Brandon Hall @bthall@scholar.social
I'm a Christian philosopher that's studying economics.
I aspire to do weird but illuminative stuff w/ economics.
Joined Apr 2018
I've been reading PDFs of #statistics #books on my e-reader, which is only grayscale. Lots of figures are using color to let the reader differentiate between distributions and data points, which doesn't help me at all due to the grayscaling. But I'm kinda more amused by the process of inferring which things are which than I should be. 😂
Do any of you have papers that you recommend about how to go about choosing a name for a concept you've come up with?
I have gone through about seven name ideas so far and each one is well-established but for a significantly different meaning.
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COVID-19 Isn't Crashing the Internet ... Yet
https://www.pcmag.com/news/covid-19-isnt-crashing-the-internet-yet
@gzt
I agree. (And I think that I count as a creationist?)
@Cyborgneticz
Lmao one of my college friends just sent me a photo from my university. Apparently I wrote my name on a whiteboard in the tutoring center over a year ago and no one's erased it yet!
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"Are you sure I can sign this entry in the notes as a medical student? Don't want people to, like, rip it out and disregard this advice about antibiotics"
"Why not! You're a valued member of the team!" 
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@m4lvin Does that feature really exist? 😥
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updating CV to apply to electives next year and... no idea what to put in or how to organise it
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Haven't posted here in a while, but thought some of you might find my new little oa volume of interest. https://thedigitalpress.org/failing-gloriously/
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I'm the series editor for a series of #OpenTextbooks for Introduction to Philosophy courses, and we now have two books published (out of nine planned)!
Philosophy of Mind: https://press.rebus.community/intro-to-phil-of-mind/
Today's the anniversary of me graduating from my undergrad. :) Thank you again to everyone here that was supportive to me during that last semester! I hope that you're all doing well.
My Dad, my brother, and I are going out to celebrate my #graduation anniversary and that my brother has completed another semester at his community college. #undergrad
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@bthall 🤼¹
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1. Hall, B. Scholar Social Post. <https://scholar.social/@bthall/103300844948531746> Retrieved on 2019 December 13.
Ah. I learned either today or yesterday (it's only now hitting me) that my favorite #economics thinker is dead and died in 2016. Gary Becker.
*searches for upcoming, nearby #econometrics conferences*
That date looks...funny [it's tomorrow]
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@bthall You don't always get what you ask for, but you rarely get what you don't ask for.
@mpjgregoire
Woah, I really hadn't thought of that. That'd be super cool!
Now that I have a little money and am on the outside of academia, it's tempting to become a member of professional/scholarly associations to get access to the journals and magazines they publish. (I'm currently looking at the American Statistical Association https://www.amstat.org)
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Grad school nightmare fuel
A Code Glitch May Have Caused Errors In More Than 100 Published Studies
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Working & Reading Habits:
Where do you find yourself at your most productive? Do you prefer to read papers and do writing / busywork in different locations?
Libraries? Coffee Shops? Campus? Town?
I'm interested in hearing how best you all work and learn!
I'm a Christian philosopher that's studying economics.
I aspire to do weird but illuminative stuff w/ economics.
Joined Apr 2018
