did you even read the wiki you linked to? You only need to get to the second sentence to find out that tailgating is only a factor in 1/3rd of rear-end collisions.
I'm not saying that all of the other 2/3rds are caused by bad drivers slamming on their brakes and being an unpredictable danger on the road, but certainly some of them are.
He used a psychiatrists password, which was overheard by a patient. Still not a good system, but not as bad as if any patients username/password could be used.
I'm not American, so the point is moot, but I like to think at least some of my ancestors were the best.
If letting in immigrants to due grunt work is whats best for America, then that's what it should do. My point was that they do not owe equality to non-citizens.
I don't see any reason why America needs equality of opportunity for immigrants when it doesn't even have it for its own citizens. Take only the best and do whats best for your country.
The greatest scientists of our generation will not be truly known until many years from now, when we can look back on the contributions with a greater understanding of the truth.
RIANZ has paid 250k in total, the 616 dollars represents the result of the first case. They have sent out notices to roughly 6000 alleged infringers though. So if we assume that 616 is an average results ( I know that a sample of one is not very representative ), then we can expect that they will pull in 616*6000 which is approximately 3.7 million dollars.
Lets wait til the dust settles to start scoring winners and losers.
My university includes a middle initial to reduce duplicate names. When there is no middle initial, or it does not solve the uniqueness problem it will start enumerating the user names, for example john2doe@domain.tld
The goal of the research is to use such a model of the brain to understand the effects of different drugs and therapies. Provide insight into how/what the next advances in medical science will bring.
I'm aware of the rational behind laws and fines. My point is not that the fine should be lower, but that because of penalties record companies seek (millions) that we already consider a 100x fine to be low.
This fine is only low compared to the ridiculous claims being made by the record companies. The actual cost of the music was less than 6$, so this works out to paying a penalty of roughly 100 times the value of the material he 'stole'.
I agree completely, but I think that 1) follows directly from 2). I am an early career researcher, and I want to be publishing open source. The reason I do not, is because I need to be sure that I can get research grants and tenure positions later in life. I would like to see a high profile institution start a policy that they only hire candidates with at least one open source publication, that could really get the ball rolling.
Religion is a red-herring in this story, if a nurse has the option to refuse a vaccine it should be for any personal reason.
The question that I am the most interested in, is if the hospital has a similar policy for their doctors. If the vaccine is so obviously positive, then surely every doctor on staff would also have it. If every doctor has it and agrees that it is good, then I fully support mandatory vaccinations for nurses. I suspect however, that this is not the case, and that the mandate for vaccination is coming from somebody on the business management side of the hospital rather than somebody on the healthcare side of things.
The causality argument for a single observation is NEVER strong, especially when that observation was a clinical treatment and not a controlled scientific experiment.
If for every 1000 vaccines a doctor sees there is a single complication, then he is right to dismiss it as a statistical anomaly. Causal relationships don't exists if they are only present 0.1% of the time.
From TFA: He tested this hack on three randomly choosen hotel room doors, failed to open any. Had to stop to reprogram the device, and then managed to open one of the doors.
I'll stick to being worried about corrupt security guards.
So much for frauds being caught by peer-review, huh?
That's an odd comment for an article about the peer-review system catching a fraudster. The system will find it eventually, though the time scale can be quite large, especially if you don't publish in a 'hot' field. You can't expect the peer review system to catch every bit of fraud as it comes in, it doesn't appear like a glowing fireball in the sky. This is likely a small amount of fabricated data about medical proceedure that didn't happen. Moreover, the author is probably quite bright (just lazy) and had a good idea of what would be expected in those experiment, so it is easy to make up reasonable data.
We clearly have a correlation between high rates of piracy and high online music sales.
Since piracy has been around much longer than 'legal' music downloads, and the future cannot cause the past , the only logical conclusion is that piracy causes online sales.
The problem he solved is determining the exact path of a projectile, when accounting for air resistance. The drag coefficient for air resistance depends nonlinearly on velocity, so when it is included in the model the equations become difficult to solve (previously impossible, but apparently now done. Though I haven't found any links to his actual work). Here is an example of setting up the problem, and then solving it numerically.
Earlier ABA therapy could potentially have great effects. Once a child is diagnosed currently, their social skills have already become impaired. The therapy must first undo the damage and then reteach skills. By getting started at 6 months instead of two-three years, you could work on maintaining and building the skills they already have (most do develop some social skills before regressing) without spending the time fixing things. Combine this with the fact that a childs brain is more susceptible to be shaped by behavioural therapy the younger they and I could really see this being a benefit.
Behavioural therapy is expensive though, so there is probably quite a bit of work to be done on getting the false positive rates down in a predictive scenario.
writing up "this failed" seems more productive if it's going to let you keep your job. At least by forcing people to write up failed results they are held more accountable. This way we can weed out all the terrible researchers that are contributing to the problem (and there are plenty of terrible ones).
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did you even read the wiki you linked to? You only need to get to the second sentence to find out that tailgating is only a factor in 1/3rd of rear-end collisions. I'm not saying that all of the other 2/3rds are caused by bad drivers slamming on their brakes and being an unpredictable danger on the road, but certainly some of them are.
