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by lenticular 8y ago
Try tens of millions of people in Africa. This is an extremely bigoted comment. As a gay man, I am disappointed that HN is allowing viewpoints like this to be spread. This sort of thing is why the tech industry has such a bad reputation wit
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by lenticular 8y ago
I'm gay. You should believe me when I tell you that plenty of people still believe it is wrong and it does impact me in very big ways. Times that by 10 for transpeople. Do not attempt to speak for these groups when you have no idea of
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by lenticular 8y ago
That site is focused on promoting an agenda over honest science. It is discussed here: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/women-who-stray/2013...
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by lenticular 8y ago
Wow, I am very disappointed by many of the comments in this thread. I would have thought that my fellow tech workers would be more rational and less bigoted than this. I am also frankly amazed that HN allows these viewpoints be spread. As a
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by lenticular 8y ago
LGBT people are everywhere, being easily several percent of the population. I'm one of them. They should be represented in the media like everyone else. Would you like to explain the reasoning why you are against this? What are your th
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by lenticular 8y ago
What you have heard and read is wrong. No, people forced to live as a gender contrary to their own do not grow up to be well adjusted adults. Gender dysphoria is a real disorder as any perusal of legitimate medical research will tell you.
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by lenticular 8y ago
By "not all," you should say "nearly none." I can tell you must not know any transpeople.
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by lenticular 8y ago
I last used it about 4 or so years ago, so of course things may have changed. It was appallingly bad though, to the point where it was no more accurate than posted schedules on the routes I rode. I just quit using it because it was so thoro
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by lenticular 8y ago
When that app (OneBusAway) first came out, it was extremely accurate. It completely went to crap when Metro took over maintenance.
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by lenticular 8y ago
It's obvious p-hacking. This study is crap.
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by lenticular 8y ago
Speaking as a physical scientist, that is a really unhelpful and bizarre opinion. Many areas of physical science, especially medicine, are facing a replication crisis due to shoddy stats themselves. And it's not like the goal of physic
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by lenticular 8y ago
These CBP searches happen all the time near the Mexican border. I've been stopped at a few before traveling down there. The CBP checkpoints are permanent in some places, so there's plenty of people who have to go through it during
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by lenticular 8y ago
Not really true. Econophysics, which is composed almost entirely of physicists, has not really panned out in any way. One of the biggest criticisms of economics is faith in complex mathematical models without solid foundations or conserved
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by lenticular 8y ago
This was true for me. I absolutely hated math in middle and high school. I never studied for it and got mediocre grades. I had a few teachers who really had no enthusiasm or drive to make it interesting. Fortunately, I started taking some c
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by lenticular 8y ago
It's an old term for drag queens, not for transwomen. It's not offensive.
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by lenticular 8y ago
Frequentist stats just aren't that useful for experimental results because they don't tell folks what they need to know. Even ignoring that, researchers understanding of even basic concepts like P-values is so bad that one might a
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by lenticular 8y ago
TIAs are actually a very common cause of dementia as well.
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by lenticular 8y ago
Exactly my thoughts. The whole concept is just so insanely useless.
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by lenticular 8y ago
Representiveness is an issue, but I think the most important are the multiple comparisons problem and the base-rate fallacy. It's commonly the case that a P<0.05 positive result has more than a 50% chance of being wrong. The replica
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by lenticular 8y ago
The zoo of frequentist statistical tests in the article tend to give results that are easily interpreted in misleading or wrong ways (but kudos to the author to prominently include Bayesian methods). Uncritical usage of these techniques is
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by lenticular 8y ago
It could also lead to more discontent with the EU in general. The bloc is just not under sound economic leadership. I'm not exactly a euroskeptic (I love the Schengen area), but the EU has had a number of very severe missteps, such as
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by lenticular 8y ago
It seems like it could be. This thing sounds like it focuses on Fredholm integral equations, the solutions should be composable. These are basically equations g(t) = Integral_t K(t,s) * f(s), where K(t,s) (the kernel) and g(t) are known, b
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by lenticular 8y ago
Yeah, I've seen enough of these orgs. They paint themselves as just wanting to help LGBT folks, but it's really all a ruse. They are vile, and have a hatred for anything different.
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by lenticular 8y ago
This is used exclusively to injure LGBT folks. Sexuality is not something that can be channged at will, and attempting to do so causes immense harm. I can guarantee a good chunk of this app's audience are LGBT teens. Look, I'm gay
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by lenticular 8y ago
It has severe consequences for the victim. While it's not physical violence, it does far more harm than a punch.
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by lenticular 8y ago
>EBMs actually associate an "energy" to each point of the input distribution which then defines a probability distribution through the Boltzmann Distribution. Yes, this is precisely what MCMC methods do as well. Every posterior
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by lenticular 8y ago
I'm not really clear on the difference between Bayesian methods and EBMs. EBMs associate an "energy" to each point the the parameter space, but this energy is just the log-partition function of some distribution. Sampling sch
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by lenticular 8y ago
I've never quite understood those kind of arguments. It seems that if that were true, then either the logic that the physical or metaphysical world runs on would be inconsistent. I suppose that isn't necessarily a deal-breaker,
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by lenticular 8y ago
The corn lobby is very powerful. Nobody else thinks ethanol is a good idea, especially from corn (one of the worst crops you could use). The carbon inputs to make the ethanol are around the same as if you just burned petroleum in the first
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by lenticular 8y ago
A family member of mine suffers from severe IBS, including the ever-maligned apparent sensitivity to gluten. Until fairly recently, many doctors considered these complaints to just be hypochrondria. But, if one has severe diarrhea every tim

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