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by avs733 5y ago
It’s seems like it but it’s not. The IRB review determination is going to be based on the typology of what you are doing not the internal contents for the most part. Once they decide the level of appropriate review then they will typically
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by avs733 5y ago
If I get a thousand labels for $0.10/ea and 50% of them are wrong there is two ways to look at the result: 1) I spent $100 on 1000 labels 2) I spent $100 on 500 good labels and 500 bad ones and can’t tell them apart. If I spent $0.20 p
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by avs733 5y ago
100%...in our case it was 'do 1% of the cleaning/wiping/scrubbing'. As if I haven't outed myself to any of my students reading this...we do it on the first day in my stats class: Spend the day collecting data using
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by avs733 5y ago
>A good technician who can interpret nuance has value. I want to highlight this phrase, because I think it is critically important and frequently missing from the worldview of the technical workforce. It is a serious risk that is creat
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by avs733 5y ago
it's still decentralized...it's just a centralized version of it right? just like Cavendish bananas are grown in multiple places...
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by avs733 5y ago
I wonder if you really dug into most company's tech stacks, how many of their support tools (e.g., PagerDuty) are reliant on overlapping cloud providers.
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by avs733 5y ago
Just to be clear…it’s not a news article, it’s an editorial. There’s a small “opinion” tag at the top that gets kind of overwhelmed by all the ads.
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by avs733 5y ago
I would have loved to be on whatever panel read and approved that grant. Obviously this is a brilliant methodology and a wonderful science hack, but how stoned did someone get that 'zero G cancer patients to tap their brain fluids&#x27
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by avs733 5y ago
So what is general intelligence? And why does it always seem like definitions of general intelligence just happen to align with the current hegemonic culture?
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by avs733 5y ago
totally agree with this post, I used a simple example where many more complicated ones exist. The problem is how do you disentangle Differential Item/Test Function being from cultural purposes as compared to 'we expect this group
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by avs733 5y ago
well for starters: the test instructions are in English - which doesn't seem relevant to the test, it focuses on abstraction as a modality of measuring cognitive capability, test taking, and computer user interface knowledge. I work w
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by avs733 5y ago
IQ scores tend to correlate with IQ scores...whether you think they are representative of a holistic intelligence is somewhat up to you. These researchers looked at studies of cognition specifically, and did very little to control for the v
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by avs733 5y ago
>Why would psychologists believe something so clearly wrong? I would imagine from their research? Why are you so self-assured that you are right? Often the issue with 'IQ' tests is that the way they are written introduces bias
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by avs733 5y ago
My first job ever was doing new home wiring…learned a lot that has affected the way I approach engineering. The company standard was that all plate screws were left vertical, no exception. The master electrician and managers absolutely chec
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by avs733 5y ago
> Because they know their customers. As a former Hoosier you wildly underestimate the appeal of neighborly gossip to this group of 'customers'. Midwesterners TALK. More likely, no one quite understood the story or its magnitude
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by avs733 5y ago
and i'll add to my own comment because honestly this line of argument just infuriates me. define 'made the decision'. Who made the decision by your estiamtion? was it the president who directed aides to implement a vaccine ma
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by avs733 5y ago
I voted for the guy who nominated Pai as a commissioner and against the guy who nominated Pai to be the chairman and I voted for two senators who voted against his nomination to be chairman. I also voted for the guy who kicked his ass to th
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by avs733 5y ago
please provide evidence to support this claim: "We have unelected officials who are making decisions against the will of the people."
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by avs733 5y ago
congress could have acted here, they could still act. they didn't. Not doing something is a choice when it occurs in reaction to someone else doing something. Whether it is a 'trivial' procedural matter simply isn't affe
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by avs733 5y ago
'known' doesn't mean everyone is aware of something, just that one person knows it. that is a really important reality for interacting in society that I think we often miss in having discussions with others. Just because some
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by avs733 5y ago
It is worth reading the FAQs... https://www.cde.ca.gov/ci/ma/cf/mathfwfaqs.asp A few examples...(highlights mine) >Does the draft Mathematics Framework eliminate middle school mathematics acceleration prog
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by avs733 5y ago
Largely because American's believe they understand the educational process (largely based on their own anecdotes) better than experts. The particular reason people struggle with algebra is because it is one of the first fundamentally a
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by avs733 5y ago
The only source in the article is a faculty member who was denied a grant. Here is the explanation the funding agency uses: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/_doc/EDI/Guide_for_Applicants_... Putting on my 'deali
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by avs733 5y ago
no - it is a statistical artifact that reinforces everything we have heard about the limitations of any vaccine. Vaccines aren't binary
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by avs733 5y ago
based on logic and statistics, that would be true based on the rest of study design I'm less confident
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by avs733 5y ago
Not just that…it is unrelated to anything Q claims to know about. The DOE isn’t the CIA
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by avs733 5y ago
to be clear to the primarily US readership...the UK supreme court.
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by avs733 5y ago
>Most YouTube users (and people on the Internet in general) do not conduct themselves respectfully or demonstrate any sort of intellectual curiosity when engaging with these sorts of feedback mechanisms. You nailed how I feel about this
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by avs733 5y ago
Private corporations are collecting the data, the state is just buying it, and I doubt they are the only customer.
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by avs733 5y ago
The proliferation of dashcams has caused me to re-evaluate the probabilities I assign to events of rank stupidity while driving.

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