drre

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[–] drre@feddit.org 0 points 1 week ago

well yeah, but there is money in knowing what to avoid. in academia it's more like "why can't i reproduce this effect i read about in this fancy paper, am i stupid or what", when maybe, they just got lucky, or had plenty of very reasonable analysis options to choose from, or simply fudged the numbers. i fear that in much of academia there is a huge incentive to publish at whatever cost

[–] drre@feddit.org 35 points 1 week ago (9 children)

i don't know swedish at all but: in german there is the word "Fahrt" which may be understood as journey, but may also be used in a phrase like "wir machen zwölf Knoten Fahrt" (our speed is twelve knots).

(No idea why I'm writing this, but I'm not gonna delete it now)

[–] drre@feddit.org 3 points 1 month ago

yes, in the game of Skat, but it's a verb in the 3rd person singular as in "[sth.] trumps [sth.]"

[–] drre@feddit.org 17 points 2 months ago (12 children)

yes, generally it's l/(1-l), where l is the loss (ranging from 0 to 1). Example: if you loose 10%, your portfolio needs to grow 11.11% to compensate just for the loss. go figure how long that is gonna take

[–] drre@feddit.org 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

from the movie Ghost with Demi Moore and Patrick Swayze

[–] drre@feddit.org 2 points 2 months ago

absolutely agree. i just wanted to point out that not everything has to be a video

[–] drre@feddit.org 4 points 2 months ago (4 children)

totally agree with reading more. text is easy to consume, easy to store, (somewhat) easy to verify (if sources are provided), and it keeps (if using dead trees for storage). ever since the pandemic i started reading more and must say i really like it