nickforr

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by nickforr 1y ago
I guess traditionally ‘middle class’ referred to the type of occupation (e.g. non-manual) which was typically associated with being better off. But it’s not obvious that the standard of living associated with being better off would ever hav
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by nickforr 1y ago
I think some perspective is missing if you’re describing this as “pushing anyone down that attempts to break into the middle class” when the cutoff points (when the step changes occur, as you’re correct to note) come into effect at around s
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by nickforr 2y ago
If you write the R code using vectorised operations it’s significant orders of magnitude faster (148 seconds to 1.5 milliseconds on posit.cloud). The nested loop becomes: j <- sum((seq_len(100000) - 1) %% u) a <- a + j + r
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by nickforr 2y ago
A large number of statistical packages in R make use of C++ for their core algorithms. See here, for example: https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/Rcpp/index.html
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by nickforr 2y ago
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by nickforr 4y ago
Just to pick one example, do you see something like state-imposed food standards as a 'hurdle' added by bureaucrats? What about housing construction standards? One person's hurdle can be another person's safety net?
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by nickforr 5y ago
If you want to sell in two different countries don’t you have to comply with two different legal codes and support both of them?
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by nickforr 5y ago
How does the PM know better than devs about whether or not they’re bringing the right information and not inadvertently summarising something incorrectly that’s technically important? Gatekeepers are generally inefficient longer-term.
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by nickforr 5y ago
Surely the context for the time series matters? Not sure good outcomes will follow from people blindly applying black boxes.
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by nickforr 5y ago
And if the revenue tanked would you accept half your salary, say, or would you expect a floor to be applied?
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by nickforr 6y ago
But without some statistical knowledge, isn’t there a risk of a lack of understanding about the robustness of “what works”?
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by nickforr 6y ago
Why would you not want business people to understand the technical constraints? Maybe easier in the short term to make the decision for them but longer term that just builds up barriers and an “us” and “them” culture, which becomes very unh
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by nickforr 6y ago
Worth looking through here and related links: https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2020/04/19/fatal-flaw...