achileas

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by achileas 9y ago
Might have better luck with a PhD neuroscientist, but my guess (as a lowly MS) would be that it's something we can't really experiment with because of ethical issues, as you mentioned. While I studied the auditory system in grad s
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by achileas 9y ago
The dirty argument is not a great one, though, because most illnesses (especially depression) cause changes to a number of networks, and not just one particular receptor subtype or subunit of that receptor subtype. I agree that more mechani
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by achileas 9y ago
This is a pretty common learning technique, one that's been validated in cognitive psychology and cognitive neuroscience research, and one that in grad school (in a different field) I would teach to undergrads that were struggling in t
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by achileas 9y ago
Another example of this was IE's non-standard page rendering standards years ago.
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by achileas 9y ago
While circumstantial, the timeline of WL threatening to release leaked Putin documents (~2010, IIRC), never releasing those docs, then getting spots on RT is fairly damning, as well as the Russian bot amplification of WL document drops, esp
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by achileas 9y ago
Sample size isn't small if the power is high. Biological studies are generally (and correctly) done with 8-20 subjects. All the ones I and my lab published in grad school were around here, and there's no arbitrary line over which
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by achileas 9y ago
And he's absolutely correct. The article kind of lays out some tension between what could be analogized as artificial vs. natural selection which I don't think is actually there. The two types do happen, and often commingle, but I
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by achileas 9y ago
Dawkins' issue with basically natural vs. artificial selection of memes seems unnecessary as far as 'killing' the meme. There's interesting information there regardless of origin and methods of evolution - a shared lexic
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by achileas 9y ago
Who it comes from is part of that merit - there's a big difference between some untrained person shouting "correlation isn't causation" when it was never implied in the first place (ie every thread on reddit that referen
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by achileas 9y ago
This would be immensely fun to create
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by achileas 9y ago
Generally, yes, but at least in organizations you can enforce some style. The problem definitely arises (and often) when you can't write and enforce that standard. Python and Perl definitely have diametrically opposed philosophies on t
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by achileas 9y ago
To this I'd add writing questions as you go through each chapter, then after finishing the chapter, answer the questions you come up with in as much detail as possible. This also helps force recall (and is supported by some cognitive p
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by achileas 9y ago
Also coming from academia, experimentation is not necessary for publication - both reviews and observational studies exist and are published in peer reviewed journals quite often. In engineering (although I worked in neuroscience, I worked
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by achileas 10y ago
To my knowledge, the US doesn't even have an extradition request for Assange.
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Perl, it is what we use for our ETL pipeline, and it works great for that.
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by achileas 10y ago
Not the OP, but in my company we use it for our ETL pipeline. I've grown to really enjoy it as a language.
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by achileas 10y ago
In my company we primarily use Perl, but it's just on my team for our ETL pipeline. It works really well, especially since we modernized our older code and enforced really tight code standards. To use Perl end to end, well, there are m
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by achileas 10y ago
There are competitors that work more closely with realtors and also competitors that compete with just the zestimate, such as Smartzip.
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by achileas 10y ago
The problem with that is often it gives equal credence to unequal opinions. And not everyone has the critical thinking skills and freedom from bias that they think they do. I'd argue that really nobody is able to fully remove from them
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by achileas 10y ago
IIRC, the recent tests are to reduce experimental error, not 'mundane interactions.' Just because there may be a way to explain it within the frame of current theory that the original researchers did not pursue or understand, stil
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by achileas 10y ago
Then you have the problem of giving equal weight to inequal ideas just because they happen to be in opposition. You see this a lot on debate shows where they have a climate scientist and a climate change denier, giving the appearance of deb
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by achileas 10y ago
>If it's another physical action within known physical laws, then nothing interesting is happening and it's a failure of the experimental setup I'm not sure what makes you think this. There's no failure in science whe
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by achileas 10y ago
To expand on this a bit, BF Skinner founded the behaviorist area of psychology (which is important in later fields like neuroscience for training animals on various experiments), he specifically investigated operant behavior (behavior where
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by achileas 10y ago
Going through a graduate program, especially in the sciences, can really prepare you with a lot of the soft skills (and even more of the 'hard' skills) necessary to do so. >Writing a 100 page thesis is not hard work either. You
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by achileas 13y ago
It's not at all. Perhaps he is referring to the dwindling research dollars in the US, but the opposite is occurring in Europe and China. I'm a graduate student and most older tenured faculty have seen worse funding in the past, an
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by achileas 13y ago
Most things in the biological sciences are correlations, to be as precise as we are in the sciences, you have to point out that some relationship is correlational unless you specifically test for causation (which is unfeasible in most cases