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But if 9d KGS is ~1 stones weaker than the pro, add on 3 more stones and Crazy Stone would be ~ 5d-6d KGS, which would be 95-98% percentile or more! That would make the computer about ~2100-2300 Elo for chess.

If you can get into the 25th percentile of solving problems in your expertise, you'll be well compensated for it no matter what it is.

But it's relatively easy to move from the 50th percentile to the 95th percentile either through unusual talent or extreme sacrifice.

You absentmindedly dismiss these 95th percentile professionals in the "junior, shady or clueless" category. It reeks of profiling, smells like laziness and must be called out as bad practice.

I understand their point about the 99th percentile, but consider that it's possible to improve the 99th percentile measure, while increasing the mean and degrading the performance of all but 1% of the users. The real issue is reducing a distribution to one number.

Tags/attributes like: "$company is in the 67% percentile for employee freedom in your job type [Software Engineer]" "$company practices open allocation." "$company is known for fast-firing.

The point is that most people don't even bother trying, and if you try, if you even just show up on a regular basis, you can probably reach above the 50th percentile in anything. I would bet that almost anyone who puts a concerted effort into any endeavor could get to the top 25th percentile in just about anything.

We're constantly negotiating our colo deal based on 95th percentile and getting your throughput from 1 Gbps down to 50 Mbps which I think this may do will drastically reduce your real hosting costs. Of course Cloudflare need to maintain their servers and will be serving 1Gbps to your customers but those cloudflare servers will be geographically closer to your customers.

Given the introduction, I thought we were going to see a fantastic breakdown of cost estimates; capex and opex expenses, 95% percentile bandwidth pricing vs. Amazon's fixed rate per-byte pricing.

My bandwidth consumption is measured in Mbps rather than amount of data transferred because I get billed using 95th percentile billing. I average around 130 megabits per second of transfer - constantly, peaking at 150mbps I'm transferring roughly 40 terabytes of data per month. 95th percentile billing and owning your own servers is they key here.

They claim this is not quite 95th percentile, which I am a tad skeptical accurately represents my vocabulary-size percentile relative to the general population. Perhaps this survey is being forwarded around unusually literate people at the top end, or more than 5% of responders are cheating.