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In their defense, that's still better than most academic publications!
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Not to mention that the article links to a meta-analysis, which is a pretty good place to start!
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A compulsion to continuously check a website out of constant ruminating about missing out on knowledge seems like it could fall under OCD if it were highly disruptive to a person's functioning! (Not to take this off the rails, since I
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This made me wonder how well they pay, but there is no mention of money anywhere, which maybe makes it _more_ academic than a post-doc :o. application page: https://www.google.com/about/careers/jobs#!t=jo&jid=&
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Without a table of contents, it's hard to quickly see what is on the list.
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I really like hand drawn graphs in articles like these, but couldn't say whether it's because they're drawn by hand, or whether computer generated graphs are often much harder to get "right".
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This looks more like "Visualization using html code blocks". (but I really the idea of using it with Markdown!)
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I see it as a sort of trade-off. Give a lengthy explanation and people often ignore the advice. Make the advice short and frightening and people listen, but might not be so sure why!
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Interesting article! Some minor statistical pet peeves: 1. Setting non-significant bars to 0 seems fishy. Leaving them and putting confidence intervals on everything would let them speak for themselves. 2. Calling something effect size is a
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I want to have a decent process, but suck so bad. The process usually goes... 1. Resolve to take notes using {notebook, evernote, whatever}. 2. If not a notebook spend a week thinking about how to do it right. 3. Take a couple notes and fee
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I don't know. As a person who is part of a number of intended audiences, I still get frustrated when people (directing things at me) don't define acronyms when they're first used, since 1. it's a hinderence for people wh
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I don't see what's passive aggressive about it. It's explicitly communicating when you're open to interruption (without having to wait until you're interrupted).
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Something that may be related is that the further you get in an area, the less structured coaching available (through textbooks, academic advisors, etc..). In this sense, a new problem pops up, which is learning to decompose complex problem
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I wonder if the big challenge here is showing someone just how much they can learn. Like, put them in a well managed language course, or in yoga (or something), and see if it changes their perspective.
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Perfection is a pretty high bar! Most researchers who argue that practice isn't sufficient for being the best at something still view meaningful practice as extremely useful in a broad range of circumstances. (see an article on Bro
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Pro-tip: if you are having trouble starting or keeping with this, get some 3x5 cards and write / practice from them every day. 5 mins, whatever. I realize that keeping them on your phone, etc, will let you have them anywhere, but it wi
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Latent factor models have a really interesting history. They were developed heavily by psychologists (among others) over the past century, for use in testing and assessment. Nowadays, it's pretty interesting to see people in ML sometim
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I think I like learning this way, but then I remember the time I learned the hard way that Matlab hates when scripts begin with a number, and I question my life choices.
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I think a critical point to consider is that an "industry" is often not as monolithic as it may first seem. In my experience, people with similar interests in statistics / machine learning, and psychology / neuroscience
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I grabbed this from the first review article that popped up on google[1], so buyer beware. It says that non-repetitive sounds in general may create the effect: Concerning tasks that do not involve auditory targets, studies with adults have
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Those things really resonate with me. In some ways it feels like a person riding an slightly unruly elephant, and the music is to appease it.
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No problem! I can stay still for hours on difficult tasks, but am all over the place for mundane things. Just considering the spectrum of things people use for ADHD (accountability w/others -> stimulating music -> caffeine ->
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I can only speak from the angle of memory/attention research, but a couple lines of study struck me. 1. Irrelevant speech / sounds tends to reduce memory capacity for the task at hand[a]. 2. People with ADHD self-stimulate by, e.g
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> Available data on blacks specifically is completely irrelevant if blacks and whites aren't fundamentally different. The white model will generalize. I should have been more clear that I was responding to this part of your comment.
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It is a bias if you calculate the cost to people taking out loans, based on color. Green people will pay a higher cost, even though in the ground-truth model their race is not directly related to loan repayment. For example, if only blue pe
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FWIW, I present a case where race does not directly cause increased failure to repay, but common approaches to modeling could discriminate against race. These issues have been discussed in detail in statistical considerations of Simpson&#x2
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Even in models where race doesn't directly cause an outcome, a model's judgements may be biased against a race. For example, suppose that (1) people can be green or blue, (2) green people tend to live in Idaho, (3) living in Idaho
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Interestingly, the glucose idea is one that is often thrown around with "ego depletion", but there are several problems with it. If the replicability issues are set aside, there are many articles which suggest people's belief
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Downvoting is a form of feedback. If you are participating, then hopefully you are open to the idea that people could give you negative feedback. You can still participate, but if you keep participating in the same way, then I'm guessi
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> Insult is taken, not given. You can't decide what insults me, the same as I can't decide what insults you. By that token, anyone can claim that anything anyone says is insulting to them. Agreed, and because the conference org

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