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by datastoat 7y ago
Great article! She mentions that probability and law are intertwined, in particular in two aspects: degrees of proof, and aleatory contracts. It's also been suggested that the originators of probability were either lawyers or sons of l
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by datastoat 7y ago
What the linked article says: > In a sea of amyloid-focused grants, there are tiny islands of research on oxidative stress, neuroinflammation, and, especially, a protein called tau. The Wikipedia article you cite: > On examining her b
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by datastoat 7y ago
Database-backed debugging is great! It means that debugging can be done as a data science exercise, which is very useful when, for example, a rare confluence of external factors make the program behave badly. Earlier examples: "Debuggi
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by datastoat 7y ago
A more charitable take on machine learning: you decide that your criterion is predictive accuracy, and you evaluate it on a holdout set (or you cross-validate). The idea of evaluation on a holdout set is actually frequentist: it's equi
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by datastoat 7y ago
It's worth pointing out that the study cited in the article does use an analysis that looks for causality. The study says "To formally test mediation [...] calculate indirect effects similar to the Sobel method." I think this
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by datastoat 8y ago
In Sydney you're paying use-charges, rather than congestion pricing (unless you use the Sydney Harbour Bridge / tunnel, which does have congestion pricing, approximated by time-of-day pricing). https://www.rms.nsw.gov.a