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  1. As someone with a career in mathematical optimization, I approve of today’s Apple News Quartiles puzzle. #quartiles #optimization

  2. CW: Quartiles spoiler

    Woohoo! Second time in less than a week I got all the words in #Quartiles. I’ve got a long streak of getting the 5 big words, but usually give up when I haven’t all of the rest by bed time. Today I finished by 4 o’ clock.

  3. CW: #Quartiles spoiler

    Woo hoo! I got all the words in today’s #Quartiles.

  4. One of the things I like about the #Quartiles puzzle game in the Apple News app, is how many non-words there are that could very well be words, but aren’t. The sequence of letters follow basic general conventions that look & sound like a word, but nobody’s used it yet. With just the right buzz that sounds profound.

  5. I managed to find a four tile word in Quartiles that is not one of the words we need to find and I think that means I win the game for all time? #Quartiles

  6. CW: Quartiles spoiler

    "biodynamic" kicked my ass today. #quartiles

  7. Asked to help debug an online maths question about #BoxPlots, and learnt there are conflicting interpretations of the 1st and 3rd #quartiles which matter with small datasets like teaching examples!

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quartile

    It is also not easy to see from the documentation which any plotting library actually uses, e.g. seaborn seaborn.pydata.org/generated/s

  8. From Wikipedia:

    "For discrete distributions, there is no universal agreement on selecting the quartile values."

    :headache:

    Fucking statistics...

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quartile

    #math #statistics #quartiles

  9. It’s becoming a bit frustrating finishing #quartiles with 1-4 total words left on a daily basis. I don’t have the will to brute force it and the words I miss are usually nonsense.

  10. Wow it took me way too long to realize you can make words of any length in #Quartiles.

  11. Production from a #PV plant, presented as #quartiles per week. Advantage: You'll still be able to recognize the seasons but also the effect of the weather.

    Hard to compute? Really not… #DuckDB has #quantile_cont and #quantile_disc plus min and max for the whiskers in the plot and it boils down to mere 16 lines of #sql