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by apathy 10y ago
Bingo. I exaggerated... Very slightly. Thanks for digging that link up.
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by apathy 10y ago
If you like writing COBOL, sure. Naturally, for anything interesting (eg fitting a lasso penalized GLM) SAS (and others) encourage you to simply call out to R. (I will now wait for someone to amuse me by bringing up the misleadingly named
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by apathy 10y ago
Christ almighty, why not just use SAS at that point. Ross Ihaka was so disappointed by Revolution's value-subtracted offerings that he disowned the entire R project.
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by apathy 10y ago
No, it implies that Siemens sold them a legitimate product.
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by apathy 10y ago
That... Did not work out very well. The woman behind Spanx would be a better role model for my daughter, methinks. And that's considering that my daughter likes to look at blood under my microscope.
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by apathy 10y ago
Publication bias is a substantially more descriptive and accurate phrase. Even when you do submit studies with negative results for publication, many journals simply will not accept them. Little to do with file drawers and much to do with e
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by apathy 10y ago
Of course you could have an intersection between recognizable images and random noise. The odds of this occurring with any regularity are infinitesimal, hence the design of experiments. (Recall that there is nothing like a mathematical pr
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by apathy 10y ago
Fair enough.
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by apathy 10y ago
It's pragmatic to delegate that aspect to other people who are/were working on it. It is not pragmatic to try and solve all the different problems involved all at the same time. Pike was brought in to Google to do something about
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by apathy 10y ago
Or, in the event that a connection was lacking, local state would be maintained only as long as required to allow usable work to get done. Google "coda" or "intermezzo" or "andrew file system". You might be s
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by apathy 10y ago
That's a bit silly. His perspective is that of someone who watched tractable solutions to the cached-state and resync/reconciliation problems be implemented and then marginalized, since no one at the time saw the point. Now, 20-
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by apathy 10y ago
Thinks like the Andrew File System and Coda were actually developed to try and work around this, to provide resilience and allow one to have "soft" state in the presence of outages. The interest was not there, certainly not when
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by apathy 10y ago
Fixed.
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by apathy 10y ago
Probably not. However, an OS is a tool, and your tools inevitably shape the way you view what you are working on. I'm going to revise my comment to tone it down, but the fact remains that network-native multiuser OSes (Unix, Plan9) en
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by apathy 10y ago
I do love this little pearl: > In summary, it used to be that phones worked without you having to carry them around, but computers only worked if you did carry one around with you. The solution to this inconsistency was to break the way
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Simple questions to help reduce AI hype(smerity.com)
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by apathy 10y ago
Incidentally, if you are a Popperian, you'll note that the best we can do in the sciences is to disprove (empirically falsify) a theory. Outside of math, there is (almost?) no absolute proof. The weight of the evidence is all we have.
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by apathy 10y ago
The fundamental result behind the gambler's ruin is the human tendency to perceive patterns in genuine randomness. Rorschach blots, lotteries, slot machines, most betting endeavors all work because some humans will always find patterns
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by apathy 10y ago
Not when it's two pages of garbage. Happily, the Wikipedia page is already written and edited with examples. I looked at the author's other work. It is quite poor. This is clickbait.
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by apathy 10y ago
More than I care about accuracy in usernames. Why use two pages when one word will do?
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by apathy 10y ago
I'm tempted to point out that you went from zero to Godwin in record time. To assume that Konrad's party affiliation (likely a pragmatic choice at the time) either validates or invalidates his work is a bit absurd. The issue as I
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by apathy 10y ago
If you fit a multilevel mixed model, either the intercept or the slopes can vary, but the model fit at each level (and accuracy of predictions on held-out data) will improve substantially if the terms matter and you include them. In this ca
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by apathy 10y ago
Words and concepts exist for a reason. The author of the post could have turned up the (well researched and imho fascinating) antecedent work very quickly simply by googling his piece's title. That he did not makes me sad. Very smart p
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by apathy 10y ago
AKA lowest hanging fruit first. Never a bad idea
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by apathy 10y ago
Accurate results are not necessarily actionable.
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by apathy 10y ago
Ctrl-F "apophenia" 0 matches on this page Welp, that's pretty sad. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apophenia
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by apathy 10y ago
So add a per-county term to both fixed and random effects and see if that fits substantially better. This isn't rocket surgery. Simpson's paradox can be straightforwardly addressed if the stratifying or confounding factor can be i
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by apathy 10y ago
It isnt, and indeed it is rarely satisfied. The real question is how sensitive the resulting model may be to violations of this assumption. Greg Ridgway looked at a natural experiment (proportion of drivers pulled over 1 hour before dawn, w
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by apathy 10y ago
He is amazingly arrogant. Possibly several nanoDijsktras
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by apathy 10y ago
The NIH does a pretty decent job all things considered. With an organization that size, there is considerable inertia, but newer blood is starting to fix some of the older problems. Best of luck -- work on stuff that matters, if you can :-)

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