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by pseut 13y ago
I don't know... this line towards the end suggests you're anti-testing: "It is for this reason that I’m trying desperately to get quantitative humanists using non-parametric and Bayesian methods from the very beginning, before our methodolo
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by pseut 13y ago
This line is silly: > you can just pretend you went into your experiment with different halting conditions and, voila!, your results become significant. You can misrepresent your results regardless of the underlying statistic. But it
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How Much Hospitals Charge Medicare(nytimes.com)
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by pseut 13y ago
They're there so that you can look them up, but they're expected to justify your claim. It's not a scavenger hunt either.
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by pseut 13y ago
vim to your Sublime Text :)
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by pseut 13y ago
No, I think the purpose of citing claims is to demonstrate that they have validity. People can disagree about what constitutes "validity" and the citation is often inappropriate. But you shouldn't intentionally cite a source that shows yo
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by pseut 13y ago
That's probably a reasonable description for why most macroeconomists don't work on these models and wouldn't advise a student to start working on them, but if the models were giving new insights or understanding, people would pay attention
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by pseut 13y ago
Undergraduate econ is nothing like the PhD work. This is a little bit of a problem sometimes in graduate admissions...
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by pseut 13y ago
If you want a PhD in Econ, do a math undergrad. An econ minor in addition might help a little but is optional.
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by pseut 13y ago
That's not my impression of the criticism of agent based models and I don't think there's a criticism of the models per se. Computationally intensive models with heterogeneous agents are used in parts of macro (an office neighbor of mine i
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by pseut 13y ago
Do you know about the recent papers using DSGE models as priors for time series models? e.g. section 4.7.3 here: http://economics.sas.upenn.edu/~schorf/papers/bayesian_macro... (this is the closest I could find to a self-contained link,
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by pseut 13y ago
It's funny, because my advice is basically the opposite for getting an Econ PhD. You get paid very little during grad school; it seems to exacerbate depression, etc. and is bad for relationships (no formal data to back those up, just my ex
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by pseut 13y ago
I think you underestimate how long it takes to write a single Econ paper. I don't know enough about CS to make a comparison, though.
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by pseut 13y ago
A few nits to pick: * Macro's different than micro in that it's the predictions of the models, rather than their intellectual coherence, that matters.[1] They're obviously simplified because otherwise they're intractable. Even now, the em
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by pseut 13y ago
I'm sympathetic but torn. I do time series econometrics, partly because macro is important but unrealistic like you say. But I've grown more sympathetic to macro over the last few years. For better or worse, it's a field that only really
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by pseut 13y ago
FWIW "invading parasites" is a phrase that one should avoid in American English if he or she wants to avoid sounding racist. Many people will read "too much" into it whether intended or not, so it's best to avoid it.
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by pseut 13y ago
My experience (not in CS) is that grad students don't really have to worry about politics.
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by pseut 13y ago
If you use firefox, try the "it's all text" plugin (although I don't know for sure if it works with the new gmail compose). You can write in the editor of your choice.
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Stevenson & Wolfers have no opinion on Reinhart/Rogoff, think you shouldn’t(pseudotrue.com)
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by pseut 13y ago
That seems to be pretty much how my wife uses pinterest. Outfits and gardening.
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by pseut 13y ago
I think you answered your own question
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by pseut 13y ago
Go all the way: either "N" or an empty text field.
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by pseut 13y ago
That was the last paragraph of TFA: The problem from Reddit’s perspective, of course, is that this method of sleuthing would be far less exciting for users, and would probably generate less traffic, than its current free-for-all approach.
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by pseut 13y ago
I'd be fine with that as long as the "hire me" page makes it clear that it's one guy. "We" has a more collaborative feel when describing the projects.
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by pseut 13y ago
Off the top of my head; looks very nice. A few things jump out: * I hate the bird * copy editing: "it's got" -> "it has" everywhere; "in a beautiful way" -> "beautifully" (but really, "... It's got a pinterest layout to show the pa
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by pseut 13y ago
Fortunately your project, you know, terrifies people. edit: typo
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by pseut 13y ago
Dude, this is the second comment in this thread plugging your non-HN-launched product. But don't worry, we all backslide from time to time. I know you can do it! I know you can keep HN free of links to forkthewhatevs!
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by pseut 13y ago
yeah, but sorting files by date added is usually trivial, so I'd rather have the option of grouping all of the invoices together. But I completely agree that people should name these files to make sorting easier and more useful.
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by pseut 13y ago
Political constraints and welfare concerns effectively rule out "controlled experiment" at the present time.
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by pseut 13y ago
Have you been following RR's op-eds, etc over the last two years? I have the impression that they've been less circumspect than you claim.

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