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Bayesian vs Frequentist

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  1. 很多frequentist的inference是基于大样本(近似)理论的,这种情况下样本小的时候Bayesian结论可能会更好。

  2. 某些统计量实在太复杂,(近 …

Immutable String vs Mutable String

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advantage of immutable string:

trivially thread safe
    more secure
        more memory efficient in most use cases.
            cheap substrings (tokenizing and slicing)

however, if one has to create many small string, e …

Enumeration in Java

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  1. You can associate values with enumeration elements.

Some Terminologies in Anti-money Laundering (AML)

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Correspondent Bank

A financial institution that provides services on behalf of another, equal or unequal, financial institution. A correspondent bank can conduct business transactions, accept deposits and gather documents on behalf …

Desktop Environments for Linux

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  1. desktop files in /usr/share/applications/ different DEs might have different format. At least I know that a desktop file created by Xfce cannot be used in GNOME, not sure the …