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Where have all the tokens gone?(lesswrong.com)
2 points by pithymaxim 1y ago|0 comments
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Use meaningful names in your code examples(apithymaxim.wordpress.com)
2 points by pithymaxim 1y ago|0 comments
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Why is fiber good for you?(lesswrong.com)
1 points by pithymaxim 3y ago|0 comments
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by pithymaxim 4y ago
I think it's more important to look at all-cause mortality, because treatment can also harm you. In this case it's a fairly tight confidence interval: "The risk of death from any cause was 11.03% in the invited group and 11.0
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Google announces new Career Certificates and 100k scholarships(blog.google)
43 points by pithymaxim 6y ago|21 comments
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Against Etymology as Evidence(apithymaxim.wordpress.com)
2 points by pithymaxim 6y ago|0 comments
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by pithymaxim 7y ago
Mostly agreed. I think everyone (including myself) was ready for a huge pop science book to be bad, and boosted the post based just on its title. In defense of the post, Walker's called-out claim that "Routinely sleeping less than
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by pithymaxim 7y ago
Based on that last entry about the SF bus line, I would really love to see https://patrickcollison.com/slow
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by pithymaxim 7y ago
I always thought this was just price discrimination, extracting more surplus from readers by bifurcating them into two groups. Hardbacks are released first. Everyone who really wants it now needs to shell out more, even if they don't r
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by pithymaxim 7y ago
Slide summary from the authors: https://bcerp.org/wp-content/uploads/Session3-AlexandraWhite...
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by pithymaxim 7y ago
For those interested in the actual policy: > [C]hecked-out books automatically will renew as many as 15 times, as long as no one else places a hold on them...Items will be marked as "lost" and accounts will be charged a replace
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by pithymaxim 7y ago
>nearly 40 percent of Americans, a Federal Reserve report found, are in such a financially precarious state that they say they would have trouble finding $400 for an unexpected expense like a car repair or a medical bill. This has got to
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by pithymaxim 7y ago
> Not worried enough? Imagine an attacker who manipulates road signs in a way such that self-driving cars will break traffic rules. If someone was manipulating a bunch of road signs for bad, human drivers would probably be in trouble too
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by pithymaxim 7y ago
Is the headline figure here actually kind of small? | The IEA finds that global offshore wind capacity may increase 15-fold and attract around $1 trillion of <<cumulative>> investment by 2040. Averaged over the next 20 years, th
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by pithymaxim 7y ago
In case it's useful I immediately got a dead link https://argdown.org/guide/a-first-example/ from this page https://argdown.org/guide/
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by pithymaxim 7y ago
Checklists are probably good but looking at the actual paper[0] I don't think we can conclude "a third" with much confidence. The mortality rate for surgeries was already declining--the argument is that it declined faster dur
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by pithymaxim 8y ago
Yep. Also this is all based on stock price data, so it could be that businesses typically hire the person that the market "expects"...which would predict zero alpha even if counterfactually hiring a bad CEO would've tanked th
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by pithymaxim 8y ago
There's some cool evidence that even this system led to non-negligible "misvoting" > minor candidates' vote shares almost double when their names are adjacent to the names of major candidates https://users.
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by pithymaxim 8y ago
>Instacart and DoorDash...have figured out a clever way to use customer tips to lower their labor expenses. Isn't this how restaurants work..?
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by pithymaxim 8y ago
Worth mentioning that their summary measure of well-being is more comprehensive than what's typically asked of adults and probably does correlate with learning and development: "Data from 19,957 telephone interviews with parents o
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Early morning class makes you less likely to major in that subject [pdf](kareemhaggag.com)
2 points by pithymaxim 8y ago|0 comments
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by pithymaxim 8y ago
This is super cool although one thing that I would do differently--after running--is to grab a beer and act a little more casual. Alcohol can help you relax if you're an occasional user, and there's the concern that you can make e
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by pithymaxim 8y ago
Maybe, but the regression they use to argue this is pretty bonkers...they need to assume that once they control for income, population, education, and employment, the coefficient on the Airbnb share captures the causal effect of Airbnb on p
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by pithymaxim 8y ago
Similar argument in this paper but with better methods and data--2 million LA middle schoolers! http://home.uchicago.edu/~npope/morning_afternoon.pdf
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by pithymaxim 8y ago
Not an Uber fan but this just seems like price discrimination with better data, which in principle could subsidize rides for poorer drivers. Student rush tickets to the opera could be framed as price gouging of non-students (by probing into
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by pithymaxim 9y ago
The headline is misleading. 22 percent of Germans chose to fully equalize the endowments (or "help others") compared to 17 percent of Americans. This seems striking for how similar the proportions are, not how selfish the American
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by pithymaxim 12y ago
Didn't mean to make that claim, but I'd guess that chess is better for cognitive development because its demands on working memory are limitless. This is speculative, but it's also speculative to claim that 2048 is any better
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by pithymaxim 12y ago
I think #5 is wrong. 2048 is based on numbers but has very little to do with math--you can play the game just as easily using only colors. At best students are learning the powers of two, and at worst they're wasting time they should&#