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While this might be highly burdensome for developers, I much prefer the world where Google reviews even single-line changes to extensions.

Anything that sick people do less is inversely associated with mortality. The "controlling for blah blah blah" stuff can't be believed---are the researchers succeeding at controlli…

What is this describing? First-party apps with Facebook integration and/or OS features connecting to Facebook? The leakage of Facebook information onto MS/Apple/Blackberry servers …

Note also that any distributional assumptions are really only necessary for inference (i.e., tests and confidence intervals) in finite samples (read: small samples); the central li…

It's actually not even required for that! See http://davegiles.blogspot.com/2011/08/being-normal-is-option... which cites King (1980): > If the error vector in our regression model…

"Pure acid" isn't quite right; it's an aqueous solution with a pH of zero. Zero isn't a special value. You can have negative pH (cf. http://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/ed083p1465 …

I wish someone would invent a device that would allow me to roll my eyes even harder at these X is the next Silicon Valley stories. "The Midwest and Ohio in particular has always h…

That's not horrifying, that's awesome. But the clickbait title got me to look at it, so I shouldn't criticize.

This is cool as heck, thanks.

Here we go, they contradict themselves later: "Computational general equilibrium (CGE) models provide an example of accepted computerized problem solving in economics."

"Analytical solutions are considered necessary for a model to be accepted as a genuine theoretical contribution." That's hardly true, the usual macro model is solved numerically us…

Have you seen GPU Ocelot? ( http://code.google.com/p/gpuocelot/ ).

This is a silly example of ex post evaluation of an ex post model. You need to have a holdout sample. It's made more silly by the fact that they use the universe of Waldo books, so…

Why do you prioritize giving work to Americans over those in developing nations?