Pardon me but, what does ICO site mean in this context?
Information Commissioner's Office: https://ico.org.uk/about-the-ico/
Readit Newstomw2005 commented on Pocket Casts acquired by NPR npr.org/about-npr/6078233... · Posted by u/Gertig
This strikes me as potentially bad news. PocketCasts is a great little app, with the characteristic advantages of being produced by a small indy outfit with no agenda beyond selling a good quality product for cash. I'll keep an open mind, but it's hard to imagine it maintaining its current user-focus and content neutrality while under the thumb of content-producers.
[Edit: there's a blog post on the topic from ShiftyJelly: https://blog.shiftyjelly.com/. It's a little misjudged in tone, maintaining their jokiness which has been enjoyable in other contexts but feels more like misdirection when a user is hoping for information on the future. Perhaps mildly reassuring though]
There's also Russell discussing it on the Material Podcast (https://www.relay.fm/material/149). That gives me hope (but it is a shame to hear he won't be on the podcast as often).
tomw2005 commented on Nuclear fusion on brink of being realised, say MIT scientists theguardian.com/environme... · Posted by u/lnguyen
First time I heard that fusion was 15 years away was around 35 years ago, in an already old book belonging to my eldest brother. They were talking about ZETA (late 50s).
Wake me when the first power station is being built.
To quote my Physics of Electrical Power Generation lecturer from a few years ago: "Fusion is 15 years away, I think it will always be 15 years away."
I few weeks ago, after a long history of purchasing Samsung phones (S4, S6, s7 edge plus) because of the good hardware, I got an S8+ after my S7e+ abandoned me. This was the turning point where I decided I could no longer accept such awful software experience. Now there is even a physical button for their garbage assistant. The Android notifications are broken in favor of small things that do not allow you to read the message from Whatsapp or Telegram or whatever, and so forth. I returned the S8+ and switched to a Google Pixel 2 XL and it is the best phone I've ever had. Samsung needs to get its shit together and understand that even if in their fantasy world where the management live they want to compete on services, it is totally impossible and actually they are just destroying the Android experience. If it was not for the software approach Samsung takes, I bet we could have far less Apple iPhone users.
I agree. I was a longtime Nexus user and switched for the S8 as Pixels were in short supply (UK, not sure if that was the same in the US). We still don't have Oreo on EE over here and I am constantly trying to disable the annoying Samsung software. I will be going for a Pixel 3 next time I expect.
tomw2005 commented on Understanding Bias in Peer Review research.googleblog.com/2... · Posted by u/runesoerensen
> Compared to double-blind reviewers, we saw about a 22% decrease in the odds that a single-blind reviewer would give a female-authored paper a favorable review, but due to the smaller count of female-authored papers this result was not statistically significant. In an extended version of our paper, we consider our study as well as a range of other studies in the literature and perform a “meta-analysis” of all these results. From this larger pool of observations, the combined results do show a significant finding for the gender effect.
This sounds like p-hacking. They're testing for significance, and when that fails, use the same data again along with other data to achieve significance. Am I mistaken?
Are you referring to meta analyses? They are often used to find p-hacking:
[1] http://training.cochrane.org/resource/introduction-meta-anal...
[2] http://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/jour...
Still waiting for a nice rich text note taking tool that can compete with the likes of DevonThink and EverNote. I don't get the underlying fascination with using markdown.
I think for most people it is portability. I can use my .md files in any Markdown editor and reasonably expect it to look the same.
If there isn't an editor to hand it is easy enough to read as plain text.
tomw2005 commented on An email from Elon Musk to employees: “Communication Within Tesla” inc.com/justin-bariso/thi... · Posted by u/tdurden
"Musk works about 100 hours per week at the electric carmaker"
7 / 100 = 14.3 hours a day. Or 100 / 5 = 20 hours a day. Does he not require food then? Or any non-work activities? Talk about hyperbole.
I recently analysed a load of my time tracking data.[1] I only managed to get up to 11h37m per day when I'm travelling for work. That includes flights as 'work'.
It does seem pretty unlikely unless he's counting Networking/social type events in the evenings and stuff.
tomw2005 commented on Scientists discover 91 volcanoes below Antarctic ice sheet theguardian.com/world/201... · Posted by u/Mz
In academia it's rife. I was alerted by students to a course at a prominent Russell Group London university where the entire course notes were copied verbatim from my website. The only edit was to deliberately remove my name from every page and slide.
The only thing more disgraceful than plagiarism is the arms-race and racket around "preventing" it with tools like the dubious "Turnitin" - dubious in its effectiveness, treatment of students work, privacy implications and the fact that students are compelled to use it, in most cases without prior formal agreement [2].
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_Dossier
[2] https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/anti-turnitin-scho...
My tutor then pointed me to a better maths textbook which was actually worth the money, shame I didn't know about that before!