mcswell

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by mcswell 4y ago
That's the synonyms thing; I was asking about inflected forms (dogs, dogging, dogged) and compounds containing the word (doghouse).
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by mcswell 4y ago
The reefs off the American Florida Keys have apparently been deteriorating for some years now. A study was done by researchers at a Florida university on why, with the expectation that the primary cause would be global warming. It was not
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by mcswell 4y ago
I recommend clay tablets. Fire them, and they'll last pretty much forever, or at least a few thousand years.
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by mcswell 4y ago
Maybe a decade ago, there were feedback pages. I recall when Google Maps changed its format. (I forget now what the change was, maybe scattering controls all over instead of having a sort of legend where all the controls sat.) There was
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by mcswell 4y ago
Just to be persnickety: If you do a search for "dog" (with the quotes), do you expect to find hits with only "dogs"? What about "doghouse" or "Dogbert"? "Dogged" (the past tense or past&#x
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by mcswell 4y ago
The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy would disagree: it has an article entitled "Laws of Nature" ( https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/laws-of-nature/ ) and separate articles on "Natural Law Theorie
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by mcswell 4y ago
I have no idea what you mean by "this idea that test is the common medium/ lowest common denominator", nor what these "escaping problems" are (I have to escape ASCII codes 0x00 through 0x1f, I guess, but it's u
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by mcswell 4y ago
At a guess: you pay for Windows and MacOS (or whatever they call that now). And because they need you to pay, they bring out a new version with a Fresh Look, Clean, Modern, New And Better (until they come out with a Newer And Betterer vers
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by mcswell 4y ago
What??? You're not excited about rounded corners? You must be a crotchety old __ like me!
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by mcswell 4y ago
You probably (and I definitely) have a flat color for your desktop, rather than a picture of some mountain (much as I like mountains) or garden or some such.
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by mcswell 4y ago
I came here wondering why anyone would build yet another desktop. Now that I've read your comments--particularly about the flat look--I'm wondering why the github site says "It is probably not well suited for beginners.&quot
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by mcswell 4y ago
They're implying that some such research has already been done, but wasn't published because of publication bias against negative results. So the data exists, but is missing from publication. (I suspect it's also possible t
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by mcswell 4y ago
There are a number of posts that address this issue, as well as issues raised by responses to this post. I posted somewhere "no true Scotsman"--I'm not claiming my post was enlightening in itself, but the post I was responde
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by mcswell 4y ago
"Behavioural science is a young field." As was chemistry up until, say, Robert Boyle.
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by mcswell 4y ago
No true Scotsman.
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by mcswell 4y ago
"I don't think this study will change anything for people actually doing choice architecture in applied settings." Probably true, but then evidence that horoscopes etc. don't work, doesn't prevent people from drawi
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by mcswell 4y ago
because it's a meta-study?
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by mcswell 4y ago
Great minds! I was writing more or less the same thing, you beat me to publication by three minutes.
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by mcswell 4y ago
"... evidence that nudging works. Perhaps not up to the standard of science..." That's pretty close to saying it doesn't work. The point of this meta-study was precisely to show that the evidence claimed to support nud
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by mcswell 4y ago
"Couldn’t this bias also happen in the other direction?" The general notion is that positive results ("we tried nudging and succeeded in getting people to behave more in X way") are more publishable than negative result
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by mcswell 4y ago
Rational/ irrational here depends on the unit of measurement. A full circle (360 degrees) is rational if you measure it in degrees, but irrational if you measure it in radians (it's 2 pi radians).
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by mcswell 4y ago
You're struggling to visualize this? "You're just not thinking fourth dimensionally." --Doc Emmet Brown ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUcNM7OsdsY )
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by mcswell 4y ago
I have absolutely no knowledge of this stuff (in particular of your industry), but I would have thought that most outliers indicate either a measurement error (which you suggest) or a cause that hasn't been taken into account. For the
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by mcswell 4y ago
Default engaged brakes were patented by George Westinghouse in 1869. The use was of course on trains.
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by mcswell 4y ago
Sonar, which of course works by sound, has issues because of the speed variability you mention. However, IIRC (and in salt water) the range of an active sonar at the right frequency (lower is better for range) is on the order of 20 thousan
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by mcswell 4y ago
FWIW, Congress has a "franking privilege" which allows senators and congressmen to send snail-mail free of postage. This privilege has been controversial, but afaik still exists.
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by mcswell 4y ago
I suppose you think JSON is better.
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by mcswell 4y ago
"the advantage is slight at best (comments...)" I suppose that's true if the data is generated by machine and consumed by machine, and never edited or looked at by humans. But JSON seems to be used in a lot of datasets that
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by mcswell 4y ago
Several years ago, we did a project attempting to develop methods to OCR bilingual dictionaries. We just used Tesseract, because we were trying to develop methods to put stuff into particular fields (headword, part of speech, translations
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by mcswell 4y ago
"Every warp drops you in a universe where you are the only sentient life." Well that explains the Fermi Paradox.

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