caddemon

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by caddemon 2y ago
There is no legitimate reason to make an illegal move in chess though? There are reasons why a good doctor might intentionally explain things imprecisely to a patient.
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by caddemon 2y ago
I've never heard of a surgeon going to jail over a genuine mistake even if it did kill someone. I'm also not sure what that would accomplish - take away their license to practice medicine sure, but they're not a threat to soc
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by caddemon 2y ago
You don't need to sacrifice the rigor to have a more balanced community, at least not at the total size Caltech is. There's a large component of college admissions these days that is somewhat arbitrary. High school resumes (at lea
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by caddemon 2y ago
Nah, sorry you had a shit college experience, but college is the place I made most of my close, lifelong friends. And had an awesome time. While also learning, they're not mutually exclusive. It's a shared experience you can'
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by caddemon 2y ago
I don't think it's purely an optics thing. College is a community not just school. Do you want all your social groups, living area, etc. to be 75+% male as a college student?
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by caddemon 2y ago
Fair enough, I knew they owned a lot of entertainment/media related companies but didn't realize they owned additional properties that weren't explicitly advertised as such. Though in the case of Disney Springs they actually
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by caddemon 2y ago
Disney uses an integrated account system now, if you sign up in order to buy park tickets or use the Disney world app you are probably clicking through a similar agreement anyway. And if you were never going to visit Disney in the first pla
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by caddemon 2y ago
Sure that overrides the disclaimer for the restaurant, and I'm inclined to agree with you there because every restaurant has some disclaimer like this that if enforced would make any "allergen-free" claims worthless everywher
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by caddemon 2y ago
This defense is absurd, but also there are no tickets for the mall and Disney doesn't own most of the stores/restaurants in the mall. The restaurant in question is a tenant and the company that owns it is also being sued.
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by caddemon 2y ago
No, though maybe there is a reasonable assumption they enforce more oversight on tenants than a typical mall would. They do publish the restaurant menu on their website (including allergen info) and you can make reservations through their a
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by caddemon 2y ago
Also Samsung has been innovating with hardware. I'm not the hugest fan of their flavor of Android but I absolutely love my flip phone and would not consider switching back to iOS or pure Android unless Apple or Google were to make a fl
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by caddemon 2y ago
Obviously most scientists are not going to be interested in null results from adjacent subfields, but when it comes to specific questions of interest it is absolutely useful to know what has been tried before and how it was done/what w
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by caddemon 2y ago
It's meant for kids so parents would be the ones paying. Obviously they're trying to profit and it does seem a bit overpriced (though there are extra logistical costs for anything to be medically approved, so it's not compara
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by caddemon 2y ago
It's not just a corporate phenomenon. Academic research has increasingly shifted towards a goal of regularly churning out papers for the sake of getting publications, rather than being driven by curiosity and a desire to share knowledg
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by caddemon 2y ago
Don't grants still tie you to government pay structures? I know in biology most academic research labs may as well be government entities because that's the main way to get funding, and that funding has various rules attached incl
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by caddemon 2y ago
There's definitely a genetic component but it would be interesting if those environmental factors impacted prevalence or severity. Autoimmune disorders in general might be worse/more common in countries where kids grow up in clean
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by caddemon 2y ago
Humans are actually born with blurry vision as the eye takes time to develop, so human learning starts with low resolution images. There is a theory that this is not really a limitation but a benefit in developing our visual processing syst
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by caddemon 2y ago
Makes sense, it'd still be kinda harsh as a strict graduation requirement for EECS though wouldn't it? In biology I've seen a lot of more recent theses where a couple of the chapters are from middle author works with a bit of
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by caddemon 2y ago
That's certainly the systemic pressure. And it's hard to avoid having that approach as a postdoc. I think PhD students, especially in the first couple years, can benefit in the long term from OC's advice if they have a suppor
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by caddemon 2y ago
4 first author pubs? Maybe this is field dependent but that sounds like a pretty extreme requirement. The most I've seen formally required in my field is 1 first author peer reviewed pub, but many programs don't even set that as a
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by caddemon 2y ago
European PhD programs generally assume you already have a Masters in the subject so they skip most of the grad level courses and they typically don't do things like rotations either. You have a lab and some project to start on day 1. I
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by caddemon 2y ago
I doubt they had the right technology back then to actually investigate for physical brain trauma. Even today CTE diagnoses are made post mortem. And one can end up with CTE without ever having a full blown concussion.
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by caddemon 2y ago
The music part is just scaling in a different way, but that's not the reason the iPhone is so successful. The leap from iPod to iPhone was definitely not just scaling.
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by caddemon 2y ago
Shark attacks isn't really p-hacking though, that's about misinterpreting/misrepresenting a real correlation. P-hacking is finding a fake correlation due to chance because you tested a lot of different things in a smallish da
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by caddemon 2y ago
Straight up fabrication is more common than we'd hope, but probably not systemically threatening. I'm much more concerned about how poorly replication goes even when authors are not malicious/generally following the "sta
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by caddemon 2y ago
There isn't enough incentive currently to publish reproductions, starting a new journal using the same general publishing model isn't going to change that. But with money to burn you could add some incentive, or you could at least
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by caddemon 2y ago
Taking away the phone for 2 weeks is different than never having a phone for the entirety of high school though.
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by caddemon 2y ago
I think the bigger issue currently is we understand so little about the brain. For something like Schizophrenia there is very obviously biological origins - not that environment doesn't have an impact as well, but you're not solvi
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by caddemon 2y ago
Company loyalty was already mostly dead in big tech before the layoffs. It was also the fault of the companies, but more to do with the ability to get raises via job hopping versus internal promotion, not job security.
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by caddemon 2y ago
His foundation also donates a lot to neuroscience research, particularly for Autism. I think there was a family reason for that, so probably at least some of his scientific philanthropy will continue for awhile. But yeah it's extremely

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