- It freezes. all. the. time. For an app that I use 10+ times per day that's just not acceptable.
- When I update a shared recipe on my phone, it doesn't update for my wife. The only way to solve this is log out of the app and log back in. When you do this, you realize that not all your settings are saved, so you need to go back and fix those.
- They seem to use some aggressive caching in their UI: For instance, I update the amount of food, swipe back, and still see the old value.
- Can't do anything without an internet connection, not even look at how many calories you have left.
- Newest bug: Shared recipes don't open anymore. Just switches to the recipe screen. When I reported this to them, I got an AI answer on how to create recipes.
There are other funny things: For a few weeks now, you can collect "diamonds" when you track foods. I now have hundreds of these, but can't do anything with them.
The concept is a bit confusingly named, but that doesn't make it "bogus".
(Period) life expectancy at birth summarizes the current health status of a population, nothing more, nothing less. It doesn't make a predictions about what happens in 2078.
Yes, the target does not need to follow a normal distribution, but the target conditional on the features (which is what the original authors wrote) follows a normal distribution if you make the assumption that the errors are normally distributed. The two statements are equivalent for the standard linear regression model.
Almost - logistic regression assumes that the function is linear in the log odds, i.e. log(p/(1-p)) = Xb + e. The problem is that you can't compute the log-odds, because you don't know p.
I think an overlooked aspect of the German-English comparison is the system of tenses. In German, you can get by with basically just two tenses: the present and the perfect. The past tense can almost always be replaced by the perfect when speaking. When you want to express something that lies in the future, you can just use the present and it will in most cases be clear from context.
Compare that to English, where the mastery of the tenses (i.e. when to use which tense) is essential. Distinguishing the use of the simple forms from the progressive forms can be tough for non-native speakers. And then there are all the different past tenses: simple past, present perfect, past progressive... in many cases it sounds really strange when these get mixed up. Think of something like: I have gone to the store last night. Or: He never was in New York. (When the speaker means that he has never been.)
> I scratch my head at a society that makes its members memorize such useless information.
Such a weird perspective on language and on the agency of societies. There are tons of "useless" things in any language. For instance, why not get rid of all the tenses in English? Do we really need the past progressive?
To make English spelling more "logical" (so people need to remember less useless information!), we should again look to Mark Twain:
- It freezes. all. the. time. For an app that I use 10+ times per day that's just not acceptable.
- When I update a shared recipe on my phone, it doesn't update for my wife. The only way to solve this is log out of the app and log back in. When you do this, you realize that not all your settings are saved, so you need to go back and fix those.
- They seem to use some aggressive caching in their UI: For instance, I update the amount of food, swipe back, and still see the old value.
- Can't do anything without an internet connection, not even look at how many calories you have left.
- Newest bug: Shared recipes don't open anymore. Just switches to the recipe screen. When I reported this to them, I got an AI answer on how to create recipes.
There are other funny things: For a few weeks now, you can collect "diamonds" when you track foods. I now have hundreds of these, but can't do anything with them.