iron0012

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by iron0012 8y ago
This is a great book, much more practical for the applied researcher than anything written by Pearl.
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by iron0012 8y ago
I'm surprised that so many folks here (obv not everyone) have so readily accepted the word "brutalist" to apparently mean "simple, functional, and minimal", because that's definitely NOT what brutalism entails
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by iron0012 8y ago
Thoughtful Machine Learning by Matthew Kirk is the closest thing I've seen. It's several years old by now (2014). That said, I don't see many people trying to use this approach in practice.
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by iron0012 8y ago
what does the constitution say about women's access to reproductive healthcare
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by iron0012 8y ago
I wouldn't normally say this, but since you appealed to authority first... are you aware of how absolutely dismal ASU's reputation is in academia in general?
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by iron0012 8y ago
I am the same as you. Way worse, actually. When things get really bad (e.g. 500+ open tabs in Firefox), I spend ~20 minutes closing as many obviously "left-over" and otherwise uninteresting tabs, and then I save all of the remaini
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by iron0012 8y ago
Good observation, gaming is absolutely a post-modern phenomenon. Any creative works with which audience actively engage and interact (rather than just observe)--and especially those that by necessity require the audience's engagement
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by iron0012 8y ago
Right? It's so weird that the dudes that rail against postmodernism fundamentally fail to understand that it's not a single assertive ideology, it's just a simple observation of the way things are in the world around us. It&#
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by iron0012 9y ago
Hm, I think I disagree with this. The famous statistician and scientist RA Fisher said "To consult the statistician after an experiment is finished is often merely to ask him to conduct a post mortem examination. He can perhaps say wha
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by iron0012 9y ago
There sure is: Capital by Karl Marx. (wonder if down-voters have actually read this, or if it's just a boogie-man to them?)
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by iron0012 9y ago
We scientists WANT (desperately want!) anyone and everyone, experts and neophytes alike, to read and pay attention to our work! The unavailability of scientific research papers is in no way due to snooty scientists restricting the availabil
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by iron0012 9y ago
The sweet refrain sung by those "independents" who "aren't republicans" until the voting booth curtains are closed safely behind them. I wonder if you'll remember this disingenuous moment when you pull the leve
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by iron0012 9y ago
Of course they printed it: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/02/02/us/politics/n... Ah, but you probably already knew that, since picking and choosing which heavily-spun facts to reveal
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by iron0012 9y ago
I understand and appreciate the concern for privacy, but something important was diminished when Google Maps started blurring the faces of people who appeared in Street View. I was surprised by the degree to which the previous sense of imme
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by iron0012 9y ago
I also failed in a moment of his weakness
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by iron0012 9y ago
DW playlist radio != DW playlist
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by iron0012 9y ago
Good.
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by iron0012 9y ago
The importance you place on the presence of a p-value suggests that you're probably not the best judge of whether a p-value is correctly interpreted.
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by iron0012 9y ago
https://scholar.google.com/ The magic phrase to locate the literature you're interested in is "returns to education"
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by iron0012 9y ago
There is a massive body of existing literature (the kind that's published in peer reviewed journals) examining the returns to education. A lot of that research, maybe most of it, suggests that going to college is a very, very good idea
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by iron0012 10y ago
Here's him making the same exact kinds of claims in 2011. He called himself (or claimed that people called him) the 'undertaker' back then: https://www.pehub.com/2011/08/silicon-valley%E2%80%99s-un
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by iron0012 10y ago
Nice concern trolling. The answer, as I'm sure you well know since you're arguing in bad faith, is that now is always the right time to do something good (like provide financial assistance to the ACLU). The argument that a goo
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by iron0012 10y ago
Nah, I never once heard anyone in Berkeley refer to a woman as a "dude" or a "guy".
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by iron0012 10y ago
That's not true in my experience, and I doubt it's true in yours. While "guys" is sometimes employed to refer to a mixed gender group of people, it would be very weird for "guy" or "dude" to be used t
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by iron0012 11y ago
I am continually shocked by how willing people are to opine, completely sans any data except for their own (worthless) anecdotes, when it takes less than 5 seconds to google “homework meta-analysis”. Believe it or not, scientists have studi
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by iron0012 11y ago
Here's an explanation that addresses this apparent inconsistency: http://andrewgelman.com/2015/09/30/hot-hand-explanation-agai...