typomatic · HackerTrans

vor 4 Jahrendiscuss

So Facebook's point here is that their legal team is so utterly clownshoes that when receiving a warrant about burning a stillbirth they couldn't clue in that it might be about abortion. Their press release is designed to convince us that a local NE PD completely snowed this international corporate powerhouse.

typomatic

vor 5 Jahrendiscuss

> What I take away from this all is that for every article about academic misconduct and p hacking there are 100 more where the peer review process (both before and during submission to a journal) caught the issues in time.

p-hacking isn't a mathematical error. It cannot be "caught" because it is not presented to referees--you slightly modify your hypotheses after you experiment based on results, or you throw out "outliers" that blow up your theory. These are things that don't even show up in a paper, they happen during the compilation of the paper.

How you could conclude that p-hacking is rare based on a completely unrelated experience is beyond me.

typomatic

vor 5 Jahrendiscuss

Clearly not--when there is systemic rulebreaking, the point is that it's impossible to enforce the rules in a way that is "enough".

typomatic

vor 6 Jahrendiscuss

I have used Python on OSX for years and it is and always will be a horrorshow. Using the system Python installation is a nonstarter for many reasons, chief among them is that I don't have any interest in using py2. So then you're using pyenv or homebrew, but your vim install still thinks that it should be using the system python. And whoops, you fixed that and now virtualenv is not finding your interpreter. And etc., etc.

OSX and its tooling are just ridiculous. I have no idea to this day how macs became the premier development environment.

As always xkcd has a comic for it: https://xkcd.com/1987/

typomatic

vor 6 Jahrendiscuss

My parents asked me for some money the other day, but I told them to pound sand--if they wanted my help they should have made me sign something before they gave me all that free room and board. Suckers!

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