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What happened to Mangan's blog?(halfsigma.com)
1 points by thras 17y ago|1 comments
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by thras 17y ago
Or better yet, release the raw data and the transformation scripts.
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by thras 17y ago
I like reading what the HN crowd thinks about this. And I like the articles posted so far on it...but yeah, you're probably right.
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by thras 17y ago
No, no. I agree with you that we need to hold them over the fire on this. But "purposely" is going too far. The best explanation, until proven otherwise, is that somebody goofed.
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by thras 17y ago
There was a New York Times article recently that highlighted some research that claimed that the new "wonder drug" Asprin added to the death toll at the time, as it prescribed in far too high of quantities.
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by thras 17y ago
It's even better if you read the Briffa letter to Nature that he cited: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v391/n6668/abs/391678a0... Something completely unknown is making tree rings too small after 1960. And if you correlate your
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by thras 17y ago
No, you are misinformed. Further, your tone is unhelpful. This was the first time that the data was available. As McIntyre points out in the top of his post, the decline was discussed in the 1998 and 2001 Briffa papers. Of course, scien
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by thras 17y ago
Anyone searching for outright fraud in in these emails is going to be disappointed. The problem is not fraud, but rather scientists who believe that they are correct, and that their job is now not science but public relations. That said, fi
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Letter from a Scientific Skeptic(noconsensus.wordpress.com)
3 points by thras 17y ago|0 comments
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by thras 17y ago
I'm curious, have you seen enough C++ to know the differences between 1990's C++ and 2000's C++, and really prefer 1990's C++ because "C++ guys don't like it"?
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by thras 17y ago
The history of Western art, literature, and science in the post-ancient world possesses more than enough justification for anyone to call it "high" culture. If you can't make value judgments about Mozart, Michelangelo, or Shakespeare, that'
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by thras 17y ago
You know, 20 years ago, the place of "climate scientists" in the scientific hierarchy was (justifiably) about the same as the placement of dentists in the medical hierarchy. The physics behind global warming makes a lot of sense. The warmin
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by thras 17y ago
You can't say that.
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by thras 17y ago
I'll delete it myself if you'll explain exactly what's so objectionable.
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by thras 17y ago
I sat next to a girl on the airplane the other day who works with autistic children. She told me that the strange thing is that many of these children are good with computers and frighteningly addicted to YouTube. Apparently there is an ent
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by thras 17y ago
I don't understand why conservatives are so happy about this. If an entire branch in the tree of human knowledge is unsound, that's an unambiguously bad thing. It means, at the least, that we have a lot of work to do over again. Maybe th
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by thras 17y ago
There's the EULA side of things, and there's the copying to RAM or hard disc side of things. That's why Apple won. Neither of those things have anything to do with "respecting the intent of the author."
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by thras 17y ago
"They didn't respect the Author's (Apple) intent regarding their software." Huh, is there a law about respecting author's intents?
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by thras 17y ago
Microsoft isn't competing with Zoho. They're competing with Google which is competing with Zoho. If they were trying to trash talk, they would have trashed Google docs. Instead, they mentioned Zoho, Google, and Zimbra in order to make Googl
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by thras 17y ago
I got to http://writer.zoho.com/home?serviceurl=%2Findex.do before giving up. I'm not going to sign in just so I can see how the Word Processor works.
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by thras 17y ago
The comment from a Microsoft VP says "we're not seeing any inclination that Zoho or Google or Zimbra or any other of those offering fake Office capabilities can replace [Microsoft Office]." Given that he's spot-on right, I'm not sure what t
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by thras 17y ago
I think that's what everyone tries to do. What your group needs to do is talk to some of the people who have already worked on this. Then again, there's no reason, a priori, that your group can't build the better mousetrap if they've got th
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Test Scores and Wishful Thinking(blog.american.com)
1 points by thras 17y ago|0 comments
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by thras 17y ago
You had the choice between attacking my statement by citing a few successful public education campaigns (there aren't many) or attacking me. You attacked me. Wonderful way to convince others about your point.
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by thras 17y ago
Yeah, because education is so effective.
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by thras 17y ago
Maybe that's the reason. Or is it that the modern academic job scene pushes people to be big fish in small ponds rather than medium-sized fish in bigger ponds?
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by thras 17y ago
It diverges under the ordinary definitions of infinite series, but one can generalize the notion of summation a little bit to allow for certain divergent series to have finite sums.
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by thras 17y ago
So they just memorialize the account without sending a "Hello, are you really dead email?" to check first. Design flaw. (Hmm, maybe we need a form with "Just a flesh wound" or "I'm feeling better!" options.)
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by thras 17y ago
Oh come on, layout languages had been around for years when CSS first appeared. The problem with CSS is that it was designed by the sorts of people who like to design languages around vague concepts rather than design languages around getti
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by thras 17y ago
Type checking is what you say when the compiler makes sure that you've used all your types correctly, and spits out an error when you don't. It's there to prevent you from trying to assign an int to a string, for example. "Runtime type chec

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