mactournier

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   by mactournier 4y ago

   Don't waste your time. There are so many statistical atrocities in this article that it makes me shiver.
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   by mactournier 5y ago

   Contrary to the HN title, the paper is not about causal inference, it is a case-control study. A good primer on the limitations of case-control studies can be found here: https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/280936
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   by mactournier 5y ago

   You can read it with your ACM/O'Reilly subscription => https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/docs-for-developers/978...
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   by mactournier 5y ago

   Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) has some well-known benefits in short term, in diseases such as Parkinson's (ref https://www.nature.com/articles/s41582-019-0145-9 ). Although, long term effects tend to fade in a lot o
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   by mactournier 6y ago

   They totally ignored the open source package in their site. https://github.com/snorkel-team/snorkel Moreover, based on the commit history in github, and their README.md , my understanding is that they will stop suppor