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by zwaps 5y ago
Turkish culture is filled with traditions that predate Islam and have, what Turks like to call, "Shamanic" origin. The divide may even be more stark, because while they are common, they are in some way counter to fundamentalist vi
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It's not unrealistic that there are political preferences in Turkey. However, I think that is hard to say. I certainly would not state it in the absolute. Sites that are not connected to the Ottomans, easily excavated and then visible
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I mean, the Pfizer/Moderna vaccines still have between 90% and, let's say, 60% efficacy against mild cases, and the long covid severity scales with "how mild" your case is going to be. There is a likelihood that Covid gi
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by zwaps 5y ago
Not worried about long covid? Other article on HN suggests that even mild cases might cost you some IQ points
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And all I, the non technical reader, want to know is which of these theories give us Warp technology by the time the Vulcans pass by the solar system
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It’s really interesting to see other fields trying to explain research. Here, I feel the authors are not entirely clear who the audience is supposed to be. At first, they seem to target people who need the difference between Einstein and Ma
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Does anyone know why these medicinal studies do not seem to use more modern statistical methods of observational causal inference? I mean yes you can not RCT and yes a linear model should be the baseline, but then why not go ahead and do so
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Ah, for me the page shows a message to please disable my ad blocker in safari So I guess I was spared by this website. It did load tremendously slow to show a black on white sentence, Ill say that. Good job web designers. We are very proud
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I largely agree with your reasoning, but I emphasized the profit incentives as driving the decision to choose two part tariffs, because I think whatever happens next will also be driven be these concerns. Firms will also have realized that
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The reason for doing this is, of course, a different one. Tesla, much as any other recent company, has opened their post-90's Economics textbooks and has seen that two-part contracts allow to extract much more welfare (money) from the
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I understand that American regulation is company friendly so you can essentially promise and do whatever. However, did Tesla not also sell in other areas, like in the EU? Were those claims absent? Because if not, the case would be seem to b
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I think the problem is that in the American education system, anything needs to be taught at a university. There are trade schools, but there are no "real" trade school degrees that actually mean something. The idea of academic re
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I agree with Op that this is still essentially learning on labeled data. I say this, since there are also cases of constrastive sampling like ideas with truly unsupervised data. For example, Graph Embedding, where a graph implies structural
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this sounds suspiciously like something a organization theory / game theory team thought up. Incidentally, we know that amazon hires such people from math and econ departments for big bucks. Attrition is good for exploration and again
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by zwaps 5y ago
the study itself is a bit "pnas'y". In fact, a lot of work studies information aggregation in different kinds of settings. As you, I think, suspect, things can also easily go the other way. Well known is the fact that extensi
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The idea that everything becomes a signal gets even more disturbing if you realize that the field of mechanism design is concerned with presenting you options where identifying the truth about yourself or not play at all is your only ration
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Rest here https://www.aeaweb.org/conference/cont-ed/2018-webcasts
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Machine Learning and Econometrics (Susan Athey, Guido Imbens)(aeaweb.org)
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But this seems to be a bit contradictory. Both facebook and you claim that prophet is a package to easily do better than other simple approaches, thus providing at least a good baseline for applied data people. By contrast, the article sugg
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At least here in Europe, returns are painless in almost all cases. Give it a shot! This is especially true for larger and more expensive items (like electronics) where - I can not stress this enough - it is much, much better to buy directly
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Seems they are also ripping off his product descriptions. Anything that can be done to get these people off of amazon?
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Haha dang it I was working on this also :< :> kudos to the authors
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Same here. Additionally, it doesn’t work on mobile as the menu blocks the content.
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Maybe I am too cynic but what we are really talking about here is causal inference for observational data based on more or less structural statistical models. Any researcher will tell you: this is really hard. It is more than an engineering
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My newest object of rage on many websites: the subscribe to our newsletter pop up you now get whenever your mouse moves to close the tab
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Since it incorporates mixed effects models my guess is that it allows you to leverage structure in your data to improve the efficiency (in the statistical sense) of the estimation. That is, you may have a panel of groups. So you might assum
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But this is precisely what Julia allows you to do. Your function may be written for numeric, and you use your favorite kind exclusively. Now person B from this thread comes along, using both ints and floats. Well guess what, your package st
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Looks good, but I actually love that Julia gets at least the same performance right out of the box, with full interoperability and the great multiple dispatch logic. Would be interesting to run your optimized code against the Julia optimize
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I think it is interesting that some notions in this thread boil down to the idea that this ain't real math like, say, real analysis. In my limited view, many proofs are easier. Especially easy ones that are (if that makes sense) more s
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I was and am bad at integration problems like this. I find them scary. And mysterious. Somehow I associate these with engineering type classes, but that may not be generally true. On the other hand, I really enjoyed and did well in classes

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