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by kmmlng 3y ago
Maybe you can make an argument that, in the absence of any information, your best bet is assuming a Gaussian distributon, but it definitely is not safe to assume so. Your data might not be symmetrically or even unimodally distributed and
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by kmmlng 3y ago
I would rather normalize publishing negative results (including refutations of previously published positive results). Reproducing every single submission is extremely expensive, but per the Pareto principle, no one is ever going to care ab
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by kmmlng 3y ago
A big problem with Myers-Briggs is also that it expresses everything in terms of binary categories. That makes it easy to communicate your type, but also comes with less precision. Big Five avoids this, but it's also difficult to commu
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by kmmlng 3y ago
Interesting, I would have considered the idea of pretending to be someone I'm not for extended periods of time to be far more harmful than any potential disadvantages I might experience in a busieness setting for being an introvert. I
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by kmmlng 3y ago
> A cotton bag will not have a reuse of one. It is more expensive to begin with. It could hold sentimental value. I agree that on average, a cotton bag will not have a reuse of one. Some cotton bags absolutely will only be used once, h
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by kmmlng 3y ago
I'm willing to and I mostly do bring my own bags to the grocery store. Sometimes I forget. Let's say I forget twice a year and opt to buy paper bags in those cases. We have just learned "[...] to have a lower environmental im
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by kmmlng 3y ago
You raise an interesting point, but isn't this just moving to another extreme? It seems like both quality and efficiency have their place, we are probably putting too much emphasis on efficiency at the moment, but completely focusing o
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by kmmlng 3y ago
Yes, I would say it's a feature, bot a bug. There was a brief phase when social networks first came about when everyone was fine just putting their entire life on display. Then everyone realized that privacy is kind of nice. You don&#x
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by kmmlng 3y ago
I would argue a common scenario in a German city is the following: You live in an appartment building without a garage and your workplace is closeby, i.e. you do not take your car to work. You use the car to visit family on the weekend, app
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by kmmlng 3y ago
I feel like search still has its place. New information is being generated all the time. I want to be able to access it without having to retrain my LLM. It's also easier to validate that my search results are real. With LLMs, you neve
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by kmmlng 4y ago
Ah okay, that's a different thing. Coming from an academic context, a literature review is something you spend months on for me.
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by kmmlng 4y ago
> conducting literature reviews I get where this is coming from, but as someone who recently did an extensive systematic literature review: you benefit from doing the work, not from getting an automatic summary. It's the little deta
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by kmmlng 4y ago
Is there much evolutionary pressure for a longer lifespan? As long as you have offspring and live long enough to raise them, there may not be much pressure to increase lifespan.
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by kmmlng 4y ago
I think people underestimate how hard it is to evaluate the validity of ideas. Most people think they are open to new ideas, but actually have a pre-configured bias system that automatically accepts or rejects any incoming ideas. If you are
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by kmmlng 4y ago
> Skipping breakfast is found to be slightly more beneficial than skipping dinner Beneficial in what way? A couple of quotes from the article you linked: "In contrast, higher postprandial insulin concentrations and increased fat ox
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by kmmlng 4y ago
I'd be very careful with this kind of reasoning. We just do not know the insides of others peoples heads. How can you rule out that there are differences between peoples appetites? Personally, I eat when I am hungry. My body typically
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by kmmlng 4y ago
I'm not in the US, but from what it sounds like, the situation isn't much different where I live. A surprising amount of overhead goes to employees in accounting who perform some black magic so that everyone on staff is payed by s
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by kmmlng 4y ago
I think it's not surprising that conferences have to perform some selection. You need the right amount of participants and talks. If a high rejection rate achieves the right amount, it is hard to argue against it. But why are publicati
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by kmmlng 4y ago
Academic researchers who make it to a tenure track position and stick with it for the rest of their career spend the majority of their career in tenure or in PhD. Most do not make it this far because there are fewer positions than applicant
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by kmmlng 4y ago
I don't think it is an isolated incident. Once something has become "known" among the public and the medical profession, it seems quite difficult to update it. Another example is the dietary cholesterol issue. The human body
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by kmmlng 4y ago
Do you know any good places that would be suited to this topic?
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by kmmlng 4y ago
I have always found the vast majority of recommendation engines to be completely underwhelming. There is one exception: Spotify. It doesn't seem to work for everybody, but personally, I get insanely good recommendations from Spotify to
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by kmmlng 4y ago
For example solving specific problems in a data-driven way when there is no data and there never will be any data. Developing all sorts of platforms that will theoretically benefit the public / researchers / whoever, but in actual
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by kmmlng 4y ago
The lack of almost any permanent positions aside from full professorships in the German research landscape is truly ridiculous. What does that get you? A whole bunch of inexperienced PhD students with one professor at the top who cannot pos
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by kmmlng 4y ago
A PhD can mean a lot of different things. Personally, I'm employed as a research associate while doing a PhD, which in theory means I should do the PhD as part of my job. In practice, I do not get to do any actual research during the j
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by kmmlng 4y ago
I have a feeling whatever metric you define will just create different problems. The high emphasis on metrics itself is the problem, because quantifying someone's research quality is not at all trivial. To your other point: I get what
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by kmmlng 4y ago
Since you specifically mention Germany: professors are incredibly well paid in Germany and also enjoy high social status. Of course, a lot of them don't do any science, they are the CEO equivalent of an institute. Salaries for PhDs and
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by kmmlng 4y ago
> because money doesn’t buy science, money buys technology; we actually don’t have enough scientists on whom to spend the money. I can only speak from personal experience and observations in my environment, but to me this statement sound
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by kmmlng 4y ago
I'm not sure how much architects can do. White gets dirty quite easily and is prone to yellowing from UV light.
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by kmmlng 4y ago
With sardines you are of course introducing the mercury issue. Vitamin D dosage is a surprisingly controversial topic, with many voices claiming the recommended dose is much too low and you are very unlikely to overdose if you are not takin

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