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Things like the app store, in for profit scenarios, seem like ways to slip in monopoly control. Brew is an attempt to circumvent it.
I don't want to come across as suggesting they're a bad idea or don't have advantages, just that on balance I've always had a sense there had to be a better way.
Pay to publish imho always seemed to have a perverse incentive structure to me. Reminds me of the "advertisement" journals you used to see.
The way I see this headed is academic nonprofit orgs self publishing using open source software etc. and recouping costs through membership fees. Journals are already often closely affiliated with orgs, and the members do all the work except copyediting and editorial portals. Academics are also used to paying academic org membership fees for other reasons.
I've already had conversations in this direction with colleagues.
It's either this or eventually things like the preprint services, maybe with sugar on top.
The killer app in this area would be an open source service / server software for running a journal imho. If it were done well it would be hard to beat.
That said, I think traditional publication models are going to be around for awhile, maybe with much more open access or lower pub charges, just because the publishers do provide a service, even if access and price are distorted, and there isn't a uniformly better model at the moment (maybe too big a conversation for typing on my phone).
It's really remarkable how canalized apple markets have become, when you're exposed to alternatives. The fads become somewhat self perpetuating because they shift context of perception (people judge based on what they know).
It's not so much currently popular apples are bad, just that there's lots more out there.
With apples too you have the interesting case of the cider market, hard and soft. You can kind of get a sense of the effects of fads because cider apples can be really different in appearance but otherwise meet other marketability criteria. You end up with different sets of apples, which speaks to what people like when appearance isn't an issue.
I acknowledge texture is an issue in eating vs drinking, and that cider apples are blended for their charactistics, but many are also varieties that used to be popular eating or cooking apples that drifted in popularity but are still used in cideries because they've stood the test of time and customers like the flavor.
Curious about the taste.
Wolf River apples can be very large, but they're not dark, at least not the ones I've seen.
There are too many turf wars, government sanctioned monopolies, and rent seekers for anything but that to be the case. There's biases in maintaining the status quo too.
I suppose you could have someone with a pure economics or public health background but in my experience they tend to avoid these topics, in part because they have no incentive to fundamentally change healthcare delivery structures.
Lack of real competition among providers is a real underecognized problem in discussions of healthcare in my opinion. Much could be deregulated in a very beneficial way, but discussions almost always focus on payment instead. When deregulation is raised as an issue, it's almost always done in a way that focuses on easing obstacles to large pharm corps, without addressing other forms of deregulation.
In every case that I'm aware of, increasing scope and practice of providers only has net public health benefits. The only losing group is physicians. It's has always been that way, all the way back to dental practice.
I was frustrated a bit by the dismissal of probability theory, though, as if Bayes theory solved it, and by extension, and probability as a whole could be dismissed.
A lot of the issues the author raises are limitations with Bayesian (at least classical Bayesian) theory. The author's critisms dovetail with some areas of probability theory (cf Jaynesian or algorithmic probability literature); I suspect their concerns are one in the same at some level as some of the concerns discussed there.
The problem is uncertainty to various degrees is fundamental to reasoning, so probability must be involved at some level. An integrated approach is needed. I agree that Bayesian theory per se isnt the end of the story, but something involving probability will be part of it (and because Bayesianism is a big part of that, probably that too).
I also thought I've used a gui dat protocol client to transfer files but maybe it was only in the terminal.
Just about everything is like that. Whole wheat flour? Different bran and gluten percentages create really different loaves.
Pretending weights will solve everything is nonsense too. If humidity affects mass per volume, it's going to affect chemical identity per mass too.
Finally, everyone has different tastes. You might like a finer crumb to your bread; your spouse might like it more holely.
Recipes are like guidelines. Always. Experience matters because it reflects knowledge of how variations on the recipe matter.
Finally, if there's one thing I've learned, it's that a lot of things in cooking get passed down as critical when they're not, or even worse, are detrimental. This goes for traditional knowledge handed down, as well as half-baked "scientific" approaches to recipe development that are bad science and driven by a desire to establish authority above all.
One way to deal with this is context. In this case the pattern of Russia with regard to electronic free speech is pretty clear, so it's reasonable to assume these actions are at least partially motivated by something other than emergency preparedness.
These record systems used to all be developed in-house systems, fully self supporting, with little outside involvement. Then in the 2000s gov regulations started mandating adoption of EMRs.
