syntacticsalt

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by syntacticsalt 4mo ago
Pixi uses uv as a backend, and I've enjoyed the UI because it's easy to add task aliases for things like nicely-formatted lists of outdated packages. (I have no affiliation with the project.) Pixi-diff-to-markdown in particular ha
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by syntacticsalt 5mo ago
I don't disagree about the complicity. However, biology and statistics, even at intro level, have had significant updates in material covered over the last 10-20 years. More subtly, terminology changes. My copy of Rudin's Principl
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by syntacticsalt 1y ago
My opinion of Gwern's piece is that some of the arguments he makes don't require correlations. For example, A/B tests of differences in means using a zero difference null hypothesis will reject the null, given enough data. In
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by syntacticsalt 1y ago
Are you referring to the first figure, from Smith, et al, 2007? If so, I couldn't evaluate whether gwern's claim makes sense without reading that paper to get an idea of, e.g., sample size and how they control for false positives.
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by syntacticsalt 1y ago
As you yourself point out, a consistent estimator of a parameter converges to that parameter's value in the infinite sample limit. That limit is zero or it's not.
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by syntacticsalt 1y ago
A frequentist interpretation of inference assumes parameters have fixed, but unknown values. In this paradigm, it is sensible to speak of the statement "this parameter's value is zero" as either true or false. I do not think
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by syntacticsalt 1y ago
Reporting effect size mitigates this problem. If observed effect size is too small, its statistical significance isn't viewed as meaningful.
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by syntacticsalt 1y ago
I don't disagree with the title, but I'm left wondering what they want us to do about it beyond hinting at causal inference. I'd also be curious what the author thinks of minimum effect sizes (re: Implication 1) and noninferi
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by syntacticsalt 1y ago
Permutation tests don't account for family-wise error rate effects, so I'm curious why you would say that "it doesn't overcorrect like traditional methods". I'm also curious why you say those "cover every
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by syntacticsalt 1y ago
> Most companies don't cost peoples' lives when you get it wrong. True, but it usually costs money to fix it. I think the themes of "this only matters if lives are on the line" or "it's too rigorous" ar