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by NotAtWork 12y ago
The methodology you linked to might as well be called "how to lie with numbers". The methodology's way to assign numeric values to things doesn't relate to intrinsic things about the objects under study, but rather, is a
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by NotAtWork 12y ago
This article seems to measure something orthogonal to learning styles, namely that multiple styles combined and variety/novelty also play a key role. Can someone explain to me what the data in this article has to do with learning style
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by NotAtWork 12y ago
As a tutor, I've found that certain styles of explanations click more intuitively with some students than with others. Do you have a mechanism to explain this?
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by NotAtWork 12y ago
Thank you. That step had me really confused.
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by NotAtWork 12y ago
I would trust lots of professionals will my bitcoins more than I'd trust myself, especially if they had the right insurance policies in place. The problem is that Coinbase only insured themselves against damage from coins-in-transition
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by NotAtWork 12y ago
The bitcoin insurance policy I want from an exchange is where they insure me against loss due to actions taken by the exchange and underwritten by a major underwriter, and not the exchange itself. Only then would I really believe that the e
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by NotAtWork 12y ago
> The insurance covers losses due to breaches in physical or cyber security, accidental loss, and employee theft. I'm not convinced that this even protects the online wallet against Mt Gox style corporate malfeasance, where much of
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by NotAtWork 12y ago
From their website, they appear to both provide services to talk to inmates (of which I have a few friends from my time growing up in a poor, crime infested neighborhood) and to act as a data broker about the prison system and inmates, some
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by NotAtWork 12y ago
Looking at the data, I don't think the author did anything with it than see initial numbers matched her feelings, and then called on people to undertake a massive, actual study because she just know this is it. I certainly think that t
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by NotAtWork 12y ago
Yes. You have a sampling bias in the types of people you associate. Facebook applies a filter to posts which selects for things that are popular with a wide swath of your friends and which support your political/social views (as guesse
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by NotAtWork 12y ago
I don't actually want to be arguing against this study, but without knowing how those two fields are quantified, those numbers are completely meaningless and referring to fuzzy numbers like that is one of the hallmark ways to lie with
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by NotAtWork 12y ago
Most of the comments (all of them that I've seen) say that the effect is real, but the source isn't necessarily a bias in the reviews, because of how the study was conducted (eg, there could be a hiring bias). Bringing up a differ
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by NotAtWork 12y ago
This article lacked the power to tell if the effect (ie, different language in reviews) was correlated to their gender or because of a selection bias in the people studied, eg because of a possible difference in the distribution of personal
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by NotAtWork 12y ago
Why do you think the likelihood is very small? Has there been research?
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by NotAtWork 12y ago
I see a difference between SpaceX and Tesla in this regard: Tesla had a production car catch on fire with a customer using it, while SpaceX broke their rocket doing an experiment with rockets during development. It seems pretty reasonable y
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by NotAtWork 12y ago
Most of my development time is spent on correctness, safety, and refactorings. If the extra information helps those at the cost of not one of those, it's almost always the right choice for me to use.
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by NotAtWork 12y ago
I can see several ways that you could implement storage and processing using that, thank you. For anyone else thinking about the problem, there are two processes that could be used by item sorting to do processing: 1. You can use the stream
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by NotAtWork 12y ago
I've worked in hardware, and think this kind of play is meaningful. You confront many of the engineering challenges you'd face (in terms of line routing, timing challenges, design concerns, modularity, etc), but they have simpler
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by NotAtWork 12y ago
How do you read off the state of the NBT data? Can command blocks match items on NBT data or chests on their data?
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by NotAtWork 12y ago
> You do, as it happens. In order to operate, all machines must pass fairness and randomness testing. They are also under a spot-check regime to ensure there are no post-manufacture changes or defects. Many of the machines actually aren&
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by NotAtWork 12y ago
That page you linked is horrendous!
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by NotAtWork 12y ago
25 million Americans live in the 10 biggest cities. 33 million Americans live in the 20 biggest cities. 44 million Americans live in the 50 biggest cities. I think any of those is a reasonable number to build a rail system for.
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by NotAtWork 12y ago
> did they act in your interest? To address this, we have to reintroduce the complexity that I had omitted in my comment: there are other people besides me and the (figurative) person I was addressing. I think the honest answer here is t
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by NotAtWork 12y ago
> Let different US states have different laws (that the Federal law cannot trump) and let's see through experimentation which set of laws is best for different sets of people. This only makes the chunking smaller, not fundamentally
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by NotAtWork 12y ago
If one person in every family made their in-laws grumpy about the CIA torture scandal, then the entire nation would (at least once, over the course of months/a year) have an actual discussion about the situation. That discussion then g
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by NotAtWork 12y ago
> Why can't we have a system where we argue things out and have some heuristics for finding out what the best decision is for a given group of people? We do this. We just haven't resolved two fundamental problems: 1. The heuris
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by NotAtWork 12y ago
> > If you don't like the options, it's worth asking what you, as a citizen, have done to improve them. > I can revert that and ask you, what have you done, as a citizen, that you've made the choices so awful for ev
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by NotAtWork 12y ago
I mean, if you care more about not arguing with your relatives than you do that the CIA abducted and tortured people, then you have little incentive to engage with the wider political process. Of course, most people think that the US govern
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by NotAtWork 12y ago
I can't tell if you honestly are asking for answers, because all of those have fairly direct answers from people who saying voting matters. Also, the one about war is a strawman, because it conflates war and the draft, which are relate
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by NotAtWork 12y ago
> Where is the line between optimizing an ad pipeline and violating privacy? Right at the start. Of course, the allegation was that Facebook broke privacy laws , and not just that they violated people's privacy, so your response is

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