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by derbOac 2y ago
I love the islands in northern Lake Michigan, especially the line that goes from Washington Island in WI to Rock Island north to St. Martin and then to Summer Island. It's always seemed so remote. I assume these are the "Huron Isl
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Fragile X held him back. An experimental drug is helping him break free(npr.org)
2 points by derbOac 2y ago|0 comments
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The fundamental problem imho is that standardized tests, which start out as well-intended, start to replace actual skills as a focus of interest. This is especially problematic when the tests are only correlated 0.1-0.4 with whatever is act
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by derbOac 2y ago
Given all the suppression and secrecy that was going on at the time of the outbreak, I'm never sure what to make of studies like this. It's impressive in how detailed it is but it's also been years and there's so many va
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by derbOac 2y ago
The discussion in this essay applies to so many organizational domains if you stretch definitions just a bit.
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Reframing it as curiosity is a good point, although the essay as written resonated with me because it emphasizes the "productive ignorance" of research. One of the central problems of our time in research and academics, I think, i
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by derbOac 2y ago
One thing I miss from paper newspapers was the placement of ads based on content on the page. So, for example, if I was looking at the calendar of theater events, or theater reviews, the page would be plastered with ads for performing arts
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by derbOac 2y ago
I do aging genetics research and in fact that's the opposite of my impression so far. Not trying to be contrary, I'm sympathetic to that idea, but most of what I've seen suggests idiosyncratic environmental effects become mor
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by derbOac 2y ago
I haven't had a chance to read the original paper but as an editor and frequent reviewer I had a couple of questions. First, a lot of journals post criteria to evaluate papers by. For various reasons, open journals seem to push these m
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by derbOac 2y ago
The increase in numbers each year is pretty remarkable.
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by derbOac 2y ago
The Hindenburg, and apparently those linked planes ended after catastrophic accidents. Not saying they couldn't have been revived but safety has a way of constraining what you might do. Reading the main article reminded me of the Conco
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by derbOac 2y ago
Tobacco scent is pretty popular as a fragrance in fragrance and wetshaving communities.
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by derbOac 2y ago
Maybe I missed this but I was surprised they didn't mention the connection to correlation. Cosine similarity can be thought of as a correlation, and some bivariate distributions (normal I think?) can be rexpressed in terms of cosine si
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by derbOac 2y ago
It's also a shame they only see recent grads as recruitment targets.
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Are Professional Forecasters Overconfident?(libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org)
1 points by derbOac 2y ago|0 comments
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I think this is correct although it points to the crux of the problem, at least in the US I think. My impression is a pervasive disconnect (again, at least in the US) has started to develop between those types of mandatory credentials and t
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by derbOac 2y ago
Prisons and psychiatric care provide compelling examples of the boundaries of for-profit models and why they might not always be the best solutions in an area. You can always argue — reasonably I think — that these cases represent anomalous
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by derbOac 2y ago
I was looking for something like this. I'm still a little confused about how SimpleX works without userids, even after reading through the material. I assume it operates around "chats" rather than users? That is, participants
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Martin Shkreli copied his $2M Wu-Tang album and sent it to "50 different chicks"(arstechnica.com)
11 points by derbOac 2y ago|1 comments
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> my issue is that they are not run like universities, they are run like job training centers I think part of the tricky thing is that this is what HR/employer/MBA-type cultures increasingly see a degree as. So why not just go
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by derbOac 2y ago
There's still much too much over regulation in my opinion though, and too much monopolization. Cheap money being dumped into a broken system won't do much. But you raise an important point.
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by derbOac 2y ago
Not sure why you're being downvoted. Obviously there's something controversial about noncompetes but to me they seem problematic on their face, like something that violates basic contract law and shouldn't require explicit ba
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by derbOac 2y ago
I've sometimes wondered if dating apps are best served through some kind of nonprofit decentralized format, maybe something grassroots, or through the government or something, precisely because of the issues you raise. I admit that mig
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by derbOac 2y ago
I haven't been following this as closely as I maybe should have, but I'm a bit confused why Google's app store would be broken up as a monopoly but Apple's wouldn't, especially when Android allows sideloading?
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by derbOac 2y ago
The ruling itself ironically provides an example of why it is a bad ruling: Gorsuch, authoring the majority opinion, repeatedly referred to "nitrous oxide" rather than nitrogen oxides. If the SCOTUS justices can't get this ri
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by derbOac 2y ago
Yeah I didn't like the article in part because it works from an odd premise, that any building that many people dislike essentially is disliked by everyone, and therefore is not in need of saving. If that was the standard, almost no mo
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by derbOac 2y ago
Also a professor (of two varieties at different times). I have mixed feelings about this article. I agree with the sense of ignored crisis it points to, but also think it doesn't understand the problems with the solutions it recommends
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At the end of the article it notes thqt quote is coming from the company who built the pool. On some swimming forums competitors were complaining about the bidding process for the pool construction and giving a different opinion, noting tha
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by derbOac 2y ago
I think "adventure game" has broadened a bit in meaning maybe. To me it means a game where the outcomes don't depend on response speed or dexterity in a game task and where those game tasks are diagetic content within a narra
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by derbOac 2y ago
I never liked the clubs you were expected to put yourself in, what "side" you were on, or the idea that problems in science that we see today could somehow be reduced to the inferential philosophy you adopt. In a lot of ways I see

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