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nvbn / Summer trip adventure.ipynb
Last active September 28, 2024 06:23
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@rasmusab
rasmusab / significance_test.R
Last active June 10, 2020 21:01
A Significantly Improved Significance Test! Not! (More context in this blogpost: http://www.sumsar.net/blog/2014/02/a-significantly-improved-test/)
# Test of Significance, takes the same arguments as t.test() .
signif.test <- function(x, ...) {
p <- t.test(x, ...)$p.value
# List of p excuses retrieved from http://mchankins.wordpress.com/2013/04/21/still-not-significant-2/
p_excuses <- c(
"(barely) not statistically significant <p>",
"a barely detectable statistically significant difference <p>",
"a borderline significant trend <p>",
"a certain trend toward significance <p>",
@jboner
jboner / latency.txt
Last active July 22, 2025 10:42
Latency Numbers Every Programmer Should Know
Latency Comparison Numbers (~2012)
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L1 cache reference 0.5 ns
Branch mispredict 5 ns
L2 cache reference 7 ns 14x L1 cache
Mutex lock/unlock 25 ns
Main memory reference 100 ns 20x L2 cache, 200x L1 cache
Compress 1K bytes with Zippy 3,000 ns 3 us
Send 1K bytes over 1 Gbps network 10,000 ns 10 us
Read 4K randomly from SSD* 150,000 ns 150 us ~1GB/sec SSD
#!/bin/bash
# SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
## Copyright (C) 2009 Przemyslaw Pawelczyk <[email protected]>
##
## This script is licensed under the terms of the MIT license.
## https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT
#
# Lockable script boilerplate