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by bkfunk 4y ago
They do this. It’s called Airbnb Plus [0]. [0]: https://www.airbnb.com/plus
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by bkfunk 4y ago
On Mythbusters, every now and then they would say something like "We would like to do X [e.g. something crazy like jump out of a plane with a duct tape parachute], but our insurance company wouldn't let us." I've always
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Hempcrete(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by bkfunk 4y ago|0 comments
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by bkfunk 4y ago
I generally agree about the pros you list of Bayesian, but I think in companies that are doing a lot of experiments and are not just optimizing a checkout page, they don't hold as well. For example, you often are testing out features t
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by bkfunk 4y ago
Power is important if you want to distinguish between noise and true signals. In other words, if you care about P(real effect | significant). From good ol' Bayes we get: P(real|sig) = P(sig|real) x P(real) / P(sig) P(sig|real) i
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by bkfunk 5y ago
Mentioned earlier in the series: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus
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by bkfunk 5y ago
More like a median of 47k, according to BLS, with 90% earning less than 70k: https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes533032.htm
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by bkfunk 5y ago
The Hippocratic oath is not required in the US, and many schools that do use it have significantly modified it. Eg: > In a 2000 survey of US medical schools, all of the then extant medical schools administered some type of profession oat
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by bkfunk 5y ago
Really interesting company! From the article: > Facit Homes is a relatively small builder - they build fewer than 10 homes a year, all of them custom. And though they’re using advanced manufacturing techniques, they don’t seem especially
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by bkfunk 7y ago
This looks interesting! Can I ask, what's the origin of the name? Both "siu" and "siuba"? Would be a useful addition to the docs, IMO.
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by bkfunk 7y ago
Similarly: https://www.layoff-aid.com/
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by bkfunk 7y ago
I think this article misrepresents the actual issue here, but also the FB lawyer's argument, as described in the article, is also missing the point. Focusing on the number of people being told is a red herring; what matters is the expe
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by bkfunk 12y ago
There are plenty of much better tools that many economists use. For example, Stata. Stata allows you to view your data at any point in time in a nice table, but also to manipulate it using a very easy to learn (and yet very expressive) lang