rramach

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by rramach 1mo ago
Terence argues that explanation of results ("understanding") will be the new bottleneck in math research but I am not sure this is the real bottleneck for progress. Understanding was critical for the field to progress when only hu
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by rramach 2mo ago
Wow, this comment thread clearly shows that at least Anthropic has not been a great communicator. If one reads this with a charitable lens, Dario is simply saying that 1) Nation state actors are a threat which needs to be combatted by chip
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by rramach 6y ago
There is little evidence for wine being better than other alcoholic drinks. For example, see https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/is-red-wine-good-actuall... Most of the claimed benefits are either from observational st
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by rramach 6y ago
My favorite story when I hear someone dismiss an argument saying 'that is obvious': Lazarsfeld was writing about “The American Soldier”, a recently published study of over 600,000 servicemen, conducted by the research branch of th
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by rramach 6y ago
Nice summary of the Nassim-Nate debate. A formal analysis/discussion of election forecasting is in this paper: http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/research/published/jdm2... Edward says that Nate's
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by rramach 6y ago
Greenwald was not claiming he is breaking the story. He was trying to shed light into the media blacklisting of the story. It is indeed Ironic that his story got blacklisted as well! I think some editors are perhaps trying to avoid a repeat
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by rramach 6y ago
I don't get this obsession with comparing Sweden, a remote, sparsely-populated country, to more dense, well-connected, large population centers. If you really want to compare Sweden, please restrict your comparisons to its closely simi
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by rramach 6y ago
Yes, I agree. This issue is super-nuanced and I believe Mark has spent years (since the 2016 election fiasco) looking into this as well as being advised by top minds to arrive at his current position. These employees are acting emotionally
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by rramach 6y ago
> I'll go out on a limb, and say that the existence of police unions is not the most important factor behind police brutality, and the killing of people of colour by police, in the US. Hard to say if it is the most important but it
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by rramach 7y ago
John's analysis is cherry picking in many ways. Death rate in Diamond Princess is 1.1% today and 2% is listed as severe. Assuming 50% of severe make it, final fatality rate for the ship may end up closer to 2%. John then adds a 50% dis
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by rramach 7y ago
Classics have a way to taking things to extreme to illustrate various points. The Gulag example highlights that when a person had a choice to take the road to the left (selfish) or the right (selfless), they took the right road and gave up