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by vwinsyee 13y ago
I honestly thought that you and chc were joking about the Banana Equivalent Dose. But it turns out that it's a real concept! 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_equivalent_dose 2. http://www.bbc.co.u
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by vwinsyee 13y ago
I'm having a hard time trying to pronounce one or more of Mary/merry/marry in any different way... how would one do that?
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by vwinsyee 13y ago
More like an antihero -- someone who blurs the lines between hero and villain. [1] [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antihero
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by vwinsyee 13y ago
Isn't the universe still growing? Which means that at some point in the very far off future, the ratio of of the diameter of the universe to the diameter of a proton will be 43 digits? Passing thought -- since 42 _is_ the the answer to the
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by vwinsyee 13y ago
To add to this comment, large correlation between (or among) variables will often inflate estimates of standard error, leading to underestimates of statistical significance.
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by vwinsyee 13y ago
The main difference between classical regression using ordinary least squares (OLS) and robust regression using iterative re-weighted least squares (IRLS) is that with OLS, all observations are given equal weight and with IRLS, observations
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by vwinsyee 13y ago
No, my understanding is that most investments are in the form of (1) grants, e.g. by the National Institutes of Health, to public or private entities that can perform research toward a particular published goal, and (2) loans, e.g. by the D
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Social Media Censorship Offers Clues to China’s Plans(technologyreview.com)
2 points by vwinsyee 13y ago|0 comments
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by vwinsyee 14y ago
This link needs an NSFW tag...
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by vwinsyee 14y ago
Reality is not so dichotomized. Human choices are influenced by both nature and nurture (i.e. environment). In psychobiology, I believe the consensus is that nurture contributes at least 50% to personality development and consequently prope
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Search for marathon bombing suspect leaves two suspects, one officer dead(bostonglobe.com)
1 points by vwinsyee 14y ago|0 comments
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by vwinsyee 14y ago
They didn't -- the list was sent from the server, because "this list might need to be updated dynamically, in case someone on the Internet managed to think up a new word for sex."
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by vwinsyee 14y ago
Perhaps I'm misunderstanding Google Glass myself, but doesn't the camera inside Glass capture a rather wide field of view? The Google Glass videos show that you can share your point of view with other people. The article is talking about fi
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by vwinsyee 14y ago
I had the same reaction. No matter how small the notes are in classical notation, I can tell if they're filled or hollow, and whether an accidental is a sharp or flat. Distinguishing between hollow, partially and directionally filled, and f
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by vwinsyee 14y ago
90% can be below average. It depends on how you define 'average.' If you're using the median, then 'below average' can only be 50%. But if you use the mean (or its variants), then you can have 90% of a population be 'below average' if the p
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by vwinsyee 14y ago
I'm not sure if this letter is real, but as much as I dislike EA, I do have to agree with what the letter says.
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by vwinsyee 14y ago
I believe Malcolm Gladwell was the guy who came up with the "10,000 hour rule". [1] Norvig's article actually quotes Gladwell as the source of the 'rule'. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outliers_(book)
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At Last, a Firewall for Your Car's Black Box(wired.com)
3 points by vwinsyee 14y ago|1 comments
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by vwinsyee 14y ago
I agree that less time and more obligations does make learning new things more difficult later in life. But there's also evidence that fluid intelligence [1] peaks in young adulthood and declines with older age. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org
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by vwinsyee 14y ago
I'm reminded of a paper [1] that "discovered a test which divides programming sheep from non-programming goats." The claim is that there are two distinct populations of people (those who can programming and those who inherently cannot). Eac
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by vwinsyee 14y ago
Yup -- the first thing public health students learn is the WHO definition of health: "Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity." In my clinical trials course, eq
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by vwinsyee 14y ago
Heh, I really wish salaries in science were at least 3 times higher. Most of my colleagues, including those with many years of experience, have salaries in the 30-40K range, so that average starting salary of 35K seems about right or even s
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by vwinsyee 14y ago
If you take a look at the interview, Kripke is actually talking about the mortality effects of sleeping, NOT the functional effects. [1] I've seen many studies showing the detrimental effect of oversleeping (typically defined as >=9 hou
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by vwinsyee 14y ago
There's a link at the top "UPDATED: What do we do now?" -- http://www.cyprus.com/cyprus-bailout---what-to-do-now.html
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by vwinsyee 14y ago
You're referring to (1) procedural memory/learning and (2) declarative memory/learning.
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by vwinsyee 14y ago
Is there a public list of such site? I think I'd find it quite useful (for my own blocking).
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by vwinsyee 14y ago
I'd have to share the parent's skeptism. I'm in biostatistics and neuroscience, and for the most part, could evaluate a stats or neuro proposal. But, if I were to look at, say, an astrophysics or physical chemistry research proposal, I'd pr
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by vwinsyee 14y ago
A quick comment about point 2: A lot of academia is about quantity over quality these days. One high-impact, well-designed paper with strong conclusions could very well be worth more than 50 weaker papers. Unfortunately these days, many peo
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by vwinsyee 14y ago
Addressing #1: Most academic research the government funds is in basic science in expert domains, e.g. intercellular communication, neural firing patterns, etc, and much of this basic science is exploratory. For most projects, it would be d
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by vwinsyee 14y ago
Mars One did an AMA on reddit nine months ago: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/uta10/iama_founder_of_... Personally, I remember being most astonished that their team only had one technical person: http://mars-one.com/en/about-mars-

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