kmonad
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Comment · 1 year ago
read up on what confidence intervals are.
Comment · 2 years ago
I like the idea, but I am pessimistic. The more experienced I get (aka getting older), the more I see administrative bloating as the cancer of institutions---a somewhat equally inescapable fate. Installing a safety reporting administration may do what it set out to do, initially. But at some point, promotions may be handed out to those with most reports, perhaps perverting the initial intent.
In another thread I read that the EASA and FAA used to send Airbus/EASA engineers to Boeing (and maybe vice versa) who could raise all sorts of hell if mistakes were found. Such a setup seems perhaps harder to "game". I do not know this for a fact, I recall it from reading another debate, so take it as hearsay.
Comment · 2 years ago
The abstract indicates that there was no control group without treatment, but two groups given two different mushroom combos. As such, the "baseline" clearance is not revealed by this work.
Comment · 3 years ago
can the generated tree be downloaded in some common format? I could not find any option like that.
Comment · 3 years ago
> eBay says that it is removing and blocking “more than 99.9%” of the listings cited by the DOJ.
Is this an admission?
Comment · 4 years ago
Thank you.
Comment · 4 years ago
The company announced yesterday that its CEO of five years, Kevin Johnson, is stepping down.
Comment · 4 years ago
> the lower average distance has indeed decreased
Yes, that was indeed the point I was trying to convey! In an even sillier example, assume word vectors X, then calculate "proposal by proposal" similarities (i.e. inverse distances). Then duplicated X and concatenate [X,X], recalculate "proposal by proposal" distances (now for twice as many proposals)---those distances must now be less on average because each proposal has at least one "zero distance" neighbor. HOWEVER, why would you assert that the overall "idea space" has been reduced?
Comment · 4 years ago
yes, that's what i meant by range.
Comment · 4 years ago
As others have said, the usage of similar words is no convincing evidence for homogenized ideas. I would like to add that the publication referred to in the article notes that there are many more proposals now than there were in the past.
This can naturally lead to lower average "distances" between proposals. In a simplistic example, lets assume 100 proposals existed in the "good old times" and they were different at random. Let's further assume in the "bad new days" people use those old ideas, change/improve upon them just slightly ("add noise"), but some old ideas are less often picked up than others. Say for example the least attractive old proposal is picked up twice, whereas the most attractive old idea is picked up and changed in 100 new proposals. Then, there is a lower average distance between proposals, all the while the total range of ideas has increased.
Because it's Friday and I am waiting for my oven to finish cooking my food, I wrote a small simulation. It's probably full of mistakes and I may have made terrible mistakes in my assumptions, but I thought it's fun:
Comment · 4 years ago
Indeed. Yet, this graph shows the distribution of averages. See the x-axis. I didn't want to be so blunt, but due to its shoddy presentation, I cannot trust what this page is showing.
Comment · 4 years ago
Hmm that chart is also pretty weird. What is any one salary on this chart averaged over? States? Years?
Comment · 4 years ago
They, in poor form, report the "average" without explicitly specifying if they are referring to the mean or the median. Your perception would be shared by the majority of people if it's the mean they are presenting (which is most likely the case) because of the extreme income distribution. Overall, I am not a fan of the data presentation here.