Especially here this seems like a no-brainer but in actuality for many hospitals they were unnecessary and introduced with massive cost overruns as hospitals were forced to buy them from a limited pool of vendors that were approved by deadline rather than by intrinsic need.
How does this relate to the ransoms? Because if the EMRs were adopted organically, my guess is it would have happened more gradually, with more diversity of systems, more open source, more testing, and more emphasis on security, backup, and self-reliant reliability.
It's hard to overemphasize the change in records infrastructure in hospitals due to mandated EMRs, and a lot of it has been for the worse. EMRs would have been implemented eventually without the mandates, but at lower cost and greater security probably.
It's just another example of how overregulation in healthcare that sounds good but in practice ends up creating unnecessary costs and causing problems. It also once again doesn't get attention in healthcare price discussions, because it's structural, indirect, and removed from the immediate billing.
I blame these types of ransomware attacks in part on EMR mandates and those who encouraged them. Should bthe federal gov, which encouraged this mess, pay the costs, either of the ransoms, or the cost of not paying?
I've always been skeptical of cross validation based inference though and admit it's a fascinating phenomenon in the paper.
It just seems, informationally speaking, to be proposing something akin to free energy: that more data is worse and if you just increase your model complexity you can magically infer truth. It seems more likely to be an error in the inferential paradigm.
It's remarkable that things like Tuskegee are so quickly forgotten, and upsetting to me how quickly the issues become so oversimplified. I feel alienated in believing education, transparency, and rewards for prosocial behavior are the best way forward.
I'd love to see the market change, to support more diversity in what's normative. But it is too late for us. My wife loves her ring but it was kind of a surprising reaction for her to deal with. She's said that if it were any other jewelry she'd be fine with something other than diamond. She also in retrospect wishes she had been accepting of moissanite. But it was what it was.
Near us there's nice, challenging playgrounds, but their designs have become homogeneous. The older playgrounds had more unique features to each, with custom molded fiberglass.
I don't mind some playgrounds drifting to other materials, but the wood ones also have something to offer. I worry they're slowly being replaced by the same sorts of hdpe and brightly painted metal structures that are everywhere else. They're nice but all start to seem the same after awhile.
It's sort of like if houses all got torn down after 30 years and were all replaced with variants of the same template, rather than preserving older structures or encouraging innovative architecture.
Kids have as much to learn from variety as they do risk.
It's always mystified me why an open, cross platform messaging protocol hasn't become as widespread as SMS or email.
It seems messaging use is always driven as a side effect of other use; people use a messaging system because they use something else that happens to have a messaging system, and their friends all use it too.
The thing is, I'm not the one buying the items usually. They're gifts. And it doesn't matter how many times I tell family not to buy this or that, they do. Christmas is crazy, I hate it for all the wasted money and excess things to deal with. I hate my in laws showing up with well made furniture that I nevertheless hate the design of and don't need. I hate being the caretaker of other people's anxiety manifest in things.
Also, I have little time. So when clothing nmanufacturers do stupid sizing things to save a buck, and it doesn't fit me even after trying to get a tailor to fix it, I'm done spending time on it. It might fit someone else.
I've learned ironically used things on eBay often fit me better because the particular item's exact measurements are provided. I don't have to guess what "medium" means, or whether or not a 27.5 in length actually means 27.5 inches.
I guess my general point is a lot of these excesses are actually about inefficiency and broader societal norms. Even when you have someone who just wants a few nice fitting long lasting items, it can be hard to do that unless you can afford a personal tailor and no gifts to deal with.
It's a complicated topic. Clothes and linens are more cheaply made, even when you look hard, even in my lifetime. I'd argue people often don't even know what something well made in a category looks like often anymore, which distorts demand and therefore supply.
Huge huge differences in mushrooms.
My favs are chanterelles, chicken of the woods, and candy caps (which have a distinct maple/sotolon flavor).
This is in the same population of students. I noticed basically that IO tasks were eating up an increasingly big fraction of effort and time early on in courses, reflecting problems that didn't exist previously.
This seems to be for the reasons stated, that file IO stuff is being abstracted away. What used to be typical necessary computer fluency is now "low level" for many.
Having said that, there are a couple of studies I've wondered about, and this makes me think about a second look at them. They too aren't what he's most known for though, which is more in the area of measurement.
To me women's rights needs to be distinguished from #metoo for this reason, but in any event I don't think the gp comment was totally inappropriate in equating "wokeness" and #metoo as having a large social impression management component (even if you disagree with it).
I agree China and the US are in radically different places, but there are serious problems of some degree in many places right now.