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   by pontus 6y ago

   +1 I have all sorts of things I want to do (books to read, projects to work on, ...). When I do have the time (at nights / during naps) I either have dishes to do, laundry to fold, or just no energy.
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   by pontus 7y ago

   I have a very similar perspective as you. Most non fiction books, being focused around a reasonably simple concept, could really be explained in a blog post (e.g. any Malcolm Gladwell book, zero to one by Thiel, Super Intelligence). By simp
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   Why Did I Serve 16 Years for Murder When I Didn't Kill Anyone?(youtube.com)

   1 points by pontus 7y ago|0 comments
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   by pontus 7y ago

   This article made me sick. Terrible.
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   by pontus 7y ago

   $149,591 + $4.49 shipping, lol
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   by pontus 7y ago

   Just putting this here in case anyone is interested in a slightly different view on p values. https://mindbowling.wordpress.com/2016/07/19/p-values/
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   Laplace Smoothing [pdf](mindbowling.files.wordpress.com)

   1 points by pontus 7y ago|0 comments
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   Should You Play the Lottery?(mindbowling.wordpress.com)

   2 points by pontus 7y ago|1 comments
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   by pontus 7y ago

   I've considered buying a chalkboard for my home office, does anyone have a good recommendation for what brand to buy?
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    by pontus 8y ago

    I had no idea how messed up the food delivery business is. Complete eye opener.
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    by pontus 8y ago

    Unions for software engineers... Interesting
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    by pontus 8y ago

    Thought this was a surprisingly measured conversation on this. It's kind of crazy how so many people have kids yet it seems like everyone has to scramble to figure out how to care for them.
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    by pontus 8y ago

    It's not that quantum mechanics isn't true, it's that the standard model must be incomplete (the standard model is a field theory that's built on top of the framework of quantum mechanics). In fact, one can derive Einste
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    by pontus 8y ago

    I have listened to quite a few of these episodes lately. This guy's from RAND.
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    by pontus 8y ago

    I recently signed up as a volunteer after listing to this podcast: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/be-my-eyes-mobile-micro-... Interesting episode that touches on things like their monetizations strategy, unex
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    by pontus 8y ago

    https://www.phd-insights.com/learn-user-research/ux-guide-to... Interesting perspective on how UX needs to change in light of GDPR, specifically as it relates to email collection / signups.
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    Growing Your Mailing List After GDPR(phd-insights.com)

    3 points by pontus 8y ago|0 comments
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    by pontus 8y ago

    I didn't know that. Thanks for pointing this out!
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    by pontus 8y ago

    Keep in mind that the test wouldn't be administered on any randomly chosen diabetic patient but presumably rather on those who already exhibit some type of vision imparement consistent with the disease. As a result, the prior of 200k &
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    by pontus 9y ago

    Thanks! I'm glad you liked it. I guess I didn't think about putting my name on there, but maybe I will :)
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    by pontus 9y ago

    p-values are very misunderstood and a lot more subtle than most people believe. If you're interested in p-values, I wrote a post on them here with some counterintuitive examples (one of them shows how a lower p-value can sometimes incr
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    Should You Play the Lottery?(mindbowling.wordpress.com)

    1 points by pontus 9y ago|0 comments
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    by pontus 9y ago

    As others have noted, every state in the state space will eventually be explored and so the appearance of convergence is a little misleading. Eventually the richest person will lose all the money and someone else will take that place. An in