mjt0229

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by mjt0229 14y ago
Er. If your startup developers can't write more bytes than necessary, why are you publicly doing a shoot-out? You clearly can't afford to explore all reasonable options. You're wasting everyone's time if by cherry picking outdated Scala fra
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by mjt0229 14y ago
The article fails to deal with selection bias. It never establishes that the populations that enroll in online courses are sufficiently similar to the populations that enroll in traditional courses that such things as attrition rates, etc.,
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Unfortunately, the authors do not provide a citation for that statement. It appears that they simply browsed the SciFund website and made a subjective evaluation based on the list of projects there. That hardly qualifies as a thorough analy
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Well, even in the current scientific funding system, translational research (ie, research that produces drugs or other direct human health benefits) tends to crowd out basic science (ie, science that's focused on explaining how things work,
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I am not thrilled about this development. It's not that I think this scientist isn't being clever or useful. The real problem is that not all science is sexy enough to draw funding this way. More specifically, a lot of really important scie
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If you want to hipster it up, you can convert the code to punchcards.
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As I recall, Apple was the weak link in that identity theft, although Amazon was not blameless.
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Bezos's observation reminds me of Philip Tetlock's conclusions in "Expert Political Judgement" ( http://press.princeton.edu/titles/7959.html ). Tetlock studied it pretty rigorously and came to a number of conclusions, but the central thesis
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I will patent announcing patents on social websites.
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I quibble with your quibble. This article does conflate economic return with actual value. Many people contribute positively to society (including economically), without necessarily being directly compensated proportionally to their contrib
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Some of the best technical thinkers I've met came from a liberal arts background. The exposure to a broad range of ideas from a variety of fields including both the natural sciences, math, the social sciences, literature, etc., prepares a p