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by capnrefsmmat 9y ago
> And you just figured this out now? This is like saying "wow, who knew we would get so fat by feeding only on pizza, hamburgers and coke, aren't those companies evil". No. Zeynep Tufekci (the author of the article) has wr
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by capnrefsmmat 9y ago
I suspect this factor is balanced, or completely overruled, g the scientists who get p values greater than 0.05, decide that result doesn’t pass their sanity check (it clearly should be significant!) and collect more data or tweak the meth
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by capnrefsmmat 9y ago
This is not true — it’s actually worse. The 5% figure means that, when there is no signal to detect , we have a 5% chance of falsely claiming there is one. It does not say anything about the case when there is a signal and we do not dete
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by capnrefsmmat 9y ago
It's the official goal of Racket to be based on Chez in the next couple years: > TL;DR: I expect the main Racket distribution to run on Chez Scheme instead of the current Racket VM sometime in the next couple of years. https:/
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by capnrefsmmat 9y ago
It's not that there's a textual intermediate format: just a defined intermediate tree structure. Some examples are given in the nanopass framework documentation [0]. So it's not that the input language is processed into an
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by capnrefsmmat 9y ago
Chez Scheme [0] is written using the nanopass framework, and it's regarded as one of the fastest Scheme compilers in existence [1]. Before it was rewritten to use the nanopass system, Chez's compiler was known for its performance
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by capnrefsmmat 9y ago
If I may alleviate your preposition anxiety, a quote from Garner's Modern American Usage (p. 654): > The spurious rule about not ending sentences with prepositions is a remnant of Latin grammar, in which a preposition was the one
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by capnrefsmmat 9y ago
I keep a notebook with a list of references on pedagogy, including active learning: https://www.refsmmat.com/notebooks/pedagogy.html The Peer Instruction section features a great deal of research in introductory physic
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by capnrefsmmat 9y ago
As context, here's an early paper describing the motivation behind the first edition, and why it chose a different approach from the famous Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs : Felleisen, M., Findler, R. B., Flatt, M.,
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by capnrefsmmat 9y ago
The iOS Do Not Disturb feature allows you to set an exclusion for a chosen group of contacts, so you could allow calls from your spouse or parents while blocking everything else. I have it scheduled to turn on every night so I'm not di
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by capnrefsmmat 9y ago
Age, in years. The source is noted at the bottom: "Data: American Times Use Survey".
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by capnrefsmmat 9y ago
I wonder what the overhead is like on 13TB of data. I have about 80GB with Backblaze right now -- just documents, photos and music on my laptop -- and the metadata it stores in /Library/Backblaze.bzpkg takes up 46GB, or about half
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by capnrefsmmat 9y ago
My Emacs Org-mode setup already has larger font (and taller lines) for headings, so this isn't too crazy. Not everything in a text editor is code; some of it is text.
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by capnrefsmmat 9y ago
The attack you're thinking of was on Zerocoin, not ZCash; Zerocoin wasn't built by the team that came up with the zero-knowledge proof ideas, and was built on top of the original Bitcoin client code IIRC. https://news.y
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by capnrefsmmat 9y ago
In the biomedical fields, many articles have to be deposited on PubMed Central, which requires them to be reformatted in their archival JATS XML format. Since articles are typically written in Word in those fields, this process involves a l
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by capnrefsmmat 10y ago
Its reputation among people like Lakens, and others complaining about the poor state of statistics and rigor in modern science, is that it features overinterpreted overhyped results from small underpowered experiments, and when errors are p
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by capnrefsmmat 10y ago
Given how infrequently we see power calculations in published papers, and the results of typical surveys of scientists, I don't think the typical scientist does understand statistical power or other statistical concepts. There are pl
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by capnrefsmmat 10y ago
I don't think the blame can all be pinned on drug companies and academic journals, or whatever other third parties we can identify. They all have a role, but many problems with biomedical science come down to individual researchers mak
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by capnrefsmmat 10y ago
And add that you have dozens of such patches that you need people to review, and their reviews have to be distributed to a committee of senior developers once they're received, and so on and so on... A journal may have dozens of submis
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by capnrefsmmat 10y ago
> Turning right on red is one of those idea that once you've been exposed to it you wonder why isn't everybody adopting it... It was first introduced in the 70s in the US in response to high oil prices, and only after road safe
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by capnrefsmmat 10y ago
On Scheme benchmarks, Racket does fairly competitively, probably due to its JIT: http://ecraven.github.io/r7rs-benchmarks/benchmark.html (Chez is still freakishly fast.) However, if you're writing code in DrRacket
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by capnrefsmmat 10y ago
Note that the person you sponsor will most likely be subject to the two-year home residency requirement: after their J1 expires, they are required to return to their home country of residence for at least two years before converting to any
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by capnrefsmmat 10y ago
This isn't exactly a software project, but I posted in a "What are you working on?" thread three years ago about my book, Statistics Done Wrong : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6619796 Someone posted i
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by capnrefsmmat 10y ago
This result has been cast into doubt by a recent replication attempt, which failed to find any such forced-smile effect. https://www.psychologicalscience.org/pdf/StrackRRR_manuscrip...
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by capnrefsmmat 10y ago
Well, it doesn't just require them to click a menu item and hit a button -- then they have to fix all the problems that arose because RStudio encouraged a hackish development style. There's a workaround, but RStudio still actively
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by capnrefsmmat 10y ago
I've been co-teaching a class in computing for statisticians this semester (some details on the previous iteration here https://www.refsmmat.com/posts/2016-01-22-stat-computing.htm... ) and have mixed feelings abou
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by capnrefsmmat 10y ago
public-inbox is a project to use git as a mailstore, so mailing list archives can be synced with a git pull. Not quite what you're describing, and they don't exactly have a detailed website, but: https://public-inbox.or
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by capnrefsmmat 10y ago
The scientific publishing workflow is insane, and this tool seems like it could help. In the biomedical sciences (or any field that ends up on PubMed), articles have to be converted to JATS XML ( http://jats.nlm.nih.gov/ ), a
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by capnrefsmmat 10y ago
ggplot2 does things differently for several good reasons -- for example, by rebuilding the interface around the grammar of graphics, making construction and composition of plots much more coherent. http://vita.had.co.nz/pape
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by capnrefsmmat 10y ago
How widely used is Gnuplot these days? In my community (statistics), I haven't heard of anyone using it at all, just people using Matplotlib, ggplot2, or R base graphics. I used Gnuplot five or ten years ago when I barely knew of any

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