stdbrouw

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by stdbrouw 9mo ago
(Generalized) linear models have a straightforward probabilistic interpretation -- E(Y|X) -- which I don't think is true of total least squares. So it's more of an engineering solution to the problem, and in statistics you'd
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by stdbrouw 10mo ago
I feel like all of the elements are there: zram, zswap, various packages that improve on default oom handling... maybe it's more about creating sane defaults that "just work" at this point?
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by stdbrouw 10mo ago
Yeah, I didn't want to be contrary just for the sake of it, the heuristics you mention seem like good ones, and if followed would probably already cut down on quite a few superfluous references in most papers.
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by stdbrouw 10mo ago
Do you still feel the same way if the froiznok method is an ANOVA table of a linear regression, with a log-transformed outcome? Should I reference Fisher, Galton, Newton, the first person to log transform an outcome in a regression analysis
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by stdbrouw 10mo ago
The idea that references in a scientific paper should be plentiful but aren't really that important, is a consequence of a previous technological revolution: the internet. You'll find a lot of papers from, say, the '70s, with
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by stdbrouw 10mo ago
Arguably Spark solves a problem that does not exist anymore: single node performance with tools like DuckDB and Polars is so good that there’s no need for more complex orchestration anymore, and these tools are sufficiently user-friendly th
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by stdbrouw 11mo ago
In the US income from a hobby can just be added to your personal filing [1] and in Belgium, where I live, there is a similar arrangement for "diverse sources of income" [2]. If you do start a business, in the European Union you&#x
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by stdbrouw 1y ago
Yeah, the intention to treat design is a particularly nice touch, not so common outside of biostatistics. They also compare the full cost of Montessori vs. plain ol', not the cost to the state, which could otherwise have given the Mont
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by stdbrouw 1y ago
... but the key thing is that I am not saying that you are an old man who yells at the clouds, rather that a lot of people worry about themselves that they might be getting unduly close-minded and that this is what the blog post is trying
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by stdbrouw 1y ago
If there is an ideal amount of some personality trait then for most people the advice would be "do more of this" even though for some others it'll have to be "do less of this" depending on where you're coming f
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by stdbrouw 1y ago
Even so. I read a lot of reports about educational policy (and occasionally produce them) and even if there are only 2-3 major decision makers you'd expect the report to be read by various cabinet members of those decision makers, by c
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by stdbrouw 1y ago
> Then again, this is nothing like the type of problems I work on a daily basis. I thought it'd be fun to take a stab at it in Python, which I haven't used in a while, but only barely still remembered that I could accept comman
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by stdbrouw 1y ago
I did a plastering course last winter and spring, and it reminded me about how, when you're young and in high school or college, you are continually confronted with not knowing things and not being able to do things that you would very
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by stdbrouw 1y ago
See https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/09/myanmar-faceb...
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by stdbrouw 1y ago
Sure, but I think the bigger point is that, if you've got a really great and really useful product, why would you need to convince people to use it by highlighting barely realistic use cases and exploiting their fears and anxieties?
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by stdbrouw 1y ago
This advice is insane. Except in specific settings (where a sensor may be misbehaving, where a survey respondent clearly just picked random choices) outliers are really just outlying values and should be kept in the analysis, or at most cli
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by stdbrouw 1y ago
I wonder if it's really that rare for lawyers to look at a case from a strategic / economic point of view? When at some point in the past I was considering suing a company for breach of contract, that was pretty much what the enti
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by stdbrouw 1y ago
One way to illustrate some of the weirdness of dB is to look at the documentation of unit libraries, e.g.: https://pint.readthedocs.io/en/stable/user/log_units.html https://painterqubits.github.io&
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by stdbrouw 1y ago
Ah yes, I read "STM" and immediately figured it was one of those old school very low MHz microcontrollers but apparently those are available with ARM cores too... possibly had 'em confused with AVR/ATmega.
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by stdbrouw 1y ago
I'm a bit confused about the Pyboard. Do people buy Pyboards instead of ESP32 in order to support the project, or because they are more featureful, or both? Why does the Pyboard have a CPU in addition to the microcontroller, does the m
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by stdbrouw 1y ago
You can select on minimum guest rating, and anyone with special requests (eg an extra guest, an infant) also cannot instant book. Not age or race if that’s what you were thinking :-)
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by stdbrouw 1y ago
Unlike others, I have only had good experiences with Airbnb, both as a host and as a guest. The platform has improved a lot in the past couple of years -- many small quality-of-life improvements for non-professional hosts to make things eas
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by stdbrouw 2y ago
Lack of a viable business model is precisely what Zach points to in the article, which doesn't preclude him from feeling a bit sad about how it was stripped for parts.
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by stdbrouw 2y ago
I feel like in the miniseries, only a handful of apparatchiks and Anatoly Dyatlov are really singled out for being stubborn and stupid?
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by stdbrouw 2y ago
I would also expect the estimated magnitude of the effect to go down over time, but that's just my general attitude to these kinds of things, the fact is that the discontinuity design that they use already accounts for variations betwe
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by stdbrouw 2y ago
> Planes shouldn't fly over densely populated areas. Usually the planes were there first, though. Airports were built far away from population centers, but then the surrounding towns or cities expanded. See https://www.co
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by stdbrouw 2y ago
Around the time when CoffeeScript was popular, there was also https://moonscript.org/ for Lua. Made by the very same prolific Leaf who authored this DSL tutorial.
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by stdbrouw 2y ago
It's probably getting better but the amber-colored LEDs used to be rather inefficient. I've also heard that white lighting can slightly improve reaction times of those in traffic and leads to slightly clearer captures for security
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by stdbrouw 2y ago
But is that even true? My mid-tier appliances are all great and I love my IKEA furniture. Some things suck some of the time. Other things don't.
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by stdbrouw 2y ago
I wonder if actually the fact that "cargo culting" is used almost exclusively to refer to the follies of highly intelligent people in the West has made it less offensive over time. Gives it more of a flavor of "look at how st

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