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by safgasCVS 8y ago
Don't all policies have unintended consequences? Not to make this political but this is partly why I think many people lean right intellectually without knowing it because at some basic level we know what's good for us. Good inten
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by safgasCVS 8y ago
I don't understand how this relates to R? It starts of saying R is bad (agreed) but then what it just goes off on a tangent about something unrelated without really explaining what's better. I've said this before and will say
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by safgasCVS 8y ago
Populism assumes that there is a such thing as "will of the people" and the job of the government is to simply implement this will So basically Switzerland is doomed is what you're saying
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by safgasCVS 8y ago
Absolutely - and my issue is conflating experiments that ARE repeatable (eg a probabalistic game of chance) with experiments that arent (eg election results of two particular candidates). So its one of those heads I win tails you lose bets
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by safgasCVS 8y ago
". I think you'd find a lot of very intelligent people who disagree strongly with this statement. " I never claimed to be intelligent. " You can describe confidences as "well calibrated" if, when you look at th
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by safgasCVS 8y ago
"Lesson 1: Use probabilities instead of words to avoid misinterpretation." Probabilities are meaningless unless it’s a repeatable experiment otherwise its a ludic fallacy eg "There's a 70% chance of Hillary winning"
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by safgasCVS 8y ago
Preach.
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by safgasCVS 8y ago
Same here and I think that’s exactly how its meant to be used. Even so, if you want to use R as the production system, you shouldn’t implement the jumbled spaghetti code an iterative analysis involves just for your own sanity's sake. A
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by safgasCVS 8y ago
R is fundamentally flawed. It tries to merge two highly conflicting goals: a productive analytics environment and a programming language. To do the first really well means automating away many of the issues that would crop up in the second