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Jan 14, 2026 at 23:04
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It seems really odd to me that git uses 'cached' terminology for staging. For example, `git add somefile.rs; git diff --cached`. Caching implies state that you don't mind losing. There's very little state I want to lose in version control!
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'Fishing' for p<0.05 is an unfortunate term:it implies ill-intent rather than inadvertently finding spurious results
https://www.stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/research/unpublished/p_hacking.pdf