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> Despite your link, there is a lot of solid psych research. Yes, solid, but lacking the dimension of falsifiable theories about the mind. Tax accounting is also solid research. > ... but psychologists characterized rods and cones way
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Quote: "Our proposal is a new type of paper for animal studies of disease therapies or preventions: one that incorporates an independent, statistically rigorous confirmation of a researcher's central hypothesis." This probabl
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Quote: "Billionaire also declares victory in his $1 million bet with another asset manager that low-cost index funds would out earn hedge funds over a decade." Okay, I've been publishing this advice for 20 years now, to the a
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> ... it's easy to screw one up no matter how sound the underlying science because you messed something up. Yes, but when a replication fails, the question one wants to ask is whether it was the original study or the replication eff
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> Is there any such thing as Continuous Reproducibility? Only in principle. Most studies are episodic -- they have a beginning, an end, and publication of results only after the end. For continuous replication to exist, laboratories woul
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Another important distinction between physics and, say, psychology is that the latter studies aren't testing a theory, they're testing an observation. A particular observation sometimes leads to the widespread assumption that a pa
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Quote: "The issue of replication goes to the heart of the scientific process." Indeed it does, but some fields don't think it's very important. For example, there's a surprisingly widespread attitude among psycholog
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Quote: "Getting artificial intelligence “by accident” from really big neural nets seems unlikely to me ..." I appreciate the subtleties of the argument, but nature did it without even so much as a plan, by trying one thing after a
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Because network-synchronized time clients are now nearly everywhere, the cost and accuracy of onboard computer clocks has declined over the past decade. At the extreme, Raspberry Pis don't even have an integrated battery-sustained cloc
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> Is there an option for lazy loading? I believe Apache can run user-defined scripts to perform this sort of thing -- in this case, look at a page's content and decide how to proceed. But high-volume sites don't like such thing
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> Why do you think it's labourious? It's just LaTeX -- see the source code for that page. I wouldn't say "just LaTex", not in the way I mean when I use MathJax, in which case one can insert normal LaTeX in plain-
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To solve this problem, those with hardware skills can take a spare USB cable and snip the data lines, leaving the power lines intact. http://i869.photobucket.com/albums/ab259/kvnsnyder/USB-cable... Such a mod
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> ... it would be a massive XSS vulnerability. Yes, if the MathJax library were to be accessed remotely. This issue is finessed by having a local copy of the library. Since it's free, many sites host it locally (including mine). But
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IMHO the author of this article needs to find out about MathJax (free BTW) -- it would have spared him those laborious math-related graphic image insertions as well as their contrast with the page background, and look better besides. MathJa
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Although I'm a programmer, I visit HN regularly because (frankly) the mean IQ here is higher than for most social media sites. I posted to Reddit for many years ( https://www.reddit.com/user/lutusp/?sort=top )
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>> If the Efficient Market Hypothesis is valid > ... More like Efficient Market Fallacy. Yes, maybe. We'll probably never know, since it can't be science. The EMH is one of those things that stands as an icon, a principle
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The title's claim and that in the linked article differ enough that the argument is meaningless. The quote being debated is "You not only need to have talent, you also need to be passionate to be able to become a good programmer&q
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> There's never a reason on HN to be uncivil. Fair enough, but this begs the question of what constitutes incivility. If present trends continue, telling someone that they're wrong will be regarded as uncivil behavior. To avoid
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> How can I make pull in $1mn+ as an engineer? > I don't want to have to be in the top 1% like Jeff Dean, but top 25% and still get these results. That's a contradiction in terms. If you made a million dollars, that outcome
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Rhetoric is not physics. If you should ever learn physics, post again.
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> Nothing thrills me more than debating physics. You aren't debating physics.
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It's not name-calling. This person really is a troll, a term with an unambiguous definition: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=troll . He tries so hard to earn the label that it seems unjust to withhold it
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> The only thing that can change the direction of motion of a particle is a force. Quite false. You're overlooking the fact that photons are the carrier particle of the electromagnetic field, which takes the form of waves in space -
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> Most physics articles (and even the Wikipedia page on Gravitational Lensing) are explaining it wrong. Ah, the encyclopedias are wrong. That may be true, but only if you meet your burden of evidence. You cannot meet your burden of evide
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> Then who or what is it for? Who cares about the earth if humans don't benefit? It's just a floating rock. This is not directed at you personally, but the view that humans are all that matters is a kind of species narcissism.
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The workers should feel free to form a union -- this is a fundamental right. The risk is that management will increase the number of robots in an already highly automated factory, eventually replacing all the humans. Then the robots will fo
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Quote: “One prediction that’s very important is metallic hydrogen is predicted to be meta-stable,” Silvera said. “That means if you take the pressure off, it will stay metallic, similar to the way diamonds form from graphite under intense h
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Postmodernists deny the reality of shared, objective truths, then try to begin a dialogue requiring what's just been denied.
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> We need another word for what is described above. One plausible candidate is the word (and condition) "melancholia," which has the advantage of being identifiable by means of objective clinical indicators[1]. Melancholia was
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> Only on HackerNews do I ever encounter the type of ass-holes who will parse sentences intentionally wrong as to yield the incorrect conclusion. You are one such person. Troll alert. Space and time are elements of spacetime, they are an

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