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You are probably bad in probability

In her book “Randomness,” Deborah Bennett presents an example that illustrates how bad we are at calculating probabilities, even highly trained professionals. A group of doctors received this question: The test of a disease has a 5% false positive rate. The disease affects 1 in 1000 …

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January 20, 2025 Cognitive Bias

Why 'type type type type' runs three times in Bash

A deep dive into why the Bash 'type' command exhibits this peculiar behavior

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January 3, 2025 Bash, Linux, Shell, Programming

Making Obsidian Talk with Google's Fancy Wavenet Voices

I’m sharing a little hack I put together. As a hardcore Obsidian user, I was getting frustrated with the available text-to-speech options. I really wanted to use Google’s Wavenet voices because they sound amazing, but couldn’t find a plugin that did exactly what I wanted. So I …

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December 15, 2024 Wavenet, Google
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