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Doctors and nurses need to be replaced by computers and robots(city-data.com)
32 points by spec 13y ago|55 comments
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Rise of the Warrior Cop(online.wsj.com)
12 points by spec 13y ago|0 comments
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by spec 15y ago
Something very similar has been done years ago: http://www.city-data.com/accidents/acc-Chicago-Illinois.html . Per-city mapping using Google Maps with additional info and Google street map when clicking on each marker.
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by spec 16y ago
You are absolutely and factually wrong. He absolutely calls them predictions when he is right. Here is a direct quote from Silver: "predicting 49 of 50 states correctly in the presidential election." http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.co
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by spec 16y ago
There is a very common fallacy committed by people outside economics in thinking that Krugman has something substantial to say in areas of economics outside of his very narrow focus of expertise. Let's say you founded a successful advertisi
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by spec 16y ago
Based on your post, it appears that you don't understand how things like statistical significance work. If there is not enough data to make a prediction, you simply should not make a prediction and wait. If you ignore this and your whole bu
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by spec 16y ago
No, that poster was claiming that his coverage was "well-deserved" and I disagreed. He was not obligated to mention his failures, but I did, and that apparently troubles you greatly for some reason. Silver's whole reputation is based on his
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by spec 16y ago
You're right - it appears that he updated his model right before the elections and I only saw his earlier posts. However, he had a post in 2009 entitled "Could a Republican Win Ted Kennedy's Senate Seat?" with his answer being "Very probabl
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by spec 16y ago
The point was that selectively praising someone's accurate predictions without mentioning his failures is wrong. Krugman is a partisan hack that has a Nobel Prize is one very specific area of economics. It does not qualify him to opine on a
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by spec 16y ago
How about his failure in predicting UK elections results, US unemployment rate, Maine's same sex marriage vote, special Senate elections in Massachusetts? These are just a few examples that I remember. But then the NY Times thinks that Krug
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Actual business plans that resulted in companies getting financing(referenceforbusiness.com)
8 points by spec 16y ago|7 comments
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by spec 16y ago
The writer states himself that the results of "site:" don't mean anything: "Of course this says nothing about how much they appear in the rankings." So what's the point of this article?
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by spec 17y ago
This paper does nothing to calculate any "real value" and is just a collection of biased and discredited arguments. Example of one of the arguments: "They have supported the propagation of the misguided view that tax cuts are good for stimu
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by spec 17y ago
This confirms that they had no contracts - Arrington's "exhibits" are some blog posts and emails. This guy seriously used to be a lawyer? The initial price point was just an attempt to hype it up by Arrington, so this whole device would ne