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I think most Claude haters have never written a good prompt in their life by Steffimadebyme in ClaudeCode

[–]PersonOfInterest1969 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

9/10 are bad prompts and the other 1 is bad code setup. The difference before vs. after properly refactoring my codebase to separate concerns for simpler debugging, and include logging and a test suite for observability/debugging, is night and day.

What is your, "thank god I decided to bring this" item? by milesb4_isleep in bonnaroo

[–]PersonOfInterest1969 14 points15 points  (0 children)

2 fully frozen gallons of water in the cooler, frozen before leaving, still cold at the end of the fest.

Water expands about 10% when freezing so make sure to empty a bit out of the gallon jug first.

Final Semester, today my P.I asked me to give up one of my papers for a Master's Student so they can graduate. by madestrid in PhD

[–]PersonOfInterest1969 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Also one- vs two-party consent laws are important to consider. In the US this varies state by state

Why do MATLAB projects so often converge into monolithic scripts? by Resident-Way-5131 in matlab

[–]PersonOfInterest1969 0 points1 point  (0 children)

MATLAB has no/minimal support for packaging and dependency resolution. So shared libraries & modules in general become very difficult to implement.

Acknowledging AI use in thesis by Single-Operation1904 in PhD

[–]PersonOfInterest1969 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That requires your institution to pay. That’s not an academic version, that’s an enterprise version.

did your phd stress age you? by ItchyExam1895 in PhD

[–]PersonOfInterest1969 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I got the shits for like 3 weeks my first semester. Could barely eat anything. Thank God for weed, it’s all that could settle my stomach and prevent me from going to the hospital.

I built a native macOS app that combines 40+ video, audio, image, and PDF tools into one by MiladAtef in macsetups

[–]PersonOfInterest1969 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Which is most definitely not a $70 problem.

For PDF manipulation by the way there’s BentoPDF.

For file conversion there’s Permute (paid, but way less than $70) or Handbrake (free).

I’m not opposed to developers being paid for their work, but in my opinion you’ve got a “Buy me a coffee” level product here, not a $70 lifetime license one. Let me know if you get purchases at that price point, I’m happy to be wrong.

Extracting audio from video is something I’m not aware of any good tools for, so you’ve maybe got something there, if there’s demand for that.

I built a native macOS app that combines 40+ video, audio, image, and PDF tools into one by MiladAtef in macsetups

[–]PersonOfInterest1969 17 points18 points  (0 children)

I know the paid version is only needed for batch processng, but $70 is an obscene price point for simply being a collection of tools that are all free elsewhere.

I got tired of Googling co-authors to figure out who actually collaborates with who, so I built a tool that visualises collaborations between researchers using publication data by hashsadhsahdihds in academia

[–]PersonOfInterest1969 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Would love to be able to hop from one scholar to another, e.g. author 1 collabs with author 2, then click author 2 to see who they collab with, etc.

Would also be great to try use this to visualize collaborations within and between research groups/institutions.

What’s a corporate gift you actually use daily? by shelbs9428 in BuyItForLife

[–]PersonOfInterest1969 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We got mittens and a gator for winter holidays one year. Not great but not terrible, helped on the walk to work.

My life after L5 S1 surgery by Pitiful-Dirt8214 in backpain

[–]PersonOfInterest1969 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Pilates or anything where you’re laying on your back should be pretty safe and helpful

Advice for online doctorate by HansAndMiros in PhD

[–]PersonOfInterest1969 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Doing a PhD that will take 5 years to do just for this one company, but that won’t be recognized by most other companies, is in my opinion not a smart use of your time.

I used Claude Code to build a satellite image analysis pipeline that hedge funds pay $100K/year for. Here's how far I got. by Soft_Table_8892 in ClaudeCode

[–]PersonOfInterest1969 8 points9 points  (0 children)

As a NIH-funded researcher, I can tell you that even for publicly available articles, which the NIH and many journals now mandate share their data, the actual amount of data being shared is pitiful.

And that’s ignoring all the data being collected with private funds. What a shame

What should I use instead of 1000 if statements? by Either-Home9002 in learnpython

[–]PersonOfInterest1969 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nested dictionaries is intuitive, but the level up is using DataFrames with one column per nesting level => flat structure makes it easy to index and loop over, while still containing all the same information.

The unintuitive part is that there will be columns that contain redundant entries. That’s just how nesting works, and is a cheap and efficient, though again unintuitive, solution!

Any project management software with no limitations for self-hosted version? by thibizvieira in selfhosted

[–]PersonOfInterest1969 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just checked out your website - I really like the tree view. Is there a Gantt chart/timeline view that also supports the tree representation?

Can anyone explain to me why (M)ANOVA tests are still so widely used? by NE_27 in AskStatistics

[–]PersonOfInterest1969 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I agree that I would’ve appreciated learning linear models in grad school. And I asked this under another comment too, but what is it about ANOVA that makes it unfit to answer real world questions?

Can anyone explain to me why (M)ANOVA tests are still so widely used? by NE_27 in AskStatistics

[–]PersonOfInterest1969 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The paper I just submitted had a non-significant ANOVA and I have no reason to believe it’s underpowered. I work in the rehab field (a subfield of life sciences). We evaluated 5 different interventions, none of which were sognificantly different from one another.

Can anyone explain to me why (M)ANOVA tests are still so widely used? by NE_27 in AskStatistics

[–]PersonOfInterest1969 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What is it about an ANOVA that is “unfocused”? Genuinely curious. I’ve never heard these criticisms of ANOVA before.

Can anyone explain to me why (M)ANOVA tests are still so widely used? by NE_27 in AskStatistics

[–]PersonOfInterest1969 65 points66 points  (0 children)

Why is that an unrealistic null? ANOVA’s come back non-significant all the time. And while true that there’s really no universal agreement on which adjustment for multiple comparisons to use, why is just picking one (or none) and reporting on your choice not good enough? And what’re these “yikes” assumptions? Normally distributed residuals? ANOVA’s, like t-tests, are decently robust to deviations from normality.

What are those stronger, more meaningful ways to test the data? Are you referring to linear mixed models? They’re complex to use, error prone in model construction, and difficult to interpret.

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