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by ordinaryperson 7y ago
How would this work? Some Olympic distances are: -Sprints (100m, 200m, 400m), -Middle distance (800m, 1500m) -Long distance (3000m Steeplechase, 5000m, 10,000m) -Hurdles (110/100m, 400m) -Relays (4x100m, 4x400m) Men would dominate ever
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by ordinaryperson 7y ago
Yes, and she generalizes about all testing organizations. To repeat hear exact line in full context: > Dose of reality: test makers are for-profit organizations. My poems are a whole lot cheaper than Mary Oliver’s or Jane Kenyon’s, so th
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by ordinaryperson 7y ago
> Dose of reality: test makers are for-profit organizations The College Board, the maker of the SAT and Advanced Placement (AP) exams, is a not-for-profit organization. While the test in question the author refers to is the Texas state a
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by ordinaryperson 7y ago
Interesting. Corporate America has been a similar experience for me but it's obviously you're much less emotionally and personally invested in each corporate opportunity. Thanks for sharing.
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by ordinaryperson 7y ago
Great feedback. Can you tell us more about your decision to leave? Besides the family stuff, what kind of "administrative nightmares" were you dealing with?
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by ordinaryperson 7y ago
Yep. I'm not disputing the injustice (at least, as his essay lays it out -- some comments on the article tell a different story of him being difficult to work with). But contracts not being renewed -- happens all the time in the "
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by ordinaryperson 7y ago
While I agree and sympathize with Professor Charney's on one level, on another the real problem (IMHO) is the lack of legit opportunities in Higher Ed. In the corporate world people are fired or let go for silly reasons or non-reasons
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by ordinaryperson 8y ago
You think that's a good description? "Something is partially explained by a combination of numbers"? That says nothing semantic of value. Better to exaggerate the causal relationship and give a sense of meaning than offer mea
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by ordinaryperson 8y ago
Lol. I was giving a basic intro for the 99% of readers who don't care about "kernel density" or controlling for output variables -- the fact that you conflate such an attempt with a "quantitative analysis" (which it
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by ordinaryperson 8y ago
"less wrong" -- as if what's important is a gradient of "wrongness" and just helping the average person understand stuff without technical jargon.
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by ordinaryperson 8y ago
Kernel density, bootstrap, using prior distribution, increment the derivative...all this stuff is so far above and beyond the ordinary person. You and a couple of others have provided plenty of context for the serious data scientist who wan
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by ordinaryperson 8y ago
I'm sorry, I'm not following your description. Saying there is a quantitative strength to a relationship is, to a regular person, meaningless. Am I .56 in love with my wife? Can I fit in a straight line to her? These are not good
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by ordinaryperson 8y ago
To you this is the major responsibility, but not to everyone. I'm getting this response to my statement, from you and many other data scientists, who can't accept oversimplifying math, but all of whom have failed to produce a gene
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by ordinaryperson 8y ago
So funny how all the data scientists complain about incorrectness and yet fail to produce a plain English description...
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by ordinaryperson 8y ago
OK, but that only makes it more confusing. You say it tells us about 30% of the information we'd need to know...which makes it sound (to the lay person) like there's no connection because 70% of the information is elsewhere! I app
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by ordinaryperson 8y ago
Uh...this is exactly what I mean. Your description is 100% scientifically accurate but probably way beyond the average reader. Again, if you can simplify this in a way more accurate than I have, great, be my guest-- I look forward to readin
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by ordinaryperson 8y ago
And your completely scientifically accurate but easy for the lay reader to understand description in a few simple words is...?
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by ordinaryperson 8y ago
Explaining half the variation, and the other half? The point was to draw a connection for the general audience, not present the most scientifically accurate description of a relationship between two variables -- that's what the links t
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by ordinaryperson 8y ago
Again, I'm summarizing for a general audience. If you have a better way to describe it that doesn't devolve into polynomials and linear relationships between variables on a graphs it's more helpful to do so than just say, &qu
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by ordinaryperson 8y ago
I'm summarizing for a general audience. I could say, r is " the strength of the linear relationship between two variables on a graph" but I'm not sure that helps the average person understand the connection. If you have
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by ordinaryperson 8y ago
> The accuracy of any of the selection methods we use in education is very poor. It just is. The SAT when combined with the high school GPA (HSGPA) has an adjusted correlation correlation coefficient of 0.56 with first-year GPA, meaning
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by ordinaryperson 8y ago
As I mention in another reply -- I'm not saying this filtering would result in the most interesting feed, but it's frustrating you can't filter your feed at all. If some people want more interesting opinions, great. If others
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by ordinaryperson 8y ago
Yes. You're right. But even that -- how innovative is that as a feature? I guess what I mean is: what innovative features have they introduced?
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by ordinaryperson 8y ago
Your point about Twitter's scale is fair, but I personally don't think the situation is hopeless, as you seem to suggest. If you have troll engagers in your feed, unfollow them. But right now I have no way of filtering replies...i
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by ordinaryperson 8y ago
Maybe. But does Twitter even experiment to see? Take Maggie Haberman, NYT reporter. Her Twitter replies are always a cesspool...what if she could lock down her tweets so only a whitelisted group of users (say people she follows) could comme
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by ordinaryperson 8y ago
It's not a good heuristic for unique opinions -- sure (see: LinkedIn, the most horrifyingly boring social network feed). But it is if you want to filter out hate speech, which a lot of people do. But my point is not real photos/na
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by ordinaryperson 8y ago
I don't understand why Twitter hasn't implemented some kind of reputation gradient that would allow users to filter by levels. Yes, I realize they are tricky to implement and subject to abuse but imagine you got points for using y
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by ordinaryperson 8y ago
My large regional cable provider recently tripled the cost of modem rental to $15/month so I bought my own. Opened the next bill but instead of seeing a $15 drop it was the same. Thought it was an error but no, they just unilaterally r
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by ordinaryperson 8y ago
The comments of these config files are part of what make them unreadable, these are not two unrelated issues. Yes, searching Apache config is pretty much the only reasonable way of finding what you need. But have we really gotten to the poi
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by ordinaryperson 8y ago
Agreed that workaround are hideous, but no, it's not immediately obvious to me we need configuration data (which should be self-explanatory) glossed with comments. Username? Got it. Password? OK. Hostname? Sure. Why do these things nee

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