Noseshine

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by Noseshine 10y ago
...or in other words (can't edit what I wrote any more): Statistics can tell you that there is a connection. It can't tell you how (it works).
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by Noseshine 10y ago
However, I don't think that is actually a real theory in neuroscience, it's more a made-up everyday rule. I doubt it is valid, except in the most general kind of way.
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by Noseshine 10y ago
Statistical "explains" is just that. It is based purely on the model and numbers . Try this: Create statistical "explanations" for things like Newton's laws, or for everyday explanations like why the uncle didn&#x2
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by Noseshine 10y ago
> Do you have an example? A not too large and not too small and recent example - using the whole of the US is more muddled also because of larger timescales which include the ability to blame other developments - see Kansas.
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by Noseshine 10y ago
It's a circular definition though - it's not falsifiable, because if they are in power they must be smart, defining smart as "ability to get into power", if they can't get power evidently they are not smart enough..
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by Noseshine 10y ago
> But in the UK (see: brexit) and in the USA (see: Trump) > there definitely is a populist shift in progress. In Germany too, at least partially: The right-wing and very new "AfD", a relative newcomer, now has
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by Noseshine 10y ago
I think that as long as one remember that a lot of words used in statistics have very different meanings from how one would use them in normal life one should be fine. "Controlling for" is one such term, "explains" is an
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by Noseshine 10y ago
My personal favorite: http://tylervigen.com/view_correlation?id=1597 US spending on science, space, and technology correlates with Suicides by hanging, strangulation and suffocation
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by Noseshine 10y ago
"Lower the taxes of businesses so that they can invest" - That's been the theory behind decades of such experiments in many countries. Worked out great, we all can see how the money keep s"trickling down". That theo
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by Noseshine 10y ago
Having taken neuroscience courses for interest in the subject, the holes in our knowledge far exceed the knowledge - even if the introductory book is over a thousand pages (but that's how it is in most fields these days, and yet you on
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"Off topic" to what? The title chosen here matches the contents it links to.
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by Noseshine 10y ago
I refer to Nassim Nicholas Taleb and Black Swan events. Or fire insurance. Yes, it probably is wasted. However, that is the point: employ a few (few!) neurons on looking out for the "crazy", the unlikely, the improbable. Hope th
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by Noseshine 10y ago
While taking neuroscience it occurred to me that one could make an argument - depending on what one wants to show, the usefulness of a model is always limited by the intended use - to see a similarity between neurons and humans: The system
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by Noseshine 10y ago
Uhm... do you now how bones get repaired? Only the easiest fractures are allowed to heal themselves. Everything worse than that looks like this: https://teachengineeringprod.blob.core.windows.net/content/c...
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by Noseshine 10y ago
The Scala course running (for free, if one ignores the IMHO useless certificate offerings) on Coursera and authored by the guy who also invented Scala in the first place seems to be a great pointer to send people new to FP to. Sure, teachin
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by Noseshine 10y ago
This reminds me of a blog post (about currying specifically) from an ardent FP proponent that I picked up on HN not long ago, where he back-pedals (his own word) from a much-shared pro-currying in JS article: https://hughfdjackso
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by Noseshine 10y ago
(OT) > My full response also wasn't submitted (and lost), so I'm trying to recreate part of it here. Just an aside, that's exactly why I installed browser extension "Lazarus: Form Recovery" years ago. Let'
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by Noseshine 10y ago
I feel there is more emphasis on the technique of how to create the graph to promote the subscription-based website's tutorials instead of the actual thing - which IMHO would actually benefit from less programming wizardry. I find th
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by Noseshine 10y ago
Percentage matters only if you care about the rest of humanity. If you are happy with having a prosperous minority you are fine. It's a matter of choice, you are right, there is no hard line set by the universe.
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by Noseshine 10y ago
> do you deny that the brain has to set in motion the muscular activities in advance? What do you mean by "in advance"? What does that mean? That's an empty phrase. In advance to what? When it moves the arm to catch the ba
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by Noseshine 10y ago
I think the way they added classes was actually ingenious. I actually don't use classes or even prototypical inheritance, I only use functions, functions and functions. But they didn't really change Javascript at all under the hoo
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by Noseshine 10y ago
> You've made about ~8 points which would take longer to address than I currently have to spare You DID have time to spare to say nothing, only that you could say something. Which of course shows that you piece of shit have nothin
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by Noseshine 10y ago
> is pretty gross I'm sorry you think ignoring studies because you don't like the results is the way to go, you stupid moron.
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by Noseshine 10y ago
Percentage matters only if you care about the rest of humanity. If you are happy with having a prosperous minority you are fine. It's a matter of choice, you are right, there is no hard line set by the universe.
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by Noseshine 10y ago
That does nothing at all to undermine the point. Why would you expect them to do better after centuries of being taught to obey and strict separation and major disadvantages that still last? Recently I watched a lecture exploring the long