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by stdbrouw 3y ago
Just a priori this does not seem very likely to me. If you have budget that needs spending, it is key to spend it inconspicuously because as soon as a higher-up finds out that you are just wasting it to maintain your yearly allocation, the
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by stdbrouw 3y ago
But geothermal heat pumps are interesting in cold climates because air-air and air-water heat pumps (the most common and affordable types) are less efficient below freezing, so I feel like that confirms rather than dispels the myth!
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by stdbrouw 3y ago
Also wonderful in cheese, adds a little umami but also just looks great: https://static.colruytgroup.com/images/500x500/std.lang.all/...
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by stdbrouw 3y ago
A lot of stuff has to be reported at source these days, e.g. in Belgium where I live, Airbnb reports your income from hosting to the revenue service, your bank reports how much you paid on your mortgage (deductible), if you're unemploy
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by stdbrouw 3y ago
> Fractional factorial is also most effective when the covariates are orthogonal and independent, which is rarely the case. We can get around this by projecting high dimensional covariates into lower dimensional space using PCA, which gu
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by stdbrouw 3y ago
Let's say you're testing different formulations for cake but because you don't have time to do the full cartesian product of all possible variations over sugar content x fat content x type of flour, you just pick a handful, a
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by stdbrouw 3y ago
The tradeoff is that while there are many estimators of the expected value that are more efficient (have less variance) than the sample mean for various distributions, they typically introduce bias.
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by stdbrouw 3y ago
If every bar reflects the same proportion of the population then that would mean every bar of the histogram would have exactly the same height, because the y axis on a histogram is density or proportion. I don't get how you can be so c
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by stdbrouw 3y ago
> What are some well-known distributions that appear to have outliers? A log-normal distribution maybe? All of them. Which is why outside of a handful of contexts, the consensus in statistical modeling nowadays seems to be not to worry a
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by stdbrouw 3y ago
I googled around a bit for legal cases and for advice aimed at Dutch companies, but because the law is so recent there's not much. My hunch (as someone who is perfectly clueless about legal matters) is that a restaurant or a shop might
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by stdbrouw 3y ago
I mean, I don't mind, you can attribute whatever to whatever and yeah, a crib full of plush toys doesn't seem like such a smart idea... but the question is what a doctor should do, how we want them to behave in the face of limited
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by stdbrouw 3y ago
Not an expert but it seems to me you'd be making the same kind of error that the article denounces: attaching equal value to direct evidence on the one hand and inference to the best explanation on the other. If a physician does not ob
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by stdbrouw 3y ago
Don't know about the pods, but for a while we used DIY dishwashing powder with soda crystals as the main ingredient, and after a while you could definitely notice slight scratching of glassware, and any printing would fade pretty heavi
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by stdbrouw 3y ago
Glass is a little bit better at keeping oxygen out than plastic, dark glass keeps UV rays at bay, and thick glass bottles can better withstand the pressure of a second fermentation in the bottle, as with champagne and abbey beers. It also l
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by stdbrouw 3y ago
Scepticism is great, but that's perhaps not how I would describe praising a quote from an Ig Nobel prize winner that discards the entire field of personality psychology just because it happens to align with what you already believe.
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by stdbrouw 3y ago
The thesis of the article seems to be that "the world has changed" so that Wirecutter and similarly rigorous product review sites are less appealing than they used to be but... I don't see it? Products now are mostly "go
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by stdbrouw 3y ago
The paper you link does not mention anything about the need to try every potential treatment (and no treatment) on every person in a study, and it does not mention anything about any "inherent bias" in RCTs -- these were the two c
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by stdbrouw 3y ago
That's not how it works, though. First, if it is not possible to blind the patient to the intervention and/or provide a meaningful placebo (which also happens with surgery and drugs with prominent side-effects) that's not a b
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by stdbrouw 3y ago
The point is that we can verify whether something works (with a randomized controlled trial) independently of knowing why it works, and psychotherapy interventions are commonly evaluated with RCTs.
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by stdbrouw 3y ago
It took almost a century before we figured out how photo negatives worked chemically. Didn’t stop anyone from taking photographs though. Mechanistic explanations are great but not a requirement for good science.
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by stdbrouw 3y ago
I remember reading an article one day that pointed out that intoxication is related to consumption in excess of what your liver can process instantaneously, so that a drinking session with a number of 5% beers may get you drunk but the same
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by stdbrouw 3y ago
Funny that of all things they take letters of recommendation as an example of a genre with implicit information that will be upset by AI-aided writing. In academia it's common knowledge that such letters are written by the recommendee
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by stdbrouw 3y ago
If you are looking for modern wisdom, here are two much nicer alternatives: Philip Galanes' Social Q's and Kwame Anthony Appiah's The Ethicist, both columns in the NYTimes. They are the classy version of Reddit's Am I Th
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by stdbrouw 3y ago
The flip side to this is that Julia is a great general purpose engineering calculator and simulator. For example, calculating friction in hvac ductwork, voltage drop in long electrical circuits, solar gains for windows or solar panels facin
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by stdbrouw 3y ago
They mention this was before the Loma Prieta earthquake which was in 1989; if we take inflation from 1980 to now into account that'd be $1600-1900 today. Probably still good value, esp. given the view, but I guess it does depend on how
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by stdbrouw 3y ago
I thought so too at first, but that would only make sense if "Cargo Cult Science" were an unedited third-party transcript of the commencement address, and I don't think that it is, given its inclusion in "Surely You&#x27
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by stdbrouw 4y ago
That's 45C "with the absence of nonradiative heat exchange" though, but you're right, that is still impressive. Thanks for explaining.
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by stdbrouw 4y ago
Can a coating on the outside of a material really have an appreciable impact on heat transfer from inside to outside, at night? I get that a coating can block or admit light or radiation coming from somewhere else, but surely if the materia
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by stdbrouw 4y ago
That's a completely different topic. We're talking about revoking someone's contract before they even started, not 1-3 years after they came on board.
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by stdbrouw 4y ago
> Let’s say we pass a law that prevents offers from being revoked. This will make hiring much harder and increase 5 rounds to like 10 and involve many more committees and even then most candidates other than sureshots getting rejected. I

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