gammadens

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by gammadens 7y ago
I see the difference between determinism and superdeterminism but it's unclear to me why, if you accept the former, why you might not accept the latter. I think it's worth thinking through and delineating superdeterminism to its u
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by gammadens 7y ago
This meta-analysis isn't ground breaking. What has been known for awhile is that AA works very well for some, but not at all for others. This has always been the dilemma with AA in research as well as clinically. It won't affect t
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by gammadens 7y ago
There's an entire literature on very closely related concepts and issues -- many of the same issues arguably -- in the psychological test and measurement literature. There it's discussed tn terms of internal and external validity
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by gammadens 7y ago
Ageism cuts in both directions and it's one of the few forms of prejudice society still tolerates for some reason. Imagine this guy's post if you substitute "too old" with "black" or "female" (or &quo
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by gammadens 7y ago
My personal feeling about this, like a lot of things in the US at the moment is that the required approach requires cutting across current paradigms. More competition is required, which to my mind suggests introducing public pharmaceuticals
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by gammadens 7y ago
I agree, but I also think a comprehensive set of standard benchmarks can be useful to get an overall sense of how language instantiations perform and how things change. It's fairly clear that in general some language implementations ar
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by gammadens 7y ago
From their supplementary table this looks like a general cognitive ability effect, although they don't seem to have included the range of measures that are typically included in general cognitive ability measures. The short answer is t
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by gammadens 7y ago
Tenured positions aren't all they're cracked up to be either.
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by gammadens 7y ago
Indirect funds on grants need to be eliminated in my opinion. The GOP is a disaster at the moment in my opinion but introducing bills to eliminate them is one of the things they've done right. Indirect funds distort the purpose of gran
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by gammadens 7y ago
Surprised how long he was asymptomatic. That is concerning to me.
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by gammadens 7y ago
I came to say that the diamond princess is kind of an ideal case for getting a handle on things because it's a largish finite closedish population, kind of like why ecologists often love islands. One thing that's puzzling to me th
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by gammadens 7y ago
Part of me wonders if the next step with this is some sort of DL model. I wonder if, trained on one set of melodies (defined in the intuitive sense) it would generate existing copyrighted melodies not in the training set.
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by gammadens 7y ago
I cross country ski and have noticed those in the community in Scandinavia despairing and in shock over the lack of snow and its impact on events. I've dealt with lack of snow in one or two past years and always had a kind of FOMO reac