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by conformist 4y ago
Yes, the review paper appears to be roughly conditioned on "using data that academics can readily access or generate". Clearly, this doesn't generalise to cases where you have highly specific data (e.g. if you're Google)
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by conformist 4y ago
You're probably aware, but just in case...: If you're not a near-native German speaker, having a career and social life in Bavaria are likely very tricky. My guess is that it's an order of magnitude to tougher than in the Net
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by conformist 4y ago
https://www.stat.cmu.edu/~larry/all-of-statistics/index.html
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Paragliders' Launch Trajectory Is Universal(arxiv.org)
2 points by conformist 4y ago|0 comments
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by conformist 4y ago
(from an applied maths PhD perspective) I'd argue that you can distinguish between career paths that - make use of and are related to your broader specialisation within maths (e.g. fluid dynamics, actuarial sciences, cryptography, deri
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by conformist 4y ago
I guess the point is that if there are a large number of big, variable, competing effects with interactions etc, you can't just look at each of them in isolation and expect them to predict a large fraction of the variance. So you need
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Selecting on statistical significance and practical importance is wrong [pdf](stat.columbia.edu)
3 points by conformist 4y ago|0 comments
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by conformist 4y ago
Sometimes it helps to decide on one book and go and read it in a public space like a park, library or museum. That can reduce the required discipline somewhat. Ideally a place where it is socially less acceptable or inconvenient to stare at
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by conformist 4y ago
I'm not sure whether her cynicism is helpful or not. But, style aside, it seems like it's mainly a function of whether her subfield as a whole skews optimistic? It seems like her impression is that (parts of) the high energy theor
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by conformist 5y ago
Eigen is a great library. A similar one to consider that can at times be slightly easier to use coming from a python background is armadillo: http://arma.sourceforge.net/
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by conformist 5y ago
One aspect of this is probably that scientists will be taught conventional notions of beauty within their fields as part of the folk-wisdom around their course material. This is somewhat supported by the bar chart comparing physics and biol
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by conformist 5y ago
This feels a bit straw man like in that proponents of longtermism appear to be aware of improbable outcomes and of discounting and things like that. One of the problems seems to be that even if you agree that the utility of unlikely but gre
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by conformist 5y ago
Yeah, it reads like a very literal amateur translation by a native German speaker without much editing.
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Institute for Replication, and the Usual Concerns(statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
3 points by conformist 5y ago|0 comments
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by conformist 5y ago
Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus is always worth having a look at. Not everyone's cup of tea, but I greatly enjoyed it at around that age. Ed Thorp's autobiography "A man for all markets" is fun, in p
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by conformist 5y ago
"Long Gamma" in sloppy-Black-Scholes-lingo means essentially to bet on increasing realised vol, i.e., in this case on rates moving a lot, regardless of the direction. Cf https://quant.stackexchange.com/questions&#x
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Optimization of brain and life performance: Striving for playing at the top(arxiv.org)
28 points by conformist 5y ago|7 comments
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by conformist 5y ago
Generally true, but working from home is also becoming increasingly common even for front office roles (at least in the UK, not sure how that generalises).
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Digital natives: where is the evidence? [pdf](eprints.lse.ac.uk)
1 points by conformist 5y ago|0 comments
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by conformist 5y ago
From the study's abstract: "The deluge of new papers may deprive reviewers and readers the cognitive slack required to fully recognize and understand novel ideas. Competition among many new ideas may prevent the gradual accumulati
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by conformist 5y ago
There seem to be many people in the effective altruism movement, and also it's "longtermism" fraction, that try to think about the trade-offs alluded to in the article very carefully and in a structured way. The article seems
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by conformist 5y ago
Isn't Andrew Gelman's take more like "Look what they did, that's kind of interesting, what do you think?" rather than "look at this article, it is true"? See also the comment section.
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by conformist 5y ago
Exactly. Additionally, liquidity would probably also imply that if you had a skill associated with an illiquid market, you'd earn a premium for that (b/c hard to find a replacement). This condition doesn't seem to be met by t
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by conformist 5y ago
It decidedly does not generally lack these tools. A main point of many popular secular(ist) believe systems, e.g. such represented by humanist societies, is to question implicit assumptions and understand what fundamental philosophical beli
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by conformist 5y ago
It seems like it aims at giving somebody who would like to get started doing theoretical research in the field some pointers and basic insights. I don't think it does a particularly bad job at this, in particular given that it will be
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by conformist 5y ago
How big a role does survivorship bias play? It seemed like in the case of chimpanzees the article sort of implies that the effect "nice and more self-controlled chimpanzees live longer", mattered too? I wonder what portion of &quo
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by conformist 5y ago
This seems to be largely a matter of taste? A field where ideas are the limits can be great for somebody who wants their success to be driven and measured by ... their ideas? Sure, it can be frustrating to be banging your head against the s
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by conformist 5y ago
Making sure that dividends are taxed like other types of income could make sense - not sure how this currently works in the US? Removing dividends all-together? That doesn't seem like a good idea, because why would anyone invest in a b
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The Finnish soldier who took his entire troop's meth supply(iflscience.com)
25 points by conformist 5y ago|2 comments
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Simulation: The Challenge for Data Science(youtube.com)
2 points by conformist 6y ago|0 comments

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