lellotope

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by lellotope 8y ago
This was an extremely interesting paper to me, about a topic that I see as economically and sociologically fundamental. I was actually impressed by the methods they used. I found myself thinking "this is what I'd really like to se
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by lellotope 8y ago
There's kind of two issues at least. One is the continuous-discrete issue and the other is the moment issue. As for the moment issue, the short story is that as you get into three or four moments, there isn't a general maximum ent
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by lellotope 8y ago
This is such an unrecognized part of the problem: overcredentialing. It's rampant: it's explicit in areas like healthcare and law, and implicit in the HR practices of many corporations. We bitch about people going into debt, but t
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by lellotope 8y ago
A note about diet: There are some recent studies suggesting that globally, on average, the most environmentally friendly diets have some animal product component because of their ability to make use of landmass that we wouldn't be able
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by lellotope 8y ago
I agree with a tiny caveat, in that I'd change Jeffreys prior to reference prior. On the other hand, these priors can be difficult to create in some (many?) situations and it's often more tractable to do ML. Bayesian inference see
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by lellotope 8y ago
With the birth of our daughter, we had a different, and more complicated experience. Pre-delivery there was no pressure to do a c-section. None at all. My wife definitely did not want one. At the time of delivery, though, there was very muc
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by lellotope 8y ago
Am I missing something or are parts of this article really distorted? For example, this seems to set up most of the article: "Economics involves a lot of math and statistics. The most commonly used tools to crunch numbers are the sprea
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by lellotope 8y ago
Not sure if I'm left-leaning or not, but the problem is that we need increased competition. The reason why this is a problem is that sometimes it means decreased regulation, and sometimes it means providing more government services and
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by lellotope 8y ago
As someone who does research in this area, broadly defined, I think you're on to something, but I also think there are some misleading things about this article (which I nevertheless think is interesting) and caveats to what you'r
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by lellotope 8y ago
My same concern about the ethics of this. I might have felt a little differently if this AI startup had paid for all of the data collection proactively (although I would have still had concerns about the exclusivity of any such agreements t
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by lellotope 8y ago
It's been said before but needs to be said again: this is happening everywhere in the biomedical and related fields. The neurosciences, oncology... the list goes on and on. Anyone take a look at AI research lately? How much tweaking is
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by lellotope 8y ago
I think the issues go deeper than the degree program per se. Often the humanities are part of a liberal arts degree, which differs from other degrees not just in the major subject, but also in that it is broad in focus. Where I went to scho
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by lellotope 8y ago
I'm skeptical of citation rate as well, although I'm not sure I have anything better to offer in terms of metrics. Hype, after all, is related to citation rate. I think what we need is something that is more like "sustained r
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by lellotope 8y ago
I have mixed reactions to pieces like this. It's very salient to me because I fit the stereotype being discussed. At 43, I did my first triathlon and am, I suppose, training to do more (the season for them is basically over where I liv