uniqueuid

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by uniqueuid 2mo ago
Among my secret research ideas, this is the most dangerous and morally wrong one. If future generations of researchers will wonder why IRB reviews became mandatory for computer science, studies like this will be the answer. Seriously, some
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by uniqueuid 3mo ago
It's also about variance in the number. Expert software engineers will still accidentally burn $500 or $5000 on tasks that don't work, or are not efficient. Amateurs will accidentally spend $100 to get something great. So part of
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by uniqueuid 3mo ago
I can relate to the attitude, but I also suspect it's a lot easier to live like this in one of the two richest countries in the world with the least stressful labor markets (going by the experience of my friends who emigrated there).
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by uniqueuid 3mo ago
Whoops, misread the digit! Thanks for catching. But the numbers are still the same (it's about rates not counts), just that we can expect the 40% figure to be more accurate than with 2M.
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by uniqueuid 3mo ago
To put this into perspective, young children have an average amount of 16 colds per year (there's even a cool repo for incidence data, I suspect you could get more precise [1]). With an increasing number of parents both being in the la
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by uniqueuid 3mo ago
I assume you mean there might be a self-selection issue with people who are voluntarily ("privately") insured, as compared to those who have the normal state-mandated ("gesetzlich") insurance? This data is from AOK which
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by uniqueuid 3mo ago
To be fair, the median is just as little information as the mean. We live in a world where ink is cheap, they should just show a histogram.
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by uniqueuid 3mo ago
That's exactly right. This article [1] mentions 40% of sick days being from people with long-term (> 6 weeks) illnesses. That's data from one of Germany's large insurers. While I don't know the proportion of those wit
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by uniqueuid 3mo ago
Which is exactly (part of) why people call ZFS a "rampant layering violation"!
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by uniqueuid 3mo ago
It's very simple, this is about the threat model. If you are worried about big players profiling you (hard to avoid, high likelihood of happening, low likelihood of damage), then you want Sailfish. If you are worried about apps profili
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by uniqueuid 3mo ago
I have nothing but great things to say about typst, and this is my personal favorite from this release: "A single document can now contain multiple bibliographies"
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by uniqueuid 3mo ago
That was nicely put. I think you can learn about it most by reading clever, capable people from big tech corporations. Their framing often involves tradeoffs against a slow but inevitable societal pressure that is helped by compromising on
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by uniqueuid 3mo ago
The causal loop you mentioned makes social science hard, but I’d argue that falsification and hypothesis-driven research can still work. Otherwise all the behavioral targeting Meta and Google and co are doing would not work.
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by uniqueuid 4mo ago
The link is only to the marketing fluff piece, the paper is here and has three authors [1] [1] https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/developmental-psycholog...
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by uniqueuid 4mo ago
Thanks, that's a great point. I know a huge amount of the literature exactly in this area, and I'm honestly still pretty skeptical of the theoretical idea of the diversity principle. Mostly because there doesn't seem to be a
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by uniqueuid 4mo ago
I mean, that's a very intuitive question if you're not used to the system, and a bit surprising if you are. The historic precedent is that Germany's first Chancellor wanted to establish a state-funded and state-directed TV st
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by uniqueuid 4mo ago
Before this blows up: - The world has very diverse ideas about how media regulation works. Germany has a strong public service broadcast tradition that is constitutionally anchored. You may not like it, but that's the cultural and lega
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by uniqueuid 5mo ago
The problem space that ducklake solves is smaller, but it helped me to get a working metabase dashboard quickly on ~1tb of data with 128gb ram. Queries were much, much faster than all alternatives. Some downsides are: No unique constraints
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by uniqueuid 7mo ago
yes especially because homebrew will also setup deno for you, which is required for youtube itself.
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by uniqueuid 7mo ago
It's interesting how the sentiment around Apple has turned, for the first time in what feels like 20 years. The true reason is, as the recent norwegian report quipped: We love our tech, but it betrays us - that's an abusive relati
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by uniqueuid 7mo ago
Publishers have the final say in appointing editors in chief (EIC) and editors. So they bear the ultimate responsibility for holding editors accountable. A lot of people are to blame here, but Elsevier is definitely among them.
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by uniqueuid 8mo ago
The dataset contains ~80% of food sold and inclusion in it is very probably skewed towards large volume. So the lower bound is something like 56% (if the 20% rest are not ultraprocessed)
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by uniqueuid 8mo ago
Here it actually means 70%, but the paper is in a paper from mdpi which have been under criticism for predatory (i.e. fraudulent, junk-science enabling) practices. From TFA: "We report results of a cross-sectional assessment of the 201
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by uniqueuid 8mo ago
While your assessment may be true in many contexts, this is not one of them. American hyper polarization does not permeate other countries in the same degree and German academia is actually full of sober, level-headed, nuanced people.
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by uniqueuid 8mo ago
Nitpick: The Kiel Institute is not a think tank in the sense that people would understand the word. It is a federally funded research organization (part of the family of Leibniz institutes) similar to a university but without teaching. Here
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by uniqueuid 8mo ago
That's pretty easy. If you have a randomized controlled trial, the sugar dose is varied and other confounding variables are controlled by randomization. So you measure the causal impact of sugar only. There are studies showing that. Wi
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by uniqueuid 8mo ago
It's really good to ask these questions. I'm not a medial researcher, but my impression is that many fields find it difficult to produce the robust high-level risk comparisons that you ask about. I.e. if you're looking at blo
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by uniqueuid 9mo ago
Point taken, but I'd prefer 200 lines of rocket science that I understand and control over 60k lines of (cleanly written and documented) rocket science. (Although admittedly both plain typst and this project are still way less complex
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by uniqueuid 9mo ago
I get the motivation, but it honestly feels a bit weird to use tens of thousands of lines of python code to do something that you can just directly do in typst. I mean, a CV is not really rocket science and there are quite a few great typst
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by uniqueuid 9mo ago
Thank you for that work. I hope it's asymmetric meaning one hour of your work wastes thousands of hours for bad actors.

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