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by grayclhn 6y ago
For something in my field, I "speed read" it. (In quotes because I have no idea if this is how actual speed reading works.) I.e. set aside one or two blocks of 4 hours or so and commit to finishing the book in that window. I usual
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by grayclhn 6y ago
“git bisect“ on its own. Magit is getting there, just for incremental and partial staging.
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by grayclhn 7y ago
Don’t sell yourself short. “Art” and “woodworking” are both potentially “work.” If the worst case scenario is having too many literate artists and craftspeople, I’m not sure what the problem is. :)
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by grayclhn 7y ago
In my (very limited) experience, the benefit's not from representing functions this way, it's from representing everything this way -- including things that would be special syntax in other languages. It makes it easier to write
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by grayclhn 7y ago
Yeah, I don’t have a great solution for tracking changes across multiple back-and-forths within Word, I use git with markdown for that. Pandoc is pretty ok with word templates, but the final version of a document will usually need a little
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by grayclhn 7y ago
Pandoc can output to word. Writing in markdown and sharing the word output with editors/reviewers is a reasonably nice workflow — just treat the docx file as a pdf (or any other output format).
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by grayclhn 8y ago
tbh, if you're writing a lot of equations like this in a program, the Lisp version should probably be something like (eqn x * (y + z) = x * z + y * z) where you write and test an `eqn` macro that rewrites everything in the cor
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by grayclhn 10y ago
Fair enough. I thought the point about the sites looking nearly identical was strong enough to end on.
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by grayclhn 10y ago
Your link to rennder.com doesn't work :)
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by grayclhn 10y ago
Your last sentence isn't necessary.
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by grayclhn 10y ago
This has been my experience too, but paper's LaTeX rendering has been the killer feature for me.
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by grayclhn 10y ago
Let's not glorify "nature's pressure." I kind of prefer having 3 kids that I expect to live to adulthood instead of having 8 as nature intended and playing the odds.
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by grayclhn 10y ago
There are lots of things I could do that would be less work but would come across as "being an asshole" to many students. A smart chatbot would be less work, more helpful, and a better experience for the students. Most technology
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by grayclhn 10y ago
I think you'd be surprised at how often students don't read webpages and fire off an email to the class TA or instructor. Replying with a link to the relevant part of the webpage is something I'd love to automate. (I teach a
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by grayclhn 10y ago
R's "shiny" is a counterpoint. Obviously something that takes a week to run isn't going on the web. But a complex model and visualization that can be incrementally updated quickly and in real time? That would be cool.
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by grayclhn 10y ago
The level of math. An Econ/math double major is about the right background for an Econ phd program. (I was a math major in undergrad and didn't feel like a lack of much exposure to Econ hurt me much in grad school, but it would ha
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by grayclhn 10y ago
Econ's undergrad degree is remarkably unrepresentative of Econ grad school. But every phd program in any subject is training you to do research first and foremost, so don't do it for technical training.
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by grayclhn 10y ago
"Not enough time" and "harder to do inference" are bigger reasons. It's hard to see why cross validation would do worse than the AIC or BIC for lag length selection in VARs, the bootstrap is widely used for inferenc
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by grayclhn 10y ago
Thanks, that's a bit surprising, but definitely helped me make up my mind on what I'll teach in the last few weeks of my class next year. The bootstrap is a weird omission, but economists usually only see it for variance estimatio
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by grayclhn 10y ago
Can you elaborate on that? If you mean that ML stuff isn't taught much in coursework, that's probably true --- but getting that stuff to work for economic questions isn't exactly trivial (e.g. we only have observational data
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by grayclhn 11y ago
Facebook ceased to be cool once enough of its original userbase started having babies, thus compelling their parents and other older relatives to join. :)
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by grayclhn 11y ago
If you care about this, talk to the department chair and administrators (deans). Also talk to your student government and try to get other students on board. Individual faculty members don't tend to have a lot of influence on the desig
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by grayclhn 11y ago
That's what it does.
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by grayclhn 11y ago
They're not blocked from logging out and cloning the project, just from hosting it on GitHub as a "fork" linked back to the original project.
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by grayclhn 11y ago
For most documents, copy and paste into a text editor is relatively straightforward. Highly technical documents are one obvious exception.
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by grayclhn 11y ago
> They can work hard all year long, or they can slack for some months and concentrate on their families more Yeah, that's kinda not true. In academia, you have the freedom to work whichever 60-80 hours a week you want, but no one be
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by grayclhn 11y ago
Not to be an asshole but, unless you replace the first candy after taking it out, your formula's wrong. If you start w/ 50 red candies and 50 non-red candies, the chance of the first one red is 1/2 (from 50/100) but the
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by grayclhn 11y ago
So, the internet.
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by grayclhn 11y ago
Not really. The alternative is like driving your car into a lake because the GPS told you to.
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by grayclhn 11y ago
Being able to write something coherent quickly about a very technical subject is really, really hard. If someone needs to use "academese" to get there, power to them.

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