palae
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Comment · 3 years ago
R also has data.table, which extends data.frame and is pretty powerful and very fast
Comment · 4 years ago
What about the "essential meaning"? It's non-circular and (to me) fitting.
Comment · 4 years ago
> The thing that makes a crisis into a crisis is that it's highly discrete in time and there is a temporally very limited window of opportunity to take action.
That is your definition, but not necessarily the one meant by others. From Merriam-Webster (https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/crisis):
"Essential Meaning of crisis : a difficult or dangerous situation that needs serious attention"
[...] Definition 3b: "a situation that has reached a critical phase // the environmental crisis"
Comment · 4 years ago
Well, I guess it depends what you value. Some of these French hours went to a 2nd language, and personally I think it's a good tradeoff.
Comment · 4 years ago
> One fault is the drop in teaching hours : https://www.reseau-canope.fr/musee/collections/cache/a65f40c... this is a schedule from 1952.
Is that really more than today? It doesn't seem like it.
Comment · 5 years ago
Fair enough, my question was hinting at the fact that most people don't seem to be morally consistent between turkeys and (for example) dogs.
As for the breakdown in logic, you said this in your first comment:
'Your appeal to emotion using (incorrect) words like "genocide" and "needless slaughter" suggest a strong ideology and lack of objectivity [...]'.
Unless I'm reading that wrongly, you're saying that "needless slaughter" is 'incorrect', and I'm curious to know why that is, as to me this is a completely correct statement.
Comment · 5 years ago
Well, precisely, to me there's no ethical difference between a turkey and a dog (and a cow), that was my point.
Comment · 5 years ago
Let's suppose that in a country far, far away, there is a holiday called Givingthanks where instead of turkeys, dogs are eaten. Your alter ego in that country could then write the exact same comment than you did, replacing 'turkey' with 'dog'. We would read things like: 'It could be argued that our abstinence of industrial dog consumption is the ethical way to justify the one I eat on Givingthanks' or 'Givingthanks dogs are raised _to be food_ from the beginning'. You don't see anything problematic with that?
Comment · 5 years ago
It's probably a good idea to remind (or inform) people that at least in scientific research, null hypothesis statistical testing and "statistical significance" in particular have come under fire [1,2]. From the American Statistical Association (ASA) in 2019 [2]:
"We conclude, based on our review of the articles in this special issue and the broader literature, that it is time to stop using the term “statistically significant” entirely. Nor should variants such as “significantly different,” “p < 0.05,” and “nonsignificant” survive, whether expressed in words, by asterisks in a table, or in some other way.
Regardless of whether it was ever useful, a declaration of “statistical significance” has today become meaningless."
[1] The ASA Statement on p-Values: Context, Process, and Purpose - https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00031305.2016.1...
[2] Moving to a World Beyond “p < 0.05” - https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00031305.2019.1...
Comment · 5 years ago
Pas de problème ;) Now I'm thinking about it, finding a name that is easily pronounced in many languages is probably a fun but not that trivial task.
Comment · 5 years ago
As a native French speaker, I would say Comirnaty is actually easier to pronounce than Spikevax, and I suspect it might be similar in other Romance languages.