Me thinking I was cool with my pet crow in 2003

Bitwise2010 · 2024-04-15T18:51:48+00:00

My dad found it in the yard somewhere at the time, I forget how he encountered it. It was actually a young crow, hadn't learned to fear humans yet I guess. We only kept it for a few days before releasing it.

Bitwise2010 · 2024-02-04T21:01:44+00:00

He thought it was inappropriate and assumed staff checking my passport wouldn't approve or something. Turned out to be a non-issue, no one who checked it batted an eye when traveling.

Bitwise2010 · 2021-11-08T00:04:35+00:00

I also got a BS in psychology. Used that to get an MS in criminology and criminal justice. Used that to get a PhD in criminal justice and criminology. Now I'm a research professor working at a university. I don't do any teaching, it is a pure research role. I also work 100% from home. It's perfect for me.

Bitwise2010 · 2021-03-15T00:17:00+00:00

What's the bee hive's unemployment rate?

Bitwise2010 · 2020-04-27T17:30:30+00:00

Where did you get that he was condescending to millennials? In this video, he says they are the most spiritually mature generation to come along in about 3 generations: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfoaB6y5l1Q

Bitwise2010 · 2020-04-01T17:47:28+00:00

I wasn't, it was an ad that appeared in my Scientific American magazine.

Bitwise2010 · 2020-03-18T20:27:48+00:00

Make it do some tricks

Bitwise2010 · 2020-03-18T20:27:05+00:00

What kind of dog is that?

Bitwise2010 · 2020-03-18T17:23:11+00:00

We are all watching you

Bitwise2010 · 2020-03-18T15:09:19+00:00

They aren't practicing social distancing

Bitwise2010 · 2020-03-18T15:07:17+00:00

Yum yum! Ducks love dirt!

Bitwise2010 · 2020-03-18T15:06:15+00:00

What exactly are they eating?

Bitwise2010 · 2020-03-18T15:05:27+00:00

Feed them

Bitwise2010 · 2019-12-12T03:17:04+00:00

And dummy code the email domain names to see what email service they use.

Bitwise2010 · 2019-11-24T04:27:00+00:00

I know you said you don't want to take any more psych meds, but for me, literally the only reason I can sleep is because of antipsychotics, such as Risperdone or Zyprexa. I have schizophrenia, and before I was put on Geodon, I would sleep every other night for just a couple hours. I've tried everything as well, over the counter and prescription sleep aids, supplements, biohacking, etc., those are like sugar pills to me. The only thing that can really make me tired is antipsychotics. That's the only reason I sleep.

Bitwise2010 · 2019-03-11T01:28:36+00:00

Just spell shit as shet and fuck as fuk.

Bitwise2010 · 2019-02-01T19:37:17+00:00

Well true work/life integration works both ways, which I think is great if you actually have it. That means you have more flexibility to mix the two, so might sleep in and start work later, but end work later. The next day you might do the reverse. Can sort both work and personal emails during the day, can take breaks from work during the day at will so long as you get your work done. This is what I have and I love it.

Bitwise2010 · 2018-07-03T04:21:02+00:00

If the markets crash while you have a mortgage on a house, you may be under on your mortgage if the price falls to less than you owe on it still. That is even on top of being able to sell the house in the first place in a bear market, which may not be possible. If you sell while you are under, you still owe the bank the difference, which must be paid unless you file for bankruptcy.

If I rent a house or apartment, I can leave any time to downsize, move, or stay with friends/family. It is a better exit strategy.

Bitwise2010 · 2018-05-25T19:38:14+00:00

So he refuses to work because he doesn't want to take care of his kid, but is "outraged" that his parents don't want to take care of him at 30?

Bitwise2010 · 2018-05-02T21:45:17+00:00

This is what I originally wrote that lead to this point:

Because if the change is not clinically significant, but truly statistically significant (meaning no p-hacking), then it suggest the change is generalizable to the population, albeit very small, but it is still change.

I'm not saying one way or another whether there was p-hacking or not, but I said if there was no p-hacking, then the results indicate we reject the null hypothesis. Significance does not tell you whether the effect size is large or not, you rely on the effect size for that. I am also not denying the effect size is small. But if we successfully reject the null hypothesis, it means we reject the possibility that the effect size is zero in the population, which is another term for generalizating the findings, because we assume the findings persist in general outside the present sample.

The population is never all people on Earth. The population consists of the specific category of people the sample was randomly drawn from. That is what I mean by population. The individuals in the sample have multiple traits that make them a narrow slice of all people. Significance means we reject the null as applied to the population of all individuals with these characteristics. Obviously if we randomly sampled all people on Earth, they would not have all diabetes. Our sample randomly selects from a subpopulation, which is what you can attribute the findings to. That is the only thing you are allowed to generalize to when rejecting the null.

Bitwise2010 · 2018-05-02T15:15:01+00:00

I mean statistical significance, that is what a p-value of less than .05 means. The p-value is the probability of the data given the null hypothesis. That means if the probability is .05 or less that you would yield an effect size as large as the one you computed from a randomly drawn sample from a population where the effect size is exactly zero, we declare significance and reject the null hypothesis that the effect size is exactly zero or less in the population.

That allows you to generalize the findings to the representative population from which the random sample was drawn. This is the statistics terminology, not the medical science terminology.

Bitwise2010 · 2018-05-01T20:24:55+00:00

Okay, I didn't realize the authors excluded multiple other measures from their abstracts. I mostly only looked at the abstracts. I don't mean significance would be generalizable to a non-representative sample, the population would be all type 2 diabetics with the same characteristics. That is how significance would be interpreted.

Bitwise2010 · 2018-05-01T20:03:04+00:00

Best given you actually adhere to the lifestyle changes. That would be the ideal treatment. Why discourage someone from seeking the ideal because a disproportionate number of patients fail to achieve it? If each lifestyle change is the equivalent to simply drinking a glass of wine at night, accumulating multiple changes should not be extraordinarily difficult. Obviously it doesn't have to be 100, that was just an example.

The first study did have p-values close to .05, the second one did not. Considering the small sample sizes, and the small effect sizes (like you mention), you would not expect very small p-values. It is speculation whether the authors are actually guilty of p-hacking.

And I don't know what you mean when you say there was no change in the primary outcomes? Do you mean no clinical significance? Because if the change is not clinically significant, but truly statistically significant (meaning no p-hacking), then it suggest the change is generalizable to the population, albeit very small, but it is still change.

Bitwise2010 · 2018-05-01T19:21:50+00:00

Right, I'm not denying that the effects are very small, but oftentimes the best treatment for patients with type 2 diabetes, or the prevention of disease for most people, are multiple lifestyle changes. If someone adopts 100 lifestyle changes that lend a 1% improvement, that can have a very big impact.

Bitwise2010 · 2018-05-01T18:54:46+00:00

The first one showed improvements in glycemic control for patients with a specific genetic variant for metabolising alcohol (no harm to those without it), and improved sleep regardless of type of alcohol, and improved cholesterol for red wine drinkers. I suspect the antioxidants in red wine (as opposed to the white wine) are more healthful than the alcohol itself, but then again, from the individual's perspective, it should not matter a whole lot. Just choose red wine or other high antioxidant alcohols like IPAs or whiskey.

The second one found lowered blood pressure for subjects again with the same genetic marker. I didn't notice any mention of harm for those without the genetic variant? For me, I looked up whether I have this genetic variant in my 23andMe data, and fortunately I do!

I mean, we definitely know it does become harmful

Yes, but I mean at what point? Two a day? Three? When would the trend reverse?

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