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by narkee 16y ago
I think given enough students, 3 data points over 4 years is a perfectly appropriate dataset from which to measure longitudinal effects. I'm not saying I don't agree that the test may not have measured anything useful, or that there wasn't
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by narkee 16y ago
It's like a pyramid scheme!
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by narkee 16y ago
Illustrates how much tech adoption is driven by hype and bandwagon behaviour, and not by actual content or usefulness.
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by narkee 16y ago
> Your body is designed to regulate itself. Smearing chemicals all over it wrecks its own built-in processes, and screws with naturally balanced pH levels. This made sense to me and I thought I'd give it a shot for a month. These "natur
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by narkee 16y ago
> On Quora, you can follow not only people, but topics and questions. It defines the world by your interests, not just the people you may know or admire. This is a powerful concept and is not limited to Quora (both Twitter and Facebook
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by narkee 16y ago
Maybe it's because I don't have an iPhone, or a smart phone, but I seriously don't understand instagram's insane adoption/appeal. It seems bizarre and not novel in any way. Mobile sharing has been around forever, and even my 2005 feature ph
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by narkee 16y ago
I think everyone would do well to remember that nutritionists are nuts, and do not belong to any sort of regulatory body. You, me and my pet monkey can all start calling ourselves nutritionists tomorrow, and charge money for ridiculous diet
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by narkee 16y ago
Of course you want things money can buy - that's implicit when someone says they want money. Because we all know that money has no intrinsic value, and saying we want money is a little easier than saying we want a magic genie that will give
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by narkee 16y ago
26/3 is ~8.67, I wonder if that is relevant.
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by narkee 16y ago
I don't see why the premise that "There should be as many scientists roughly in each party" is pre-supposed to be true. It's not self-evident at all.
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by narkee 16y ago
>It's well documented that universities are strongly slanted to the left I think that this just deflects the question. Why is it that universities are left-leaning? The implication is that knowledge acquisition is co-related with left-l
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by narkee 16y ago
With the Galaxy Tab and now the HP Slate priced the same or higher than the iPad, I wonder if the "Apple tax" meme will give way to a "non-Apple tablet tax".
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by narkee 16y ago
Confusing? Users either run a package installer, basically identical to installation wizards on Windows, or plop a *.app in the Applications folder. Under what circumstances is either of those options "extremely confusing"?
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by narkee 16y ago
I should have been more precise when I said observation. In QM, clearly scientific "observation" acts on the system, causing the system to "collapse" into a definite state, but what I meant by observation in my previous comment was that spe
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by narkee 16y ago
Not really. QM measurements follow probability distributions, but are not dependent on what the experimenter thinks about the system. Consider a 2-state single particle system, the outcome probabilities of one state vs. the other are fixe
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by narkee 16y ago
It's really interesting, when you think about it as a system that changes in response to observation. Can you imagine if physical systems worked like that? That observed physical phenomena would change in response to what the experimenter/o
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by narkee 16y ago
Or you stop defining your beliefs based on the beliefs of others. Problem solved.
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by narkee 16y ago
>3. For Mac users, where PDFs don't load in a plugin in the browser by default, they want to be able to link to a PDF that opens in the browser instead of popping up an external viewer. FYI, PDFs absolutely load in the browser by defaul
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by narkee 16y ago
Fair enough. Although the data is presented in a non-rigorous, light-hearted manner, I guess a more accurate title would be "Stuff single, web savvy white people like"
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by narkee 16y ago
Well written, although it reads more like an opinion piece than an objective report. If Greece were a business, it would become bankrupt and be dissolved. I guess that realistically can't happen for an entire country - but they really need
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by narkee 16y ago
They do have an enormous sample size. Much, much larger than any rigorous scientific studies based on getting undergrads to fill out surveys. They've done similar analyses for things like self-reported heights, and photos: http://blog.okcu
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by narkee 16y ago
Haha, I see it now. My fault for missing it, although in my defense they're put in a non-standard location.
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by narkee 16y ago
I hate plots that don't have labeled axes.
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by narkee 16y ago
The whole point of search result rankings is to be non-neutral. Of course there's a bias, towards useful and relevant results. A completely neutral search engine would be absolutely worthless. Besides, don't people adhere to the caveat empt
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by narkee 16y ago
The WTF here is how anybody drew a conclusion without performing a simple statistical test for significance.
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Where are the iPod touch knockoffs?(asymco.com)
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by narkee 16y ago
> Surrounding yourself with smart people you like to work with helps immeasurably. I think this is one of the most important pieces of advice ever. Not many people are solo savants - almost everyone who is successful (in business, acade
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by narkee 16y ago
>anyone know what he's referring to? why is it useful to have a distinction? I think because on Windows those two very different operations are overloaded onto the same key combo, and there could be situations where in context it is amb
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by narkee 16y ago
>A year later in 1987, IBM released its new vision of the PC, called PS/2; it only offered a standard port for the mouse and another identical but unique port for the keyboard, a mistake that would plague PC users for the next two decad
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by narkee 16y ago
Wow, mid-level developers pull $150k? Everything I had read previously stated that Google salaries were nothing special compared to industry averages, and it was the perks and culture that differentiated them But there's no way $150k is ave

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