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by random78965 3y ago
At that point, a more salient question would be whether anything at all exists outside our minds.
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by random78965 3y ago
Honestly, why bother about the wider world when this provides an excellent filter for those both principled enough to quit Twitter and competent enough to join Mastodon? Sure, you'll have a high false negative rate (i.e., some great fo
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by random78965 3y ago
I see! My intuition was that it would be hard to evaluate efficacy without RCTs - I assumed low effect sizes, which I guess is not necessarily true for many drugs. Agreed that there should be a faster way to trial drugs and get them to mark
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by random78965 3y ago
I think all your criticisms of randomized controlled trials (apart from the ethical one) apply to your suggested approach, no? RCTs are the gold standard for demonstrating efficacy precisely because of the controls. I agree that they'r
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by random78965 3y ago
Not a dev, but I've often seen software that acknowledge their dependencies in About sections and on their websites. Is that particularly intrusive? Especially given that you could always use the GPL too if you want.
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by random78965 3y ago
A zero, I think.
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by random78965 3y ago
The haiku at the end is not a haiku, technically. As a non-business person, I imagine that folks would typically want some correctness guarantees, which seem near-impossible with today's LLMs. What kind of business use-cases do they en
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by random78965 3y ago
My intuition is that browser plugins based on some federated system (e.g. Mastodon, Matrix) could enable this. Why complicate browsers even more? (No expertise here, so I'm probably missing the big picture)
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by random78965 4y ago
I'm not sure, that's not my area of expertise! I think it's pretty well-replicated that IQ is more predicted by genetics than any other factor; however, my understanding is that variation in IQ within an ethnic population is
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by random78965 4y ago
Cultural emphasis on educational achievement and hard work, for one.