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by pacbard 5y ago
I want to say it's almost there with 4.0. It seems that they re-implementend most features. For me, this is still the roadblock: > More features, including support for volume mounts from the host, are planned for Podman v4.1, so sta
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Meta-analysis is an application of idea #4 (Bayesian Multilevel Models) in the article. What makes meta-analysis special within a multilevel framework is that you know the level 1 variance. This creates a special case of a generalized multi
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p-hacking is a research "dark pattern" where a researcher fits several similar models and reports only the one that has the significant p-value for the relationship of interest. This strategy is possible because p-values are thems
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Depending on the type of chestnut, you can "fry" them in a pan with the skin still on. I think that that's the "roasted chestnuts by the fire" thing in the Christmas song. All you have to do is to cut a small slit i
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It does in Italy: https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equo_compenso_in_Italia#Tariff...
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by pacbard 5y ago
This is probably related to teenagers enrolling in college not only for an education but also for the amenities that come with college life (think of greek life, moving away from parents, college sports, freedom to explore your identity, et
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The reviewer shows a setting for it. By default, each track loops on its own. You can toggle a setting to link tracks and make them play together (I forget how it’s called).
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I wonder if it's because of the quirky Swiss military setup where evertyone is basically enlisted as a reservist. I would imagine that the local village will have monthly drills and that they have to organize them somehow. Using WhatsA
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The Italian retail sector (i.e., small local shops) is ripe for disruption. The shops pretty much just buy from wholesalers and provide some local inventory in the shop. This usually comes with a high markup. Competition is highly regulated
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> wonder how he convinced the team to drop the "for free" academic HPC/Slurm Probably because they are working with publicly available data so they don't need to worry about HIPAA/restricted data compliance. One
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This paper shows the problem with interrupted time series analyses. Mainly, (1) there is an external shock that happened in 2020 that interrupts the historical trend in the data. This shock is probably the covid pandemic, but the time serie
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I 100% agree with you that math is real and that there is real benefit from learning it. With that out of the way, > It's treated as some kind of tournament to get into college and > But most people admit that they forgot all of
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I had a friend living at Munger at Umich and visited a few times. The vibe of the building is similar to an hotel. As you enter, there is a foyer with elevators. The upstairs floors have windowless corridors where you enter the suites. Each
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I don't get what you mean by front-facing website. Do you mean accessible by the public? Isn't that the point of websites that allows the public to look up professional licenses? I would imagine that there are similar websites for
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Most states allow you to lookup teacher licenses using last name and they have a “secure” version of the same site for employers and employees to update data. Most of the secure sites use a combination of last names, dob, and/or SSNs t
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by pacbard 5y ago
> drawing sweeping conclusions from a single specific experiment It seems that you are bringing up the main issue with modern scientific production. Research studies that do not have sweeping/popular/weird conclusions do not ge
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This is the paper I had in mind: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/23328584156221... > Students of color are underrepresented in gifted programs relative to White students, but the reasons for
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by pacbard 5y ago
The context for the use of "racially segregated" is probably within the current anti-racist movement (see, for example, Kendi's work). This movement has moved away from labeling racist a policy that was implemented with racis
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It could even be argued that the barricade around scientific research is what kept the epistemic "superiority" of academia and academics. Opening up the tools to review the scientific literature gives people the power of "doi
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uBlock Origin has been broken on macOS since Safari 13 / macOS Catalina [1]. If they ever get the port to work on a newer version of Safari, it could work on iOS. [1]: https://github.com/el1t/uBlock-Safari/iss
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While not necessarily being “woke”, any research tradition that identifies with post-positivism [1] tends to reject the traditional scientific method and proposes new ways to reach “scientific truth”. There are many post-positivist research
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>the risk of developing symptomatic COVID-19 was 27 times higher among the vaccinated, and the risk of hospitalization eight times higher The denominator in those odds ratios seem to fishy to me. Comparing people who were previously infe
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I guess they offer similar subscription services but it seems to me (at least) that they serve completely different niches. For example, if a content creator says "check out my OnlyFans for subscriber-only content" versus "ch
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(Most of) All the things that fly do it because of lift. Lift acts like piece of string that keeps up the flying object. The point where this string is attached to the object is called the center of lift. This study shows that the center of
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I wouldn't really trust correlational studies that link hospital capacity and mortality rate during covid. You want to look for causal studies that try to isolate variation in hospital capacity using some sort of instrument to get to a
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From a quick google scholar search, it seems that there is a trade-off between heating/cooling costs between summer and winter: > The results indicate that the energy savings ratios of the rooms with the sedum-tray garden roof and w
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I wonder if the stress comes from how a police officer dies on the job rather than the absolute death rate of the profession. Lumber harvesting is the most dangerous profession in the US but I imagine that most deaths would be described a
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I dug up SFUSD board policy [1] around failing notifications. The policy reads: "Whenever it becomes evident to a teacher that a student is in danger of failing a course, the teacher shall arrange a conference with the student's p
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> With half the term remaining, teachers of seniors received a notification that they would not be allowed to fail students unless they filled out a form right then and there declaring that the student was certain to receive an F. I thin
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I saw a chart once that made the point that most research studies can be classified along two axes: rigorousness of methods and popularity of results. Most published papers have either high rigor/low popularity and low rigor/high

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