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by pocketsand 3y ago
Things are complicated. To be fair: Everyone I've worked closely with in research has gone above and beyond not to cut corners and produce high quality data and research. What I have in mind here is a situation where people are actuall
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by pocketsand 3y ago
I think your critiques are fair enough and I think the authors would likely agree they should have been more proactive with the data sharing. Maybe it sounds like I'm parsing too much, but I nevertheless still think saying "no one
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by pocketsand 3y ago
I'll start by saying that if you're going to roast a paper that an econ nobel winner and one of the most famous and respected working statisticians put their names on, you probably want to turn down the volume and double check you
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by pocketsand 3y ago
HTML, the language on the server
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by pocketsand 3y ago
Correct.
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by pocketsand 3y ago
It's a bummer to be a scientist whose work is stymied by these concerns. Nevertheless, pumping the brakes here is sensible. I get the sense that researchers feel a certain injustice that geopolitics is affecting scientific decisions by
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by pocketsand 3y ago
Social sciences haven't ignored causal inference. Perhaps it’s not everywhere you’d like to see it, but it’s common in quant papers, its the backbone of econometrics, and you’d probably have trouble finding a single top ranked PhD prog
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by pocketsand 3y ago
One gripe with this article—-regression coefficient doesn’t provide ATE under most circumstances using observational data.
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by pocketsand 3y ago
I suppose it's just what you're used to, of course. However, in R, you don't need to trailing slashes on new lines. Plus, their pipes are hideous: %>% or now |>. I do kind of like how the pipe delimiter looks on the lef
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by pocketsand 3y ago
Prepending doesn’t help its case. I like the R convention of pipe at end of line, indent on lines 2+
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by pocketsand 3y ago
This seems well done and well-researched. I appreciate the diagrams and art and references to the likes of Rubin and Pearl. A few headings down: > Causal inference provides us with tools that allow us to answer the question of why someth
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by pocketsand 3y ago
Counterpoint: We are not traumatized, we are polarized. You can layer paragraph upon paragraph about how things are bad, but they've often been far worse, and far more tumultuous. Segments of post-civil war, post-WW1, post-WW2 populati
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by pocketsand 3y ago
Just for context. I'm a PhD trained in education research who has met Sean Reardon a handful of times, had a meal with him, gone through methods training with him. He sits at the top of the field and has the unconditional respect of ne
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by pocketsand 3y ago
Check out the datacolada web site. https://datacolada.org/
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by pocketsand 3y ago
Pre-registration protects against HARKing and p-hacking, but it unfortunately doesn't protect at all against outright fraud, which we appear to see from the likes of Ariely and Gino.
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by pocketsand 3y ago
Seems like behavioral economics really just receives splash damage from what is the massive fraud at the heart of experimental social psychology. At this point I basically assume any catchy finding from the field is at best HARKed or p-hack
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by pocketsand 3y ago
This is an interesting idea, but I don't find it particularly germane to Nagel's question. To someone with a hammer, everything looks like a nail. To someone with an LLM, everything looks like a set of data to be trained on, I sup
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by pocketsand 3y ago
The dirty not-so-secret about national defense apparatus in this country is that there are thousands of people in these various sub-sub-wings of our military along side mediocre contractors cashing in on defense contracts who go through rud
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by pocketsand 4y ago
And their signals may well be noisy. This is why it is infuriating. They have some model and some threshold. If an account goes over the threshold, they're banned. For whatever reason, OP ends up over the threshold, and eBay is complet
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by pocketsand 4y ago
Takes a lot of work to advise theses, and Bachelor's theses are at bottom of list, but this student would have been served well by being encouraged to move all these page-long sections explaining terms and statistical tests to an appen
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by pocketsand 4y ago
When I work in Django, instead of other frameworks I use, I think "I like this more, I like this less; this works better for me in these circumstances, this does not." But I've never felt it made any sense at all to pronounce
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by pocketsand 4y ago
Technology companies routinely use/license technology from other companies in their products. If, for example, Apple relies upon Samsung for displays and memory in their laptops, it does not follow that you're actually buying a Sa
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by pocketsand 4y ago
You can look at a Laravel (Eloquent) model and easily see what methods it has. Nothing is hidden -- at least no more than any ORM that inherits from another class which gives it functionality. As for properties -- yes, they're not expl
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by pocketsand 4y ago
A lot of stuff is deprecated and not removed. Can you give an example of the footguns you so fear?
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by pocketsand 4y ago
Can you give me a few real life examples where you got bit by the "magic" conventions or ran into any serious issue from not explicitly setting properties on your models? Facades are not global glorified variables with magic metho
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by pocketsand 4y ago
I work on a project like this and you'll run into some papercuts, but it's not hard. You can take a model for anything in your legacy code, and just set properties on the model to teach Laravel how to deal with things that don&#x2
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by pocketsand 4y ago
Because I got high made a ton of money, and he would have made a lot more if 9/11 didn't happen. There's a nice documentary on him and that song. Seems like a genuine guy.
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by pocketsand 4y ago
A song that laments how 911 ignores poor/black neighborhoods embodies a different sentiment than "fuck the police."
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by pocketsand 4y ago
For web apps, PHP is still a great candidate. Check out Laravel or Symfony. It's not like the old days of PHP files mixed with procedural code. Although those were good days :)
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by pocketsand 4y ago
Honestly thought they were already bankrupt

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