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There are cases where people have doctored images in their research data, or completely fabricated data to meet a significance threshhold. There may be ambigious cases but there are non-ambiguous case…

As it happens the place I had a really bad experience with it was stripe. I had pretty much aced every other question, but basically was setup with a problem where I didn't have a way to reliably…

I've only had one "find the bug" interview, and it was awful: - Didn't set you up with a way to reliably run/test the code, nor a step-through-debugger which, jeez is it 1980?…

Yeah, I've certainly seen cases where something was overbuilt and 90% of the time was wasted. But I've also worked at places where things were underbuilt (e.g 0 test environments whatsoever …

When I see big blanket statements of advice, I usually try to "unit test" them to see if they have any value. So I think of wildly different scenarios, and imagine whether this advice is use…

The article certainly paints it in that light. I also agree that it isn't clear to me how stealing information from private citizens would be a justified response for ongoing tensions in the regi…

I'm not sure how it happened, but this tracks with my personal experience. 15 years ago the local stabucks had a fireplace, was meticulously clean, was busy but had seating, and generally was a p…

Technologically seems cool, and the first use that pops into mind is "wouldn't this be funny to prank my friend?" But maybe no, it wouldn't. Maybe it'd be deeply disconcerting…

I've heard all of these lip-service justifications before, but I've yet to see anybody actually publish data showing how they saved any money. Would love to be proven wrong by some hard data…

PFAs should be illegal in all food applications by now. The danger of PFAs isn't really new at this point. I'm sure if we really try hard we'd find hundreds of viable alternatives (e.g.…

Out of curiosity, where is that 150x number coming from? Is that just an off-the-cuff expression of frustration or is a real estimate from somewhere?

There's no such thing as an "everything bubble." All prices are relative. An everything bubble would basically be inflation which wouldn't justify moving any assets. You only need …

Well, it looks to me like they look at 34 types of cancer, and found that 8 of those were increasing. So "we detect cancer better" isn't really a good theory, unless it just so happens …

Yeah but I feel like you have to admit there is a tragedy of the commons here -- there will always be more people who want to live somewhere than can realistically have a high-quality of life there...…

> but it does show that parental 'hyperactivity detectors' are broken I'll grant that some are for sure. But it doesn't mean other parents can't quietly and effectively not…

I think it's only for short-term psychological measures Here's a study highlighting the psychological effects of sugar https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/briti…

Well if there is plenty of evidence, perhaps it should be linked here rather than this relatively weak meta-study that confuses the absence of evidence with the evidence of absence.

Two things can be true.

No, that's not it at all. What you would do is you would have a higher standard of proof. If you conduct a study with a 95% confidence interval that sugar doesn't increase excitement more th…

Sorry what? This is just out of the realm of plausibility. There's a reason why academics no longer use sugar-pills as placebo, because sugar has immediate psychological effects. ------- Edit: Ju…

My advice on giving advice: Step 0 - Ask "Would you like my advice?" Anything other than a sincere yes (not a maybe, not a patient okay, not a hmm) then don't give advice.

Here's my theory on why we see internet toxicity -- A lot of people think they are offering "free information" on the internet, but what they are really doing is offering a transaction:…

I'm confused. I consider a d12 a larger die than a d6. Perhaps you're making a pun about physical size of the dice?

To be fair, I didn't hand-check the answer it gave (and I didn't retype the whole prompt exactly here) - but here's what it gave me [4o model]: ... (lots of calculations) Final Comparis…

Well are the "people" responsible, or are outrageous-prices (e.g. one subscription costs 50k) responsible? Or is it just like 1% of people have cancer? Would love to see a good-faith analysi…

I'm sorry but this falls flat for me. GPT4 routinely can answer impressive math questions for me (college-level): - What diameter steel wire would I need to be rated for a weight of 500lbs? - How…