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by vharuck 6y ago
The platform may publicly provide a forum for anonymous speech, but that doesn't mean it is anonymous. One of the most famous forums for anonymous speech is 4chan's "Random" forum, and even there prosecution was possibl
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Sea slugs lose heads to rid bodies of parasites, Japan researchers show(reuters.com)
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>The Japanese believe that what's important to keep is the knowledge and the craft - how to build the things. The actual buildings aren't important - the history is in the craft, not in the buildings themselves. There was an NH
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I can understand it from a "wabi sabi" point of view, where the imperfections are part of the appeal. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wabi-sabi
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Knitr theoretically supports anything you can call from R. Chunks pass their code and options to "engine" functions that return the results. Knitr provides a bunch of engines out of the box (Python, awk, SQL). But you can also
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by vharuck 6y ago
This is interesting. Is the 3 months number something arbitrary? Are there major groups advocating this? Beyond limiting the harm if prison, short stints could make gangs harder to form in non-lifer prisons.
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>There is also the issue of declining attention spans as people consume snackable content on their mobile devices. Have there been any studies to back up this pervasive idea of declining attention spans? I'm asking honestly, not co
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>Oh, and targeted sanctions - aren't. Entities will view any sanctions as a legal risk and find it easier to just stop trading with the country at all. See Iran with medical supplies during the pandemic. The sanctions on Iran aren&#
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by vharuck 6y ago
This is definitely a great intro to the parts of R that are relevant for all types of analysis. After you get comfortable with this and want to do some domain-specific analysis, check out the R Task Views[0] on the official site. You can
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I've found "brown M&M" tests are good for telling me how much I need to investigate things. For example, let's say your job includes verifying data submitted by hundreds of hospitals. You don't have the time t
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Unless it was written by a contractor who then gave the copyright to the IRS. This is a very common situation. The federal government is not barred from having copyrights.
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The map of which species have spread viruses to other animals is awesome. Also, the restraint in only including 5 data graphics (two of which are illustrations for comparing size, which is as natural as you can get) is commendable. Graphi
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by vharuck 6y ago
>Higher consumption of unprocessed red and processed meat combined was associated with higher risks of... pneumonia (1.31, 1.18-1.44 [95% CI]) That surprised me. The article later gives a hypothesis that plentiful iron is good for patho
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by vharuck 6y ago
Smoke detectors rely on a circuit powered by atomic fission ionizing the air. It isn't their power source (they still need batteries), but it is a safe way to get continuous electricity. https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm&
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by vharuck 6y ago
As a public health statistician, I am very grateful to all researchers who publish code. More so for those who publish packages that make their techniques easy to use. I am not an expert in the field of statistics, just a grunt applying w
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by vharuck 6y ago
>Most of my skills didn't ever get far beyond newbie level. This is the best test for whether a game really allows freedom in player interaction. If players can have fun and build characters without ever relying on game-mechanical
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"Do you know what they call 'alternative medicine' that's been proved to work? Medicine." - Tim Minchin
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But I wonder about the value in the end. If we spend X to prevent Y dollars in fraud, then Y - X can go to people who need it more. As long as Y > X, that's good for the deserving beneficiaries. However, from a society-level view,
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The R Inferno (2011) [pdf](burns-stat.com)
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The article's author even admits this probably isn't the etymology (but only near the end): "The term hangover is unlikely to have come specifically from this practice, it more likely refers to the lasting after effects of al
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Enthralling Engrossing Captivating
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Yes, it does technically fit "racial discrimination." However, some people use that simpler term to talk about historic and current power imbalances. In the United States, there were a lot of extra barriers for non-white people.
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I've seen articles on NPR and Reuters that have brief summaries of edits at the bottom. Stuff like "Edited to correct affiliation of Dr X. The article originally and incorrectly said she worked at Y University." They'
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It's not like he was trying to keep masks for the rich. While may would say nurses are in a noble profession, few would say they're nobility in America.
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I would argue that Google, Apple, and any other group or individual should have the choice to ignore laws. When immoral laws are flaunted to promote the common good, it's called civil disobedience. Likewise, governments are free to i
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>So it's up to Google and other international companies to decide which laws are diabolical, which laws are bad and which can be tolerable? Why not? They, like anyone else traveling or doing business internationally, should decide
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For asymptomatic patients, doing those tests could easily cause net harm from follow-up to false positives. So, even if the tests had been free, it's probably unethical. This is why organizations like the United States Preventative Se
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by vharuck 6y ago
Which parts don't work outside of R Studio for you? Is it something recent? I usually create my single-page and bookdown documents as one step in a separate R script, and haven't found any problems beyond the rmarkdown package&#x
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She's already served as the chair of the Federal Reserve, so she could be working a cushy job right now. And, being 74 years old, she likely won't have many more working years left to offset taking a low salary now.
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Police logs only seem easy to consume because they don't contain context. Context is prone to bias or intentional distortion, but it's still necessary for non-experts. Does a recent spike in bar fights mean your town is in hard e

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