecock Pileon
at 2:04 PM on June 11, 2008
(6 comments)
Does my X11 server have a memory leak?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Blazecock Pileon
at 3:24 PM on June 3, 2008
(7 comments)
Faster techniques for grabbing lines of a file and doing text manipulation and arithmetic via shell (or other) scripting?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Blazecock Pileon
at 2:19 PM on May 9, 2008
(20 comments)
"The Daily Show is no doubt entertainment, but it is entertainment, measurably, with a substantive point. It is, in its own way, another kind of No Spin Zone." The Project for Excellence in Journalism discusses
what is and is not journalistic (PDF) about
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.
posted to MetaFilter by Blazecock Pileon
at 9:51 AM on May 8, 2008
(124 comments)
Can one perform Pearson's correlation or a variant with unequal numbers of rows?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Blazecock Pileon
at 8:07 PM on May 1, 2008
(7 comments)
How can I do a Rails
find JOIN without SQL, using the two tables' existing
has_and_belongs_to_many relationships?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Blazecock Pileon
at 1:37 PM on April 18, 2008
(5 comments)
Statistics compiled by State Senator
Eliot Shapleigh in the state's annual ranking, entitled "
Texas on the Brink" report dreary news in just about all categories used to characterize standards of living, from education to health to enfranchisement.
posted to MetaFilter by Blazecock Pileon
at 10:53 PM on April 15, 2008
(15 comments)
Cantaloupe,
garlic, ginger, habenero, kiwi, nutmeg, pineapple, spearmint, watermelon and many other vodka infusion experiments by the crack alconomics team of
Waylan and Brendan.
posted to MetaFilter by Blazecock Pileon
at 5:17 PM on April 12, 2008
(27 comments)
Any good Rails 2.0 books for beginners?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Blazecock Pileon
at 5:09 PM on April 9, 2008
(6 comments)
How fast would a typical escalator need to operate, in order to keep a standard metal
Slinky moving indefinitely (i.e., in place)?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Blazecock Pileon
at 1:21 PM on March 27, 2008
(5 comments)
Greasemonkey for non-Firefox browsers?
posted to MetaTalk by Blazecock Pileon
at 10:34 PM on March 21, 2008
(31 comments)
Where can I trade spare change for bills in Seattle, without fees?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Blazecock Pileon
at 9:18 PM on March 18, 2008
(14 comments)
I'm interested in aspects of benchmarking with the help of UNIX's
time, specifically, what
user,
system and
elapsed times correspond to, within the functional context of the system and the tested application.
posted to Ask Metafilter by Blazecock Pileon
at 11:24 PM on March 4, 2008
(4 comments)
Stumped with RPy, need help badly!
posted to Ask Metafilter by Blazecock Pileon
at 9:05 PM on February 25, 2008
(4 comments)
SVG or Java: Measuring the overlap of graphic objects
posted to Ask Metafilter by Blazecock Pileon
at 5:17 PM on February 18, 2008
(5 comments)
How do I avoid burning coffee with a stovetop espresso maker?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Blazecock Pileon
at 3:04 PM on February 5, 2008
(14 comments)
1. Is blue antifreeze special? 2. If the coolant reservoir is half-full, can I keep driving until I can get what I need?
posted to Ask Metafilter by Blazecock Pileon
at 2:30 PM on January 25, 2008
(12 comments)
