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Great paper! My undergrad advisor wrote an interesting article that explains the difference in perspective between information criterion measures, such as AIC and BIC to biologists using similar reasoning. http://www.ncbi.nlm.ni
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What you're getting at is important, and described really well in a recent article by Judea Pearl on Simpson's paradox [here]( http://ftp.cs.ucla.edu/pub/stat_ser/r414.pdf ). Namely, because they didn&#x27
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Python's map and filter already run over iterators. If you're talking about creating filters that are composable, so that you could do filter1 = filter(predicate1) # curried filter filter2 = filter(predicate2) # curried
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A key component to transducers is to realize that map, filter, take, can all be expressed as special cases of the reduce function. So a curried map function can be expressed as a reduction operation, for example, in python you could do..
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Check out osf.io, it's run by a non-profit called the Center for Open Science, and is dedicated to hosting scientific data and papers. You can even link your github / Dropbox, and choose at any point to register your project, whic
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I love how clean the documentation is. It seems like oftentimes new methods are implemented as an afterthought (if at all). I would need to read the article to know what's it doing under the hood, but felt like it would be very easy to
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I disagree with this in terms of their main claim. Statistical power depends not only on sample size, but effect size as well. The effect sizes are strong (often Cohen's d is greater than or near 1). This would mean that on average,
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I associate what seems like the main component of their name with an object, and then imagine that object interact with the person. For example, if someone's name was Mike, I would picture them singing into a mic (say, at karaoke). The
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As a graduate student I receive spam from addresses with Indian names a few times each month. I know from speaking to my advisor that the level of spam he receives is much greater, and often contains names that sound foreign to him. Even wo