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It seems like those calling for removing speakers are often trying to set identity contingencies. That is, a rule like, "if you are Douglas Crockford, then you can't speak at a conference". However, like identity contingencie
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I don't understand your comment. Do I need to know something about Paul Straw that isn't included in the article, or have I just missed the point?
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This feels like a pretty loaded question. It seems like you can have math with quick wins, keeping excitement and interest. When you say "boring" math, are you referring to the overall content or the way it's taught? Most of
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There have already been some good suggestions on programs / things to keep him busy, so I thought I'd throw in some things to consider when encouraging a smart kid. While it's often tempting to praise a kid when they do somet
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So frustrating. Lost = "I didn't think anyone would hold me accountable for it."
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These types of calculators were incredibly helpful while looking for developer / quantitative positions out of grad school, especially since I'm wrapping up a phd in psychology. I was so clueless in terms of what kind of salary I
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> convince the church hierarchy to dispatch 20,000 Mormons to the middle of nowhere, assuming they could do that. It's interesting, Mormonism originally encouraged its members to move to a central place, but around 1950 then prophet
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Is this true? If anything, I'm often surprised by the rudimentary ways big things are sometimes run (e.g. someone making 3d barplots in excel). But in the grand scheme of things I have no idea, so I'm legitimately curious.
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Yes, that is wrong. It sounds like you might be thinking about the standard deviation of normally distributed data. In this case, you can say something like, "the probability an observation will be within about [mean-2 sd, mean+2 sd] i
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I didn't see anything alarming in this phrase, but from responses in this thread it's clear it strikes a nerve with some people. And that's really helpful to know. I came into the thread seeing nothing wrong with it, but now
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> But it is very irritating when the doomsayers don't adjust their doomsaying based upon current scientific work. I love this line. It's like somebody just submitted doomsaying homework, and you are not taking issue with their
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Agreed, but with the addition of some periodic, many hour, something-completely-unanticipated-happened-and-I-am-so-perplexed debugging sessions.
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You are a bayesian analysis with strong priors on the chance of winning. I'm not objecting to your critique (as I don't know much about sports), I just keep thinking of P(data | model).
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Your account seems to assume that people will faithfully adhere to the suggestions of any model. In reality, not only have statisticians had a hard time accepting more prediction-centered approaches [1, see comments at end], but these appro
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Thanks to this comment, I've been tinkering with the security suite, and thought it would be worth noting that it can also flag a site as insecure due to your extensions. That doesn't look like the case here, but it's nice it
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I haven't used xtables or stargazer in a while, but ipython + pandas can display tables as html. Here is an interesting ipython notebook with some examples: http://nbviewer.jupyter.org/gist/chris1610/f2f4a2e91
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Great article! Just a note: spaced repetition is not only for rote learning, or "remembering things". When talking about spaced repetition, we need to make a distinction between repeated studying (seeing both the problem and answe
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Great point. The phrase "garbage in, garbage out" seems relevant. I always like reading comments on these types of analyses, since they often use the author's data to help me understand what might have been overlooked (which
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I think making that distinction would be similar to saying that a computer is not running software because it was built inside minecraft. Although, it's possible that creating something that does what humans do requires the same materi
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To be sure, there are two steps in their process: convince you their assessment is a valid reflection of the construct (term) of interest, and then examine different properties of the assessment (e.g. how reliable are a person's respon
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I think the most impressive part of this regimen would be not snacking. Having cheap, high calorie food / beverages available in, say, vending machines is a major problem that can bump people up in calories quickly. Add to that highly
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To be sure, the type of research that would look at the connection between being read bed-time stories and robbing a store is very likely to use hierarchical linear modeling (HLM), which does produce predictions. For example, in his HLM boo
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> Currently we have peer review done by a couple of people who get the paper and maybe they spend a couple of hours on it. Usually they cannot analyze the data because the data are not available – well, even if they were, they would not
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> This usually happens because someone runs a one-tailed test that ends up being overpowered. It always pains me a little when people doing research describe statistical power as a type of curse. Overpowered? Should we reduce it? The ris
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This. Another way to express it is that for an interval [a, b], multiplying two numbers c, d within that interval will be within [aa, bb], and for 3 numbers [aaa, bbb], but it's super convenient to that for a=0 and b=1 these are always
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> Yea, but what's to stop Python 4 from doing the same thing as Python 3? If it's any consolation, Guido learned his lesson[1] and will avoid backward incompatibility for Python 4. [1] https://mail.python.org/pi
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Clinicians / their governments decided that gay sex was not wrong / illegal. From this perspective, sexual attraction to the same sex is as much a disorder as attraction to the opposite sex. Sex with a child is illegal (broadly sp
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Cool library! I think there are a lot of researchers who are interested in using bayesian models, but need to see them in action in a very gentle way first. Implementing a demo in the browser for a bayesian approach you're trying to se
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I think phrasing AD/HD as boredom sensitive vs boredom tolerant doesn't reflect cases under which the constellation of behaviors / emotions would constitute a disorder. Boredom tolerant makes it sound like these people have a
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I glanced over the site, and was really taken by the simplicity of the approach! I've used Aki in the past, but resorted to scraping the sites I was learning from to create flash cards. This looks like it really takes the pain out of p

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