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by glial 5y ago
> Media is playing a part here, ironicaly because "not blindly trusting the authority" and "presenting a balanced view of facts" is good for ratings Yes, this is part of it. Of course scientists are wrong sometimes, b
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by glial 5y ago
This is an active area of research in the cognitive science world. First, 'bias' is defined with respect to an ideal rational actor with perfect information and infinite computing power. The reasons for this are mostly historical
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by glial 5y ago
> once you're sincerely convinced that scientists are wrong ... and governement are lying to you This is the crux. How did those beliefs form? I would argue that in many cases, it wasn't a dispassionate weighing of evidence and
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by glial 5y ago
> Government always has the option to do nothing and leave people to their own decisions. Government doing nothing doesn't just leave us to our own decisions, it makes us more vulnerable to the decisions of others. You could even ar
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by glial 5y ago
- family-owned retail businesses - distribution of ownership of the 'means of retail production' - worker rights (looking at you, gig economy and Amazon delivery drivers) - brand reliability (so much on Amazon is brand-free)
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by glial 5y ago
I would never accuse US foreign policy of being ideologically coherent. I'm just pointing out that this was an explicit goal of the US invasion of Iraq, direct from the horses' mouths. Are you calling me dumb for stating that, or
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by glial 5y ago
This was a desired outcome of the Iraq War: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2935969.stm > There are some in the Bush administration who hope that the fall of Saddam Hussein will be followed by a &qu
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by glial 5y ago
Thanks, I'll give it a shot. Matlab's syntax for matrices is, naturally, great.
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by glial 5y ago
There's a fascinating Radiolab episode that expands on this topic, asking the question about whether 'blue' is a feature of nature or a cultural invention & transmission: https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcas
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by glial 5y ago
Most psychology work is done in universities with limited funding. Hiring the staff to run a study with 20,000 people is prohibitively expensive for any lab. Some alternatives exist - for example, some studies can be run on Amazon Mechanica
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by glial 5y ago
That's true, but I agree with the parent comment that 'contract' implies an initial negotiation and optional agreement, and none of us had that negotiation nor option. It's just a misleading term to use, so it seems like
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by glial 5y ago
I think this is a typo: > aleph-0, which is the cardinality of the set of real numbers. aleph-0 is the cardinality of the set of natural numbers, and (as you say) is not the cardinality of the real numbers.
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by glial 5y ago
This is lower than recent historical numbers, isn't it? From what I've seen, it was >300 for a few periods over the past 20 years. Generally speaking, this is why I try to work/shop/bank with co-ops, credit unions, mu
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by glial 5y ago
So, a lot like our existing national conversation?
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by glial 5y ago
> few talk about population and consumption as the main driver for that. This seems like the elephant in the room to me. It's almost never discussed, at least in the US, but as you say, it's the driver for global warming, ecolo
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by glial 5y ago
> Epidemiologists are not experts in political science, economics, mental health, education, public health, business, finance, behavioral health, law or anything else. OK, but the parent was complaining about recommendations that people
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by glial 5y ago
For calculus, I like this book [1] for self-study. Also the Schaum's Outlines are great no-nonsense introductions. They're both gentle introductions, while still being useful. For probability, I really like Morin's book [2].
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by glial 5y ago
> the principal of specialists mixing telling people as a group what to do When specialists tell you not to drink contaminated lake water, or to wear a mask when removing asbestos tiles, or to get a colonoscopy when you turn 50, do you
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by glial 5y ago
I suppose it depends on how you calculate it. If the delta variant is equally deadly to previous versions (to an individual), but is more infectious, then more people will die, all else being equal. More people dying --> more deadly, at
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by glial 5y ago
What's your background? How much and how recently have you done math? Do you do much computational work? Answering these questions will be useful for helping find target resources.
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by glial 5y ago
Yes. I apologize for messing up the spelling. It just struck me as amazing that they still used the old bank notes, and just cut 6 0’s off for the conversion.
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by glial 5y ago
I went to Turkey in 2005. The 1 lyra note was also the 1,000,000 Lyra note.
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by glial 5y ago
> cancelling someone > Any positive depiction That's not 'someone'.
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by glial 5y ago
Who is the comment trying to cancel?
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by glial 5y ago
The inside joke is that psychology is not a hard science, but is the hardest science.
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by glial 5y ago
Yes, that’s my understanding too. GAMs have structural limitations that harm flexibility and help interpretability. One benefit of Bayesian models that they work with relatively little data - and generally provide greater uncertainty in tho
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by glial 5y ago
Can you elaborate a bit? Prophet can use MCMC sampling and includes uncertainty in its forecasts.
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by glial 5y ago
Yeah, because they were saying the mortality rate is like the flu, which is wrong.
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by glial 5y ago
For whatever it’s worth, I was pleasantly surprised at how easy Rcpp is to use.
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by glial 5y ago
Give me a break, I was giving the parent an opportunity to provide evidence. All evidence I have seen is to the contrary: > In our analysis based on 490 roll calls between 2005 and 2014 in the US House of Representatives, we find strong

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