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by p-e-w 3y ago
Wouldn't any statistically significant improvement become clinically significant when applied at a large enough scale, e.g. in global clinical practice?
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by p-e-w 3y ago
> Some things are improved by formalism, empiricism, and positivist reductionism. Some things are made worse by that kind of thinking. But that doesn't mean anything is made better by mysticism and appealing to some vague idea of tr
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by p-e-w 3y ago
> When studied, I think scientists will find that certain mystical practices induce these pivotal mental states, at least in a percentage of the population. That's useless if those "mystical practices" don't consist o
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by p-e-w 3y ago
> A subsequent Bayesian reanalysis did show a statistically significant advantage to psilocybin, but this difference was not clinically significant. What does it mean for something to be statistically significant, but not "clinicall
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by p-e-w 3y ago
He who pays the piper calls the tune. While I find this behavior reprehensible as well (and this is far from the first such incident), the fact that it is happening shouldn't surprise anyone.
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by p-e-w 3y ago
Actually, the vast majority of them aren't aligned with any particular ideology, which you can see from the fact that they liberally donate to representatives from both political parties. The only belief that all of them have in common
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by p-e-w 3y ago
Saying "I wish you dead" is not a death threat. Saying "I will kill you" is. The tweet, while obviously inappropriate, contains no threat whatsoever.
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by p-e-w 3y ago
> How often do you see people describe that kind of passion for Python? It's part of modern science/technology culture to indiscriminately hate the most widespread things. Personally, I find Python simply amazing and delightful
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by p-e-w 3y ago
> Yes, it is only machine learning. Trying to separate it from the scientific community is creating a wall that does not exist. What? 99% of science has nothing to do with machine learning. Jupyter is used in a million different environm
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by p-e-w 3y ago
Better than Python? 15 years ago I would have agreed. Today, Python is a "gateway" to programming that is also the real thing. It's like one of those old languages designed for beginners to learn coding... and then you can co
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by p-e-w 3y ago
That sounds like metaphysics. The Universe doesn't "want" to increase entropy, entropy increase is simply a consequence of applying basic statistics to matter and energy. There is no mechanism that actively explores various p
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by p-e-w 3y ago
> Machine learning isn't comparable to software development. It is a statistical modelling exercise. It's neither of the two. Machine learning isn't comparable to any other human endeavor because in many cases, much more v
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by p-e-w 3y ago
The peer review process isn't actually blind in practice. The number of experts working in a given problem space is small enough that they know most of their peers, and usually can identify at a glance who the author of a paper is, fro
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by p-e-w 3y ago
All rankings that attempt to compare the academic quality of universities are self-fulfilling prophecies. Rankings influence prestige. Prestige influences perception, even among experts. Is Nature really going to reject that paper? It was
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by p-e-w 3y ago
The "foundation" of Harvard is institutional power. Academic excellence is at best a consequence of that. I can guarantee that Harvard's many powerful alumni aren't going to let that institutional power be eroded, regard
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by p-e-w 3y ago
The last time I looked into this (which was a few years ago), ISPs were allocating blocks containing billions of IPv6 addresses to anyone who paid a nominal sum. So that vast address space might not last as long as it would seem...
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by p-e-w 3y ago
> My browser just started connecting to Hacker News over IPv6 today If you don't mind me asking, how did you notice that?
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by p-e-w 3y ago
> so they aren't the only servers storing your data That's only true if other large servers eventually emerge. "Federated" systems have a tendency to coalesce into a network wherein a few big players – often just a si
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by p-e-w 3y ago
> As reported by Reuters, small batches of the semiconductors have slipped through the net [emphasis added] So this is complete non-news, since not a single person with a brain (including the authors of the export ban) ever thought tha
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by p-e-w 3y ago
> Bluesky’s business model must be fundamentally different — we are a public social network and our code is all open source, so we have no “moat” when it comes to data. That's such a bullshit claim. The entity that runs the servers
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by p-e-w 3y ago
LibreOffice supports grammar checking with LanguageTool, which blows Word's grammar checker out of the water.
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by p-e-w 3y ago
The passage you quoted is the standard "cover your ass" disclaimer that you can find in almost any social science publication today, where the authors basically state that their results become invalid the moment they are used to d
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by p-e-w 3y ago
I don't really care that you call me racist (that term has long ago ceased to mean anything other than "I don't like what you say"), and your use of conservative as a slur will be familiar to anyone following political
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by p-e-w 3y ago
> I don’t (and I don’t think this is unusual) mean by ‘equal opportunity’ that everyone should be just e.g. allowed to be a pro athlete or artist simply because they decide to do so. I mean that they should have the same opportunities to
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by p-e-w 3y ago
The standard metric to compare to would probably be the Human Development Index[1]. Which paints roughly, but not quite, the same picture as GDP. But regardless of which development metric you choose, I'm sure you agree that the (inver
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by p-e-w 3y ago
> exactly what kind of diversity are you referring to which is distinguishable from integration? The kind you can find in most cities today. Where your neighbors come from many cultural backgrounds, but you don't even know their nam
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by p-e-w 3y ago
> The assumption that society would "quickly crumble to dust" if we gave more children more opportunities Another strawman. I wrote that society would crumble if children's opportunities were entirely independent of their
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by p-e-w 3y ago
> It has been shown many times that integration reduces bias Strawman. Integration isn't the same thing as diversity, and doesn't automatically follow from it either. Different kinds of people living in the same locality doesn&
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by p-e-w 3y ago
These things are highly specific to certain places, namely the US. Waiting in line to vote is unthinkable in much of Europe. And private schools with "better teachers" are a fringe phenomenon elsewhere. "Healthy" grocery
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by p-e-w 3y ago
> What's the point of power if you have everything you want. To those that seek power, it is an end, not a means. And there is no limit to what people want. Indeed, it expands faster than real possibilities do. By the standards of a

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