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by epgui 4y ago
Public funding works really well in functional countries.
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Listen, we don’t need to speculate. Read the History of Falcon9 development. Your comments in this thread all go against the development approach of that rocket— Falcon9 is a stable platform now as it is used in production. In the developme
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by epgui 4y ago
I really tried to read this comment, but I can't get past the word salad. I'm sorry, I don't know what you're trying to say. Is there some sort of allusion to the meritocracy trap or fundamental attribution bias? How doe
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by epgui 4y ago
Personally, I think it's sufficiently interesting that "emergence" happens and that we have multiple examples of it. I'm not hung up on whether the study of it will lead to new testable predictions (though that would be
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To that short list I would add some purely mathematical topics such as cellular automata (which show great promise towards helping formalize the concept of emergence IMO), but also biology, ecology, neuroscience, psychology, sociology, econ
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You’re very right about that.
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by epgui 4y ago
You’re allowed to define different meanings for words if it makes your argument go forward and if you make it clear what it is. However I still find the argument very unpersuasive, and the usual meaning of “magical thinking” makes me feel u
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by epgui 4y ago
I appreciate that the author is using very specific meaning for the term “magical thinking”, but even with this, I am uncomfortable with the assertion that somehow understanding emergence has anything to do with magic or magical thinking, a
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by epgui 4y ago
Probably because of discoverability or something like that?
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You've already been provided with all the breadcrumbs required to understand the key concepts. Your failure to engage with this information and follow the trail does not make you a "good skeptic", it makes you obstinate.
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Side note: the French example “apprendre” listed in the article seems like it might not really belong in this category. On it’s own it always means “to learn”, and it is only when you use it in specific grammatical constructions, for exampl
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I’m sure you could go and cherry-pick someone who had the opposite opinion somewhere, but in reality this is not a very controversial position. It’s introductory textbook / basic reasoning material (if you consider “basic population dy
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Reading the comments that I think you're referencing, it sounds more like most people are talking about different facets of broadly-the-same facts. I don't think it's fair to go from "people have different perspectives&q
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> Except that the reason for the comeback of Polio are not anti-vaxx people, but flaws of the original vaccine itself No, it's both factors together. Without skyrocketing anti-vaxx prevalence, even the vaccine defects would have bee
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That doesn't change that the campaign could have been successful if more people were vaccinated, even with that defective vaccine. If 5 people get iatrogenically infected but the infection has nowhere to spread, what do you think happe
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Nobody normalizes an uninformative prior on its own. Normalization only happens when you get your posterior. I am not straw-manning anything: bayesian methods are a generalization of frequentist methods. The equality / isomorphism to
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Oops!
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by epgui 4y ago
Haha I wouldn’t say it like that, but I’m pretty sure we feel the same way deep down. Regardless of how true your comment might be, this can seem a bit hostile or condescending to people who don’t have a “cleaner” reference point for langua
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by epgui 4y ago
I did not perceive your comment as anti-bayesian, or at least not necessarily so! :) But are you sure you know what I meant when I said “uninformative prior”? Because choosing an uninformative prior does not involve choosing any parameters:
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by epgui 4y ago
You can always encode the prior. If you take the frequentist approach and ignore bayesian concepts, it’s the same as just going bayesian but with an “uninformative prior” (constant distribution). The only question is… would you rather be up
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Gotta love when these pre-schooler situations escalate! I'm imagining (pausing to think about an aussie cultural reference) marmite... Marmite everywhere! hahaha :joy-emoji:
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This! Also worth noting that one of the common organizing principles between all packages in the tidyverse is the concept of "tidy data" (see specifically H Wickham's paper), and the use of intercompatible combinators.
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What R has going for it is ggplot2, which is heavily inspired by a formally validated "Grammar of Graphics" (see the L Wilkinson book). One of the main reasons why the tidyverse works so well is because it tends to follow the orga
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by epgui 4y ago
I don’t understand what your second paragraph has to do with my comment. Or maybe it was just a failure of the imagination? (ie.: it’s possible to jot down some notes at 5pm, it doesn’t have to happen at 10:32am, this is not a 911 call. Som
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There are some interesting points made about incentives to keep AI mysterious here, and around the fact that our language enables conceptions of AI as mystical. However, if you get a neuroanatomist and a computer scientist who specializes i
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In many developed countries, yes, we would expect that. It’s a pre-school and it’s essentially an administrative issue. And we would probably not need more than one officer, perhaps armed with a notepad and a pen. Refer to the legal princip
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by epgui 4y ago
Thanks for correcting me & for the info!
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I don’t know what I’m talking about, but presumably the address on the envelope is not the final destination.
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Even though WanderPanda's comment could have been written with more care (and thank you for your work in pointing this out), FWIW I think it's possible to charitably interpret it in interesting ways.
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It's both, but not really either of these, IMO. It's more about characterizing and quantifying uncertainty. And the "null hypothesis" focus in introductory stats is hotly contested, both pedagogically and philosophical

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