knoepfle

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by knoepfle 8y ago
While this might be highly burdensome for developers, I much prefer the world where Google reviews even single-line changes to extensions.
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by knoepfle 8y ago
Anything that sick people do less is inversely associated with mortality. The "controlling for blah blah blah" stuff can't be believed---are the researchers succeeding at controlling for everything that affects health? Not
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by knoepfle 8y ago
What is this describing? First-party apps with Facebook integration and/or OS features connecting to Facebook? The leakage of Facebook information onto MS/Apple/Blackberry servers would be concerning, but having Microsoft s
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by knoepfle 8y ago
Note also that any distributional assumptions are really only necessary for inference (i.e., tests and confidence intervals) in finite samples (read: small samples); the central limit theorem guarantees the tests work asymptotically, so you
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by knoepfle 8y ago
It's actually not even required for that! See http://davegiles.blogspot.com/2011/08/being-normal-is-option... which cites King (1980): > If the error vector in our regression model follows any distributio
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by knoepfle 9y ago
"Pure acid" isn't quite right; it's an aqueous solution with a pH of zero. Zero isn't a special value. You can have negative pH (cf. http://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/ed083p1465 ).
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by knoepfle 10y ago
I wish someone would invent a device that would allow me to roll my eyes even harder at these X is the next Silicon Valley stories. "The Midwest and Ohio in particular has always had three things going for it in terms of business clima
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by knoepfle 10y ago
That's not horrifying, that's awesome. But the clickbait title got me to look at it, so I shouldn't criticize.
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by knoepfle 12y ago
This is cool as heck, thanks.
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by knoepfle 13y ago
Here we go, they contradict themselves later: "Computational general equilibrium (CGE) models provide an example of accepted computerized problem solving in economics."
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by knoepfle 13y ago
"Analytical solutions are considered necessary for a model to be accepted as a genuine theoretical contribution." That's hardly true, the usual macro model is solved numerically using approximate dynamic programming.
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by knoepfle 13y ago
Have you seen GPU Ocelot? ( http://code.google.com/p/gpuocelot/ ).
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by knoepfle 13y ago
This is a silly example of ex post evaluation of an ex post model. You need to have a holdout sample. It's made more silly by the fact that they use the universe of Waldo books, so their "strategy" is essentially just "
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by knoepfle 13y ago
Why do you prioritize giving work to Americans over those in developing nations?