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Among my secret research ideas, this is the most dangerous and morally wrong one. If future generations of researchers will wonder why IRB reviews became mandatory for computer sci…

It's also about variance in the number. Expert software engineers will still accidentally burn $500 or $5000 on tasks that don't work, or are not efficient. Amateurs will accidenta…

I can relate to the attitude, but I also suspect it's a lot easier to live like this in one of the two richest countries in the world with the least stressful labor markets (going …

Whoops, misread the digit! Thanks for catching. But the numbers are still the same (it's about rates not counts), just that we can expect the 40% figure to be more accurate than wi…

To put this into perspective, young children have an average amount of 16 colds per year (there's even a cool repo for incidence data, I suspect you could get more precise [1]). Wi…

I assume you mean there might be a self-selection issue with people who are voluntarily ("privately") insured, as compared to those who have the normal state-mandated ("gesetzlich"…

To be fair, the median is just as little information as the mean. We live in a world where ink is cheap, they should just show a histogram.

That's exactly right. This article [1] mentions 40% of sick days being from people with long-term (> 6 weeks) illnesses. That's data from one of Germany's large insurers. While I d…

Which is exactly (part of) why people call ZFS a "rampant layering violation"!

It's very simple, this is about the threat model. If you are worried about big players profiling you (hard to avoid, high likelihood of happening, low likelihood of damage), then y…

I have nothing but great things to say about typst, and this is my personal favorite from this release: "A single document can now contain multiple bibliographies"

That was nicely put. I think you can learn about it most by reading clever, capable people from big tech corporations. Their framing often involves tradeoffs against a slow but ine…

The causal loop you mentioned makes social science hard, but I’d argue that falsification and hypothesis-driven research can still work. Otherwise all the behavioral targeting Meta…

The link is only to the marketing fluff piece, the paper is here and has three authors [1] [1] https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/developmental-psycholog...

Thanks, that's a great point. I know a huge amount of the literature exactly in this area, and I'm honestly still pretty skeptical of the theoretical idea of the diversity principl…

I mean, that's a very intuitive question if you're not used to the system, and a bit surprising if you are. The historic precedent is that Germany's first Chancellor wanted to esta…

Before this blows up: - The world has very diverse ideas about how media regulation works. Germany has a strong public service broadcast tradition that is constitutionally anchored…

The problem space that ducklake solves is smaller, but it helped me to get a working metabase dashboard quickly on ~1tb of data with 128gb ram. Queries were much, much faster than …

yes especially because homebrew will also setup deno for you, which is required for youtube itself.

It's interesting how the sentiment around Apple has turned, for the first time in what feels like 20 years. The true reason is, as the recent norwegian report quipped: We love our …

Publishers have the final say in appointing editors in chief (EIC) and editors. So they bear the ultimate responsibility for holding editors accountable. A lot of people are to bla…

The dataset contains ~80% of food sold and inclusion in it is very probably skewed towards large volume. So the lower bound is something like 56% (if the 20% rest are not ultraproc…

Here it actually means 70%, but the paper is in a paper from mdpi which have been under criticism for predatory (i.e. fraudulent, junk-science enabling) practices. From TFA: "We re…

While your assessment may be true in many contexts, this is not one of them. American hyper polarization does not permeate other countries in the same degree and German academia is…