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by zmjones 12y ago
there are just other tools that will get abused. bayes factors for example
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by zmjones 12y ago
how can an R package be "black boxy"? just look at the source. all the rf packages I am aware of (randomForest, party, and randomForestSRC) are well documented.
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Diversity at wake forest(admissions.wfu.edu)
1 points by zmjones 12y ago|0 comments
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by zmjones 12y ago
one of the coolest political science articles i've read. they have written several other papers on the topic. there most famous article on the topic is: http://gking.harvard.edu/files/gking/files/censored
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by zmjones 12y ago
Meta-analysis is usually suspect.
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by zmjones 13y ago
Mearsheimer is an embarrassment to social science.
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by zmjones 13y ago
This is exactly why I prefer R for static maps. Would have taken like a quarter of the time, if that.
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by zmjones 13y ago
Here is mine: http://www.zmjones.com/mac-setup.html
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by zmjones 13y ago
this needs mathjax
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The price of marijuana legalization(zmjones.com)
1 points by zmjones 13y ago|0 comments
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by zmjones 13y ago
I don't work at the office most of the time. I know thinkpads have good battery life generally, but I know there have been some battery life issues with linux in the past.
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by zmjones 13y ago
How is the battery life?
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by zmjones 13y ago
The nav bar and the commits page are too big I think. There ends up being a lot of space wasted. The commits page especially so. 5 commits should easily fit on a page. There are also two date information fields. One listing how many days ag
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by zmjones 13y ago
I would really like access to this too. I have been using sharelatex and the git support is still not there. My email is zmj@zmjones.com
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by zmjones 13y ago
I am hopeful that this works, as my collaborators can definitely not be bothered to learn git. The UI elements are way too big IMO.
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by zmjones 13y ago
You can't do much public good if you don't get re-elected. Since public opinion suggests people want more services and less taxes, something is going to have to give.
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by zmjones 13y ago
The funniest part was where he said politicians were not self-interested.
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by zmjones 14y ago
do want.
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by zmjones 14y ago
This is hardly unique to NYU. This is not uncommon in undergraduate courses on terrorism.
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by zmjones 14y ago
Definitely agree. Do check out Stan though. HMC is pretty fast compared to BUGS/JAGS.
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by zmjones 14y ago
You know github gives free private repositories to students right?
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by zmjones 14y ago
Why pie charts dude?
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by zmjones 14y ago
No the "strongest" don't necessarily survive. Evolution is only about individual survival insofar is a longer lifespan may result in more reproduction. The best adapted species in an particular environmental niche will outlast competitors.
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by zmjones 14y ago
And this is why we don't do statistical programming in Ruby.
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by zmjones 14y ago
Then maybe they should, I don't know, update their apps?
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by zmjones 14y ago
Yea I ended up re-writing my commit history to fix this.
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by zmjones 14y ago
I found a link to the 10.8 tools somewhere on SO. It was that or build everything from source...
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by zmjones 14y ago
their way of dealing with command line tools is rather annoying in this release
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by zmjones 14y ago
this seems way better than anything available on OSX at the moment.
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by zmjones 14y ago
Almost all of the empirical work done by political scientists and economists is on aggregate human behavior. Yes, the predictive power of the social sciences is often very weak, but social systems are incredibly complex, and in many ways va

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