This has nothing to do with growing up. I feel uncomfortable seeing someone with such condition. I also cannot watch America's Funniest Home Videos where people get hurt constantly.
The stuff coming out of those computer algebra things is not always exactly the form you want to be stuffing in your code. Working it out manually focuses the mind.
You really haven't contributed anything to this conversation beyond further emphasizing the fact that people in comment sections say inane things for attention.
Reddit is just a platform on which any community can form. If you have a problem with certain subreddits reddit is not your problem, humanity is.
Communities don't form in a vacuum, site ownership abetted, if not encouraged, the reddit culture:
A few years ago, while Jailbait was still going strong, Reddit's administrators gave him a special one-of-a-kind "pimp hat" badge to honor his contributions to the site, which he proudly displayed on his profile. Brutsch said he was even in the final running for a job as a customer support representative at Reddit last year.
Reddit has pretty much always had a laissez-faire approach to administration of subreddits. As long as it was legal it was ok. I really don't want to touch the violentacrez case, but he was given that award in recognition for serving as a moderator of a boatload of subreddits. It's not like the admins said "nice CP, here's a pimp hat".
And once again you are simply ignoring the fact that Reddit is not one entity. There is no single "reddit culture".
There is. There is a single culture that tends to upvote the same things over and over again.
Reddit.com is defined by its default subreddits — its front page. The fact that other subs exist doesn't negate the very real culture that has risen to the top of the site like the layer of oil on a cold, disgusting bowl of soup.
I haven't been a regular perl programmer for coming up on 10 years now (switched to python), but I still miss the easy regexes, and I'll pull it out when I have to do awk/sed like things.
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"If we see that 1000 of the 10,000 random iterations had a difference of more than $1.50, we can say that there is a 10% chance that our $1.50 observed difference was due to randomness."
I'm wondering if maybe you're doing way too many simulations in the calibration, do you really need more than a few hundred to a thousand or so? The 0.1 quantile is reasonably well separated from 0, and I would have expected you'd get "good enough" convergence pretty quickly.
Also: "we can compare our computed p-value of 11% to our simulated 10% result to determine whether or not the model is accurate enough." you're getting a full pdf out of the simulations, are you also comparing to the full distribution of your test statistics?
I remember huge fights on mid-90s usenet about Apple's anti-open source practices, up to and including Stallman trying to prevent FSF code from being ported to System Whatever, it was so bad. (But I'm not going to go digging through 20 year old gnu.misc.discuss flamewars)
