The Greeks and Romans weren't destroying entire ecosystems
Yes they were. North Africa was known as "the breadbasket of the Roman Empire". Today it is the Sahara Desert. Destructive farming practices destroyed millions of tonnes of topsoil. They also exterminated many species, including the North African Elephant.
Sahara oscillates between desert and savanna due to solar forcing with a period of 41,000 years (Ref.) I can find no support whatsoever of any Roman influence in the wikipedia article.
In fact, whether human activity is a factor at all is debated If it was a factor, then earlier than the Roman empire.
FYI, "animal models" doesn't mean animals in general. The term refers to various laboratory strains in widespread research use. Such as black6 mice or fruit flies.
This is a highly speculative interpretation of existing data. Other speculative interpretations are possible. The scientific method would dictate proceeding by designing clever experiments whose outcomes could rule out various alternative interpretations. I'm not convinced this is possible here, and not persuaded that this is true science. Certainly it's not "evidence".
LO 5.1 does not detect the Oracle 1.8 JRE on my Macbook. Reverting to 5.0.4 fixed this. If you're on El Capitan and need LO Java functionality, spare yourself the trouble of upgrading until this is sorted out.
Why is this here? How is any of this related to what Slashdot is supposed to be about? I'm usually pretty lax about what's posted on Slashdot, but this question should be posted on a forum somewhere else, not on a news site for "nerds".
"Nerds" working in tech and science have the entire world as potential workplace and many change their host nation during their lives. Voluntary or because they have to. Highly specialized skilled workers often need to move to where the jobs are.
Thus, very relevant post. I myself am a Swedish citizen working in Germany.
Is the difference in the outcome for black and white women statistically significant?
No. The proper way of testing this is by using Fisher's exact test. Quite simple in one line of R:
fisher.test(matrix(c(36, 11, 38, 16), nrow=2))
Running this shows we obtain such a difference (77% vs. 70%) with about 50% probability just due to chance, given the sample size. The output of the R command above is:
data: matrix(c(36, 11, 38, 16), nrow = 2) p-value = 0.5081 alternative hypothesis: true odds ratio is not equal to 1 95 percent confidence interval:
0.5175229 3.7540626 sample estimates: odds ratio
1.373629
- Services - The automator - AppleScript - Using these to design workflows involving different applications
If you are creative and willing to learn a bit, you are getting pretty damn enabled in OSX by these extremely well thought through tool sets.
And I actually even like the Finder. Miller Columns mode together with a persistent info window, and of course activated services linked to my custimized scripts, is working fantastic.
As someone who knows a little bit of mathematical modeling and statistics, I have to point out that they did not predict the percentages, since they already were known! The correct term would be retrodict.
I upgraded to 2.0.0 on my old PowerPC G4 iMac, which I like to use as a movie player "for the design". Warning for that! No sound, red stripes all over the frame... The upside is that it's really easy to downgrade, just move the old app bundle back from the trash can to the applications folder.
Wrong... parent is far to quick to judge. Indeed, the sample size is to small to calculate reliable quantitative estimates of the differences. Nevertheless, one may use non-parametric tests to check for whether there is a *qualitative* difference between the groups, and this is really what's claimed here.
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The Greeks and Romans weren't destroying entire ecosystems
Yes they were. North Africa was known as "the breadbasket of the Roman Empire". Today it is the Sahara Desert. Destructive farming practices destroyed millions of tonnes of topsoil. They also exterminated many species, including the North African Elephant.
Sahara oscillates between desert and savanna due to solar forcing with a period of 41,000 years (Ref.)
I can find no support whatsoever of any Roman influence in the wikipedia article.
In fact, whether human activity is a factor at all is debated
If it was a factor, then earlier than the Roman empire.
FYI, "animal models" doesn't mean animals in general. The term refers to various laboratory strains in widespread research use. Such as black6 mice or fruit flies.
Agree, let's stick to the facts. His Linkedin profile didn't state "PhD studies", but rather "PhD".
http://www.businessinsider.de/james-damore-removes-phd-studies-linkedin-2017-8
This is a highly speculative interpretation of existing data. Other speculative interpretations are possible. The scientific method would dictate proceeding by designing clever experiments whose outcomes could rule out various alternative interpretations. I'm not convinced this is possible here, and not persuaded that this is true science. Certainly it's not "evidence".
Indeed – what I see here is massive anti-Apple groupthink/fashion in the /.-community, which this story tries to cater to, because clicks.
Am I the only one to think the real sensation here is R conquering the top 10?
LO 5.1 does not detect the Oracle 1.8 JRE on my Macbook. Reverting to 5.0.4 fixed this. If you're on El Capitan and need LO Java functionality, spare yourself the trouble of upgrading until this is sorted out.
Looks interesting. Sort of a Maglite aesthetics, but consistently executed. Much nicer than the awful Royal Kludge mentioned here earlier.
Yes but it looks so terrible. Horrible LED colors, ice cold blue and green, and a awful tasteless font for the labels.
Why is this here? How is any of this related to what Slashdot is supposed to be about? I'm usually pretty lax about what's posted on Slashdot, but this question should be posted on a forum somewhere else, not on a news site for "nerds".
"Nerds" working in tech and science have the entire world as potential workplace and many change their host nation during their lives. Voluntary or because they have to. Highly specialized skilled workers often need to move to where the jobs are.
Thus, very relevant post. I myself am a Swedish citizen working in Germany.
Is the difference in the outcome for black and white women statistically significant?
No. The proper way of testing this is by using Fisher's exact test. Quite simple in one line of R:
fisher.test(matrix(c(36, 11, 38, 16), nrow=2))
Running this shows we obtain such a difference (77% vs. 70%) with about 50% probability just due to chance, given the sample size. The output of the R command above is:
data: matrix(c(36, 11, 38, 16), nrow = 2)
p-value = 0.5081
alternative hypothesis: true odds ratio is not equal to 1
95 percent confidence interval:
0.5175229 3.7540626
sample estimates:
odds ratio
1.373629
Not calling a method, but applying a Function.
A couple of things power users enjoy in OSX:
- Services
- The automator
- AppleScript
- Using these to design workflows involving different applications
If you are creative and willing to learn a bit, you are getting pretty damn enabled in OSX by these extremely well thought through tool sets.
And I actually even like the Finder. Miller Columns mode together with a persistent info window, and of course activated services linked to my custimized scripts, is working fantastic.
As someone who knows a little bit of mathematical modeling and statistics, I have to point out that they did not predict the percentages, since they already were known! The correct term would be retrodict.
I upgraded to 2.0.0 on my old PowerPC G4 iMac, which I like to use as a movie player "for the design". Warning for that! No sound, red stripes all over the frame... The upside is that it's really easy to downgrade, just move the old app bundle back from the trash can to the applications folder.
Wrong... parent is far to quick to judge. Indeed, the sample size is to small to calculate reliable quantitative estimates of the differences. Nevertheless, one may use non-parametric tests to check for whether there is a *qualitative* difference between the groups, and this is really what's claimed here.