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I'm just upvoting every variation of "Stancil.ai" here in the comments
November 21, 2025 at 7:10 PM
I'm just upvoting every variation of "Stancil.ai" here in the comments
I see I didn't miss anything important and will now close the app again
November 21, 2025 at 1:27 AM
I see I didn't miss anything important and will now close the app again
I call him Bob Winters - he's wrong about everything else, why would I assume he got his name right?
November 16, 2025 at 2:23 AM
I call him Bob Winters - he's wrong about everything else, why would I assume he got his name right?
Charging at an enemy and then coming to halt right in front of them while maintaining your formation sounds incredibly difficult to do reliably and I don't think you could use that as a primary go-to tactic
I'm sure people have done it but I don't buy that you could do warfare that way consistently
I'm sure people have done it but I don't buy that you could do warfare that way consistently
November 15, 2025 at 5:20 AM
Charging at an enemy and then coming to halt right in front of them while maintaining your formation sounds incredibly difficult to do reliably and I don't think you could use that as a primary go-to tactic
I'm sure people have done it but I don't buy that you could do warfare that way consistently
I'm sure people have done it but I don't buy that you could do warfare that way consistently
Sometimes you ♥️ a post because you're glad they posted it or you agree with the sentiment, but every once in awhile it's because the content just makes you happy
November 15, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Sometimes you ♥️ a post because you're glad they posted it or you agree with the sentiment, but every once in awhile it's because the content just makes you happy
Wait, is that not praxis? I've been confidently informed that this is praxis
November 14, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Wait, is that not praxis? I've been confidently informed that this is praxis
I think I'm a lot of cases this is a coping mechanism built around finding the upsides of a bad thing you were forced into, but you gotta relegate that to Grandpa talking about walking barefoot in the snow uphill both ways
November 14, 2025 at 6:54 PM
I think I'm a lot of cases this is a coping mechanism built around finding the upsides of a bad thing you were forced into, but you gotta relegate that to Grandpa talking about walking barefoot in the snow uphill both ways
Lots of cultures have their own version of "my suffering was good and built character so you should have to do it too" and while they're gonna say it you can't let these people make decisions based on that
November 14, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Lots of cultures have their own version of "my suffering was good and built character so you should have to do it too" and while they're gonna say it you can't let these people make decisions based on that
Back in the Panama Papers reveal some people pretended to be shocked that Ringo Starr did this, as though it was unclear why a former member of the Beatles might not want fans to know his street address
November 14, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Back in the Panama Papers reveal some people pretended to be shocked that Ringo Starr did this, as though it was unclear why a former member of the Beatles might not want fans to know his street address
"My science is different" was just *chef's kiss*
November 14, 2025 at 6:17 PM
"My science is different" was just *chef's kiss*
idk, I lean towards the "other journalists have previously or would like to in the future do the same" theory but I'm open to alternative explanations
November 14, 2025 at 5:58 PM
idk, I lean towards the "other journalists have previously or would like to in the future do the same" theory but I'm open to alternative explanations
Noteworthy that "Olivia Nuzzi has or intends to have relations with a subject" is now a genre of article
November 14, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Noteworthy that "Olivia Nuzzi has or intends to have relations with a subject" is now a genre of article
Offhand that sounds fine, you can even feed that into a logistic regression as long as they're proportions; I think people call them proportional odds logit regressions and R will do readily, but it's been a minute since I looked at it
November 14, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Offhand that sounds fine, you can even feed that into a logistic regression as long as they're proportions; I think people call them proportional odds logit regressions and R will do readily, but it's been a minute since I looked at it
One of the really weird things about education research and similar is that, unlike other fields that are closely related to how well I'm doing my job (eg, statistics, computer science), education doesn't seem to help me - a professor - understand one of the primary functions of my job
November 12, 2025 at 1:49 PM
One of the really weird things about education research and similar is that, unlike other fields that are closely related to how well I'm doing my job (eg, statistics, computer science), education doesn't seem to help me - a professor - understand one of the primary functions of my job
You're right; I am not doing a bit when I say that I've never seen a regression plot with real data that was so flat, my mind rebelled and I assumed he must have done some kind of scaling or regularization to make it so but no, there is just legit no relationship
October 28, 2025 at 9:29 AM
You're right; I am not doing a bit when I say that I've never seen a regression plot with real data that was so flat, my mind rebelled and I assumed he must have done some kind of scaling or regularization to make it so but no, there is just legit no relationship
I don't know what Simon did to get that graph but it was not just correlation, it was something much dumber
October 28, 2025 at 1:31 AM
I don't know what Simon did to get that graph but it was not just correlation, it was something much dumber
This graph is just wild. If it was a kernel regression it wouldn't be flat on the left side either. If it was correlation, linear regression, or anything similar it wouldn't bend on the right. How many different models did they try out before they got the answer they wanted to hear?
October 28, 2025 at 1:29 AM
This graph is just wild. If it was a kernel regression it wouldn't be flat on the left side either. If it was correlation, linear regression, or anything similar it wouldn't bend on the right. How many different models did they try out before they got the answer they wanted to hear?
This sounds like a microcosm of 90%+ of all online arguments tbh
October 27, 2025 at 11:45 PM
This sounds like a microcosm of 90%+ of all online arguments tbh
This is heresy, Saoko may well be the greatest achievement in human history
October 27, 2025 at 11:41 PM
This is heresy, Saoko may well be the greatest achievement in human history
As you should. I assume you'll be telling the chair of their physics department "give me your son (Avi)" and "yeah, I'm thinking I'm back"
October 27, 2025 at 9:10 PM
As you should. I assume you'll be telling the chair of their physics department "give me your son (Avi)" and "yeah, I'm thinking I'm back"
Yeah, as much as they might like to, physicists can't stop that guy at Harvard from promoting his stuff as proof of aliens just to get popular attention
October 27, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Yeah, as much as they might like to, physicists can't stop that guy at Harvard from promoting his stuff as proof of aliens just to get popular attention
Fair
I'm being lazy while my students take an exam
I'm being lazy while my students take an exam
October 27, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Fair
I'm being lazy while my students take an exam
I'm being lazy while my students take an exam