funklute

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by funklute 5y ago
> letting them pick their own prior multiplies that kind of thing many times over. I'm a big fan of sensitivity analysis in this context. Don't just pick one prior and call it a day, but show the effect of having liberal vs con
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by funklute 5y ago
> At which point you've just found a more cumbersome way to do frequentist statistics. Hmm, in one way, yes...but on the other hand, Bayesian posteriors are a lot more intuitive to interpret, for most people. So I think you trade on
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by funklute 5y ago
> (you can't say anything until you've defined your prior, which requires deep domain knowledge) Well, you can use a non-informative prior. And that's the correct choice when you genuinely don't have a better option.
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by funklute 5y ago
> Prior-hacking is easier and harder to detect than p-hacking But that's comparing apples to oranges. Setting a reasonable prior is akin to frequentists interpreting the effect size (including its confidence interval) in light of de
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by funklute 5y ago
> The whole NHST edifice starts to seem really shaky once you stop and wonder if "True" and "False" are really the only two possible states of a scientific hypothesis. The root problem here is that people tend to dich
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by funklute 5y ago
> Have you tried applying your hobby towards reducing the cost of healthcare in America? This isn't so much a technological problem, but more a politics/incentives issue, as evidenced by the comparably lower cost of healthcare
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by funklute 5y ago
> which I highly doubt will ever be possible What prevents an AI from performing abduction? While I've never thought about it before, it intuitively seems like a pretty straightforward thing to implement....
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by funklute 5y ago
This one might also be interesting https://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~kimchris/cs201/handouts/The%20Powe... It's basically just a quick list of 10 useful rules to follow for safety-critical code. (I've seen
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by funklute 5y ago
You can, but that's not necessarily problematic in itself (perhaps slightly depending on what your aim is). By definition, using a statistical significance threshold of 0.05 means that you will have 5% false positive rate. You always e
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by funklute 7y ago
Thank you, I'm quite aware that it made me sound rude. I don't think that hypothetical scare-mongering is very useful in this context. Especially not when it risks mis-representing what the article was actually about. Then it just
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by funklute 7y ago
The article talks about a microbe that already exists in the wild.
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by funklute 7y ago
It's perhaps worth being aware that when Feynman initially gave his course at Caltech, most of the students either did extremely well or completely bombed the exam. The middle ground kinda disappeared. So if you read the Feynman lectur
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by funklute 7y ago
Ouch, that sounds pretty bad... Thankfully I didn't have that issue - mostly my problems were to do with java libraries, glitchy UI, and the "add reference" tool often didn't work.
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by funklute 7y ago
Thanks, that looks really interesting!
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by funklute 7y ago
Unfortunately I've found it rather buggy (on linux) in the past. It really could be a super nice tool, if they traded some features for more stability, in my opinion.
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by funklute 7y ago
I prefer to keep it simple. I add references in my .bib database via Zotero, then I version control the .bib file (exported from Zotero). And then I add .md files with notes, and the .md files are named according to the citation key in the
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by funklute 7y ago
I switched from JabRef to Zotero a while ago, mainly because JabRef seemed to be extremely buggy. I'm broadly using the same feature set on both, but Zotero is a lot less buggy, and it's faster and easier to add new references. If
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by funklute 7y ago
The one thing I wish Zotero would have is the ability to export (and then version control) the collections layout. I don't really trust Zotero to not at some point mess this up, especially if I'm trying to sync multiple accounts a
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by funklute 7y ago
For me the key drawback about Mendeley is a very limited ability to control the citation keys. Even on Zotero this is a second-class citizen, since you have to install a plugin. Have you been able to control the citation keys on Mendeley? I
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by funklute 7y ago
Is that due to licensing issues or manufacturing capacity?
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by funklute 7y ago
Yea, actually I thought a bit more about it as well, and any real (analog) circuit will have a frequency response that tapers of to zero as the frequency goes to infinity. So that basically determines a Nyquist frequency for any analog circ
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by funklute 7y ago
Practically speaking, how would you use a continuous Fourier transform? Do you mean passing it through a "Fourier transform analog circuit" (does that even exist?), and then sample the output?
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by funklute 7y ago
Speaking of that, if free/universal health care does come to pass, is it more likely to be federally or state funded/organised? (I'm European, so please bear with me if that seems like a basic question)
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by funklute 7y ago
For the non-Americans, what is the difference?
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by funklute 7y ago
While this is a very interesting paper, I'm a little bit wary of research articles that only have a single author. Are you aware of how accepted this viewpoint is in the wider research/medical community? For example, are there any
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by funklute 7y ago
Re. Why We Sleep, do be aware it's received some criticism: https://guzey.com/books/why-we-sleep/
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by funklute 7y ago
Yes, I think you may be right. I did find this, on the long-term effects of ARDS, and the effects are frankly a bit scary. Whether you survive or not, ARDS is clearly something to be avoided. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc
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by funklute 7y ago
Are you aware if there is any data yet on what proportion of recoveries will experience lasting lung/other damage? For example, is the permanent lung damage seen so far (which I've only anecdotally read about, I must admit) mostly
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by funklute 7y ago
I sort of see what you are trying to say, but I think you're slightly misunderstanding what is going on. It is true that you are sharing electrons in a covalent bond, but it is not correct to therefore say that you need less electrons
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by funklute 7y ago
Why would you want to use this tool to grep individual repos? If you know the repo you're interested in, you can just clone it and then grep it locally...?

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