asddkk

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by asddkk 9y ago
Group versus individuals. Stereotypes can be accurate on average between groups but inaccurate for individuals. The accuracy versus bias distinction of the paper kind of overlooks this, even though it's the crux of the issue in many wa
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by asddkk 9y ago
I live and breathe IRT models of the sort they discuss for my work and it's fascinating to me to see it applied to clothing sizing. It makes sense because it's a measurement problem. One thing they don't get into really is th
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by asddkk 9y ago
The CPU-GPU analogy is very good for all sorts of reasons. For some things there's no speedup, for some important things there's a huge speedup, for other things there's some significant speedup, but not game-changing. I tend
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by asddkk 9y ago
I think there's some information-theoretic ideas about compressibility or codelength that are relevant. The appeal, I think, is in being able to succinctly represent a random or irrational mathematical object with some other object tha
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by asddkk 9y ago
To be fair, the programs that are more profitable also have more money pumped into them, and those that are less profitable have less money put into them. So yes, many of them are unprofitable, but it also seems like the less profitable one
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by asddkk 9y ago
I've come to agree with you about the question "how do we define success?" It seems fiendishly difficult to answer, but is so central to well-being in the long run, and so many assumptions seem to be made about it without exp
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by asddkk 9y ago
It depends on the state, but what I've read of so far is mostly expanding the range of eye diseases that can be treated with medication, and expanding their prescription privileges. Some of it focuses on lasik surgery, which probably m
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by asddkk 9y ago
The problem is the frame of reference of "subjective." For example, few would question whether or not coat color on cats is an explainable phenomenon, although it varies. So, why isn't qualia similar? Subjective experience is
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by asddkk 9y ago
Part of the problem is that this regulation works from the other side too, but doesn't get as much attention. Optometrists have been trying to expand their practice into other areas in ways that seem reasonable to me, but then physicia
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by asddkk 9y ago
This has always seemed to me to be the elephant in the room to me. I brought this up with some ethereum devs at one point in a forum a year or two ago, and they addressed the questions pretty openly and graciously, but I still wonder about
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by asddkk 9y ago
So... I got an undergrad degree in psychology, but then went on to a doctoral program and got a PhD. I'm not actually disputing your suggestion that a lot of students obtain the degree as a placeholder--it's a problem--but dependi