With the recent studies that point to lower metabolism and calorie restriction as possible keys to longer living, a pill like this that seems to boost metabolism or work your cells for you might end up decreasing your lifespan. That might be a reason not to take it even if it doesn't have short-term side effects!
Of course, I'm far from being an expert on this stuff, so maybe it will work magically!
Of course they don't. But those who do can make their teeny tiny savings and those who don't can do it in other ways. It still adds up, and unfortunately there's a growing list of crap we have to conserve because we're not doing much about it. The sad silver lining? More opportunities for everyone to save!:p
Yes. The more data you collect, the more likely any two things will be correlated slightly. With millions or billions of data points, you would be shocked to find a variable that does NOT correlate significantly with everything else. That's why "correlation" or "significance" alone becomes less useful and we need to a) report effect size measures to get a better sense of how important the correlation actually is and b) continue to use our heads (and not always give blind trust to the cloud) to determine which correlations are useful and which ones are fluff.
A correlation that helps place internet ads.0000002% more efficiently might matter to Google but likely doesn't further human understanding or refine our thinking in any practically appreciable way. And because EVERYTHING is correlated at that point, I suppose there are an infinite number of variables we could use to refine our model. I think the only paradigm shift here is that it would take an army of AIs to sift through and bring some meaning to all that noise, and an army of AIs would probably be doing other things with their time.;p
Huh? How would that not save gasoline? It would only save a teeny amount (the race cars themselves and the transportation of the fans and support staff), but it would save gasoline. Just as not running the super computer would save a teeny bit of energy. Multiply "teeny tiny savings" by "billions of humans" and a few of those crazy hippie ideas start to add up!
I wonder how many people went down the same path, realized they did NOT have cold fusion, and (ethically) didn't fudge results to make it look like they did? As with anything else, it's the bad seeds that drag everything down for the majority. And as with anything else, the protections (e.g. a silly oath) will only matter to the people who are already telling the truth.
Ahh, much better! Thanks! I couldn't help but notice the line "Genepax initially planned to develop a 500W system, but failed to procure the materials for MEA in time and ended up in making a 300W system." I wonder just how rare/expensive the stuff that goes into this membrane is if the company can't even procure enough for one cell!;)
Maybe it's hard for you to imagine. I went to school in the USA. Teachers here aren't allowed to teach anything that isn't on the standardized exams. There isn't time for independent thought.
Sure, so long as it's your employer's stuff. But sometimes it's your own. If you are truly concerned about something, you take it on the plane. If it's an item you can't carry on, then you have to resort to ship or check. But that doesn't mean you have to throw caution to the wind.
And sometimes it's countries you might not expect. E.g. Laptops have a tendency to find new homes as they work their way through New Zealand post.:p
I agree, but the trouble with shipping is that worker quality can vary depending on the country. That is, your box may arrive empty because it was opened along the way (especially if there are signs it contains something valuable). So if you're shipping at least make sure it's insured.
Seriously though, the facts/knowledge questions are highly bogus given this is an online test and any of those answers are easily googled (without sacrificing much time). So really, those questions don't differentiate between intelligences. They could differentiate between people who know the info, people who don't, people who don't and googled the answer, smart OR stupid people who have short attention spans and like pressing buttons, those who like throwing off results, and so on, but those are all muddled together.;)
I'm not saying the other questions do a much better job, but the factual stuff is especially grain-of-salt worthy.
I dunno... isn't one of the major selling points of Apple products a sense of style that you are supposed to show off to other people? I know that's not their only selling point, but it sure seems like a big one. They do well by portable goodies (laptops, iPhone, iPod) that you can wave in front of someone and say "shiny", but are more average on other things. I suppose you can still show off your "digital hub" to people who come over to your house, but it doesn't feel the same.
Quick, get a fanboi in here to show me the error of my ways!;)
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Everyone knows Kiwis don't bungee jump, they bungee fall (very different, of course) because gravity is opposite down there. Or something like that...;)
Yeah, sad at times but true. I'm a grad student and the reality of the lab I'm in is that I don't want an undergrad student I don't know messing up my statistical analysis -- anyone can plug the wrong numbers into SPSS or run the incorrect technique and I really don't have time to give statistics lessons.
So if you can find a good mentor, prof if you're lucky (don't automatically count it out), grad student, or even a senior undergrad, you're off to a good start. It doesn't have to be somebody you want to hang out with, but somebody who is interested in the same stuff as you and willing to work with you. Yeah, you'll probably have to start out doing some basic stuff, but eventually you'll get there. I have no problem asking our senior undergrads to do more advanced stuff and our lab environment is generally quite friendly towards people of all levels.
Though that's another topic. Politics! Be yourself, be polite (if those are mutually exclusive, you're !@#%ed), and pay close attention to the interpersonal interactions. Even if everybody's friendly towards each other, you'll want to know how the show is really run!
