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alexschiller

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About alexschiller

SDE at Amazon PhD in Cog Psych from UVa

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    Comment #24326307

    - Why did you get into the field? What did you focus on at first? I liked playing with data in R and saw there was potential to do cool things if I learned more code during my PhD …

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    Comment #17182112

    The American Psychological Association tried and they quickly backtracked after blowback: https://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/49670...

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    Comment #14887413

    There have been some efforts. For example, there was a betting market on the psychology reproducibility project, see http://www.pnas.org/content/112/50/15343.full

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    Comment #11999323

    To me, the value in learning just a little bit of coding is in recognizing when something should be done programmatically and when something should be done by hand. Even a little b…

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    Comment #11919583

    https://github.com/alexschiller/file-format-commons Here was my stab at that problem. Somewhere near 70 files, many are variants on text files/code files iirc but a lot of data cen…