#Hypothesis

Howard Rundle

HowardRundle4

Can we talk about science? Very generally? I teach a 4th year undergraduate honours seminar in which we discuss this, but recent experience suggests it bears wider treatment. 1. There

Raymond Hettinger

raymondh

#Python tip: #hypothesis is good at finding bugs; however, often as not, the bug is in your understanding of what the code is supposed to do.1/ Initial belief: The JSON

Hasu

hasufl

Re: Ethereum vs BSCEvery marginal person coming into this space will be less ideological and more pragmatic than the last. The result is an erosion of values over time.The hypothesis

Stefan Marciniak

Prof_Marciniak

How science works:Observations are made.A hypothesis is generated.Experiments are performed to test (try to disprove) the hypothesis.This cycle is repeated many many times until the experiments are unable to disprove

Newman Nahas

NahasNewman

CA has done everything “right”: kept schools shut, bankrupted small business, even tried to relegate households of 1 to solitary confinement. Meanwhile, FL has allowed the things. Lockdown hypothesis predicts

Wolf Tivy

wolftivy

In 2012 or so on lesswrong, I realized there weren't any more discussions worth having. Maybe the community declined, or maybe individuals just naturally outgrow particular fora.I'm feeling that again

Valentin Amrhein

vamrhein

I think we should start most papers with "How does Y change in response to X?" (or correlate with X) rather than "Does Y change in response to X?" Thanks

David Moscrop

David_Moscrop

"If the Liberals tried to decriminalize drugs they'd lose the election" is a hypothesis that centrists are risking and losing lives by assuming is true. Now, as health experts, advocates,

🔥 Kareem Carr 🔥

kareem_carr

There's a controversy brewing between philosophy twitter and epidemiology twitter about how to do good science. The question boils down to this:Is it a good idea for scientists to show

Yogi Jaeger

yoginho

Darwinian Gaia: the persister perspective on evolution. https://aeon.co/essays/the-gaia-hypothesis-reimagined-by-one-of-its-key-sceptics via @aeonmag I think this an amazingly refreshing and interesting new view on evolution. For several re

Peter Flax

Pflax1

Has anyone ever written a definitive story, not theoretical or speculative, about why the bike industry embraced sloping top tubes on road bikes? There are have been hundreds published that

Anas N. Almassri

Anas_Almassri

As a “nonimmigrant alien” with an academic experience of the US, I am building this hypothesis that much of why this country is at a dangerous time is because of

Ana Marasović

anmarasovic

If you (like me) see a 600B model, and shriek, let me try to give you some consolation. Why should we care about ultra-large models?  1/nhttps://twitter.com/lepikhin/status/1278125364787605504 LM performance improves if

mathfrak{Michael "Shapes Dude" Betancourt}

betanalpha

"Discovery" is by far at the most damaging concept is science and, in my opinion, at the heart of all of the poor methodology frustrating so many scientific fields. Because

Newman Nahas

NahasNewman

1/ Keep hearing I shouldn’t be citing Iceland’s data. Because that country is too small. Here is why that makes no sense. 2/ Size of a country irrelevant to whether

Eli Tyre

EpistemicHope

Culturally, I am clearly part of the "Yudkowsky cluster". And as near as I can tell, Bayes is actually the true foundation of epistemology.But my personal PRACTICE is much closer

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