And yes, read phdcomics! I'm in a different field but it's all the same.:)
Sorry, I'm no economist... but if we're assuming Monty shows us a goat EVERY time we do this, doesn't that mean that we're only ever choosing from two possible choices when we pick the first door? So it's 50/50 whether we should switch or not?
You're absolutely correct, the more you compress categories the more you essentially throw away data. The flip side is the average customer whose mind would be blown if you let them rate a movie on a 1 to 1000 scale (or something equally ridiculous). Most of us would chunk that down into a more meaningful range anyway.
I'm afraid I don't have the linkage, but I seem to recall research on the Likert scale (typically a 1-5 or 1-7 scale) that actually found larger scales really didn't add much beyond 1 through 7 or 1 through 9. That said "not adding much" may still be worth a million dollars to Netflix if that "not much" is still better than what they've got (and doesn't scare people by offering too many choices).
The more data you have, the more likely your results are going to be significant. I think we already knew this.;)
Really though, it's the "design fix" vs the "statistics fix" (or the algorithm fix in this case) and a proper design always beats a crappy design with statistical band aids.
I could see where a long term healthy person might cost more than a short term obese person, but did they include the extra taxes and/or health insurance premiums a person might generate if they didn't die of a heart attack at 40?
Also keep in mind that electronics/media may be significantly more expensive in some countries due to multiple factors (incl. weak dollar). A few years ago we were bumming around the south pacific for 6 months and I remember laughing at $40 DVDs in New Zealand.
Or maybe you can save money and get a knockoff in China, it all depends on where you're going to be.
I know you're trying to cut down on weight, but an external hard drive might not be a bad investment. On our trip we did the DVD backup thing with a cheap laptop, but also had an extra hard drive with us. Yes, I was paranoid about losing thousands of photos. =) Of course, we're into photography and had a nice digital SLR with us. Your data needs might not be as high (it adds up FAST at 5-10 MB per photo) but if you are a photo nut, it might be worth worrying about. Oh, if you do have an SLR, buy a good wide angle lens if you don't have one already! I cannot stress this enough! And keep it close.;)
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With the recent studies that point to lower metabolism and calorie restriction as possible keys to longer living, a pill like this that seems to boost metabolism or work your cells for you might end up decreasing your lifespan. That might be a reason not to take it even if it doesn't have short-term side effects!
Of course, I'm far from being an expert on this stuff, so maybe it will work magically!
I would agree with you if this were offered by any other company, but from Google "BETA" is a meaningless term.
Of course they don't. But those who do can make their teeny tiny savings and those who don't can do it in other ways. It still adds up, and unfortunately there's a growing list of crap we have to conserve because we're not doing much about it. The sad silver lining? More opportunities for everyone to save! :p
Yes. The more data you collect, the more likely any two things will be correlated slightly. With millions or billions of data points, you would be shocked to find a variable that does NOT correlate significantly with everything else. That's why "correlation" or "significance" alone becomes less useful and we need to a) report effect size measures to get a better sense of how important the correlation actually is and b) continue to use our heads (and not always give blind trust to the cloud) to determine which correlations are useful and which ones are fluff.
A correlation that helps place internet ads .0000002% more efficiently might matter to Google but likely doesn't further human understanding or refine our thinking in any practically appreciable way. And because EVERYTHING is correlated at that point, I suppose there are an infinite number of variables we could use to refine our model. I think the only paradigm shift here is that it would take an army of AIs to sift through and bring some meaning to all that noise, and an army of AIs would probably be doing other things with their time. ;p
Huh? How would that not save gasoline? It would only save a teeny amount (the race cars themselves and the transportation of the fans and support staff), but it would save gasoline. Just as not running the super computer would save a teeny bit of energy. Multiply "teeny tiny savings" by "billions of humans" and a few of those crazy hippie ideas start to add up!
I wonder how many people went down the same path, realized they did NOT have cold fusion, and (ethically) didn't fudge results to make it look like they did? As with anything else, it's the bad seeds that drag everything down for the majority. And as with anything else, the protections (e.g. a silly oath) will only matter to the people who are already telling the truth.
So in short, I agree. :p
Ahh, much better! Thanks! I couldn't help but notice the line "Genepax initially planned to develop a 500W system, but failed to procure the materials for MEA in time and ended up in making a 300W system." I wonder just how rare/expensive the stuff that goes into this membrane is if the company can't even procure enough for one cell! ;)
Maybe it's hard for you to imagine. I went to school in the USA. Teachers here aren't allowed to teach anything that isn't on the standardized exams. There isn't time for independent thought.
:)
Sure, so long as it's your employer's stuff. But sometimes it's your own. If you are truly concerned about something, you take it on the plane. If it's an item you can't carry on, then you have to resort to ship or check. But that doesn't mean you have to throw caution to the wind.
