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by Fomite 3y ago
There are a lot of systematic reviews. They're a very popular "Grad student's first paper" in public health fields, because if you're writing Chapter 1 of your dissertation, you're already halfway there.
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One of the most "fun" things to do on HN is translate startup funding amounts into things like multiples of Cochrane's budget, or NIH R01s.
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"incentive compatible" is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that sentence. Meta-analysis and systematic reviews were done before Cochrane, and will be done after it. And most pharma companies are banking on RCT results - Cochrane ca
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^"...a very confusing statement to me " as it were.
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This is a very confusing statement to be, statistically. Statistical power is the ability to detect an effect, given an effect is there. This study detects an effect - and indeed, does so with statistical significance. By definition, that s
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This. I got through like 98% of the game thinking "What is everyone on about? This game is amazing..."
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I got "not enough relevant results" in one of the most researched questions in my sub-field. That's a touch disappointing.
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During the first wave of Twitter exodus, several people in my professional circle asked if they should be hosting professional, field-specific Mastadon servers, etc. My answer, born of moderating a modestly sized forum, was "Absolutely
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I followed the same path - it served me well in life, but man did my university assume when you were taking Calc 1 that you had already taken calculus in high school mess me up.
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Thanks :)
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As an Epidemiologist, Ed Yong's work has been some of the most solid public health reporting I've ever read, both before and during the pandemic.
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Often journals will accept "letters" in some form or another if the criticism is brief, and do on occasion publish full papers addressing the shortcomings of another. When that fails, usually one would try another journal or two,
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Not sausage, but I'd put money on there being at least one "Nike" greek restaurant out there.
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"The Blue Elite" is the most unhinged concept to emerge from this whole thing.
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https://twitter.com/GermsAndNumbers/status/16340874678749470... This is a somewhat flippant take of mine, but is emblematic of a lot of Nate Silver's posting during the pandemic, which is that epidemiologists
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Based on most of the lawyers I know? Poorly.
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I have often asserted that one of the reasons the lab leak hypothesis has so much backing in the wider press vs. most epidemiologists and virologists I know is that it moves the pandemic back into a realm in which they are experts. Nate Sil
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Me, having fixed something via 3d printing, to my wife: "Is this why people with woodshops are always so smug?" But yeah, my interest in 3d printers is "I need an X" - either a bespoke, custom plastic part that is made i
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I'm a little bit in a similar place. I reviewed a LulzBot SideKick recently, and my major takeaway was "This is a kickass printer from three years ago, but I'm worried about it as a new entry to the market." And there&#x
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I mean, we also watched Lulzbot self-immolate on the alter of open source. When it comes down to it, "Open Source" doesn't carry much of a price premium for a lot of people. "You can print the parts yourself" doesn&
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I'd be more sympathetic to it if Prusa hadn't been caught entirely flat footed by Bambu and was sitting on a pretty stale product line coasting on their reputation. I am a customer of theirs, and the last few years have been...uni
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Bambu has been saber rattling. Ironically, I think it's less aimed at Prusa and more at their own Chinese knock-off competitors.
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They may not be reciprocating in the way Prusa wants, but they're open source enough that there's also a fork of Bambu's slicer.
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One thing we're trying in my program right now is to introduce "Statistical Thinking" as a mandatory class for both wet lab and computational students, to cover the why of statistics and try to teach people how to think abo
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There are a number of statistical software packages that have, as you refer to them, "easily runnable happy paths". I'd assert that these are the source of many of the problems, because statistical reasoning is not purely alg
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So I'm an epidemiologist and/or a disease ecologist depending on what hat I'm currently wearing, so I think I count as someone who can address your question. And I'm going to give you the epidemiologists favorite answer:
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FMT was the topic of my dissertation. Donor stool is heavily screened, and there's pushes both to use the patient's own stool where possible, or creating synthetic stool that is pathogen free.
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I am definitely what would be classified as a "left-wing academic" by most, and I've never been a member of a faculty union.
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Epidemiology
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Students in my program have organized several times to get the pain points of their program either removed or at the very least reviewed.

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