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by mennis16 6y ago
Don't these companies usually end up failing though? I'm not very familiar with the startup space but in academia it feels like these system-gaming labs receive perpetual encouragement.
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by mennis16 6y ago
Yeah I just added the parent expected contribution and the student work contribution to get around 15K, either way it is pretty clear that students on aid (the majority of all students) aren't paying anywhere near 60K. Also per that NY
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by mennis16 6y ago
I think the classes are going to remain mostly online though, the frosh coming in person is more for orientation type stuff.
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by mennis16 6y ago
55% of students receive aid, and of those that receive aid the average expected contribution is ~15K. So technically most students do not pay that amount, although 45% is higher than I was expecting to be honest. https://college.
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by mennis16 6y ago
Not all respiratory diseases are the same. There is for obvious reason not much rigorous evidence regarding COVID19. But what has come out so far specific to this pandemic suggests mask wearing is beneficial right now.
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by mennis16 6y ago
The places surging right now in the US are all places where mask wearing was a controversy and many people did not wear masks. So I don't think it is fair to say that the case numbers are "with mask policy".
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by mennis16 6y ago
No one is telling people to wear masks in their own house or sparse outdoor spaces, and in most cases there are no rules about outdoor spaces at all. Where the anti-maskers are causing a problem is refusing to wear masks indoors. Airflow ca
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by mennis16 6y ago
I don't recall the exact CDC statement but I do recall quite a few of my (well educated, liberal, in some cases educated in public health) friends posting on Facebook that masks actually do more harm than good because "people touc
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by mennis16 6y ago
It's an interesting parallel to musicians but I think we are far from the tech actually being good enough to scale that well. The problem for most courses is not recording the lectures, it is trying to replicate the one on one (or smal
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by mennis16 6y ago
I heard a bunch of students complain about how tough the text for our Real Analysis class was, so I was surprised to find it felt pretty readable to me. Turns out it was a new prof that semester who decided to go with "Mathematical Ana
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by mennis16 6y ago
I like this idea! I'm not sure how it would actually play out, but one of the things I feel is missing about OCW is just having someone else to chat with that is going through the materials at ~the same time. The standard MOOCs have fo
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by mennis16 6y ago
From the paper: "To provide context, we also model what would happen if we did not open Cornell for a residential fall semester and did full virtual instruction instead. Our nominal parameters assume that 9000 students would remain in
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by mennis16 6y ago
I don't think it's fair to directly contrast Cornell and Richmond here. If you watch the video, the Richmond kid said something way worse in response, and the Cornell kid replied to that with "you can't say that" an
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by mennis16 6y ago
I think you're misreading the comment? He isn't judging poor people. He is criticizing a system where you only get UBI if you don't work (i.e. not UBI). Such a system means that lower skilled workers actually gain nothing fro
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by mennis16 6y ago
You just nitpicked his two examples (and for a nitpick back bartender != liquor store clerk). I don't know enough about econ to have a side here but I would be interested in hearing a counterargument that actually addresses the impact
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by mennis16 6y ago
There are some studies that suggest there are brain activity differences, at least when asked to imagine something the self reported vividness of that imagery was correlated with greater activity in visual cortex while imagining. There also
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by mennis16 6y ago
My guess is live sports is a big part of the market. Depending on what sport/team you are a fan of the league-run streaming services are a huge pain with blackouts, lag, etc. YouTubeTV was the best cost+convenience option for me to wat
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by mennis16 6y ago
Yeah, when I first saw the email I put a reminder to cancel before August billing, but I've been using it much less recently anyway so seeing this thread I decided to just cancel immediately. Hopefully in the future there will be a bas
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by mennis16 6y ago
I signed up for YouTubeTV quite recently (at the beginning of last baseball season) at $40/month. I'm pretty surprised to see in such a short span of time it has gone up to $65. If things were normal right now I'd probably ju
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by mennis16 6y ago
Here is a relevant paper, which was the coolest thing I saw at this past NeurIPS: https://weightagnostic.github.io/ It is based on NEAT (as other commenters mentioned) and also ties in some discussion of the Lottery Ticket
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by mennis16 6y ago
I also think it might help to stop showing posts in the main feed just because friends liked or commented on them. I see a lot of inflammatory posts that aren't even originally from anybody on my friends or likes list, just because one
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by mennis16 6y ago
That's not true at all. The way the data is analyzed could be done differently for example- there are some cases where previous clinical trials were brought back up as possibly helping a subset of the individuals, but got thrown away b
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by mennis16 6y ago
I didn't propose any specific solution, all I said is that the field doesn't do enough to account for population variability. It is hardly acknowledged! You will find PhD students at top programs who say "huh hadn't thou
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by mennis16 6y ago
But in certain fields this current setup seems to be failing. The large majority of clinical trials related to neuroscience fail. To the point that pharma companies are starting to defund these departments, because the hit probability is ju
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by mennis16 6y ago
That fixes only this one specific problem though, the breeding protocol has probably introduced a lot of biases.
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by mennis16 6y ago
I don't think it is just about mice though- it is also about "pure bred" anything. Imagine there was a single human that we could do all kinds of knockout experiments with, but we would always be starting with that base human
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by mennis16 6y ago
I am more familiar with the basic research phase but in my experience very few groups actually treat model choices as an engineering tradeoff. Labs usually write grants centered around whatever model organism(s) the lab is already used to,
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by mennis16 6y ago
I think a lot of Piaget's work has either been built on or pushed back on in more recent research, so while it definitely could be a good place to start I would make sure you also look into some more modern work. The other benefit of t
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by mennis16 6y ago
I think it isn't really comparable to an extracurricular, especially not if similar schools continue to require it. It would basically be an extracurricular that you know everyone has but only some people are choosing to report it. Tha
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by mennis16 6y ago
Yeah, also private schools make a business out of their college admissions profile, I am sure as this becomes the norm they will inflate grades even more. I do think along with the application the school is supposed to submit a profile of t

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