He used a psychiatrists password, which was overheard by a patient. Still not a good system, but not as bad as if any patients username/password could be used.
I'm not American, so the point is moot, but I like to think at least some of my ancestors were the best. If letting in immigrants to due grunt work is whats best for America, then that's what it should do. My point was that they do not owe equality to non-citizens.
I don't see any reason why America needs equality of opportunity for immigrants when it doesn't even have it for its own citizens. Take only the best and do whats best for your country.
The greatest scientists of our generation will not be truly known until many years from now, when we can look back on the contributions with a greater understanding of the truth.
RIANZ has paid 250k in total, the 616 dollars represents the result of the first case. They have sent out notices to roughly 6000 alleged infringers though. So if we assume that 616 is an average results ( I know that a sample of one is not very representative ), then we can expect that they will pull in 616*6000 which is approximately 3.7 million dollars. Lets wait til the dust settles to start scoring winners and losers.
My university includes a middle initial to reduce duplicate names. When there is no middle initial, or it does not solve the uniqueness problem it will start enumerating the user names, for example john2doe@domain.tld
The goal of the research is to use such a model of the brain to understand the effects of different drugs and therapies. Provide insight into how/what the next advances in medical science will bring.
I'm aware of the rational behind laws and fines. My point is not that the fine should be lower, but that because of penalties record companies seek (millions) that we already consider a 100x fine to be low.
This fine is only low compared to the ridiculous claims being made by the record companies. The actual cost of the music was less than 6$, so this works out to paying a penalty of roughly 100 times the value of the material he 'stole'.
The birds probably notice that the potential mate is malnourished and 13% underweight before they start calculating fractal dimensions.
The publishers don't actually do that. They outsource the selection of 'good' papers to unpaid volunteers.
I agree completely, but I think that 1) follows directly from 2). I am an early career researcher, and I want to be publishing open source. The reason I do not, is because I need to be sure that I can get research grants and tenure positions later in life. I would like to see a high profile institution start a policy that they only hire candidates with at least one open source publication, that could really get the ball rolling.
I would probably get my plague vaccine, and then continue avoiding my flu shots.
Religion is a red-herring in this story, if a nurse has the option to refuse a vaccine it should be for any personal reason. The question that I am the most interested in, is if the hospital has a similar policy for their doctors. If the vaccine is so obviously positive, then surely every doctor on staff would also have it. If every doctor has it and agrees that it is good, then I fully support mandatory vaccinations for nurses. I suspect however, that this is not the case, and that the mandate for vaccination is coming from somebody on the business management side of the hospital rather than somebody on the healthcare side of things.
The causality argument for a single observation is NEVER strong, especially when that observation was a clinical treatment and not a controlled scientific experiment. If for every 1000 vaccines a doctor sees there is a single complication, then he is right to dismiss it as a statistical anomaly. Causal relationships don't exists if they are only present 0.1% of the time.
bad teachers won't be obsolete until there is an abundance of good teachers.
From TFA: He tested this hack on three randomly choosen hotel room doors, failed to open any. Had to stop to reprogram the device, and then managed to open one of the doors. I'll stick to being worried about corrupt security guards.
So much for frauds being caught by peer-review, huh?
That's an odd comment for an article about the peer-review system catching a fraudster. The system will find it eventually, though the time scale can be quite large, especially if you don't publish in a 'hot' field. You can't expect the peer review system to catch every bit of fraud as it comes in, it doesn't appear like a glowing fireball in the sky. This is likely a small amount of fabricated data about medical proceedure that didn't happen. Moreover, the author is probably quite bright (just lazy) and had a good idea of what would be expected in those experiment, so it is easy to make up reasonable data.
More testicles mean more iron!
We clearly have a correlation between high rates of piracy and high online music sales. Since piracy has been around much longer than 'legal' music downloads, and the future cannot cause the past , the only logical conclusion is that piracy causes online sales.
There has always been a war between science and the idiocracy. It's just usually previously we attached a different prefix to "-cracy".
I thought it was a different suffix to Idio
The problem he solved is determining the exact path of a projectile, when accounting for air resistance. The drag coefficient for air resistance depends nonlinearly on velocity, so when it is included in the model the equations become difficult to solve (previously impossible, but apparently now done. Though I haven't found any links to his actual work). Here is an example of setting up the problem, and then solving it numerically.
Earlier ABA therapy could potentially have great effects. Once a child is diagnosed currently, their social skills have already become impaired. The therapy must first undo the damage and then reteach skills. By getting started at 6 months instead of two-three years, you could work on maintaining and building the skills they already have (most do develop some social skills before regressing) without spending the time fixing things. Combine this with the fact that a childs brain is more susceptible to be shaped by behavioural therapy the younger they and I could really see this being a benefit. Behavioural therapy is expensive though, so there is probably quite a bit of work to be done on getting the false positive rates down in a predictive scenario.
writing up "this failed" seems more productive if it's going to let you keep your job. At least by forcing people to write up failed results they are held more accountable. This way we can weed out all the terrible researchers that are contributing to the problem (and there are plenty of terrible ones).