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3211.
by civilized 6y ago
This 100%. If you're married with children, you most likely have less than zero need for an office-based social life.
3212.
by civilized 6y ago
The only change I've noticed in Dropbox is it's getting less and less convenient to simply open the Dropbox folder in Finder. They really, really want me to use their fake file browser app thingy, which I loathe
3213.
by civilized 6y ago
Yeah - the argument in the paper is a lot more nuanced than it's being represented in the media, where it's being flattened to the point of uselessness.
3214.
by civilized 6y ago
Before we get too excited, we already know phosphine is in Jupiter's atmosphere, and Jupiter is an awfully unlikely candidate for life. So the claim that it can only be produced in the lab and by microbes strikes me as already implausi
3215.
by civilized 6y ago
The dplyr team is genuinely working hard to make the tabular data manipulation tool. IIRC versions 0.5, 0.7, and 1.0 all brought major enhancements. The basic structure has remained consistent but the advanced API keeps getting refactored
3216.
by civilized 6y ago
That isn't what invasive means. At all.
3217.
by civilized 6y ago
That seems like a good thing if you are serious about scaling up their use...
3218.
by civilized 6y ago
People really don't seem to think the working parent thing through. Unless there is a stay-at-home parent, commuting to an office does nothing to eliminate childcare-related disruptions of your work time. It just makes you completely d
3219.
by civilized 6y ago
If you're just saying "this is how the world works" - yeah, maybe, but not everyone is the same. I'm sure there are some individual reporters and maybe, occasionally, even whole news orgs, that are trying to be better th
3220.
by civilized 6y ago
> IMO the problem is expectations. "Restraining it (a newspaper) to true facts & sound principles only" is not just boring... it's unimportant. It's the narrative that makes it salient. > Calling out intellectu
3221.
by civilized 6y ago
Bemused at the knee-jerk downvotes against anyone who has an opinion on unions in EITHER direction. As in so many internet spaces, partisan zealots are degrading our ability to converse. I hope the mods figure out how to keep them from turn
3222.
by civilized 6y ago
It's a good point to raise - at the same time, I think it's generally accepted that THC is on the safer side of the "problematic drug" spectrum, while opioids are on the riskier side?
3223.
by civilized 6y ago
I agree! Statisticians have largely led the development of robust methods, so I don't see how they can be characterized as ignoring the concern.
3224.
by civilized 6y ago
All but the simplest statistical estimators have researcher degrees of freedom (certainly including multilevel models) so it seems arbitrary to criticize the trimmed mean in particular for that "fault". Similarly, any estimator ca
3225.
by civilized 6y ago
This post seems to be conflating a few different things: 1. Trimming for mean estimation, which removes extreme values in an algorithmic fashion 2. Subjective removal of outliers based on researcher judgment (this is the garden of forki
3226.
by civilized 6y ago
Maybe there's a reasonable question about how susceptible children are to infection? Like, conditional on infection they have high viral loads that likely make them spreaders, but maybe it's hard for the virus to take hold in chil
3227.
by civilized 6y ago
It's good to have independent confirmation, but to my recollection, a months-old German study already reported high viral loads in the respiratory tracts of asymptomatic infected children. The idea that children don't spread COVID
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Mathematical Structure of Particle Collisions Comes into View(quantamagazine.org)
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by civilized 6y ago
I like resilience better as well - here it just happens that the technical terms of statistics match up fairly nicely with what we're trying to say.
3230.
by civilized 6y ago
It's a bit different aspect of the same thing. If B can perform better than A given the same data, it usually means B can perform equal to A with less data. From wikipedia: > Essentially, a more efficient estimator, experiment, or t
3231.
by civilized 6y ago
> efficiency as the opposite of stability In statistics, there is a slight variant of this thesis that is true in a precise formal sense: the tradeoff between efficiency and "robustness" (stability in a non-ideal situation).
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by civilized 6y ago
It didn't. It contracted by 9.5% in Q2, which, if repeated for four consecutive quarters, would become 32.9%. Annualized figures might make sense in ordinary times, but these are not ordinary times.
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by civilized 6y ago
> There are already endless reports of there being insufficient workers for agricultural jobs, nursing, teachers, etc. Wages haven't risen to meet the demand. They've remained stagnant or dropped in the long term. Meanwhile, th
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by civilized 7y ago
Indeed, let's retire all metrics! Not one of them measures everything that matters!
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by civilized 7y ago
A predictably bad name that reflects Silicon Valley pretensions of "biohacking"
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by civilized 7y ago
I think this can explain why individual companies don't go out of their way to behave better when it hurts their bottom line. But why don't companies come together to advocate for better standards overall, so that no one in partic