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aqsalose

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About aqsalose

Biostatistician. PhD dropout. Curious about various mathematical and other things.

https://aqsalose.fi

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    Many of the issues sound like issues coming from using improvised civilian hobbyist tech and doctrine being in its infancy. If current FPV drones are bit lackluster, it doesn't pre…

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    Comment #42929916

    I think Third Republic France is a more apt comparison. Political fights about religion and content of education, check. Diverging media landscape aligned with party political iden…

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    Comment #42920052

    Sounds sensible, bu the major unasked question it avoids is, was the current funding and organization structure of science in place when the past scientific achievements were achie…

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    Comment #41567397

    Yeah, the title is a bit hyperbolic. I have not used selection methods that much, but not too surprising they would have similar results to LASSO as selection or predictive method …

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    Comment #41141066

    From abstract (article is paywalled) >Although modest bivariate associations were detected with educational attainment (r = .17) and body mass index (r = −.17), almost all regressi…

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    Comment #38655551

    >Well. You have to exist, which means you compete, which might mean you grow. Why growth ? At some point you would eventually hit perfect saturation anyway, the steady state where …

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    Comment #36853398

    "it honestly comes from a place of ignorance, and I say that as basically a layman myself" Here is an added complication: succinct technical communication can be efficient when com…

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    Comment #36635448

    However, I wouldn't then use version control software like Git for versioning analysis objects, as it is designed for text file source control and diffs. (How one does a diff of a …

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    Comment #35706682

    In my experience, the trick is to move them without disassembly or with minimal disassembly (removing only moving parts like shelves that are planned to be removed) like any other …

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    Comment #34454727

    > I guess it's referencing the fact that education today is largely about having textbooks shoved in front of you until you're able to recite enough of it. I would argue contrariwi…

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    Comment #33497415

    I suspect interacting with the real physical world and its realities and to realize one can affect it would be good, no matter what career they'd pick later. Picking a career in so…

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    Comment #33428901

    >But I'm also a musician/artist and so I find some of these conversations odd. The problem with them I see is that they are oversimplified. To get better at drawing I often copy ot…

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    Comment #33428333

    > But if I train my own neural network inside my skull using some artist's style, that's ok? How well the network inside your skull can manipulate your limbs to reproduce good-qual…

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    Comment #33288898

    Sure, extroverted students have some advantage. On the other hand, extroverted people have similar advantage in the real life. I myself am quite happy for every lesson where I was …

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    Comment #32777610

    Hereditary monarchy is only one kind of monarchy. Early on, the Swedish king was elected at the Stones of Mora. The Holy Roman Emperor was nominally elected by prince-electors (who…

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    Comment #32544935

    Coincidentally just yesterday there was a big news article in the largest daily newspaper about the problems teachers have with uncooperative parents. One memorable case was of the…

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    Comment #32481581

    To piggyback on the OPs question, I for one think the part in parenthesis is actually most important: >(Data cleaning and management should also be learned) There are many students…

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    Comment #32460119

    >he’s a villain with good PR In the context of Watchmen, he isn't the only character who fits the description.

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    Comment #32384151

    >Here's an illustrative thought experiment: imagine you have a time machine. Now pick a worker at random from some time and place in the past 5 centuries, and carry them forward by…

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    Comment #32383863

    >Britain's descent from the powerhouse of world-changing ideas to one giant housing estate and Tesco superstore is almost complete. In my limited foreigner's understanding, Britain…

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    Comment #32340573

    > Then these real world problems don’t actually warrant deep learning ? It is an important lesson to be communicated. I'd like to present a conjecture: everyone thinks their data i…

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    Comment #32288120

    There is not definite answer. Reviewing a paper is difficult, been for people who do it a lot. I think I got better at when I was a part of research group and wrote papers myself, …

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    Comment #32131560

    >I would imagine that those who actually spent some of their childhood in a war zone would have a very different perspective. Not sure if it would imply less war. Around the Napole…

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    Comment #32131177

    True, Orwell has a worldview (though it evolves over time) and it connects his thoughts if you pick up a collection of his essays and study them systematically. But one does not ne…

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    Comment #32016908

    Depends on the crime. For serious crimes I think it is quite common? Like, Finnish law claims jurisdiction over all crimes committed against or by Finnish citizens committed abroad…