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by IanKelling 3279 days ago
CDF = cumulative distribution function

People who care about how fast the internet is are not the same set as people who know statistics acronyms, and they don't show up in a simple web search. You know how else we can make the internet better and faster? Publishing articles with software and licenses that make it easy for people to improve and share your article.
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enthdegree 3279 days ago
If you are unfamiliar with basic statistical concepts it is hard to believe you will be able to provide any compelling contributions to making the internet faster.
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DamonHD 3279 days ago
No, that really doesn't follow.

Some classes of issues will be better solved if the solver understands stats. M/M/1, distributions, percentiles, etc, yes. If only I understood them...

By my local major London paper somehow needs 4MB of crap and >60s to display a 2 para story. I don't need anything as subtle as "stats" to tell them that they're holding it wrong and why I avoid their site like the plague.

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madengr 3279 days ago
Well at least it's not a CCDF.
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dungle6 3279 days ago
> People who care about how fast the internet is are not the same set as people who know statistics acronyms

Good one.

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