radford-neal

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by radford-neal 4y ago
Then they shouldn't apply it to questions that require proofs, and then claim that the system solves them when it doesn't.
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by radford-neal 4y ago
I've only glanced at the paper, but from that glance it seems that it does not "solve and explain" these problems in any thing like the sense that this would mean for a human student doing the problems. Take the first example
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by radford-neal 4y ago
The point isn't that an odds ratio of 1.2 is too small to be important. It is that if the estimated odds ratio from the study, with all its biases, is 1.2, then one can't be at all sure that the actual odds ratio is even greate
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by radford-neal 4y ago
OK, looking at the timst4's other comments, I see the phrase "... before wet bulb temperatures reach 50C". So I'll believe that 50C in the post I replied to is not meant to be an increase, but a level. But it seems tha
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by radford-neal 4y ago
It's frustrating because it's economically inefficient. It's also probably bad for the camera company's shareholders. It may be good for certain company employees - what economists call a "principal/agent pro
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by radford-neal 4y ago
Highest recorded temperature in Arkansas was 49C. Maybe it will get up to 50C sometime. That wouldn't be especially alarming.
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by radford-neal 4y ago
Hmm... Maybe. Except that temperatures far above 50C have been recorded before, including over a century ago. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highest_temperature_recorded_o...
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by radford-neal 4y ago
So you're fine with the media trying to exploit common misconceptions to mislead their readers? Maybe they could get you to believe something false if you have the common misconception regarding the meanings of "infer" and &
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by radford-neal 4y ago
Really? You can't see how the present tense is clearly intended to mislead the reader into believing that these websites are right now outlawed? Sure, it may fail to mislead some readers who are alert to the technical distinction b
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by radford-neal 4y ago
The headlines says "South Carolina bill outlaws websites...". That is dishonest, because of the verb tense. The honest phrasing would be "South Carolina bill would outlaw websites..." Nobody would say "Terrorist b
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by radford-neal 4y ago
"...a law that required a landowner to sell to a not-for-profit at the market rate if they were selling and they couldn't be outbid by a private buyer" Why would a law be required for this? Wouldn't the landowner just n
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by radford-neal 4y ago
Why can't they just give everyone the option of whether they want all political emails, or for such emails to be treated like other emails (hence possibly regarded as spam)? If they really thought hard, maybe they could give users the
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by radford-neal 4y ago
Actually, they explicitly say that it is not "open source", by the usual definition of that phrase, due to the use restrictions they impose.
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by radford-neal 4y ago
"Not one word there about Elon Musk's personality." Why would there be? The article is a legal analysis of the likely outcomes of Twitter's suit, a topic of obvious interest to any WSJ readers thinking about buying&#x2F
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by radford-neal 4y ago
Well, for starters, it would mean that members of the public who had interacted with the murderer, and had important information about their motives, means of obtaining weapons, accomplices, etc. would not realize that they had important in
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by radford-neal 4y ago
Watson and Crick's 1953 Nature paper says "We have also been stimulated by a knowledge of the general nature of the unpublished experimental results and ideas of Dr. M. H. F. Wilkins, Dr. R. E. Franklin and their co-workers at Kin
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by radford-neal 4y ago
"Sri Lanka banned the import of foreign fertilizers not because they were committed to being organic but because they had dire foreign exchange shortages" In a free-market economy, the government is not in charge of importing thin
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by radford-neal 4y ago
For a law to be passed in the US, it must be approved by the House, the Senate, and the President. For a law to be repealed in the US, the repeal must also be approved by the House, the Senate, and the President. So there will often be si
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by radford-neal 4y ago
The article says: "First, the naïve realist believes that their perceptions are realistic and “objective.” ... Second, the naïve realist expects that any reasonable, open-minded person will be persuaded to agree with the naïve realist
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by radford-neal 4y ago
"Because of language models, the amount of fake news online will increase by an order of magnitude (at least) before this decade ends. And there is no interpretation of that development as anything else but a net negative." That&#
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by radford-neal 4y ago
Yes, when banks issue mortgages, they create money. When a non-bank (you, for instance) issues a mortgage, new money isn't created. When counting how much money there is, you count the bank balances, not the mortgages.
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by radford-neal 4y ago
It should be quite possible for one country to have no inflation while other countries do have inflation, if the inflation is caused by monetary policy, not real, global production difficulties. The exchange rates should just shift continua
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by radford-neal 4y ago
Maybe it's just a terminological matter. When counting how much money there is, you count the money that the seller now has in their account. You don't also count the amount of the mortgage, which is what I interpreted the state
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by radford-neal 4y ago
There are technicalities that affect the interpretation of the numbers. In particular, the "base money supply" was normally considered to be physical cash plus deposits of banks in their accounts at central bank, neither of which
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by radford-neal 4y ago
They quote Milton Friedman, "Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon, resulting from and accompanied by a rise in the quantity of money relative to output", but they then ignore this while spouting much nonsense l
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by radford-neal 4y ago
People need calories. The carbohydrates going to make ethanol could have provided those needed calories. I hope the Germans are just giving up on biodiesel if they can't get sunflower oil from Ukraine, rather than buying up other food
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by radford-neal 4y ago
No mention of the amount of food diverted to biofuels, such as corn being converted to ethanol. Stopping doing that would be the easiest way to increase food production. Maybe this omission has something to do with their ritual invocation
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by radford-neal 4y ago
I agree that while the professor seemed to be responding well in a lot of ways, his failure to quickly address the situation was terrible. He could have given his lecture on academic honesty immediately after realizing the extent of the pr
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by radford-neal 4y ago
Actually, it's main purpose is to provide a socially-acceptable way for young people to not devote their time to productive work. Some of these people use the time this makes available to them to learn wonderful things.
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by radford-neal 4y ago
Humans are the most interesting species to come along in a long time. It would be tragic if they go extinct. How am I judging what's "interesting"? By human standards, of course. Do you have any other standards?

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