apathy

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by apathy 19y ago
I worked at Google for a while, pre-IPO. There were an awful lot of very smart, capable people (or so it seemed, out of the 200 or so that were there when I arrived), and the challenges in operations simply do not exist at any other compan
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by apathy 19y ago
His parents must have been clairvoyant when they passed on the family name. If the shoe fits...
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by apathy 19y ago
Solaris is a great OS with a lot of great stuff crammed into it. Unfortunately, it no longer has the momentum. All the junior administrators and developers got their start with Linux nowadays. There are all sorts of shoddy bits within Li
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by apathy 19y ago
I recall having read this piece before, and it is well written; but for a non-statistician, there's really just one thing you need to remember: Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. If you're testing 500,000 hypotheses and
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by apathy 19y ago
> there isn't a control group, and you haven't standardized it. Be very, very careful walking down this path. For example, case-control studies are inherently non-representative of population rates and thus more appropriate for rare ev
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by apathy 19y ago
> If you're still in school as you read this, take a stats course! If you're not, you can consult with a decent statistician at most institutions. Might save your career, in fact...
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by apathy 19y ago
From the piece: > "The correction isn't the ultimate truth either," Prof. Kevles said. No kidding! Folks, this is an iterative process. If you get as excited as the P.I. about their findings, stop for a second, look at the methods &#3
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by apathy 19y ago
This is rather expensive, and for human studies, would require both extremely fine control of bias (very, very difficult in meta-analyses due to publication bias) as well as extremely well-established investigators who could get a hugely ne
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by apathy 19y ago
Please List This Corp on the Stock Exchange (...right about this time, some shithead will be drawing a fat fucking line, over the precis on our business plan...)