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Lots of condescension here, but supposing that overnight returns are in fact on average substantially greater than intraday returns, what is the layman-friendly, non-conspiracy-the…

Well, I do aging research (mostly from a computational+biochemical perspective). I've met most/all of the important players in the field, and it baffles me how this important area …

The problem is that if you communicate to the public at the level of normal scientific certainty -- with all the methodological and statistical caveats -- it's very hard to generat…

> "...Scientists go looking for trouble." It is several repeated and very costly attempts that I made to do just that which leads me to give the advice I did. The pyramid quote is …

It's a good question, and I don't like posting excessively long comments and didn't have time to make it concise, so here's an attempt at an answer: https://pastebin.com/fsrTtiKY I…

Very early on, I noticed that graduate students tend to be idealistic, postdocs extremely cynical, and faculty ruthlessly pragmatic perhaps to the point of occasional shortsightedn…

My big eye-openers (some from postdoc) were more about the sociology of science than the day-to-day productivity: - Even the most blatantly wrong and illogical published work can o…

Thanks to you, and others, for sharing. I hadn't yet resorted to looking in the consumer space. In research (and presumably clinical)-land, the costs are substantially higher. I'll…

I work in an adjacent area and agree this is all good advice. OP, how did you even get the sequence to begin with? I have a friend who has an immunodeficiency which is almost certa…

So, we have a climate crisis, uncontrolled health care and college costs, decades of pointless war, mass incarceration, and a variety of other crises that cause a lot of death and …

One of our graduate students is thrilled about this paper, although he tends to do that with any new CS advance that seems sensational and that we barely understand (we do bioinfor…

My gut reaction if I were Jeremy would be to say that "This is absolutely absurd; there is no way that claiming 'X's opinion is wrong' is in itself a CoC violation, and if it someh…

Yes, I think you're right. He refers to " the two reporters" (and previously mentions that there were two complaints).

EDIT: My reading was wrong, see below. The thing that seemed to me oddest about all this is that Jeremy says the committee spoke to two reporters before hearing his side of the sto…

It was a very effective response from Jeremy. He clearly describes his side of the story and convincingly explains why he thought he did nothing wrong. What is a little more troubl…

> The issue, amazingly, is Fox News and it’s ilk. Yet, the conversation here is the NYT. That is because practically everyone on HN agrees Fox is bad, biased, etc. Therefore the de…

It's still used quite heavily in research also (medical is what I'm familiar with). NCBI puts a lot of critical data on FTP, as do individual researchers. In the case of NCBI, the …

Interesting because in the original post, he declares his resolve to quit HN and declares that he's not visited it in one whole month . "Yeah, right", I thought, and indeed in the …

Seconded. I work as a data analyst in medical research (bioinformatics postdoc). I am often introduced as a statistician, even though I'm not, because I can do a bit more than a t-…

Even middle schoolers are taught that there are "reliable sources" and "unreliable sources". Wikipedia (pretty good usually) is not considered a reliable source, let alone Twitter …