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by zwaps 6y ago
How is that legal? In other words, your side project is just more, unpaid work?
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by zwaps 6y ago
Essentially, a sale contract can be written in many ways, but one can show the following generally for (more or less) all such contracts: to account for the fact that the firm is missing information about the counterparty, you, it will have
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by zwaps 6y ago
I never understood this. Economics 101 or 102 maybe tells us that our consumer welfare will be reduced if firms have less uncertainty about how much they can extract from us. You can make this argument more sophisticated in networks, regard
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by zwaps 6y ago
Infamous Professor at my university (eminent statistician): - Says he prefers Chinese students because they shut up and do the work without asking - "Your first research idea belongs to me" - Has apparently thrown coffee mugs at s
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by zwaps 6y ago
I think it's just an individual thing, and we should all respect that. There is a litany of posts and opinions of people who say their eyes hurt with a light color scheme, or it produces spots in their vision, or it hurts their concent
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by zwaps 6y ago
Maybe a different color scheme, keeping the option for color and contrast you currently have. I actually think this could be valuable for you: https://blog.datawrapper.de/beautifulcolors/
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by zwaps 6y ago
I know one case in a big and very internationally staffed European company where Indian employees have sort coalesced into a group (hiring amongst themselves, giving out promotions allegedly) that plays out some sort of complicated social s
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Causal Inference: The Mixtape [pdf](scunning.com)
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by zwaps 6y ago
We-Chat and TikTok are without argument tools of an oppressive regime and therefore constitute intolerance one needs not tolerate, both conceptually and as products. Is the USA the right regime to morally champion this cause? It the real re
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by zwaps 6y ago
Yes, however, whether the harvesting of content and data is illegal or not, it occurs. The US has no power over Chinese firms by just "making it illegal", as numerous examples have shown in the past - especially if these firms are
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by zwaps 6y ago
What is the alternative? What is the opportunity cost of doing so? I'd imagine enough people going there earn enough such that even the price of a new Macbook is not even a thing.
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by zwaps 6y ago
used to be the case for me a couple of years ago. Now I use DDG and DDG only for 80-90% of queries. It can even be better, since I can switch location and it doesn't have one page of commercial results before anything useful, like Goog
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by zwaps 6y ago
I'll try to dig it up, saw it a while ago on a forum. Another thing might be that in Rubin's framework it's immediately straightforward to do semi-parametric estimation and get consistency and all that. I'd say in practi
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by zwaps 6y ago
I like Pearl's work a lot more than his opinions on who invented what, and who is right about what. For that reason, I would wholeheartedly recommend his books but I would also recommend skipping any sideshows about related literature.
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by zwaps 6y ago
Important caveat: The test in question seems to be the exit score of junior colleges, equivalent to 12th grade education. Which suggests that the discontinuity found might very well be due to the educational quality of the "regular&quo
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by zwaps 6y ago
Yes that is a possibility in this sort of research design. The exit-test scores are obviously taken as proxy for educational quality and the study cannot test for any "secret sauce" beyond that. On the other hand, there's onl
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by zwaps 6y ago
Very interesting. I wonder in what type of interviews would these answers be considered ideal? Do people at OpenAI ask these sorts of questions, or is this more targeted toward other industries that require data scientists but are not popul
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by zwaps 6y ago
see my above comment in this thread for a counter-example.
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by zwaps 6y ago
Here is my favorite example of "put every page element behind a JS call": https://www.scmp.com/ A news site. It does precisely the same thing as news sites did a decade ago. On my machine, it loads slowly. Then,
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by zwaps 6y ago
Sorry to be blunt, but am I correct that this is a measure against tampering with servers by Chinese intelligence during the customs process? In that case, are the CPUs themselves signed or could they be replaced after modifying the motherb
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by zwaps 6y ago
You are repeating yourself, so I will as well. The article claims that these health benefits do not exist for normal people. The article has studies with high quality RCTs that would trump other, observational studies.
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by zwaps 6y ago
Usually there are severity levels of deficiency. Apparently, current levels of deficiency are not enough to lead to large problems.
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by zwaps 6y ago
You say yourself that websites are now janky. That is also my experience. In fact, despite new tech, it is a relatively recent phenomenon that I feel my phone slowed down by a freaking website. Furthermore, phones may be faster, but website
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by zwaps 6y ago
For me, the author of this article is wrong. On my system, Firefox on Windows, these constant delayed loadings of JavaScript garbage make every website laggy. Yes, the web has become slower. The author then himself posts that page weights h
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by zwaps 6y ago
Or, their sickness depletes their Vitamin D.
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by zwaps 6y ago
Controling for variables is important to establish causality in observational studies. Many fields in social sciences are developing increasingly sophisticated methods to tease out causal relationships (see Pearl, Angrist&Pischke etc.).
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by zwaps 6y ago
It is important, it's just that most people do not seem to have dangerously low levels and derive no benefit from supplementation. The article states several times that very low levels of vitamin D are not good.
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by zwaps 6y ago
This is a thread about an article citing many studies of RCTs showing no such benefit. For that reason, where is your recommendation coming from?
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by zwaps 6y ago
I lost 40kg without Keto.
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by zwaps 6y ago
Is there any documentation as to what the underlying component/framework pattern is? Godot for example is very opinionated on how the game logic must be structured and built (in the graphical UI, specifically). How is it here?

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