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Designing for Ephemerality(brajeshwar.com)
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by kqr 1y ago
I believe it is uncommon to have a schedule that allows a bedtime of 8.15 pm. Maybe I'm wrong.
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by kqr 1y ago
Tennis requires a certain proficiency to have fun with. Beginners tend to have trouble getting the ball reliably across the net onto the other player. This proficiency takes time to build. Thus, unless one makes a big up-front time investme
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by kqr 1y ago
You seem to be forgetting that insufficient sleep is also unhealthy.
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by kqr 1y ago
After reading just the title I was going to make a crack that the skills of parents and managers largely overlaps.[1] Turns out the author did also make that connection, and that's what spawned the article! [1]: I even have a draft art
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> People didn't always use statistics to discover truths about the world. And they were much, much worse off for it. Logic does not let you learn anything new. All logic allows you to do is restate what you already know. Fundamental
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Maybe you can think of it as saying "should I be surprised" but certainly not "how surprised should I be". The magnitude of the p-value is a function of sample size. It is not an odds ratio for updating your beliefs.
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by kqr 1y ago
To add nuance, it is not that bad. Given reasonable levels of statistical power, experiments cannot show meaningless effect sizes with statistical significance. Of course, some people design experiments at power levels way beyond what&#x2
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This has been known ever since the beginning of frequentist hypothesis testing. Fisher warned us not to place too much emphasis on the p-value he asked us to calculate, specifically because it is mainly a measure of sample size, not clinica
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IIRC Gwern lives extremely frugally somewhere remote and is thus able to spend a lot of time on private research.
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by kqr 1y ago
Imagine the complexity of correctly accounting for a VAT when rates vary dependin on product type -- and doing it across an entire national economy! I'm glad they don't support that for as long as they don't have to. Is it do
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by kqr 1y ago
Hmm. You say "tax break" but I could argue split VAT results in the opposite: a hike in consumption tax. The base VAT rate can be set higher if the VAT on desirable consumption is lower. I.e. it's not that rich people pay les
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by kqr 1y ago
Such a constant would be no better -- they don't want to change the VAT rate across all product types. The code missing is that for per-product type variation in VAT rate, which sounds complicated enough that Iawould expect a good en
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by kqr 1y ago
At their core, sensible shorthand systems are just another alphabet of shapes that are easy to form and string together. They add various aabreviations and common short forms on top of that, but one easily gets something like 50 % of the be
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by kqr 1y ago
I tried to drive this approach at a previous job but nobody else on the team cared so I ended up always having to mirror all the latest build changes into my bash script. The reason it didn't catch on? Everyone else was running local b
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> I know SaaS businesses that don't as they operate in a single country, within a single timezone and the availability needs to be during business days and business hours. This is a bad road to go down. Management will understand th
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by kqr 1y ago
This sounds a lot like "use Nix".
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Indeed, pencil is one of the best writing implements for archival purposes. As long as one doens't deliberately try to get the graphite off, it'll probably stay on.
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This is a common myth, but from what I understand of people who write in the more logical shorthand systems (without abusing custom abbreviations etc.) it's eminently skimmable, even long after the information is no longer fresh in min
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by kqr 1y ago
When going through the effort to re-learn how to write, why would one learn this rather than one of the more logical/easy shorthand systems? (To clarify, I mean in this day and age! I would understand if one needed to send 300 letters
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by kqr 1y ago
Thanks! Mullvad does look good.
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by kqr 1y ago
Depends on industry I would think. In my previous industry it was something like 25 %, in my current industry it is closer to 80 %.
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by kqr 1y ago
You mean (n+1)/(n+m+2) and yes, this is Laplace's rule of succession. It won't give you a confidence interval, but it gives you a posterior point estimate. If you want a rough 95 % confidence interval without complicated math
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The first question seems a little unfair because it does not say how much more expensive overestimation is compared to underestimation. It implicitly assumes 19:1 given that it's ordering by the 0.05th quantile of the posterior distrib
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I suspect this test gives central values to many test-takers because the internal consistency of the questions has not been verified. Anyone can come up with ten questions and claim "these measure a programmer's fondness for abstr
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The way I was taught "imperative" encompasses both "object-oriented" and "procedural", much like "declarative", the opposite of imperative, captures both functional and logic.
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...assuming the person is able to focus on the 30 minutes of nothing that comes before the noise. The person in my life with ADHD would start scribbling equations in the dirt or braid the loose threads on their clothing after five minutes,
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Which are the other reasons, and which other providers have you evaluated? Asking because I might soon be in the market.
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Too late to edit, but I felt there was something wrong with this comment and I figured out what: the Cantelli bound is 1/(1+k²). This means as little as 50% can be less than one standard deviation, as little as 80% below two standard d
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by kqr 1y ago
This is a very neat illustration, but I want to leave a reminder that when we cherry-pick well-behaved distributions for illustrating the CLT, people get unrealistic expectations of what it means: https://entropicthoughts.com&#x2

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