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by stdbrouw 11y ago
A scientific conclusion does not become intrinsically less interesting just because all it took was a regression a first-year stats student could do. Simple and obvious is often better. The suggestion in the linked article that, "hey,
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by stdbrouw 11y ago
If something is reliable but almost impossible to keep up, I wouldn't exactly say that it "works". That's like saying to a student that they'll pass a course if only they study hard enough, without giving any furthe
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by stdbrouw 11y ago
Companies are entitled to put their bottom line first. Consumers are equally entitled to get upset when this goes against their interests. (And if they get very upset about it, the company might have to change.)
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by stdbrouw 11y ago
The kind of divisive item you describe is rare, at least on Amazon. What happens most commonly is that everyone loves something or everyone hates it, with some noise (e.g. 10% 1 or 2 star reviews). In this case, it makes sense to promote th
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by stdbrouw 11y ago
So is it about making sure nobody dies or about not cheapening the subculture? Because those are two very different things. And if the latter, the dickheads might be those who use the purchase of expensive handmade gear as an exclusionary m
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by stdbrouw 11y ago
But this is not lack of choice. It's lack of availability. Wouldn't one good brand of pasta solve most of your pasta needs? Do you really feel like you'd still be unhappy unless you had 10 shapes of pasta each made from one o
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by stdbrouw 11y ago
> The most common reason we are unable to replicate the remaining 45 papers is that the authors do not provide data and code replication files. > We define a successful replication as when the authors or journal provide data and code
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by stdbrouw 11y ago
Well sure but nobody cares about most Nobel prize winners either, and nobody cares about great poets. It's just that money is an "objective" yardstick, you either have it or you don't, which makes it easy for people to w
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by stdbrouw 11y ago
There's no rule that a bar chart cannot mention the proportion of the category above each bar, and there's also no rule that a bar chart has to be for absolute and not relative numbers.
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by stdbrouw 11y ago
Well, most publishers actually use fairly optimized HTML/CSS and most publishers use a CDN. But there's only so much you can do if you don't want to get rid of those 5 ad networks, 7 analytics services, 2 sidebars and just ge
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by stdbrouw 11y ago
Cravings are very much related to what you eat and don't eat. Cut out all sugar from your diet and pretty soon you'll be dreaming of cake and frosting. Overdose on sugar and you'll be hungry again two hours later.
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by stdbrouw 11y ago
Just replace "flux" with "flow" and you get the picture. If you're at YC you (presumably) encounter lots of different problems in lots of different contexts, which is often a good environment to foster creativity an
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by stdbrouw 11y ago
One example is Bulleit Rye (but not regular Bulleit), produced by MGP Indiana: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulleit_Bourbon#Bulleit_rye_wh... It does get you thinking about whether the whole artisanal/small batch
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by stdbrouw 11y ago
So engagement is important, but not engagement with the author of the article (the person who, y'know, might actually be able to answer the questions people pose in the comments section)? And honest feedback – you mean like the honest
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by stdbrouw 11y ago
Alternatively gitignore() { wget \ https://raw.githubusercontent.com/github/gitignore/master/Global/OSX.gitignore \ https://raw.githubusercontent.com/github&#x2
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by stdbrouw 11y ago
> there can be confounding factors, but with statistics we can adjust and control for that The extent to which you can adjust for a confounder depends not just on your sample size but also on on whether you were able to measure that conf
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by stdbrouw 11y ago
Albert Einstein and Richard Feynman were 10x physicists. Then there are probably a couple more 9x physicists, many of them with Nobel prizes under their belt. A lot more 5x physicists. A whole mass of 2x physicists. Another whole mass of 0.
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by stdbrouw 11y ago
You do realize that most people are not like you, though?
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by stdbrouw 11y ago
> Once you get it, it's like vacation. 20 hours max of classes per week, no homework, no practicals When I studied philosophy here in Belgium, I attended about 10 hours of classes a week on average, and while we did have a whole bun
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by stdbrouw 11y ago
And exactly how long it will take for the approximation to reach a certain level of accuracy can be ascertained by using the other technique mentioned in the slide deck: run a simulation. And so we have come full circle :-)
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by stdbrouw 11y ago
You can't blindly apply the bootstrap to any problem whatsoever. But you really, absolutely, unequivocally can blindly apply the bootstrap to generate a confidence interval around the mean of data generated from any distribution. Y
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by stdbrouw 11y ago
In the example you link to, the example does not estimate the mean of a uniform distribution but rather its maximum – U(0, max). A maximum is like a quantile. One of the very few shortcomings of bootstrapping in realistic scenarios is that
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by stdbrouw 11y ago
That's nonsense. The entire point of the bootstrap is that it does not require the either the original or the sampling distribution to be normal. (For that matter, due to the Central Limit Theorem, neither do analytic approximations li
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by stdbrouw 11y ago
I like Casella and Berger, especially because it does so well at showing the connection between probability and statistics (first five chapters or so), but it should be noted that its approach is very different from the one in the slide dec
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by stdbrouw 11y ago
"It doesn't always work" really is not a very useful thing to say unless you elaborate on when exactly it doesn't work and why. Bootstrapping doesn't work for very low n (e.g. n=10) because the resamples are not smo
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by stdbrouw 11y ago
For people who are interested in learning more about simulation, permutation tests and bootstrapping, the three techniques that the slide deck discusses, check out Allen Downey's Think Stats: http://greenteapress.com/th
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by stdbrouw 11y ago
Alternatively you could say that using all of the various tricks to speed up HTTP 1.1 would be cheating in favor of 1.1. Personally, I prefer not to have to think about how to optimize my websites; just let the protocol figure it out for me
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by stdbrouw 11y ago
I find it liberating.
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by stdbrouw 11y ago
I definitely enjoyed reading Bernard Suits :-)
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by stdbrouw 11y ago
Considering that life has no meaning anyway, I can't think of anything less wasteful either.

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