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by benmaraschino 8y ago
If you actually go to the source behind that figure ( http://facts.stanford.edu/administration/ ) and scroll down, you'll find that it actually doesn't refer to the number of administrators--far from it--but ra
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by benmaraschino 8y ago
Well, the purported civil rights issues aside (which is a patently absurd point of argument on its face) – if you’re at the point where you’ve accumulated enough experience with both environments to form strong preferences for one over the
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by benmaraschino 10y ago
One nitpick: the 13.3% bracket only applies to taxable income of >$1M/year. The marginal rate that actually applies to most of the numbers being thrown around is 9.3%, which corresponds to the 51-263K bracket if filing a single retu
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by benmaraschino 10y ago
Does that salary include the housing stipend? AFAIK, UCSF residents get a decent stipend to use for housing expenses, on top of their normal salary. May not be enough to swing the balance either way, but it's worth knowing about...
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Pigeons as Trainable Observers of Pathology and Radiology Breast Cancer Images(journals.plos.org)
3 points by benmaraschino 11y ago|2 comments
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by benmaraschino 12y ago
It's got Claude Shannon's "A Mathematical Theory of Communication": (warning, large PDF files) Parts I-II: http://alcatel-lucent.com/bstj/vol27-1948/articles/bstj27-3-... Parts III-V: htt
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by benmaraschino 13y ago
One factor that keeps these negotiated rates from becoming public is that a lot (actually, almost all) of these contracts signed between hospitals and insurers have a gag order of sorts built into the contract by the hospital. These gag ord
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by benmaraschino 13y ago
Some states already do this. For example, for CABG and valve surgery, NY State publishes raw, as well as risk-adjusted mortality rates (RAMR) broken down by surgeon: (warning, PDF) http://www.health.ny.gov/statistics/di
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by benmaraschino 13y ago
Berkeley and Oakland have some pretty amazing tool-lending libraries as well. SF had one too, but I'm not sure what happened to it.
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by benmaraschino 13y ago
Thanks for the clarification! I haven't studied stochastic processes in a while, so the distinction was lost on me; it definitely makes more sense to think of it as a martingale.
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by benmaraschino 13y ago
Symmetric random walks, including those with step sizes drawn from a Gaussian process with mean zero, have expectation 0 at any time t. Since there's no drift term, either walk won't be expected to slowly deviate from zero.
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Joining the Ranks: Demystifying Harvard's Tenure System(thecrimson.com)
25 points by benmaraschino 14y ago|5 comments
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The Tabata workout programme: harder, faster, fitter, quicker?(guardian.co.uk)
3 points by benmaraschino 14y ago|0 comments
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by benmaraschino 14y ago
For those who might be interested, here's a fantastic Scientific American (back when it was still good) article about the aluminum can and how it's made: http://www.chymist.com/Aluminum%20can.pdf
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by benmaraschino 14y ago
While I wouldn't deny that there's a lot of bloat in the SF city government, I think it's important to take into account that SF is both a city and a county (a "consolidated city-county".) Hence, the SF budget has to make room for the funct