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by froindt 10y ago
> I wouldn't be certain. A lot of researchers really are clueless about anything to do with statistics. This is definitely true. I once saw a book with a title similar to "Statistics for Dummies" in a professors office.
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by froindt 10y ago
To add a bit more for people who haven't been involved in an IRB: The strictness varies by university. Ultimately the IRB is there to ensure safety of the participants and minimize the chance of negative consequences. A couple exampl
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by froindt 10y ago
There is also the question of how honest people will be when they are anonymous versus not. If you were studying cocaine use in America, publishing your identified data (to enable double-checking the analysis) would give the cops a list of
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by froindt 10y ago
Even if they don't care, there is a responsibility by the researchers to the participants to protect their identity. Your participation in a study may have no big effect right now, but down the line it could. If your project has fede
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by froindt 10y ago
It depends on the situation. I work with a professor who came from industry. He once worked on a project where they did massive data collection inside the military. Over $1 million was spent over 2 weeks collecting data. A couple months
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by froindt 10y ago
Current production seems very counterintuitive from a manufacturing/industrial engineering perspective. There are around 9 main processes and only about 3 add material. Depending on the chip design, it's probably going to 500-2000
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by froindt 10y ago
I've never implemented anything with either platform, but I've been impressed with Dwolla and Twilio. Both provide a nice interface finding the information you need while also giving an example for each language their API support
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by froindt 10y ago
My mom already had OneDrive installed and it was pestering her. I don't know what they want me to do. I went in and turned the notification off, but 98% of people won't know to do that and will accept a shitty aspect of the user
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by froindt 10y ago
I'm not sure if it's still the case, but I don't think you could record iPad screens at the start, though Apple demonstrated it as a possibility during their live demos. I'm not sure if Apple made it available to other c
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by froindt 10y ago
That would get us data for areas where almost no humans are nearby. Not too valuable.
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by froindt 10y ago
I've never wanted to see a revenue graph more than that of Excite. I would suspect there would be a strong correlation with AOL dial-up subscription rates (perhaps causation too).
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by froindt 10y ago
That doesn't matter, the information loss in mentioning a percentage makes it sound really awesome and headline worthy!
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by froindt 10y ago
> no more than one projected astronaut fatality in 270 flights > success rate of 99.5% or something. 0.995^135 is about 0.5 Method seems pretty good, but unfortunately that math would only work if there was exactly one astronaut per f
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by froindt 10y ago
>People use it as their front page to the internet. Maybe someday they'll learn about reddit, the real front page to the Internet. /s
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by froindt 10y ago
Does it have to be a single piece, or is partitioning it into smaller chunks an option? There are a number of academic papers on cutting models to fit inside the build box constraint of 3d printers, though I'm not aware of any nice, au
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by froindt 10y ago
Oh, I follow now. I was going to mention that your site doesn't advertise PIM at all if that's a service offered! I really wish there were readily accessible data sources with pricing in the manufacturing field. Trying to estimate
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by froindt 10y ago
Good to see a manufacturing startup in YC! I'm currently a grad student in industrial engineering and have been working with geometric analysis for manufacturability for around 2 years now. What types of analysis are you doing on the
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by froindt 10y ago
Who knew this is how exciting the future would be: Snapchat in space! Maybe they could make the claim of "First app used by a human in a vacuum and micro-gravity". All the startups in Silicon Valley are vying for that. /s
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by froindt 10y ago
For sure, the incentives aren't lined up quite right. I know of a couple attorneys who have switched to some standard rates for stuff (perhaps called value-based billing, or I might be making that name up). It works well for lots of t
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by froindt 10y ago
At the University I attend, donors have to give enough for the building and an endowment for ongoing maintenance and operation expenses. A long time ago they were getting these amazing buildings donated, then getting stuck with much higher
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by froindt 10y ago
You know, there may be a serious upside to living in the valley as a software developer if you stay there long enough. You're right about salaries in the Midwest never reaching that high. I'm not a developer, but it seems like it
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by froindt 10y ago
Yes it would. I'm definitely not cut out to go to the valley.
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by froindt 10y ago
Haha Ankeny is already getting filled with people living at or beyond their means and hoping they don't have a housing bubble burst. I have a family friend who moved there perhaps a decade ago and built a really nice house. Few years
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by froindt 10y ago
Even Hawaii has a gradient of pricing. General cost of living is more expensive than most places on the mainland because almost everything has to be brought in on a ship, but outside of the major tourist cities prices are more manageable
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by froindt 10y ago
I ran some pretty extensive numbers on a sub-comment and don't want to repost the entire thing in reply to you. I estimated at $2,900/month rent in the valley and $900/month in the Midwest. Valley earned 160/year, Midwe
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by froindt 10y ago
The deduction also phases out based on your income, and if your mortgage is over $1,000,000. These are both more likely to be a reality in SV over most other places in the US. On the surface, you would be missing out with those numbers, bu
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by froindt 10y ago
No it doesn't. As long as you're purchasing not renting, you have a chance of getting that money back out, but it's nuts to me. I sat next to a SF attorney on a plane a year or two ago. She said she and her husband were put
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by froindt 10y ago
> I wonder what the thought process of people buying $1MM+ houses in SV really is. I think at that order of magnitude, it you would have to consider it a true investment, and you should be really bummed if you're holding on to it wh
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by froindt 10y ago
>"the median home value is $961,600, according to Zillow." Being from the Midwest, this is such a foreign concept to me. Looking at Des Moines, $955,000 will get you a 5 bedroom with 3 full and 2 half bathrooms, 1.26 acres, 70
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by froindt 10y ago
having my email client highlight overly long sentences, duplicate words, ambiguous references (e.g. what noun does "it" refer to) and more would undoubtable save proofreading time and doesn't sounds that difficult to imp

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