lambdaphage

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by lambdaphage 12y ago
I debated how to present the CS data, because there are a few things going on there. Here are the raw counts: http://images.techhive.com/images/idge/imported/article/ctw/... The two spikes circa 19
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by lambdaphage 12y ago
I was referring to M.D.'s.
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by lambdaphage 12y ago
All jobs require some dealing with people and some dealing with things. Does that imply no difference between the fractions of the day that software engineers and social workers spend systematizing vs. empathizing? But let's examine t
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by lambdaphage 12y ago
This is a good point worth keeping in mind. We're talking about a statistical property of groups of people, and one that is relatively uncommon in both groups.
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by lambdaphage 12y ago
The interesting thing about medicine and law is that they are professions that deal with human needs and social relationships. As formal barriers were removed, the percentage of law and medical degrees awarded to women steadily increased t
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by lambdaphage 12y ago
Are you suggesting that Dennett is a continental philosopher?
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by lambdaphage 12y ago
I am cringing. Gould was a classic case of projection, having been guilty of everything he accused his opponents of: misreading one's opponents, proneness to ideological bias, and experimental technique so sloppy that deliberate frau
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by lambdaphage 12y ago
RNA is highly unstable.
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by lambdaphage 12y ago
The essay you link ultimately endorses the economics Nobel.
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by lambdaphage 12y ago
What is your preferred explanation? That a doctor suspected ebola but, because Duncan was an African without insurance, thought it better that he walk around for four more days?
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by lambdaphage 12y ago
Girlfriend's family is from Flanders, the Dutch-speaking region of Belgium. Her sister speaks fluent English despite very modest formal language training. (On the order of the n<=3 years of Spanish or French that most American stu
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by lambdaphage 12y ago
Why do you think we observe the positive manifold, then?
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by lambdaphage 12y ago
This pair of rhetorical questions actually has a non-rhetorical answer, and it is far more interesting (though less precious) than the one implied here. This being the internet, the serious answer is a mouseclick away: http://en.
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by lambdaphage 12y ago
Yes, maxing out one dimension of performance may degrade it in another. This is just Berkson, again. My point is that along the entire range of variation, all reasonable measures of athletic performance are likely to be positively correla
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by lambdaphage 12y ago
Two points about this. First, a consensus developed over more than a hundred years of study requires a little more than an off-handed dismissal-- do you understand _why_ a general factor of intelligence is acknowledged by practically every
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by lambdaphage 12y ago
I can't speak for the GCTA method, but the five main findings discussed in the review have all been known within the field for years: this is a review, rather than a research article. If these findings are surprising to you, it is beca
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by lambdaphage 12y ago
Let a thousand flowers wilt! Consider this statement from the lead author: "As economies develop, one language often comes to dominate a nation’s political and educational spheres. People are forced to adopt the dominant language or ri
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by lambdaphage 12y ago
http://crookedtimber.org/2007/05/10/in-praise-of-budweiser-c...
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by lambdaphage 12y ago
I don't understand how this constitutes an explanation: "Why don't restauranteurs maximize their profits? They're leaving money on the table," said Alice. "They don't maximize their profits because, if th
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by lambdaphage 12y ago
Monogamy should decrease sibling-sibling genetic conflict, relative to polygamy, since you can expect to be more closely related to your siblings on average. Even in ideally monogamous species, though, there is still genetic conflict betwe
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by lambdaphage 12y ago
Monogamy should decrease sibling-sibling genetic conflict, relative to polygamy, since you can expect to be more closely realted to your siblings on average. Even in ideally monogamous species, though, there is still genetic conflict betwe
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by lambdaphage 12y ago
Paleolithic culture is a genuinely mixed bag. Not as bad as almost everyone thinks, but worse than the rest think. I would put 1850 as my over-under for the year that neolithic culture provided an improvement in average quality of life.
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by lambdaphage 12y ago
I remember reading that and reeling, shocked that anyone could write and sign their name to that. Whenever I am pessimistic about my chances in science, I remember that that guy has a job at Harvard.
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by lambdaphage 12y ago
The Markov property does not require dependence on the previous state-- it requires that the distribution of the next state given the history of the chain be the distribution of the next state given the current state. The lottery trivially
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by lambdaphage 12y ago
The bottom 95% of lab work is pretty intellectually comparable to driving, navigating and possibly talking at the same time.
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by lambdaphage 12y ago
I thought the claim was that you don't need calculus for coding theory, not that there exist branches of advanced mathematics where calculus isn't necessary. So it's germane to produce a book on coding theory and show that t
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by lambdaphage 12y ago
I've posted this elsewhere already, but that's just not true: http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/itila/
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by lambdaphage 12y ago
Here is a non-rhetorical answer to your rhetorical question: http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/itila/ See how far you'll get without calculus.
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by lambdaphage 12y ago
I appreciated DFW's book for even attempting to do a popular treatment of what we would now call the history of real analysis. But there were some serious technical problems with it: http://www.ams.org/notices/200
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by lambdaphage 12y ago
It's on the high end, but it's only a factor of three off of the roughly $7 million the EPA uses in cost-benefit analysis. Perhaps a bad call, but not wildly innumerate.

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