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by formulaT 11y ago
The problem with counterculture is that it encourages people to uncritically accept that mainstream culture is horrible (e.g. boring, White, materialist, racist/sexist/homophobic) and must be rejected. While everyone feels this wa
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by formulaT 11y ago
All behavioral studies aside, in the long run matching doesn't seem like a reasonable approach. The only money you have to donate is your own. If individual A offers to match my donations, I could reason that A will probably donate l
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by formulaT 11y ago
I couldn't see the article, only the abstract. But what they report in the abstract is some regression coefficients for a "masculinity score" and associated p-values. A very simple analysis, and not much that can go wrong t
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by formulaT 11y ago
This is my defense of whiteboard interviews. - They are aimed at identifying smart people who know the basics of coding and algorithms. They are intentionally not domain specific. In my experience, smart people can pick up all the other d
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by formulaT 11y ago
In this context, tensors are just multidimensional arrays. The easiest way to understand them is by analogy with matrices. Matrices are 2d arrays, and matrix decomposition uses methods inspired by geometry, to analyze data in matrix form
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by formulaT 11y ago
They key point here is that workers are not identical. If you are getting paid less than your colleagues, that could be because you got a raw deal, but it could also be because you aren't as good as them. Even within a job title, ther
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by formulaT 11y ago
Jewish people should question the ideology and politics that the Jewish community promotes, just as Hungarians should question the ideology and politics of the people who claim to represent Hungarians. This guy did a full about face from &q
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by formulaT 11y ago
Apart from their energy intensiveness, what is wrong with the suburbs? I grew up in suburbia, and I remember fresh air, open spaces and low crime. I get that suburbs can be boring for some people, but a lot of people I knew growing up chos
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by formulaT 11y ago
I think the best thing you can do is encourage them to take math related courses that can lead to non-academic jobs, such as statistics, machine learning, data science, bioinformatics and quantitative finance.
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by formulaT 11y ago
I didn't expect to like this article, but the author did a good job of describing trolling patterns that were clearly not simply posting opposing views. I also liked this inspirational quote: If you're out there trying to build,
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by formulaT 11y ago
The problem with that attitude is that "good quality" sites have their own biases, so in order to escape these biases requires reading material from sites that are not written as well, e.g. sites that are sensationalist. It'
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by formulaT 11y ago
or maybe it means you get Gmail, Google Web Search, Google Apps, Android and Chrome. Seems like you are using very selective evidence there, or selectively attributing only unsuccessful products to lack of diversity.
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by formulaT 11y ago
Of course, every bee wants credit for their own find. So there needs to be a countervailing costly mechanism to prevent bees from simply over-promoting any pollen source they know. Two problems with this. Most importantly, if bees have t
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by formulaT 11y ago
Interesting counterpoint to modern liberal orthodoxy. I don't buy everything in the article. Even though I agree that the law is stacked against men when it comes to divorce and custody of children, I don't think this is the rea
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by formulaT 11y ago
It's just a blog post. Regular economist articles are better edited, but mainstream economics doesn't make the HN front page. >25 standard deviations has to be an exaggeration? I fail to see how any model could ever be that f
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by formulaT 11y ago
One question I've had is why didn't parents who wanted to avoid originally European names take from actual African names, rather than minting new names. I understand being disconnected from one's ancestry, but still, this se
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by formulaT 11y ago
The great thing about academic research is that the author isn't the sole judge of what is a valid interpretation of his work. In this case, Putman asserts, for reasons other than his research, that diversity is still a good thing. B
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by formulaT 11y ago
I had a few hypotheses on this: - There is more to the story, and the public part was enough for islanders to deduce the full story given what they knew. E.g. she had a child to the sailor who was raised by someone else, or she had an abor
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by formulaT 11y ago
I would be interested in seeing any of these quantified. And I'm not asking for people to educate me, but rather for people to take a more careful look at which claims can be directly justified by the science, vs which claims are as
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by formulaT 11y ago
But the question is how the population size relates to health, which you haven't answered here. You have numbers for the number of deleterious mutations, but that doesn't directly give a quantitative relationship between populati
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by formulaT 11y ago
Let me put it another way: Can you or anyone else provide scientific studies that would directly back the claim The level of inbreeding on that island is quite scary. Although if they purged a lot of the deleterious alleles from the popula
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by formulaT 11y ago
My point was that the quantity of the effect matters. If the science can't quantify how bad having a population of 150 is, then we can't say we understand things well enough to recommend "outbreeding", as the original p
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by formulaT 11y ago
So since the science of recessive genes is so well understood, how big does the population need to be before scientists instruct the group to start outbreeding?
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by formulaT 11y ago
I don't see how any of those things prevent the methodology I described being applied.
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by formulaT 11y ago
More like no one would ever write about the need for Jews to outbreed , and if they did they would be rebuffed with a bazillion qualifications about the science being uncertain. You only get to make sweeping statements when politics are o
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by formulaT 11y ago
Why do you think you have such certain knowledge of these things? It seems like knowledge of human genetics and diseases is in a very early stage. As far as I can tell the idea that inbreeding is bad is primarily political.
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by formulaT 11y ago
I think you contradict yourself when you say that my implication in my second point is unfair do dang, and then go on to say why you think that stories like mine should be treated negatively by moderators (note that dang has unflagged pol
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by formulaT 11y ago
Coming from a statistics background, it seems like there is an easy fix for many of these problems (trigger warning: p-values ahead). For example, if you want to claim someone's fingerprints are a match for a given fingerprint from a c
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by formulaT 11y ago
Economics as a discipline is very reasonable given the constraints involved (studying human beings not particles, no experiments, short history of events to study). Unfortunately it takes a few years to get up to speed in the discipline, a
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by formulaT 11y ago
Endogeneity is not unique to big data. If your results are counterintuitive, it could be because of endogeneity, or your data is just generally messed up, or more subtle statistical issues. Or maybe your analysis is right.

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