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Demystifying the MOOCnytimes.com
Massive open online courses haven’t changed the world of education. The average user is a white American man with a degree already. But that doesn’t mean they’re failures. -
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Is Behavioral Economics the Past or the Future?orderstatistic.wordpress.com
There are fads in every field. As Heidi Klum would say “one day you’re in, and the next day you’re out.” Economics is not an exception. Trendy topics come and go. At any moment, it’s difficult ... -
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Job brokers steal wages and entrap Indian tech workers in UStheguardian.com
Investigation by The Center for Investigative Reporting documents how exploitation persists – through humiliation, intimidation and legal threats -
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Stop Breaking the Webponyfoo.com
The year is 2014, a ninja rockstar band goes up against the now long-forgotten progressive enhancement technique, forsaking the origins of the web and everything they [...] -
The Cost of Cryptography - Issue 7: Waste - Nautilusnautil.us
The VENONA project represents one of the most successful counter-intelligence attacks of the Cold War. It revolved around an encryption… - nytimes.com
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A father’s scars: For Va.’s Creigh Deeds, tragedy brings unending questionswashingtonpost.com
Almost a year ago, Creigh Deeds’s mentally ill son attacked him with a knife before committing suicide. Now the Virginia state senator struggles with unending what-ifs. -
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Tiny Data, Approximate Bayesian Computation and the Socks of Karl Broman - Publishable Stuffsumsar.net
Big data is all the rage, but sometimes you don’t have big data. Sometimes you don’t even have average size data. Sometimes you only have eleven … -
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"A Vast Graveyard of Undead Theories: Publication Bias and Psychological Science’s Aversion to the Null" - Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Scienceandrewgelman.com
Erin Jonaitis points us to this article by Christopher Ferguson and Moritz Heene, who write: Publication bias remains a controversial issue in psychological science. . . . that the field often constructs arguments to block the publication and interpret... -
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The Flaw Lurking In Every Deep Neural Neti-programmer.info
Programming book reviews, programming tutorials,programming news, C#, Ruby, Python,C, C++, PHP, Visual Basic, Computer book reviews, computer history, programming history, joomla, theory, spreadsheets and more. -
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Virgin Galactic Is Rattled, but Undeterred, by Deadly Space Plane Crashnytimes.com
The company and federal investigators began their investigations into what caused a space plane to crash Friday in the Mojave Desert, while the pilot killed was identified as Michael Alsbury. -
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