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by derbOac 2y ago
Having watched the explosion of Bluesky over the last week, and being on Mastodon for years, I have a different take on it. It's sort of consistent with what you're saying but sort of not. The problem to me is more that whenever y
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I have no "Advanced".
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The study is here https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17588928.2015.1... It's interesting but I think the citation is a little misleading. I think the samples of convenience probably oversample
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by derbOac 2y ago
I made a big move back near family that was hugely professionally disruptive to me (although beneficial for my partner). As time has gone on I've started to realize being away from family was weighing on me far more than I was aware of
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by derbOac 2y ago
I have a copy of Churchill's memoirs of WWII and also read his memoirs of WWI. I always liked the maps in the books, as they somehow brought me a little closer to the time. They're another way of conveying information not only abo
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When Copyright Transforms the Right to Remember(hyperallergic.com)
2 points by derbOac 2y ago|0 comments
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The filter makes it.
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After reading these sorts of articles I'm not sure anymore but... I'm pretty sure I've had real truffle as well as artificial truffle. The real truffle is a "softer" more mild flavor that's hard to explain, tha
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by derbOac 2y ago
I had a similar reaction to the discussion of farmer's markets. Technically yes, I've been to markets where it's obvious some vendors are not selling local produce but in the vast majority of the markets around me it's e
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Bug or intentional? macOS 15.1 removes ability to launch unsigned applications(osnews.com)
3 points by derbOac 2y ago|1 comments
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by derbOac 2y ago
Wikipedia provides a good overview of the different theories of the Synoptic gospels' origins (see the summary at the end of the entry especially): https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synoptic_Gospels#The_synopti...
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by derbOac 2y ago
I think NHST is kind of overstated as a cause of the replication crisis. People do routinely misuse and misinterpret p-values — the worst of it I've seen is actually in the biomedical and biological sciences, but I'm not sure that
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by derbOac 2y ago
I'm fine with GPL-1 agonists, they seem great, not trying to argue against them. This is an age old problem in the obesity treatment and research community. It never seems to go away. It's come up with bariatric surgery, with othe
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by derbOac 2y ago
These kinds of essays resonate with me but there's always something about them that seems really off and misguided at the same time. The survivorship bias you point to is a big part of it. Reading the biography of Carnegie, just as one
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by derbOac 2y ago
FWIW I think contrarian scientific viewpoints are important if they're rigorous, and Teicholz makes a reasonable case for the viewpoint that saturated fat reductions are unrelated to mortality. However, I don't think Teicholz hers
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by derbOac 2y ago
> The one missing part of this theory is, it should be possible to create such an imprint with someone who is still alive. I've read of this idea, it's traditional in some cultures, I just don't remember the name of it. I
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by derbOac 2y ago
I remember some tradition that Roman ghosts were often associated with or seen as blue for some reason? That's only my fuzzy and likely incorrect memory though, from when I was studying in college. I have a memory of a play or piece of
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by derbOac 2y ago
Although identifying outright fraud is important, I think collectively the bigger, more systemic damage is done by other things that are more subtle: material that falls in a gray area (of questionable research practices, or even less obvio
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by derbOac 2y ago
This was an interesting tidbit about the film but my guess is, even if I did process the scratches, they'd probably register as glitches or something, due to radiation or who knows what. At some level it seems consistent with the plot
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by derbOac 2y ago
Most journals that I know require the actual reviewer to be named. Usually it's phrased as "someone who assisted in writing the review." Someone could lie I guess but I'm not sure what they'd get out of that and at
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by derbOac 2y ago
I love this stuff because it's so counterintuitive until you've worked through some of it. There was an article linked to on HN a while back about high-dimensional Gaussian distributions that was similar in message, and probably m
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by derbOac 2y ago
Honestly I can tell which ones they are. I've noticed it in our area, it's like some unlabeled class problem. The websites and advertising are different, they approach everything differently. Everything is very overpriced and ther
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by derbOac 2y ago
I agree. Our state AG filed a lawsuit after the pandemic — I don't even really remember exactly what goods it involved — but my impression at the time is that these things don't always covary in the way the article assumes. Increa
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Youth Sports Were Already Intense–Now AI Tools Are Supercharging the Competition(gizmodo.com)
5 points by derbOac 2y ago|1 comments
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You're being downvoted but I wish you weren't. I've worked in healthcare, and pretty much my whole family does in all the professional roles you can think of. I have mixed feelings about this article and others like it becaus
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by derbOac 2y ago
This is where it gets murky. The algorithm could also recover a group without labeling anything — "Latent Group 7539". Even then, how do you know the algorithm is recommending something "because" of the unlabeled sexual
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by derbOac 2y ago
MI always seems to me like a backup, a pragmatic substitute to get around software limitations or lack of an inferential framework that can handle missingness.
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by derbOac 2y ago
I think there's a continuum of good versus bad faith motivation in any discussion anywhere. The problem on social media I think is twofold: first, you often don't know where on that continuum things are because you might not know
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by derbOac 2y ago
That article fills in a lot of blanks for me: "Over the weekend, MV Ruby was also denied access to the Strait of Denmark, the entrance to the Baltic which would have allowed it to offload its dangerous cargo at a Russian port. Accordin
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by derbOac 2y ago
There's evidence that the turning point was in the 90s but I suspect the real underlying problem is indirect funds as a revenue stream for universities, combined with the imposition of a for-profit business model expectation from polit

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