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by ASpring 9y ago
The claim that an engineer would run this study better is baseless. Most CS faculty I know do not have the experience necessary to plan and run a well thought out randomized controlled experiment with human subjects. There is definitely som
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by ASpring 9y ago
> I've seen far too many "vegetarians" and "vegans" wolfing down greasy pepperoni pizza, blacked out at 3AM in my college days. Why is this still a trope? Being vegetarian or vegan does not require perfection. Th
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by ASpring 9y ago
How do you balance what is effective for closing deals versus what is sustainable for the employees? Are you tracking any satisfaction from the employees and how it changes through this process or in response to the variables in the calls?
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by ASpring 10y ago
ex. Goldman Sachs predicts Apple will have $25m sales Q2 2017 at the beginning and some variance of the stock price is based on that public prediction. If you have finer granularity like Apple is likely already at 10m only a quarter through
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by ASpring 10y ago
This is provocative and fun but doesn't hold true for me personally. If I'm working on only one project I will often end up getting blocked where banging my head against the problem doesn't lead to progress. The only reliable
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by ASpring 10y ago
> These Art degrees can't do much[...] This pretension is exactly why there is so much animosity towards "techies" who sneer at anyone not working in a technical discipline.
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by ASpring 10y ago
Not parent but here you go: "Multivariate analysis indicates that economic elites and organized groups representing business interests have substantial independent impacts on U.S. government policy, while average citizens and mass-base
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by ASpring 10y ago
The business prop is easy and already hinted at by another user here. People post millions of hours of themselves in natural settings on Snapchat. If you can recognize their settings (objects, environments) and cluster/categorize users
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by ASpring 10y ago
> Another advantage is that the battery cells can be made from earth-friendly materials.
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by ASpring 10y ago
Why? If you can't get significance with 237 people your effect size is likely so negligible that it's not worth studying anyway.
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by ASpring 10y ago
Interested in sources supporting this.
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by ASpring 10y ago
Great point. Exactly what the book tackles. The US did not often intervene in the past because there was no direct benefit to do so. Powers argues that this is changing. The international condemnation and uproar from citizens has political
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by ASpring 10y ago
On this topic, I highly recommend Samantha Power's book "A Problem From Hell: America and the Age of Genocide" which details the United States inability to respond promptly to the many cases of genocide over the past century.
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by ASpring 10y ago
Of course not in the long term but it's worth thinking that losing entire classes of jobs containing millions of people in a decade might have seriously detrimental effects for some time.
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by ASpring 10y ago
There has been quite a bit of research surrounding mindfulness meditation for a couple decades now. Here are some cursory studies addressing your three questions. They are easy to find on Google Scholar. Decreased stress and anxiety http:&
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by ASpring 10y ago
The mechanism doesn't really matter. Perhaps these drugs simply do make people feel good and consequently they perform better. In the end it still increases their performance on these tasks.
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by ASpring 10y ago
I'm hesitant to generalize the NYT corpus to "public perception". I'd be very curious to see the regional differences within the United States in these trends.
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by ASpring 10y ago
> [...] it's more about a good life than a happy life. I would argue that you cannot disaggregate the two. Only the person living a life can truly make a value judgement on it and if they value it as "good" they are quite
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by ASpring 10y ago
Your condescending remarks ("...someone paid attention in his middle-school statistics club") detract from what is otherwise a very useful comment.
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by ASpring 10y ago
Imagine if you could have a game with all the ups and downs of a real PvP game but without the toxicity that is so prevalent in Dota. That's the appeal I see anyway.
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by ASpring 10y ago
Read easy genre fiction until you start nodding off into the book.
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by ASpring 10y ago
Is this actually true? I always see it bandied about without data.
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by ASpring 10y ago
> Either way, it's incredibly unlikely that an academic professor of sociology would be a closet racist. Just as unlikely as a priest being a pedophile.
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by ASpring 10y ago
I also find this to be a nicer balance while I'm not traveling. If I can fit everything I own in a small compact car then I am happy with my amount of belongings.
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by ASpring 10y ago
> IDK, I've never personally needed chalk for or met anyone that needed chalk for lifting. Perhaps he works out in very humid climates, but I'd think there would be chalk provided at the gyms? Just as another data point: I&#x27
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by ASpring 10y ago
Agreed. The post is so devoid of any context about where this would fit in a program that it's hard to tell what the author was attempting to convey. It's absolutely inappropriate as a starting point for either CS or SE.
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by ASpring 10y ago
This was a major factor for me also. I lived in a 'hip' city in Virginia for 5 years and faced weekly incidents with drivers, ranging from clueless to irate, that nearly cost me life and limb. I live in the bay area now and I can&
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by ASpring 10y ago
If your sample is representative and your classification is supported by your sample, what is the real difference?
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by ASpring 10y ago
I personally find it compelling and inspiring the lengths that Heizer went to for this monument. We're all ready to admire the single-minded devotion and amount of work that goes into TempleOS and I view this monument the same way.
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by ASpring 10y ago
Good of the authors to explicitly acknowledge that there is no causal link indicated here. Fun Hypothesis: There exists an underlying latent variable that determines both of these. It takes the form of a negative affect activation function;

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