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Social status is a big part of what makes a person attractive especially if you're a man.

Statistical inference is based on random sampling. The data has to be random, otherwise it doesn't work. I wrote another comment here clarifying my point, if you're interested: htt…

Imagine we want to know the ratio of men to women in a particular population. We could count all men and women one by one, but it would take too long, so instead we take a random s…

> Bayesian inference assumes the observed data are fixed and aims to quantify the evidentiary support for all possible levels of treatment effectiveness based on the data at hand. …

> In Bayesian statistics, on the other hand, the parameter is not a point but a distribution. To be more precise, in Bayesian statistics a parameter is random variable. But what do…

Retained earnings are not taxed per se. A company pays taxes on profits. Whether the profits are distributed to shareholders or retained makes no difference whatsoever as far as ta…

How does exactly "breaking windows" improve the lives of people?

I can't imagine a situation in which I'd want to explain what I want to do on the command line to an LLM, instead of typing the commands myself.

I wish the scroll bar was a little less invisible.

As expected. This is why we don't use nominal dollars for measuring changes in prices over long time periods. It's meaningless.

I think it's just a meaningless sentence.

If I deposit dollars in a savings account I will get paid interest, but that is different from the dollar itself being an interest-bearing asset. I think the same thing applies to …

Considering that stablecoins don't pay interest to the holder, I don't know why anyone would be incentivised to move their funds into stablecoins.

Why would a stablecoin granting yield keep the banking system from working?

The whole point of working out is to stress the organism in order to induce a physiological adaptation. Inflammation is NOT the point, but rather an unfortunate side effect.

By definition the average answer will be average, that's kind of a tautology. The point is that figuring things out is an essential intellectual skill. Figuring things out will mak…

When I have a question, I don't usually "ask" that question and expect an answer. I figure out the answer. I certainly don't ask the question to a random human.

I think the R standard library is quite excellent. It pretty much follows the Unix philosophy of "doing one thing right". The only exception being `reshape` which tries to do too m…

I didn't rewrite the whole thing. But here's the first part. It uses the `histogram` function from the lattice package. population_data

A "pipe" is simply a composition of functions. Tidyverse adds a different syntax for doing function composition, using the pipe operator, which I don't particularly like. My genera…

I disagree. In this example tidyverse looks convoluted compared to just using an array and apply. ggplot2 is okay but we already had lattice. Lattice does everything ggplot2 does a…

Looking at the R code in this article, I'm having a hard time understanding the appeal of tidyverse.

Seems like a lot of work, though.

I think the issue is that it was advertised as having PhD-level intelligence, while in fact it can't count the letters in a word.

The fact that it can't count.