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So, is the conclusion that no one should perform statistical inference? 😅
there’s a peer-reviewed article on how professors who bring students baked goods get higher evaluation scores. my colleague would bring this article & homemade cookies to class the day students filled evals out, tell them evals aren’t effective measures of teaching, then leave them to it.
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I'm quite jealous of your problem
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Why do I have eduroam at the local hipster bakery but not in my classroom and other questions of the modern academic
The difference between cucumbers and pickles is jarring.
Constantly torn between my hate for ads and my curiosity to know what the finnish ads are trying to sell me
Painting of a person reading in bed at night Evening Reading by Georg Pauli
When the book is too interesting
"Other extensions of the factorial function do exist, but the gamma function is the most popular and useful. " did the gamma function herself/itself write this
tb to a micro (econ) prof who gave a quiz that boiled down to finding the solution to (something like) xe^x =1, and *everyone* lost their mind trying to solve it instead of just stating that the 'desired solution' was obtained from just saying 'xe^x =1'
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Two red precaution bars with yellow lines on them, one of them standing upright and the other one has collapsed into the icy sidewalk.
The sidewalk is so icy that even the precaution bars are falling
Sounds robust
A relative of the cumulative egret, I'm sure
(I'll take that as a compliment)
The change between tea and iced tea is very different to the change between coffee and iced coffee.
Benito carrying a football with musicians carrying flags behind him
Iconic moment as he says "God Bless América" and then names every country in South, Central, and North america in order
For the rest of the hemisphere, América doesn't mean the U.S.
It means evveeerrybody
(not a probabilist, but a spanish speaker)
I'd totally pronounce it peñe
Cero sencillo.
Alcohol makes a big difference
Wouldn't that count as mocktails?
To counter my tendency to factor my code in a million different functions, I have configured my editor to gradually reduce the font of each function I create, until they become so hard to read I have to give up. I call that:
Diminishing returns
Existence of regular expressions implies the existence of regular impressions
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Seeing an influencer bring up an old video of them calling out something, gives me the same vibe of professors mentioning papers they have co-authored
Seems unfair that you only get to use the bouncy slide to get off a plane when things have gone wrong. The bouncy slide should be a treat they give to the best passengers who did the flight correctly.
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