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by begemotz 3y ago
I like the inclusion of randomization and bootstrapping. It's unfortunate that the hypothesis framework is still NHST -- I wouldn't consider that 'modern' by any means.
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by begemotz 3y ago
Unfortunately talking about the "size and growth of the endowment" is similarly meaningless in this context for a number of reasons. Even if the funds were not restricted in a way that excluded funding the University Press, it&#x2
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by begemotz 3y ago
I like it, but holy moly startup time is slow. Supposedly v3 will be faster but I have not tried the insider preview.
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by begemotz 3y ago
"life sucks but we breathe...."
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by begemotz 3y ago
> Any meta-study trying to get replication numbers would likely use a combination of methods, including prediction markets, with techniques like having a small fraction of the contracts resolve." this is non-nonsensical obfuscation.
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by begemotz 3y ago
I didn't say that the methodology was not standard practice or methodologically sound. I said you misrepresented the study, which you did. You said "Most social sciences have numbers that are far better than psychology's.&quo
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by begemotz 3y ago
You misrepresent the linked article which doesn't report replication rates but forecasted replication rates from participants "recruited through a number of mailing lists, Twitter and blog posts".
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by begemotz 4y ago
Besides the Gigerenzer article mentioned below (there are others by the same author worth reading e.g. 'Mindless Statistics'), I would recommend: 'Moving to a world beyond "p <0.05" by Wasserstein et al in the Am
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by begemotz 4y ago
Mentioned in the OP, but perhaps buried a bit, I am always partial to Chebyshev's Inequality ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chebyshev%27s_inequality ) since it describes all distributions not just Gaussian. While a
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by begemotz 4y ago
"working paper" indeed.
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by begemotz 4y ago
the sooner we admit that 'justice' can never be impartial and blind because humans are not impartial and blind - the sooner we can admit the ways in which this plays out. And ironically, in the end, the closer we come to impartial
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by begemotz 4y ago
"I totally agree that even when I was studying data visualization, I spent a pretty substantial amount of time learning how to code, handle web hosting, work with Python, SQL, and more, all while absorbing knowledge on information visu
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by begemotz 4y ago
To be fair, GPT gets it right: 'Ultimately, trying to assign a specific IQ score to an AI language model like me is not an appropriate comparison, as my abilities and knowledge are fundamentally different from that of a human.'
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by begemotz 4y ago
a plot-line almost bad enough to be a Seagal movie...
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by begemotz 4y ago
Destroy humanity: AGI? no Humans + AGI? maybe Humans? definitely
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by begemotz 4y ago
I certainly learned the "old" version as PEMDAS.
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by begemotz 4y ago
should click on the link -- "The linear mixed models were adjusted for sociodemographic, clinical, and lifestyle variables." There were a number of variables they also found to mediate and moderate the results including age and di
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by begemotz 4y ago
this story has been around for a long time, and attributed to a number of people. As a student, I came across it being said of Einstein.
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by begemotz 4y ago
For the US Army, you can read through ADRP 5-0 which outlines the Operations Process.
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by begemotz 4y ago
I feel that ZK was as much a solution to a 'problem' as it was the manifestation of an individual's personality and mindset; and one that doesn't generalize well. Not to mention full ZK is incredibly inefficient for most
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Hardspace: Shipbreaker became the video game union movement's final frontier(rockpapershotgun.com)
2 points by begemotz 5y ago|0 comments
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by begemotz 5y ago
that's only the first study discussed though.
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by begemotz 5y ago
I was once attracted by every new shiny productivity gimmick that would come around the block. I got tired of never using all of their 'features' and the propriety nature of the software since they often folded or were bought out
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by begemotz 5y ago
timevis in R ( https://www.rdocumentation.org/packages/timevis/versions/1.0... )
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by begemotz 6y ago
This is very interesting. Thank you.
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Ask HN: Where do you find 'objective' news reporting?
1 points by begemotz 6y ago|3 comments
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by begemotz 6y ago
>"however, I do think sentencing should factor in the likelihood of re-offending," This is very troubling thinking. The problem here is - not only are you sentencing them for future, 'possible' crimes but you are doin
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by begemotz 6y ago
This is a re-posted article (probably without permission) from this 2016 article: https://www.intellectualtakeout.org/blog/why-professors-are-... The original article has a few hyper-links to some sources (with varying
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by begemotz 6y ago
There is a difference between what you are saying and saying that "money buys happiness". The research (if you read it) always maintained that there was a correlation between "happiness" (which is also not what is studie
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by begemotz 6y ago
"buys" suggest causation.. sensationalized bs from someone who definitely knows better.

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