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by stdbrouw 8y ago
Django's admin is great, but it's semi-automatic at best: you still have to specify exactly what the models should look like. This tool seems to infer the models and forms that are required from the html.
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by stdbrouw 8y ago
This feels like a deliberate misinterpretation of the parent comment and therefore, yep, pedantic. It's obvious from context that they're talking about the product qua UX and features, not about the product as a whole including it
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by stdbrouw 8y ago
Having to use `\textbf{...}` is impetus enough for writing in Markdown instead.
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by stdbrouw 8y ago
> people have to be told not to put stretchy latex things into the sewage system. How on earth are people really expected to grasp a more complex issue like AGW? And yet we can put big wads of paper and faeces in the sewage system. There
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by stdbrouw 8y ago
NASA is betting on both SpaceX and Boeing for its next manned missions, and Tesla has made electric cars fashionable, but there is no reason to expect that a couple of years from now its cars will be any better than the offering from major
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by stdbrouw 8y ago
Comparing best case scenario organic farming as it might be done in the future with worst case scenario conventional farming methods is not particularly fair.
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by stdbrouw 8y ago
I agree that housing costs should be included in some way, but this is hard to do correctly because – at least if you buy – housing is an investment good, not an expense. In the US the bureau of labor tries to calculate the "owners&#x2
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by stdbrouw 8y ago
... yes?
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by stdbrouw 8y ago
I studied Pearl and Rubin in college and didn't find them to be particularly antagonistic, though indeed they use somewhat different terminology and emphasize different things. If you'd like to learn more, just use https:/&#
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by stdbrouw 8y ago
> May I ask you why you chose to use the normal distribution in your example or any distribution at all, for that matter? The distribution is not important, any other data generator would do. > Which means that the null hypothesis is
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by stdbrouw 8y ago
> If a null hypothesis is invariably true, it's impossible to reject it. Which means the scientists will not be able to find any statistic or data to support any of their bad, original hypotheses. Not 5%, not 0.005%, nor whatever. W
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by stdbrouw 9y ago
A heuristic in which you refuse to undertake any action without complete information of perfect reliability is always biased towards the status quo. Heck, it's straight from the CIA Simple Sabotage Field Manual. So in the guise of &quo
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by stdbrouw 9y ago
> Perhaps the most interesting part about all this is that there was never (to my knowledge) such a thing as a store where you could rent records, tapes, or CDs -- Blockbuster for music. Not a store, but you can rent records, tapes and C
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by stdbrouw 9y ago
The invention of the transistor.
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by stdbrouw 9y ago
In Europe, democratic countries regularly amend their constitution because parts of it have become archaic, obsolete or insane. We have yet to descend into chaos or tyranny.
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by stdbrouw 9y ago
Alchemists are trained in how matter behaves and how to manipulate it... turns out they're not any more competent at it than anyone else. It seems obvious that a student of philosophy who has been trained in logic and critical thinking
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by stdbrouw 9y ago
You're changing the subject. The fact that it is possible to have a discussion (whether empirical or not) about the nature of evidence or of what constitutes a fact, and even that this might be a very fruitful thing to discuss, does no
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by stdbrouw 9y ago
I guess I'll have to throw away my MA in Philosophy then. If you read closely, you'll see that I didn't criticize philosophy, only the tendency of philosophers to make empirical statements about the practical value of their d
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by stdbrouw 9y ago
You misunderstand. The point is that "philosophy improves critical reasoning" is an empirical statement and hence requires empirical evidence. That doesn't mean philosophical discussions themselves must be empirical in nature
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by stdbrouw 9y ago
The irony is that when philosophers make statements like these, they never provide any empirical evidence to back it up. Does philosophy really improve critical thinking and reasoning skills? We're told it does, based on nothing more t
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by stdbrouw 9y ago
The problem is that hands-on meetings are supposed to be short, so you'll have time to say "we're having this issue", but not enough time to detail all of the different approaches you've already tried, so you get a
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by stdbrouw 9y ago
> you don’t know what dimensions are important in advance But again this is a huge red flag. I've seen so many data science projects that started with "well, let's just get started with collecting everything and we will fi
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by stdbrouw 9y ago
> nobody wants to have large grain snapshots of data for any dataset that is actually comprised of a continuous stream of data points Except, of course, for those who realize that the precision of a statistic only increases at sqrt(n) an
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by stdbrouw 9y ago
All in favor of being open about the ups and downs of parenthood. What I do resent is when parents try to make their struggles look like some sort of noble sacrifice they've performed for the greater good, when ultimately having childr
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by stdbrouw 9y ago
Small relative to other sources of variation. For example, a professional footballer who is used to sea-level will still perform better at a match in La Paz than an average joe who was born in La Paz. Similarly, Similarly, there might be m
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by stdbrouw 9y ago
> But anyway, the first step is acknowledging that a difference exists And then immediately the second step is acknowledging that these differences are, in most cases, too small to matter, as even Scott Alexander points out when he refer
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by stdbrouw 9y ago
The entire point of universal basic income is that it's universal, not limited. Other forms of social security (including no-strings-attached social security for those unable to participate in society, such as bijstand in The Netherlan
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by stdbrouw 9y ago
Unlike with e.g. prices, the sum total of all web traffic provides a natural ceiling, so new/old (multiplicative) and new/total (additive) are both defensible.
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by stdbrouw 9y ago
The newspapers haven't but some of their journalists certainly have, through (now defunct) platforms like spot.us or even just Kickstarter. The way I see it, working as a data journalist, the problem is that you never know beforehand w
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by stdbrouw 9y ago
I'm absolutely, unequivocally not trying to be snarky, but isn't CSV itself perfect for this use-case?

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