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by derbOac 1y ago
Something about titles (and tone?) like this bother me — absolutist in time as well as in geography. It's maybe a subtlety that doesn't matter but I see it a lot lately and it's part of a pattern that I see as lazy and obscur
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Brain aging shows nonlinear transitions, suggesting a midlife "critical window"(pnas.org)
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This is a real problem now. It's not pessimistic hand wringing, and the US could easily see its scientific infrastructure collapse. I don't think the general public really comprehends what's at stake — some do but others do n
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by derbOac 1y ago
I wondered about that too. When I was an undergrad first learning statistics I asked my stats instructor (a grad student) about this issue and they responded with something like "the population size doesn't matter because for the
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by derbOac 1y ago
Withholding funds based on viewpoint is coercive by definition, otherwise the administration wouldn't be doing it. Because it's the government, it's government constraints on speech. Title IX moreover is codified law passed b
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by derbOac 1y ago
I think the underlying concept you're looking for is corruption versus rule of law. Blaming the victim versus expecting consequences for the perpetrator etc.
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Conditioning government support based on "viewpoint" is about as close as you can get to government constraining freedom of speech.
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US says it will start revoking visas for Chinese students(reuters.com)
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5 is also something that happens sometimes with physicians and healthcare generally anyway, and could be trained in LLMs is my guess. 1 is often (usually?) not done today by physicians per se anyway. 2 is kind of a strawman about LLMs. 6 is
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Trump administration orders US embassies to stop student visa interviews(theguardian.com)
14 points by derbOac 1y ago|3 comments
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The cited Guardian article is worth reading as well if you're interested; there's a usage quiz with it: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/may/18/marked-decli...
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by derbOac 1y ago
Periods too. Periods and commas are being used incorrectly in place of semicolons, ellipses, and em dashes.
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by derbOac 1y ago
I've published stats papers on Bayesian methodology, consider myself a kind of Bayesianist, and stances like the link essay, and many of the posts here, make me sad and a bit frustrated. As you're saying, it's become an ideol
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I'm glad to see this actually being evaluated empirically. Initially I was surprised but as I thought about it it made sense to me, and was consistent with my own personal experiences. Like a lot of things in the professional sphere, m
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Now add communication between players to repeated trials.
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Yet another reason to avoid X (or Musk-associated products in general really).
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I read something similar about walnuts — the etymology means "foreign nut", reflecting Roman introduction into Germanic areas.
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It's amazing to me that we're capable of flying a craft anywhere near that close to something that size that far away.
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We have a child who was in elementary school at that time, so we were acutely aware of many of the different policies schools were adopting, and the discussions that were going on at least locally. We were relatively lucky I think in that o
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by derbOac 1y ago
> reflect whatever they think the bulk of their consumer base supports. I've been trying to put my finger on what seems so strange to me and I think this is it in part. Someplace like the US is pretty heterogeneous, and their custom
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by derbOac 1y ago
That was my reading as well, although like a lot of things lately I find myself stumbling onto these issues where something that seems minor, it eventually ends up not being so minor. Or something that seems like a meaningless distinction i
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I'd really like to see this data (inflation data) coming from a different source (not the federal government), all things considered.
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Ostensibly they're arguing the problem is government-mandated use of renewables and regulation to mandate that use in real time, rather than based on physical need or prudence. Not agreeing or disagreeing with them, just that's ho
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When I first glanced at your post I thought you were pointing out the irony of contrast between your first and last line.
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> humans also do not breach copyright by reading what others have written and incorporating it into their understanding of the world. Tell that to Aaron Swartz. Ignoring that, it's not the reading that's the problem — if all
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There's also the omitted relevant comparison, which is live SARS-CoV-2 virus exposure with no vaccine.
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I'm surprised this isn't getting more attention.
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Usually in psychotherapy controls, there's either: waitlist control, where people get nothing psychoeducational, where people get some kind of educational content about mental health but not therapy existing nonpsychological service, l
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I share your perspective; my guess is if it was copyrighted it probably would have had the same status. My guess is it would have been distributed relatively cheaply with the same outcome. However, I also think it's reasonable to posit
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Yeah I didn't mean to sound condescending toward teachers or educational researchers for that matter. I just meant that I think usually when it gets filtered into policy or curricular discussions at a certain level I feel like the disc

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