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Decreases in correlation between cognitive ability and education over time(nature.com)
7 points by derbOac 3y ago|0 comments
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by derbOac 3y ago
Personally I've never liked pipes outside of scripting one-offs because I've found them difficult to read. This is because in languages like R argument order can have meaning. Even if the piped argument goes in a certain location
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Quantum Go Fish(arstechnica.com)
1 points by derbOac 3y ago|0 comments
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by derbOac 3y ago
My sense (as someone with generations of family in healthcare) is, at least in the US, there's a massive gap between what the healthcare system was like decades ago and how it functions now. At one point in the distant past there was p
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by derbOac 3y ago
Not to mention all the territorial regulatory capture on the provider side. I'm supportive of greater "publicizing"(?) of healthcare but I also agree that there are many, many, many ways in which competition could be increase
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by derbOac 3y ago
My impression is that the concern with EV and battery fires is that they can occur in the home or while otherwise stationary, unexpectedly causing much more catastrophic damage. ICE fires, in contrast, seem to be mostly associated with coll
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by derbOac 3y ago
I don't know. I've published Bayesian methodology papers and reviewed them and although I might call myself an objective Bayesianist maybe, Bayesianism has its own implicit biases. In the very least, I think it can take advantage
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by derbOac 3y ago
This is a critical problem of our time in my opinion. Persons are approached as static unchangeable objects, as if their trajectories are deterministic and what you're doing with these models are resolving the trajectories like a teles
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by derbOac 3y ago
I get the humor, but I do feel as if there's some converse to Sturgeon's Law in certain areas, in that for some things, 90% of everything is more than sufficient for most people or situations. Athletics is maybe a good example. A
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by derbOac 3y ago
Some of these relationships are really interesting. For example, according to this, an American Robin is more closely related to the Tyrannosaurus rex than the Tyrannosaurus rex was to, say, a Brachiosaur. I guess I knew birds were closely
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by derbOac 3y ago
This has been a known problem for a long time. In fact, psychological test development studies use pilot screening to assess for the ability of a test to detect people who are trying to make themselves look good for exactly this reason. It&
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by derbOac 3y ago
For reasons that I have difficulty articulating this seems relevant to some intuition I've had in the last several years about matter maintaining "information memory" across time in a way that energy doesn't seem to? I&#
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by derbOac 3y ago
I think the "greed is good" speech represents a sort of counter movie speech along the lines you're pointing to: https://www.americanrhetoric.com/MovieSpeeches/moviespeechwa...
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by derbOac 3y ago
Yeah I'm not opposed to exhibits of private collections. Sometimes it's a good opportunity to see lesser-known works, and I don't have a problem with "here's a random selection of artworks collected by someone"
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by derbOac 3y ago
There's an outdoor park in the region with what was a well-loved area — a common place to get married, beautiful views. Several years ago there was a major donation and suddenly this area — prime park topography — was filled haphazardl
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by derbOac 3y ago
Maybe although having worked in this type of environment relatively recently it seems the expectation persists in some places and might even be cultivated.
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by derbOac 3y ago
This Wikipedia article seems oddly written to me? The original story about the "great horse manure crisis of 1894" seems to have no known basis in historical record, but the Wikipedia article is written in such a way that this par
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by derbOac 3y ago
> Can you give some examples and expand on this? I realize it's speculative but I'd like to hear your speculations :) That's a big topic, probably something you could write many papers about, or a book. I probably also ove
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by derbOac 3y ago
This is getting off-topic, but I've given up making heads or tails of authorship. I know senior authors who are last on a paper just because they're senior and realize they (1) didn't really contribute much at all (they might
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by derbOac 3y ago
I don't know enough about this area of research to have an opinion on this particular topic, but I've noticed a trend with this sort of thing with my colleagues. They both claim at different times, depending on whether it benefits
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by derbOac 3y ago
I'm pretty familiar with that literature for professional reasons and the linked paper provides a pretty fair assessment, or at least it's consistent with my impressions overall. One thing worth noting that's been skimmed ove
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by derbOac 3y ago
I increasingly feel sort of isolated in my concerns about this sort of thing and how they are framed, and what it says about the power of the FDA and problems it might lead to in other areas. I think homeopathy is nonsense really, has no sc
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by derbOac 3y ago
Relatedly: https://www.unhcr.org/us/about-unhcr/who-we-are/figures-glan... These kinds of phenomena are why I wish there was a better scientific understanding of societal functioning. I tire a bit of public i
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by derbOac 3y ago
There's echoes of the "defund the police" controversy in "abolish the FDA". I doubt abolishing the FDA will happen, and I'm not sure many people who argue for it really literally mean to completely abolish it.
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by derbOac 3y ago
My experience is that sometimes this can backfire in horrible ways, because it moves the decision-making process from some group to some other mechanism, and in doing so reduces the ability to provide feedback during the process. If a group
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by derbOac 3y ago
This was in fact I think the earlier model at least implicitly: scientists were hired and tenured by the institution, with the understanding that their job was to teach and do research. The institution-level nature of things ensured a kind
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by derbOac 3y ago
I've not heard of the idea of blameless culture, so I enjoyed reading this from that angle. One of my worst and most consequential work experiences was with the opposite type of culture. There's lots to be said about it, but in re
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by derbOac 3y ago
For me personally I know that what you mention is the problem. My life has become very stressful in existential ways that it wasn't before. I can link my sleep problems to discrete events, which, if they were resolved, would probably r
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Limits on quantum computation due to timekeeping accuracy(sciencealert.com)
1 points by derbOac 3y ago|0 comments
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by derbOac 3y ago
I had a related thought which is that there's some bistability involved maybe. That is, even if there's not hard boundaries and exceptions can be found to any rule, in aggregate systems tend to behave as one or the other roughly s

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