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However, the paper does offer a compelling causal mechanism. Also, it appears they performed follow-up pilot studies on the effects of erythritol consumption—as opposed to its simp…

Some of my immediate colleagues are hostile to this! Agree with the substance of your point: often the importance of classes varies with the structure of the program (e.g., quals).…

I need to fix that. Apologies. Somebody already caught it an earlier round of feedback, and I just haven't gotten to it yet with the pandemic. But will soon.

This is my syllabus. :-) I tell all my prospective students to talk to my former students.

That's You Need A Budget, which I love paying for.

Page and Brin were both initially funded by the National Science Foundation to do the algorithmic work that led to Google [1]. Page was supported by an NSF grant from the 1994 Digi…

One of the authors here. That's correct. The spillover to other sites is not studied. Based on an (admittedly imperfectly) related paper with Stevie Chancellor & Munmun De Choudhur…

Tanushree Mitra wrote a computational paper on this in 2016 [1], finding something similar: "Using four years of longitudinal data capturing vaccine discussions on Twitter, we iden…

I agree with most of this. However, I might take issue with the motivation you ascribe to professors: "only car[ing] about increasing the number of academics who studied in their l…

Here is the original SIGGRAPH paper and demo video: http://grail.cs.washington.edu/projects/AudioToObama/siggrap... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Yq67CjDqvw

Perhaps. Although you could apply something like matching techniques [1] to find startups comparable to the big successes. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matching_(statistics)

I loved Founders at Work. However, it suffers from (somewhat severe) survivorship bias [1]. The next time around, it would be great to hear from more companies/founders that were "…

It's really quite sad that someone with this much skill is spending this much time on a project like this.

Yes. This is often, perhaps willfully given the incentives, overlooked by computer scientists (and people trained in that discipline). For a complete, cogent argument see: http://s…

One example is this recent paper on learning (somewhat) high-level attributes of text from character streams alone (i.e., without telling the convolutional networks that things lik…

Much better.

Yesterday, a startup incubator wants to be a research lab. Today, a government research lab wants to be a startup incubator. I'm confused.

This looks great, as I would expect. However, a major hurdle at US universities is FERPA [1]. FERPA (but really the fear of litigation under FERPA) is one reason why universities h…

Hey look, it's my paper. :-) Dunno why this caught back on now. Paper is from 2012.

I just read the Methods section of that article. It does not use a RCT design; it's an observational study based on questionnaire data. All standard confound caveats apply (with th…

Twitter lets your bot post thousands of times a day without then banning the account? Via the API?