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by j7ake 4y ago
If you consider the definition of mean for a continuous variable you can see that you can indeed break up the operations into different partitions of the data then add them up. The weight in continuous case is explicit while for discrete ca
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by j7ake 4y ago
I don’t see how this relates to Simpson’s paradox at all. If you split the set into two, you need to correct for number of elements in each split set. If you have a set of N numbers, the mean is the weighted sum with weights 1/N. If in
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by j7ake 4y ago
I think the point the author is missing is that 50 pounds a year vs 10 pounds a year is a negligible rounding error for most people’s annual expenses. If the cost differences are negligible, people will go for convenience, marketing, and qu
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by j7ake 4y ago
Maybe I’ll give a tech related example instead. I sometimes browse local shops websites to buy products, but if the page loads too slowly or there are some hiccups, I tend to quickly search on Amazon to see if I can buy with a single click.
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by j7ake 4y ago
Diminishing returns on productivity is obvious (eg working 80 hours a week outputs productivity somewhere between 1 to 2 times the productivity of 40 hours a week). However, rewards for work is also highly nonlinear, and usually rank based.
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by j7ake 4y ago
I recall back in the previous boom of 2006-2007 they were paying high school graduates $200k to work in the fields. They would even fly you in and you work a few days then fly you out. I wonder if salaries have changed since then.
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by j7ake 5y ago
Maybe one difference today is that academia is being increasingly flooded by careerists. In 1950s, most people did not even go to college, let alone grad school. The people who went into science in 1950s were not in it to “get a job”. These
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by j7ake 5y ago
How does one purchase I bonds outside of the USA ?
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by j7ake 5y ago
I would have thought that the pandemic and travel restrictions would have effectively “banned foreigners from buying homes” for 2 years. If home prices haven’t fallen during pandemic, then the reason why prices are high is not because of fo
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by j7ake 5y ago
Are these prices also adjusted for interest rates? Cost of borrowing in 1987 was 10% compared to today at 3%.
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by j7ake 5y ago
Blocking websites that are addictive time sinks. Removing recommended videos on YouTube (so it is just a search bar).
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by j7ake 5y ago
Dropbox for sharing with others rapidly is still superior to other alternatives. The delay in syncing up across multiple users is least noticeable with Dropbox. I agree backup seems not to be the niche of Dropbox, because there it is not ab
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by j7ake 5y ago
I guess at that point of ones career they can basically write their own job description and budget, and people will line up to pay them whatever that description says.
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by j7ake 5y ago
Can these problems be circumvented by thinking of non parametric bootstrap methods to directly infer significance from an empirical distribution of not-significant results?
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by j7ake 5y ago
Since your professional experience does not overlap with hers, the good way to help would be to spend more time at home taking care of the kids and doing housework/cooking so she can devote more of her time to job search and build miss
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by j7ake 5y ago
Would this situation have been solved if both partners were working ?
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by j7ake 5y ago
One can always donate your salaries to those less fortunate than you.
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by j7ake 5y ago
It’s why one needs both. You need both undeniable productivity by quantitative metrics, as well as glowing reviews from independent panels that are not influenced by favoritism (almost like an audit).
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by j7ake 5y ago
As long as there is some quantitative criteria on which jobs and promotions depend, there will be people gaming the system. One solution is to couple this quantitative criteria with independent committees that assess people beyond the metri
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by j7ake 5y ago
First kitchen from real estate looks like I can do some serious cooking for a large party. Author’s kitchen looks like there is no space to even cut an onion. The copper pan looks great but how does one cook acidic foods? Acids leach copper
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by j7ake 5y ago
The value of a PhD is so individual and advisor-specific that it is almost meaningless to try to calculate statistics like placement from a program. Do a PhD where you will be happy during your PhD, and also after in an industry or academc
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by j7ake 5y ago
Phd student salaries in uk are probably the worst in the developed world. The student union in uk hasn’t been doing a good job to make salaries competitive with other countries at the PhD level.
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by j7ake 5y ago
What’s with the hate? Let the man do his research. It’s not tax payer dollars. The number of tax-dollar paid academics who are doing research as “useless” as his (useless defined by the haters) vastly outnumber the ones at Wolfram.
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by j7ake 5y ago
The problem is that with DNA sequences you dont have good training sets. With text and images you can leverage “ground truth” data (verified by humans) to train your model. The DNA sequences I would look for methods that don’t require good
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by j7ake 5y ago
The physical act of writing notes, sticking them, removing them can get one in the zone more than the abstracted version on trello.
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by j7ake 5y ago
The world is competitive. As long as you can blend in your diverse interests so that you have an advantage over your competitors, you will be well rewarded for your breadth of knowledge. However, if a team consisting of an expert in each of
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by j7ake 5y ago
Try living in a German-speaking country for a little bit and you can be cured of your lateness and flakiness.
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by j7ake 5y ago
I have noticed an uptick of “staff X” as the new prestigious goal for technical careers. Is this a recent phenomenon? Does anyone know why there are so many upvoted stories of people just recounting their daily work?
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by j7ake 5y ago
Sounds super cool. The downside of this wet lab computing is the feedback is so much longer and debugging is much more difficult. Part of the joy of programming for many people is the instant feedback you get and the ability to go through t
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by j7ake 5y ago
Have one actually tried programming in “biology”? It is mostly grunt work of moving liquid solutions from one tube to another at different temperature and waiting times…

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