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by aorist 1mo ago
Yes, Parliament has absolute and unlimited power (except binding future Parliaments, and maybe arguably some matters relating to Scotland): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliamentary_sovereignty_in_t... (not a lawyer)
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by aorist 8mo ago
If the confidence interval width is 2 * 14.0%, how are you detecting a statistically significant difference between 58% and 50%? The 95% CIs on both timeseries pretty much always cover the baseline number, which is not consistent with the r
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by aorist 8mo ago
The process where resources accrue to those with more resources is called the Matthew Effect. It explains, amongst other things, why the degree distribution of social networks follows a power law. There's a nice experimental test of th
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by aorist 10mo ago
> Examples include converting boxplots into violins or vice versa, turning a line plot into a heatmap, plotting a density estimate instead of a histogram, performing a computation on ranked data values instead of raw data values, and so
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by aorist 11mo ago
This specific analysis isn’t p-hacking because although they conduct multiple tests, they report all of them rather than just the statistically significant ones. They should however account for multiple testing. The Bonferroni correction (w
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by aorist 1y ago
> Thread is called “fils” in French, meaning “son”, considering channels are parents of threads in a sense. Could be, but “fil” also literally means “thread” in the sewing sense.
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by aorist 1y ago
You need assumptions exactly for the things which cannot be tested against reality. Otherwise why assume rather than measure?
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by aorist 1y ago
all of > designed a dozen sites I never published > I was never on time > I couldn't get up for class on time And depending on why > don't drive > I feel like an alien, and most everyone drives me insane. > most
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by aorist 1y ago
Can buy-and-hold investors use margin?
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by aorist 1y ago
This study can't see past its own midwit view that there is an objective “detailed, literal” reading that necessarily produces the same interpretation of the text that the authors have. The students in the study are responding in a rat
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by aorist 1y ago
I think this (jokingly) assumes that PhDs become academics, which is not always true. Also, PhDs are generally free and if you leave early you get a Master's anyway. Terminal Master's you have to pay for.
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by aorist 1y ago
Let's say that The Rebel Times has a headline "Member of the Imperial Senate on a diplomatic mission boarded and arrested without cause" while the Empire Daily reports that "Leia Organa, part of the Rebel Alliance and a
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by aorist 2y ago
> I have no doubt the same difficulties would apply to - say - planting and harvesting crops on a schedule Not necessarily. Before the Industrial Revolution artisans were paid by the piece and peasants harvested between the crop being ri
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by aorist 2y ago
In case anyone else is a fan of these unsual old displays, you might enjoy Posy's passionate videos which are a unique combination of curiosity, macro/slowmo shots and humor. Especially relevant is this one which is about what see
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by aorist 2y ago
Also as of more recently, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudia_Sheinbaum
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by aorist 2y ago
Here you go: https://www.protection-civile.ch/documents/telechargement/ar...
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by aorist 2y ago
I think this is too strong. If art has no inherent meaning, you can't say that it's not making a political statement, only that whether it's making a political statment or not is undefined. Otherwise, saying that something i
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by aorist 2y ago
Too easy: Van Gogh painted it in an asylum (social safety net) run by Franciscans (repeal of anti-Church laws during the Third Republic) because he had self-admitted after cutting off his own ear (treatment of physical violence as a medical
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by aorist 3y ago
> the US educational system is generally so poor that it's not generating enough people with the necessary technical capabilities to meet employer demand The US educational system might be generating enough people with those skills,
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by aorist 3y ago
"in the grim dark future there is only war"
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by aorist 3y ago
Unalienable IDs might be the default of small-scale face-to-face societies, but not ones which operate at scale. Not even "Bob" can serve as a fixed identifier without intentional state action — (sur)names were very often intentio
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by aorist 3y ago
> The underscore _ can be used as a throwaway variable to discard unwanted values: So can any other variable, using underscore is just a convention to make it obvious that you're not planning to re-use it (it doesn't get GCed m
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by aorist 3y ago
It looks from Figure 3 that they fit a sinusoidal curve to the data, and then fit an exponential to the residuals of *that* fit. That exponential shows a sharp increase from hour -2, but the curve is not a good fit to the rest of the data,
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by aorist 3y ago
> In August 2022, I started 17aE2, non feminizing estradiol (Rx), based upon male longevity evidence. My dosing protocol is 4mg wk, transdermal. Since we started, there’s been no change to serum estrogen or testosterone and no known side
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by aorist 4y ago
It doesn't count `failure` — just the number of rows. But neither does the pandas version: `pd_df.groupby(['date'])['failure'].count()` and `pd_df.groupby(['date']).count()` are the same except the former
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by aorist 4y ago
The ergonomics of grouping and aggregation in R are really much better because libraries can make of its non-standard evaluation[^0] (which in other cases also makes the language a nightmare to deal with). Compare: pd_df.groupby([&#x2
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by aorist 4y ago
> The reality of generating diagrams from code is that although you’ll generate diagrams that are a 1:1 accurate representation of your infrastructure and source code, they likely won’t be very useful for your team See also the Borges sh
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Maximizing FTX Recoveries – Management and committee meeting [pdf](restructuring.ra.kroll.com)
55 points by aorist 4y ago|35 comments
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by aorist 4y ago
In the U.K., owners of televisions receiving broadcast signals (and now VoD) are required to pay for an annual license. The enforcement of this is mostly through sending letters, but there are also TV Detector Vans [0] which work in a simil
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by aorist 4y ago
> It is crucial for data scientists to carefully consider the quality and representativeness of the data they are working with To bring this fully to the domain of epistemology, you could go further: why are certain markers of quality or

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