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The study you link is of a very different kind of system: creating a list of people considered likely to be victims of homicide or violent crime, and trying to intercede. PredPol, the system in the article, does not do that. PredPol is pr
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Your lecturer must have meant to refer to this paper, also by Xiao-Li Meng: https://statistics.fas.harvard.edu/files/statistics-2/files/... It directly answers the question of whether a small probability samp
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I used TrueFX for an assignment in a statistics-for-finance class I taught: https://www.truefx.com/
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Even if every researcher in the University of California system stopped publishing with Elsevier, this problem would still exist: UC libraries would need contracts with Elsevier for their journals, because researchers at other universitie
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Forum software like vBulletin and Invision often has this feature built in, and I've used it on a forum I help run. Unfortunately, after writing four or five custom questions, I soon found server logs showing spam bots blowing through
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Indeed there isn’t: > Third, corporate directors are not required to maximize shareholder value. As the U.S. Supreme Court recently stated, "modern corporate law does not require for-profit corporations to pursue profit at the expen
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With books, you want lots of control over page size and headers and the styling of section breaks and so on. Often that leads you down the path of importing sixteen different packages to try to get the control you want. The memoir document
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I believe -- if I remember the workshop I attended correctly -- that there's a fair amount of economics literature on the types of things that people steal in burglaries and the rates over time, and yes, burglary rates for things like
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LaTeX and ConTeXt are two packages that provide sets of macros for the base TeX typesetting system. LaTeX provides macros for things like sectioning, tables of contents, figures, and so on, and the configurable styling of everything separat
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I actually was just looking at it a few days ago. Interesting project, and looks designed exactly to produce academic books and texts. But it's not programmable in the TeX sense, where you can extend it to do new things within the lang
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Scribble can export to LaTeX and includes templates for a couple different CS conferences, actually, though probably one would have to extend it a bit to use it for other venues.
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I'm a little sad that there still doesn't seem to be a "LaTeX for the Web", a document markup system with similar philosophy as LaTeX but for HTML output. LaTeX is basically only suited for static PDF output, which only
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I use this in my office (well, the Korean replication that's still sold). I firmly believe that good chalk on an enameled steel chalkboard is far superior to a whiteboard: it always erases cleanly, the ink never runs out, it writes wit
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Mozilla devs seem to take this into account whenever adding new JS features, at least on their mailing lists. For example, this discussion of a new API for gamepads immediately turned to a discussion of its fingerprinting risks and how they
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This is why there are two pilots, and techniques like Crew Resource Management dictate that one pilot be solely responsible for flying the plane while the other pilot attempts to resolve the problem. There were a number of incidents in the
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Darrell Huff's style in How to Lie with Smoking Statistics was to marshal an army of minor quibbles to apparently undermine the entire body of research: find a small flaw in one study, a minor error in another, and pretty soon you&#x
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Of the article, or How to Lie with Smoking Statistics ? The article is sadly owned by the journal, which does allow authors to post pre-prints on their personal sites. The book I'm not so sure about. I spent some time researching the
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Mens rea means you intended to do the criminal thing that you did, not necessarily that you knew it was criminal. Homicide is homicide because you intended to kill someone, even if you didn't know that was a crime; if you did not int
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I recently made a joke about Geocities to a class full of graduate students. None of them had heard of it. It's my first year as faculty and I already make cultural references that go over their heads. Not a good sign...
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The title page isn’t supposed to be centered — this is typeset for double-sided printing, where one edge of the paper will be in the binding and hence inaccessible. It’s standard typesetting practice to have asymmetric margins to account fo
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Thanks, I'm glad you enjoyed the book! (Author here -- the website got its first publicity here on HN.) Regarding AB testing, you might be interested in this recent research, which uses real data from Optimizely to estimate how often p
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Those interested in How to Lie with Statistics may also enjoy Huff's other book, How to Lie with Smoking Statistics , commissioned by the tobacco industry in the 60s to fight the growing evidence that smoking causes cancer. It was n
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Their procedure was carefully documented, including the inclusion criteria and how exactly they categorized the studies. They even had two teams independently search the literature to find studies meeting the criteria: https://jo
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At most American institutions, associate professors are tenured.
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I have the same fear of forgetting things and the desire to remember everything I've learned. I'm an academic, so mostly this means references to papers and books I've read, along with notes summarizing their contents. (My Ph
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The Department of Education College Scorecard has a great deal of data which they make openly available: https://collegescorecard.ed.gov/data/
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> It almost seems like a study that the drug companies would find as favourable advertizing for their drugs. It makes me suspicious that it may have been funded by drug company money. The funding is openly disclosed: > This study was
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Yes, it's not a long-term study -- it's a summary of 522 studies involving a total of 116,477 people treated for 8 weeks on average. The authors do note that 8 weeks is not long enough to see some antidepressant side effects, whic
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I think most people here are missing the point. You need not convince them that they do have something to hide, or that other people have good reasons for hiding things. The key point is that you do not get to decide if you have somethin
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Those interested in Wodehouse will also enjoy Stephen Fry’s article on Wodehouse: http://www.pgwodehousebooks.com/fry.htm Fry played Jeeves in the TV series Jeeves and Wooster and quotes some of my favorite bits of Wodeho

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