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It changes electrolyte balance from what I’ve experienced, so that’s another likely way. Try being dehydrated and depressed. You can’t! The will to live kicks in and overrides depression. Like the guy who jumped off Golden Gate Bridge who on hitting the water was filled with sudden will to live. Near death is a good cure for a lot of things. That’s why keto works.

According to the Guardian.

All they have to do is measure time in bed, which for most people most of the time will correlate closely with total sleep. Insomniacs are outliers so you don’t need to worry about measuring them and most are taught to just get up when they awaken anyway.

Seems to be truncated.

You’ve almost nailed it!

“It survived because it was something that only academics cared about”

The critical change has been in the number of academics, not in their level of care. It was always a small exclusive group. It can only work if it’s a small exclusive group. We can’t make everyone an academic and expect quality output anymore than we can make everyone a coder and expect great software. Academia (higher ed) simply cannot scale and still be what it’s been. Great wine must be produced in small batches, perhaps the elite should be too.

I trust a lot of what he says, but not everything. He has an interest in the machines and his own career, not just in the coffee. Trust but verify.

Hippies like many modern leftists are really puritans. They don’t know themselves as such, but this Puritanism you see in such “movements” is quintessentially American.

Not if you’re dosing elephants.

“The United States calculated that Russian threats to go to war over Ukrainian neutrality were bluff”

I want to push back in that. The war in eukraine is (was?) arguably the desired end result of many years of effort by a number of Ukraine/russia hawks like Nuland. I don’t think she was surprised at all by Russia’s actions. It was on everyone’s bingo card. It had been predicted (described?) by prominent experts like John mearshiemer. It was very much a known risk, and a likely risk as anyone can go and assess from historical records.

So no, the United States (whomever you mean by that) certainly did not calculate that Putin would be unprovokeable. Russia’s red line was clear, we chose to cross it knowing the result ahead of time.

“For starters, VC-powered defense organizations are making their allegiance with Israel”

Oh, I see.

Wait Baysians are neoliberals now? I thought Baysians were infamously right wing?

“Someone just shows you a univariate histogram and wants you to believe that it’s true. But you shouldn’t believe anything.”

It’s interesting that this is basically the same message he was attacking. He and Gelman and most other bright people agree, don’t trust most published research. Of course this is especially true for meta-research as the author seems to suggest.

The 17% who don’t use outlook email all their data to the 83% who do use outlook on a daily basis. MSFT has it all.

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1 and 2 are features. Re 1, if someone doesn’t know what the output should look like they shouldn’t be reusing the code. Re 2, just think a bit more about it and you’ll realize fretting over ram that isn’t needed until it’s needed is actually just premature optimization.

Or the way people blame bars for stuff when it’s the drunken fools who go to bars and drink too much that are the actual problem.

Wish we knew the locations and device types of new users.

I agree. The goal of these efforts seems to be to make r less idiomatic, more “tidy”.

They do this by introducing new idioms. Granted they are idioms that if every r user would adopt 100% and all older code were rewritten 100% would in fact make the language more tidy. But that will never happen. So it ultimately is counterproductive imo. If I want to write concise shell style pipelines for data analysis I could use awk. If I wanted readability I could use python. Don’t try to cram all of those things into Posit/r.

By programming problems do you mean leetcode? Algorithm questions? Should they know sql, or assembly, or maybe JavaScript? Saying they should “test programming” is not saying anything at all. The people who wanted to ask brain teasers wanted them exactly because they thought they were a good measure of programming ability. That someone may think leetcode is what counts as programming questions is just a statement of their opinion about what programming is.

I disagree. I think the best generic argument against the FDA is that government isn’t very capable of doing the many things we want it to. I would love perfect security when it comes to foods, drugs and supplements but even with regulations a lot of bad stuff slips through. Imo, that’s a better argument than that the fda keeps us from having nice things. The fda fails to protect us because perfect security isn’t possible, and past a certain point it’s all diminishing returns if not actually counterproductive (consider the effects of prohibition).

Moreover, the hope is that GEs would mean more well rounded students, liberal thinkers. There is little proof of that outcome being achieved. I wouldn’t want to scrap them though, out of fear of what less well rounded graduates might act like.

It’s trivial. Define it operationally as a collection of conditions (autism + adhd + depression) and plot the trend. Ask an LLM if you can’t do it yourself. You’ll find the definition you choose matters a lot but autism has increased and it’s worth researching that if you never have before!

“If you want to judge programming ability, assess programming ability.”

Well there is a problem with that but I will leave it to others to work out what the problem is. (Hint: How do you measure programming ability without, you know some sort of measurement. :)

“I had depended on the idea that scientific research is a sacred trust, not only to the other individuals in one’s group, but also to the research enterprise as a whole.”

The concern of the author is ultimately one of status, preeminence. Of course people motivated by prestige will not always be trustworthy. Her sin isn’t being too trusting, it’s a lack of self awareness.

More lead. https://www.consumerreports.org/health/food-safety/lead-and-...

I’m not sure. I do know that until some of Biden’s changes, identifying tax evasion in the lower classes was hardly possible. The only evasion cases worth identifying were those that could pay enough to help fund the expensive prosecution of such crimes. Now, with greater government power over bank accounts (the 600 dollar rule), we should have better ability to measure tax evasion in the lower classes even though we won’t prosecute it yet.

I didn’t connect the dots, sorry. Say a government agency needs to be better, like DoT for instance. How will you make DoT better? Every president puts a new leader in, buttgieg has some authority, but most DoT staff have been there forever. He can bring in some of his own people, maybe “manage out” (bully till they resign) those who don’t adopt his agenda or conflict with the people he brought in. But for the most part, DoT is going to keep doing what it does, same managers managing the people, doing the same work, protected from firing by American labor laws, and so how do you “make it better” without firing a lot of people, or moving them around, all at once?

But white collar workers are less likely to be living in life or death levels of poverty. Dire circumstances and lack of alternatives incentivize criminal behavior, while accumulated wealth and social factors strongly disincentivize white collar crime. You’re correct, the payout for white collar crime is potentially unlimited but most white collar crime isn’t Sam bankman Fried it’s low level (often teenage) crypto trading.

>” And yet, in places like NYC, the complaint from many activists is the opposite - that poor people get arrested more because it’s the poorer areas with more policing.”

Couldn’t both things be true? Could different cities and police departments have differing contexts, differing problems?

Well wait. Why do allow room for the concept of “incentives” when it comes to police but not when it comes to criminals? Incentive for crime is surely not “evenly sprinkled” across income levels?