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by jimmar 6y ago
I'd love to see a rigorous analysis of whether this type of keyboard layout really reduces repetitive stress injuries. The metrics presented are interesting, but the reduced finger movement could be a bug rather than a feature. Small m
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by jimmar 7y ago
Interesting idea. Are you doing anything to protect against sql injection attacks?
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by jimmar 7y ago
> "If someone asked me to put together a presentation on the value of drinking milk, I could put together a 1-hour presentation that would knock your socks off. You'd think, 'Whoa, everybody should be drinking more milk.&
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by jimmar 7y ago
As a user, AMP gives me a better experience than non-AMP search results. It's a tough sell to tell people like me that I should prefer the worse product (the slow, tracking infested, bloated full website).
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by jimmar 7y ago
"Nutrition scientists link a diet high in added sugar – like those multisyllabic sweeteners in soda – to diabetes, heart disease and possibly even some cancers. (Naturally occurring sugar, like the kind that occurs in fruits or milk, d
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by jimmar 7y ago
For #2, I have used notebooks for personal data analysis. I am my own audience and need to remember what I did and why.
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by jimmar 8y ago
I live in Michigan and I hate the bottle deposits. I would strongly prefer just putting bottles in recycling. Bottle deposit machines break down frequently, the machines fill up, they only take cans sold at the store you bought them from, t
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by jimmar 8y ago
The promo videos only showed single players. Does anybody know if two people might be able to network the devices and be in the same virtual space?
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by jimmar 9y ago
People eat too many calories. An easy way to cut calories is by reducing the number of sugary things you eat because they taste so good you want to eat a lot of them. But nutritionally, as long as you control for calories, a bowl of ice cre
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by jimmar 9y ago
Just from the version number I thought there'd be a few major changes, but really it just seems like another point release that happens to increment the major version number. (Which is totally fine by me. I rely on Vagrant a lot and I&
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by jimmar 9y ago
Not a huge fan of this idea. For example, people who analyze twitter data can get very small p-values because they analyze millions of tweets even though the effects they find are very small. See https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3
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by jimmar 9y ago
> how far do you go into replacing all real food? Why do you make a distinction between Soylent and "real" food? Its ingredients are not terribly different than other stuff I buy at the grocery store.
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by jimmar 9y ago
Soylent does look similar to EAS Mypolex (comparing the nutrition from here: https://www.amazon.com/EAS-Myoplex-Original-Protein-Chocolat... ). One issue is that to get 2,000 calories of EAS Myoplex you'd have to drink
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by jimmar 10y ago
Looks more like an evolution which is fine. I don't see this version changing the way I use ggplot2 for research. I wish I could remember the syntax better. Every time I want to use ggplot2 I feel like this: https://xkcd.com
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by jimmar 11y ago
I'm faculty at a regional university in the U.S. Our enrollment is dropping by 5% a year, and short term positions are becoming the norm. Tenure track positions are risky in that once you've got somebody with tenure, it's dif
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by jimmar 11y ago
Most of the time when I see a tweet, it's when somebody takes a screenshot and posts it in a news article. It's been years since I've logged into twitter.com to sift through garbage looking for anything useful.
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by jimmar 11y ago
> Unrooting the weeds definitely sounds more reliable to me. The robot in the article just pushed the weed underground a few inches. I imagine that some weeds would just pop back after a week, and that the robot would just punch them dow
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by jimmar 11y ago
I can count on one hand the number of times my children have sat down and watched network TV. They are 4 and 7 years old. With ~15 minutes of commercials per hour, I've probably saved them from watching thousands of commercials, which
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by jimmar 11y ago
It's interesting to me that diet soda consumption has dropped from its peak. I would have guessed that sugary soda would have been replaced by diet soda, but it appears that water has replaced sugary soda more frequently. Mind mildly b
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by jimmar 11y ago
But not released yet? I clicked the link saw that I could only get it through an early access release program.
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by jimmar 12y ago
I was surprised that the author did not mention anonymity in group brainstorming sessions. In group decision-making scenarios, anonymity drastically changes the way that people generate and respond to ideas[1]. This won't work if one p
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by jimmar 12y ago
I haven't found the need to use "tricks." Basic questions work pretty well. I've done a couple of things. 1) Ask, "Do you have any problems reading English?" Some people with poor English skills, or people bein
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by jimmar 12y ago
I've collected experimental data using Mechanical Turker. In my experience, you have to do a lot of validation to make sure the data you are getting is reasonable. You have to kick people out who aren't paying any attention at all
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by jimmar 12y ago
> Are we really supposed to just take soylent as a healthy alternative for sustenance so we can continue to work? Just buy a juicer and keep it natural then. But really, take the break and eat a meal with a human being. You've got o
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by jimmar 12y ago
Interesting project! Just a note--I got to step 3 of 13 on the Scratch tutorial and the language switched to Dutch or something ("3 Dansen maar Voeg een nieuw NEEM STAPPEN-blok toe. Klik in het blok en typ een min-teken.")
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by jimmar 13y ago
This is also true in management science. Some top journals require Word submissions (to my dismay). Word works okay with limited authors & citations, but our research lab ran into a ton of problems when we had 10+ collaborators working
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by jimmar 13y ago
I've done some social science statistical analysis in R. I tried to reproduce the analysis using Python over the weekend, but the tools just aren't there. For example, doing a within-subjects ANOVA in R is maybe 3 lines of code. N
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by jimmar 13y ago
For amblyopia (lazy eye) mentioned in the article, diet doesn't do anything. Diet doesn't do much for neurodegenerative disorders, either. Today, when you get alzheimer's, it only gets worse. You can't eat a lot of blueb
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by jimmar 13y ago
> That way, many of the students will have already read through it once, and will be able to ask more thoughtful questions. You haven't taught before, have you? :) I'm only slightly kidding. I would love to have students engage
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by jimmar 13y ago
I've taught a few college classes. I've experimented with no slides, minimalist slides, and text-heavy slides. Young whippersnappers don't seem to know how to take notes--so going with no slides is tough. Students cannot go b

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