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Vaccination-autism study 'an elaborate fraud', says BMJ(edition.cnn.com)
2 points by nervechannel 16y ago|0 comments
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by nervechannel 16y ago
Clinical researchers too. Because lives are at stake. The whole field of systematic reviews and meta-analyses has developed around the need to aggregate results from multiple studies of the same disease or treatment, because you can't just
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by nervechannel 16y ago
And how many unpublished studies with null results I wonder? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funnel_plot PS non-physicists invoking "quantum stuff" are bullshit merchants, p < 0.001 :-)
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by nervechannel 16y ago
Just reading it now -- seems like a very thorough takedown of the whole thing, in fairly non-technical language. It makes the very good point that this paper makes lots of statistical tests, and then bases big claims on the small minority t
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Why the Google Books Ngram Viewer is limited and misleading(languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu)
1 points by nervechannel 16y ago|0 comments
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Import Delicious bookmarks into Google Bookmarks via JS(blog.lifeslip.com)
2 points by nervechannel 16y ago|0 comments
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by nervechannel 16y ago
That worked perfectly! I am hardly able to express how grateful I am :-) It even worked more smoothly than the Google Toolbar's own importer, which complains about dupes (wrongly), and prefixes all the labels with "Tag:" for no good reason.
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by nervechannel 16y ago
Not really :-) No better than pointing towards a dusty old copy of the Jargon File -- or the New Hacker's Dictionary, the book version I read when I was a teenager, without which I probably wouldn't be here saying this. Anyhow, the differen
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by nervechannel 16y ago
For a community-driven site without a clear statement of intent, 'having a number of upvotes' == 'fits the theme of the site', surely? Personally I think articles about how to make more money are nothing to do with the hacker mindset, but I
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by nervechannel 16y ago
In case anyone from Google Translate reads this: your URLs are highly resistant to shortening services. Both is.gd and safe.mn mangled it, I think it's the pipe characters. Thankfully bit.ly works...
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by nervechannel 16y ago
Just for information, CFGs used for processing natural language are almost invariably statistical too these days. Because natural language is inherently ambiguous and probabilistic. "Fruit flies like bananas" can be grammatically parsed in
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by nervechannel 16y ago
Are you a counter-bot?
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by nervechannel 16y ago
If rabid frothing twitterers want to get into arguments with someone over topics they know little about... ... and they are happy to continue arguing even if the interlocutor isn't even human... ... then who are we to stop them?
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by nervechannel 16y ago
Isn't that how a lot of internet advertising works anyway? e.g. You're talking about medical condition X, therefore I shall try to sell you drug Y even if you don't mention Y or drugs at all in your search terms/blog post/etc. And I don't c
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by nervechannel 16y ago
"Email marketing" + "I thought you were cool" = cognitive dissonance
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by nervechannel 16y ago
Can you please name some examples for "business based on a Mac Java apps?" Especially those that don't use OSX specifics. I don't understand this question. Either it's a Java app (no platform specified), or it's a Mac Java app that does
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by nervechannel 16y ago
Normally I'd thoroughly welcome any news of large Linux-based systems replacing slower MS-based ones, but in this case... ... these days I can't help thinking "is faster really a good idea?"
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by nervechannel 16y ago
PS I tried both those sfgate and Bell Systems pages through viewtext.org, and that got the content for both just fine. Maybe you could pipe requests through their API: http://viewtext.org/help/api
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by nervechannel 16y ago
The first couple of articles I tried: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/10/18/... http://bstj.bell-labs.com/ suffered from complete content extraction failure. The third one seemed to work pretty well, but there were
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by nervechannel 16y ago
I do see what you mean about the lack of choice, although I'd rather have all browsers implement one language consistently and and well, rather than a number of languages flakily and non-universally. The compiling-to-JS idea has a lot of po
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by nervechannel 16y ago
There is a massive difference between a scratchpad of calculations, and a simulation involving thousands or millions of data points.
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by nervechannel 16y ago
Yes, or sometimes even less rigour than this: run some data and see if the results "look right". This is the standard procedure for when you've developed a complex algorithm to do something novel, and actually working through it by hand wou
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by nervechannel 16y ago
Well, it is kind of old news now, it's been around for years
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by nervechannel 16y ago
Yes, that's why I referred to " his Circos package"
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by nervechannel 16y ago
That was my reaction -- I don't get it. I liked his Circos package better: http://mkweb.bcgsc.ca/circos/
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by nervechannel 16y ago
Actually, there used to be a choice. When I got into web dev, I got several gigs doing IE-specific sites in VBScript . Think how much worse it could have been if JS hadn't won.
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by nervechannel 16y ago
The AppStore restrictions are top-down decisions for commercial reasons. Whereas the web ecosystem has evolved this way. You can write code that compiles to bytecode to run on a browser -- applets, Flash, Silverlight -- but for various
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by nervechannel 16y ago
As a scientific programmer/data scientist at a university, I wish I could upvote this twice. I'll be forwarding this one around my lab. Another issue well as code quality, transparency, reproducibility etc. is simply reuse. There's a lot of
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by nervechannel 16y ago
Consider this though: I have tried to explain (With limited success) to my colleagues in bioinformatics that not unit-testing your code is like using an instrument that hasn't been calibrated, and blindly trusting the results to be right.
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by nervechannel 16y ago
Whether or not he's an open science fan, that's no excuse for him to refuse to publish code when the paper is out. You should point out that refusing to publish code is like being intentionally hazy about your experimental protocol.

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