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by gbrown 8y ago
Another worry is that there are already lots of companies willing to sell predictive indices for consumers. I could easily imagine "data laundering" where the genetic information is condensed, along with other social and demograph
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by gbrown 8y ago
Adaptive designs and early stopping rules are really good when: 1. Data collection is expensive (time or money) 2. Keeping with the status quo in the presence of new evidence is problematic (withholding a promising new drug) 3. Continuing w
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by gbrown 8y ago
Adaptive designs are great, but especially in low risk areas like business A/B testing, I'll settle for more people understanding that statistical models are not magic black box truth detectors, and that p-values lose their interp
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by gbrown 8y ago
As I understand things (not a linguist), that's not actually a different language than English, though it's a neat exercise. The English language has undergone all sorts of pronunciation shifts over time, it seems like you've
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by gbrown 8y ago
It's like when the government tries to address an oversupply of luxury apartments by renting them at full price and re-renting them at subsidized rates to consumers. I forget where this happened, but it was covered on Marketplace a few
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by gbrown 8y ago
> Let's just ban cities and states from handing out these tax-breaks. Wait, but then they'd have to invest in infrastructure and human capital... we can't have that sort of tax and spend socialism!
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by gbrown 8y ago
Impact factors aren't really comparable across fields, or a general indication of the quality and rigor of particular journals. With that being said, I am skeptical of this paper.
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by gbrown 8y ago
I'm also not an expert in this field, but I agree that the conclusions presented here appear at first glance to be much too strong. For one, we should all be highly skeptical of meta analyses to begin with - there is every incentive to
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by gbrown 8y ago
I'm using Fedora anyway, so the software part doesn't bother me.
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by gbrown 8y ago
Meh, S3 is nice and lightweight for a very particular kind of analysis interoperability. S4 isn't super useful IMHO. RC is very well thought out, and I've heard good things about R6. It might not be sane language design, but it wo
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by gbrown 8y ago
I'm still using a 2011 MBP, and I'm quite satisfied. I've replaced the battery, upgraded the RAM, upgraded the HD, and replaced the HD cable, but it's still sufficient for my needs (heavy compute gets done on remote serv
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by gbrown 8y ago
Another feature for this audience is the philosophy that functions shouldn't have side effects. You can still do (several types) of object oriented programming in R, but it does take away some of the ways in which non-programmers shoot
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by gbrown 8y ago
Anonymous data is one identifier or clever match away from identification. This is particularly severe for sites/services/hardware that records audio (man, who would knowingly allow that kind of abuse??), but it can apply to mouse
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by gbrown 8y ago
> If I make a chicken patty from a caged chicken that's indistinguishable from organic, free-range chickens, does it matter that it came from a cage? Can I sell it as 'organic, free range chicken patties'? Right now, under
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by gbrown 8y ago
> What if I label my package to look _very_ similar to a meat product, but put the words "not real meat" Then I think you'd have a complaint under existing laws, rather than trying to make a mountain out of a mole-hill. Th
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by gbrown 8y ago
Protecting lazy and inattentive shoppers from accidentally buying a plant based product is sufficient reason for heavy handed regulation? This is a non problem being trumped up by an industry that wants to use regulatory capture to make its
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by gbrown 8y ago
That goes for "meat" too - it was once a generic term for food, and is still used in the sense of "the edible part of something as distinguished from its covering". For example, "nut meat" is the edible center
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by gbrown 8y ago
An effort to usurp meaning? How about an effort to use evocative language to describe important characteristics of a product? Seriously, why do you think the government should enforce a monopoly on a word which does a great job of describin
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by gbrown 8y ago
I'm guessing you work in the dairy industry? Get over it - nobody is actually confusing dairy milk with almond milk, they're just buying different products over time.
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by gbrown 8y ago
Wow, that kind of thing could give someone PTSD. I think "doghouse" is putting it mildly.
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by gbrown 8y ago
Point taken, but I really do think that's another way of saying people really aren't all that good at tasting wine.
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by gbrown 8y ago
Yeah, project disclaimers like "We do not recommend building from source" are big red flags for code quality or dependency hells.
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by gbrown 8y ago
In those studies, however, raters profess great confidence, and positively identify the hallmarks of red wine in white wine. Sure, it shifts their priors, but unlike a Bayesian model there's no obvious deviation between the prior and t
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by gbrown 9y ago
I think the workflow is great for the web tutorials I see all over the place, and I'm sure it's a pretty good fit for exploratory data analysis and model building. On the other hand, I see a lot of people pushing it as the must ha
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by gbrown 9y ago
For sure, I totally see how it's useful as a teaching tool. I don't see how it fits into a proper production system.
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by gbrown 9y ago
Using a web browser as an IDE just seems like a solution in search of a problem. Also, maybe I just never spent enough time working with Jupyter, but it seemed to me that it encourages a sort of exploratory workflow, really well suited to t
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by gbrown 9y ago
Am I the only person in the universe who doesn't like Jupyter? I much prefer tools like Rmarkdown and Sweave.
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by gbrown 9y ago
Ok, meh, hostile
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by gbrown 9y ago
I wouldn't be satisfied, and I think that's already available. My Facebook posts are my posts, while emails I send you are yours. In my mind, it's very much like the difference between putting up signs in my yard vs. sending
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by gbrown 9y ago
Stuff can still be deleted, it just has to happen one item at a time (which is stupid and user hostile).

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