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ThreeSigma@mastodon.online
<p>Ex-professor, physicist, dad, gamer. I used to teach and do experimental particle physics; now I work on robotics software and deal with corporate culture shock. <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/exac" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>exac</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/exacademic" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>exacademic</span></a></p><p>Profile picture is an image of a data plot, with a single point and an error bar.</p>
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@tante@tldr.nettime.org The act of putting up resistance is valuable in itself. It makes others of us feel less alone, and keeps at least some pressure on the adopters that they still have to defend their choices. Our mistakes in the past were sometimes allowing things to seem inevitable.
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@jonah@mastodon.neat.computer Just to add: the motives of the lawmakers aren't even relevant. The question is: how will the government in 10 years use this power? There is no question that "it CAN happen here" no matter where 'here' is. Unless you trust all politicians on both sides of the spectrum forever, you should not give them the power to investigate or jail you for using an anonymizing service.
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Just saw a post (which somehow I can’t link to) about the “pitfalls of A/B testing”, and it more or less proves to me that training in #datascience doesn’t include the “science” part. They were using bad jargon but basically discussing sample bias and unintentional p-hacking. All expressed as experienced wisdom when that’s just… experiment design. It’s pretty clear that the authors were rediscovering the scientific method, painfully.