oldgradstudent

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by oldgradstudent 6d ago
It wasn't the coverup of the crash. It's the fact that they massively exaggerated their capabilities. For example, the reason they started with night trips was that their car could not differentiate between kids and adults so they
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by oldgradstudent 6d ago
These are all Waymo's narratives, carefully written. Not the objective truth. There will eventually be a serious or fatal crash and the investigation will shed light on what's happening inside. That will be the real test. Cruise c
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by oldgradstudent 8d ago
Isn't that a non-denial denial?
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by oldgradstudent 9d ago
> Punishing people a decade after the fact isn't very effective for anything. It sends a very clear message: even if it takes a decade, we will find you and punish you.
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Artificial Deadlines (Part 2): Retrograding Ariely and Wertenbroch (2002)(datacolada.org)
4 points by oldgradstudent 14d ago|1 comments
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by oldgradstudent 15d ago
That's pathetic. How did he agree to be a co-author when "he never had access to the data for any of the studies"?
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I am shocked, shocked to learn that this 2002 paper by Dan Ariely is(statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu)
5 points by oldgradstudent 15d ago|1 comments
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Moto – a new AI video editor with editable prompt-to-motion graphics(usemoto.app)
2 points by oldgradstudent 2mo ago|0 comments
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by oldgradstudent 9mo ago
If true, that means the groups are different in many other aspects other than the vaccine. The study does not control for the differences. No causality can be inferred.
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by oldgradstudent 9mo ago
So what you're saying is that they are comparing two distinct self-selected populations that differ in many other aspects than just taking the vaccine. Why would you ascribe any difference to the vaccine rather to any other difference
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by oldgradstudent 9mo ago
You're basically saying that the study compares two distinct populations that differ in many other aspects rather than just by vaccine. Why then do you ascribe the difference in mortality to the vaccine?
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by oldgradstudent 10mo ago
In your flying car, no less.
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by oldgradstudent 10mo ago
I was working in customer support for one of the first ISPs in my country when the switch from Windows 3.1 to Windows 95 happened. Windows 95 was a massive jump in usability. Regular people simply do no understand the overlapping windows me
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by oldgradstudent 10mo ago
Nothing in the study actually supports the claim in the headline and much of the text, though.
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by oldgradstudent 10mo ago
I too always claim my position is the null argument.
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To Have Machines Make Math Proofs, Turn Them into a Puzzle(quantamagazine.org)
3 points by oldgradstudent 10mo ago|0 comments
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by oldgradstudent 10mo ago
The statistical argument is basically: Multiplying a number beyond our comprehension by an unknown probability >= 2 Right?
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by oldgradstudent 10mo ago
How exactly extraterretial life is a statistical fact?
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by oldgradstudent 11mo ago
There's a video review on YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3c4mQty_so
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by oldgradstudent 11mo ago
The more modern approach is fake it until a liquidity event.
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I Tried the Robot That's Coming to Live with You. It's Still Part Human(wsj.com)
5 points by oldgradstudent 11mo ago|2 comments
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by oldgradstudent 11mo ago
> motivated by Netanyahu's almost certain knowledge that he'll go to prison if and when he loses his grip on the reins. Guilt beyond a reasonable doubt is determined by trial in an open court where defendent has the right to cr
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by oldgradstudent 11mo ago
Any day now.
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by oldgradstudent 1y ago
But they haven't checked his employment eligibility or he wouldn't have started his first week.
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by oldgradstudent 1y ago
This is simply not the case. Edited: removed some inflammatory language I shouldn't have used.
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by oldgradstudent 1y ago
Why investigate if we can simply assume the accused is guilty.
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by oldgradstudent 1y ago
> Case 3 - seemingly similar to Case 2, a large news website offered to portray Bibi in a better light if he would push through regulatory changes as Minisiter of Communications. Favorable coverage was the original charge (סיקור אוהד).
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by oldgradstudent 1y ago
>There are multiple charges of corruption against him, which he is probably guilty of. For anyone who is not following the trial, as soon as the prosecution's case-in-chief was over, the judges publicly notified the prosecution that
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by oldgradstudent 1y ago
You can build a model, but is there any reason to assume it can predict what you want it to predict?
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by oldgradstudent 1y ago
In the 1970s both my parents were programming computers professionaly. Computing was already a huge industry. Just IBM's revenues were in the multi billion dollar range in the 1970s. And a billion dollar in the 1970s was A LOT of money

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