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by Gimpei 3y ago
Ever read “American Psycho”? Every other word is a designer brand, but I have a feeling, in that case at least, Bret Easton Ellis was not paid :)
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by Gimpei 3y ago
This feels like a false equivalence. Splitting articles try to make broad generalizations about human behavior, but, as any social scientist knows, human behavior is extremely complicated and multidimensional. A critique of these articles i
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by Gimpei 3y ago
Indeed. And in fact, from what I hear Stanford would like to expand its student body. Guess what’s stopping it? Yep, Palo Alto NIMBYs.
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by Gimpei 3y ago
I don’t see what the difference is between this performance and one of the earlier experiments in social psychology by Milgrom and Zimbardo. There’s no way she didn’t get the idea from them. So, to me, this is neither original nor interesti
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by Gimpei 3y ago
I’m no expert on meta-analyses, but if the total pooled samples is 785 and there are 12 studies. That seems like quite a small average sample size per study. Is this not underpowered? An average of junk is still junk.
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by Gimpei 3y ago
Writing is as much about organizing your thoughts and learning how to build an argument as it is about putting words on the page. It is about learning how to think. If students rely on an LLM, they will never get a chance to practice this e
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by Gimpei 3y ago
Of course, but CuFFT is half the speed of VkFFT.
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by Gimpei 3y ago
I’d love to see this in torch. What are the odds?
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by Gimpei 3y ago
They probably have, but that doesn’t mean they have the necessary data to actually address the confounds. Often there is a trade off between what is most provable and what is most novel. Publishing incentives being what they are, novel inva
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by Gimpei 3y ago
I can’t see how anyone is harmed by this usage. Seems more hyperbolic to me, or rather obsessive compulsive, which I say as someone who has struggled with OCD in the past. The impulse to constantly monitor and revise the minutiae of languag
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by Gimpei 3y ago
I don’t see what the problem is. If someone has just taken pills and is close to dying on the other end of the line, do you really think the optimal course of action is to just sit there and listen to them fade away?
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by Gimpei 3y ago
A close acquaintance of mine just quit her job as a community college writing instructor because of chatGPT. Everybody is using it and it’s difficult to prove so it’s made her job impossible. I think students in general would lose a lot if
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by Gimpei 3y ago
Could somebody do the same for “nonplussed”? We have now given that poor poor word two opposite meanings. Currently, I have no idea what somebody means when they say they’re nonplussed.
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by Gimpei 3y ago
Get involved with your local YIMBY group and, most importantly, vote for pro-housing politicians. One of the problems with housing policy is that it is decided at the local level, and the only people who turn out are the highly motivated ze
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by Gimpei 4y ago
Questions like these test to see how good you are at remembering your algorithms class. But I thought we’d all learned that the best interview question is one that tests the kind of work that you will actually be doing at your job. This is
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by Gimpei 4y ago
But that would always be the case and wouldn’t explain the pandemic bounce. You need there to be a sudden relative increase in this type of behavior at the beginning of the pandemic.
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by Gimpei 4y ago
Not sure I’m understanding this. The post mentions that pre-registering was very helpful for the precise reason that it prevents researchers from altering their statistical criteria in order to suit their desired conclusions.
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by Gimpei 4y ago
My impression was always that the main attraction of wealthy foreigners was the increased tax take. The higher rents could be solved by encouraging more housing construction, but why do that when you can just blame foreigners?
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by Gimpei 4y ago
For a second, I thought this was about Homi K. Bhabha, notorious among other things for this gem of a sentence: "If, for a while, the ruse of desire is calculable for the uses of discipline soon the repetition of guilt, justification,
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by Gimpei 4y ago
With the caveat that I do not know the specifics of this case, I agree in principle with giving health companies access to large amounts of data like this. Research like this could save a huge amount of lives, but it needs lots of data, whi
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by Gimpei 4y ago
I struggle with Feyerabend a bit. First, a big part of that book is case studies and the problem with case studies is that they are not representative of the underlying population. It’s very easy to simply cherry pick examples that advance
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by Gimpei 4y ago
I don’t have any real opinion about the direction of causality. If anything the idea of unions contributing to more wage equality makes sense to me. But, linking to a single study as “proof” of anything is a big no no. It is very easy to ch
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by Gimpei 4y ago
Didn't he amend this claim in a later article and now believes that we're headed for around a 3-3.5 degree heat increase, which won't render most of the earth uninhabitable? To be clear, I still think this is a terrifying num
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by Gimpei 4y ago
Maybe, but I wonder if it is especially easy to produce horrific code in R. For example, I remember trying to refactor an R codebase that made ample use `load`, leading to all these mysterious variables appearing from nowhere.
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by Gimpei 4y ago
If they really just wanted to avoid taxes, there are ways to do it where they’d keep way more than 2% of the company. And with all that saved, money they’d still have plenty of political power. Is this the best of all possible outcome? Mayb
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by Gimpei 4y ago
The one experience I had with peer review before leaving academia was actually pretty nice. One of the reviewers was a bit of a hardass, but they made good points and I think made the paper much better. As a consumer of papers now, I find p
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by Gimpei 4y ago
Wasn’t that the point though? He was trying to show that complete nonsense could be published.
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by Gimpei 4y ago
Before you lay into an entire academic discipline, it would help to understand it a little better. Fine if you’re just bagging on DSGE models, since they really are garbage (although I would argue that it is because of all the equations inv
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by Gimpei 4y ago
If the point of deep learning research is solely GAI, which it is not. Turns out it has a lot of practical uses as well.
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by Gimpei 4y ago
The N of this study is 34, but it’s probably multiple observation. How do you calculate power in this case? Is it just based off N, in which case, seems low…

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