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by thousandautumns 8y ago
I believe this is related to another principle in Economics called Goodhart's Law, which essentially states that as soon as something becomes a metric for measuring performance, it ceases to be a valid measure of actual performance. Es
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by thousandautumns 8y ago
Then yeah, it sucks, but they probably don’t have much of a choice of where they are living, and the discussion is about why someone would or wouldn’t want to move somewhere, so it isn’t relevant.
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by thousandautumns 8y ago
1. The Republican Party doesn’t have a monopoly in any of those things. 2. There are lots of conservatives who don’t hold those opinions. 3. I’m not expecting you to respect those opinions and never said I did. I’m saying it’s ridiculous to
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by thousandautumns 8y ago
There isn't a lot of correlation between gun laws in an area and gun violence. Even if you have strict gun laws, its not that hard to get guns in neighboring areas with more lax laws. Also, the vast majority of gun violence is self inf
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by thousandautumns 8y ago
Its astounding to me that people will outright refuse to live somewhere where people have differing political opinions to them. I'm not sure there is any coming back from this level of tribalism, and if so, our society is fucked.
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by thousandautumns 8y ago
Your response is so entirely off base I don't know where to begin. > Yup on high dimensional data of dimension as fantastic as 12 Who says that has been the limit of classical statistics. > If one computes stats on 600 data point
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by thousandautumns 8y ago
I absolutely am not disparaging the actual research in machine learning borne from academics studying CS and AI. Rather, I'm referring to the seemingly recent trend by people to insist on severing all ties between statistics and machin
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by thousandautumns 8y ago
I can't help but notice he died in 2005. Perhaps the premise of the two cultures was more relevant a few decades ago, but in my more recent experience, its absolutely not the case.
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by thousandautumns 8y ago
I'm sure you were attempting to make a point, but you failed. But if you are trying to claim that R.A. Fisher only cared claims that statistics is only about inference, the point is moot because: 1. R.A. Fisher isn't the Almighty
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by thousandautumns 8y ago
The premise of the abstract is flawed though. Who says statisticians aren't using algorithmic models? Perhaps the author doesn't but random forests, clustering, PCA, gaussian processes, and even neural networks are standard fare f
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by thousandautumns 8y ago
I don't love the term 'mansplaining', but if there is a term that describes essentially the same idea but in the context of academic fields, its exactly how I would describe the central thesis of this blog post and a trend I&
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by thousandautumns 8y ago
This isn't true though. There are ton's of uninterpretable model methodologies in classical statistics that have little to no ability to allow for understanding but are aimed entirely at accurate predictions. Where is this narrati
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by thousandautumns 8y ago
I completely disagree, and this is a notion that seems to have become popular but is completely off base. For some reason, people seem to believe that statistics is for inference, and machine learning is for prediction, as if statistics has
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by thousandautumns 8y ago
Your timeline is definitely off. Selfies were absolutely part of the cultural norm 5 years ago. I don't know when they normalized, but it was definitely between 2009 and 2011, as smartphones proliferated to become something most people
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by thousandautumns 8y ago
It's called the Black Swan fallacy. Ironically, it's what happened with the recession and housing crisis in 2008, except back then it was "the housing market isn't a bubble, people will never default on their mortgages e
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by thousandautumns 8y ago
The education gap is almost certainly caused by the wealth gap
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by thousandautumns 8y ago
He's absolutely right. Publications like NYT, WaPo, CNN, etc. have played huge roles in exacerbating the damage caused by Russian interference, as well as blowing up non-Russia related stories that ended up being of little substance bu
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by thousandautumns 8y ago
Possibly, but: 1. Wikileaks has declined to publish leaks critical of Putin and Russian in the past 2. Wikileaks inexplicably denigrated the release of the Panama papers, which contained lots of damning information about several Russian oli
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by thousandautumns 8y ago
> What Amazon did was playing the field; why not get a bonus for letting others compete; rather than taking nothing because it was already decided? You are assuming they were seriously considering the other cities, rather than making a s
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by thousandautumns 8y ago
Not if you are working different muscle groups.
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by thousandautumns 8y ago
I'm not sure what about Jupyter makes Python more compelling in comparison to R. R is entirely usable in Jupyter Notebooks, and R Notebooks are, in my opinion, possibly superior to Jupyter notebooks in many ways. > and as more peopl
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by thousandautumns 8y ago
Hunting is not what is wiping out animal populations. In fact, for many commonly hunted animals, like deer and many forms of fowl, human hunters are a necessary part of maintaining ecological balance. Fishing and deforestation are another s
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by thousandautumns 8y ago
What evidence is there that we can't? The issue again isn't the number of people on the planet, its the number of people combined with our current usage of planetary resources. But between the fact that the vast majority of those
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by thousandautumns 8y ago
Depends on the field. In the social sciences, Mathematica and Stata are probably the most widely used tools. Might be that way for economics too, but I'm not sure.
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by thousandautumns 8y ago
Interestingly, this isn't restricted to white people. I recently listened to an episode of a podcast (Planet Money, iirc), about housing prices and NIMBYism, and some pro-housing activists attended some council meetings in a largely La
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by thousandautumns 8y ago
> Exotic names are your parents expressing themselves through you All names are your parents expressing themselves through you. I also fail to see how one can no longer express themselves due to a given name.
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by thousandautumns 8y ago
Just what the data science needed more of: gatekeeping. Data science is an extremely broad, vague buzzword encompassing a variety of jobs and skillsets, most of which have existed for decades under different names. You do work that involves
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by thousandautumns 8y ago
Problem is that we are coming from completely different perspectives. When you say "programmer", you are likely referring to someone from a CS background, likely with software engineering experience, who has spent their lives work
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by thousandautumns 8y ago
I'm not sure I follow. Specifically, what is meant by, "Statisticians do not know what statistical work is, and are satisfied to work with computers."?
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by thousandautumns 8y ago
Firstly, it states that "a data scientist uses compact languages such as SQL and R". It doesn't state "everyone who uses SQL is a data scientist". That said, the term data scientist itself is a bit frustrating. It g

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