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Causal Analysis in Theory and Practice » On the Classification and Subsumption of Causal Models
Friday, March 1st, 2019QT:[[”
The taxonomy that has helped me immensely is the three-level hierarchy described in chapter 1 of my book Causality: 1. association, 2. intervention, and 3 counterfactuals. It is a useful hierarchy because it has an objective criterion for the classification: You cannot answer questions at level i unless you have assumptions from level i or higher.
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The Kalashnikov assault rifle changed the world. Now there’s a Kalashnikov kamikaze drone. – The Washington Po st
Friday, March 1st, 2019Is Ancient DNA Research Revealing New Truths — or Falling Into Old Traps? – The New York Times
Friday, March 1st, 2019https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/17/magazine/ancient-dna-paleogenomics.html
has an interesting discussion of review process at Nature
QT:[[”
It has not gone unnoticed that the stunning, magisterial sweep of genetic revisionism, on the one hand, and a genetic emphasis on radical prehistoric migrations, on the other, bear more than a little in common. Some anthropologists
and archaeologists accept this analogy with gallows humor. One told me that I should
model this article after the format of the standard Nature paper: “Ancient DNA Reveals Massive Population Turnovers in the Humanities,” she suggested as a title,
and proposed this as an abstract: “The aristocratic lab scientists arrived with their
superior technology and displaced the pre-existing researchers and their primitive
truth-implements and overcomplicated belief systems.
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Serious challenges to its soundness were laid out during
Nature’s peer-review process. And yet, in a highly unusual move, the paper was accepted over the steadfast objections of two of the three peer reviewers on its anonymous panel. Confidential documents made available to me reveal deep concerns with the paper’s methods and its conclusions.
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Friday, March 1st, 2019Product Review: Melissa & Doug’s Suspend Is Addictive! | WIRED
Friday, March 1st, 2019Product Review: Melissa & Doug’s Suspend Is Addictive! | WIRED https://www.wired.com/2012/07/melissa-doug-suspend-review/
Read the Fine Print Before Sending Your Spit to 23andMe – The Hastings Center
Thursday, February 28th, 2019FYI HIPAA and DTC testing. According to this report it does not apply.
https://www.thehastingscenter.org/response-to-call-for-essays-read-the-fine-print-before-sending-your-spit-to-23andme-r/
Twin Pines Restaurant Diner – East Haven, CT
Thursday, February 28th, 2019http://twinpinesdiner.net/
24/7, on US-1
American Restaurant, Bar & Grill | New York, NY | Del Frisco’s Grille
Thursday, February 28th, 2019https://delfriscosgrille.com/new-york/
heavy fare, near rock ctr.