:p
And sometimes it's countries you might not expect. E.g. Laptops have a tendency to find new homes as they work their way through New Zealand post.
I agree, but the trouble with shipping is that worker quality can vary depending on the country. That is, your box may arrive empty because it was opened along the way (especially if there are signs it contains something valuable). So if you're shipping at least make sure it's insured.
Answer: the person who wrote that IQ test. The phrase has more than 5 syllables. Who says these "tests" have subjective answers? :p
Dinosaurs obviously correlate highly with IQ!
;)
Seriously though, the facts/knowledge questions are highly bogus given this is an online test and any of those answers are easily googled (without sacrificing much time). So really, those questions don't differentiate between intelligences. They could differentiate between people who know the info, people who don't, people who don't and googled the answer, smart OR stupid people who have short attention spans and like pressing buttons, those who like throwing off results, and so on, but those are all muddled together.
I'm not saying the other questions do a much better job, but the factual stuff is especially grain-of-salt worthy.
I dunno... isn't one of the major selling points of Apple products a sense of style that you are supposed to show off to other people? I know that's not their only selling point, but it sure seems like a big one. They do well by portable goodies (laptops, iPhone, iPod) that you can wave in front of someone and say "shiny", but are more average on other things. I suppose you can still show off your "digital hub" to people who come over to your house, but it doesn't feel the same.
;)
Quick, get a fanboi in here to show me the error of my ways!
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True, but it's much easier to "transcribe" what's on the hard drive than to run a quick copy of your entire library.
Funny, I never thought of reading as a CCG until I read this. Gotta catch 'em all! ;)
Everyone knows Kiwis don't bungee jump, they bungee fall (very different, of course) because gravity is opposite down there. Or something like that... ;)
Yeah, sad at times but true. I'm a grad student and the reality of the lab I'm in is that I don't want an undergrad student I don't know messing up my statistical analysis -- anyone can plug the wrong numbers into SPSS or run the incorrect technique and I really don't have time to give statistics lessons.
So if you can find a good mentor, prof if you're lucky (don't automatically count it out), grad student, or even a senior undergrad, you're off to a good start. It doesn't have to be somebody you want to hang out with, but somebody who is interested in the same stuff as you and willing to work with you. Yeah, you'll probably have to start out doing some basic stuff, but eventually you'll get there. I have no problem asking our senior undergrads to do more advanced stuff and our lab environment is generally quite friendly towards people of all levels.
Though that's another topic. Politics! Be yourself, be polite (if those are mutually exclusive, you're !@#%ed), and pay close attention to the interpersonal interactions. Even if everybody's friendly towards each other, you'll want to know how the show is really run!
And yes, read phdcomics! I'm in a different field but it's all the same. :)
Sorry, I'm no economist... but if we're assuming Monty shows us a goat EVERY time we do this, doesn't that mean that we're only ever choosing from two possible choices when we pick the first door? So it's 50/50 whether we should switch or not?
You're absolutely correct, the more you compress categories the more you essentially throw away data. The flip side is the average customer whose mind would be blown if you let them rate a movie on a 1 to 1000 scale (or something equally ridiculous). Most of us would chunk that down into a more meaningful range anyway.
I'm afraid I don't have the linkage, but I seem to recall research on the Likert scale (typically a 1-5 or 1-7 scale) that actually found larger scales really didn't add much beyond 1 through 7 or 1 through 9. That said "not adding much" may still be worth a million dollars to Netflix if that "not much" is still better than what they've got (and doesn't scare people by offering too many choices).
The more data you have, the more likely your results are going to be significant. I think we already knew this. ;)
Really though, it's the "design fix" vs the "statistics fix" (or the algorithm fix in this case) and a proper design always beats a crappy design with statistical band aids.
What makes you think this wasn't staged? :p
Ahh, but the work has been done for you!
I could see where a long term healthy person might cost more than a short term obese person, but did they include the extra taxes and/or health insurance premiums a person might generate if they didn't die of a heart attack at 40?
Good thinking!
;)
Also keep in mind that electronics/media may be significantly more expensive in some countries due to multiple factors (incl. weak dollar). A few years ago we were bumming around the south pacific for 6 months and I remember laughing at $40 DVDs in New Zealand.
Or maybe you can save money and get a knockoff in China, it all depends on where you're going to be.
I know you're trying to cut down on weight, but an external hard drive might not be a bad investment. On our trip we did the DVD backup thing with a cheap laptop, but also had an extra hard drive with us. Yes, I was paranoid about losing thousands of photos. =) Of course, we're into photography and had a nice digital SLR with us. Your data needs might not be as high (it adds up FAST at 5-10 MB per photo) but if you are a photo nut, it might be worth worrying about. Oh, if you do have an SLR, buy a good wide angle lens if you don't have one already! I cannot stress this enough! And keep it close.
Very jealous!