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Citing Assange's mental health, judge rejects the US's extradition request(twitter.com)
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As someone who knows a thing or two about statistics, this looks as a painfully wrong interpretation of the data. Essentially this is p-hacking, although it might be inadvertant by the authors. This XKCD explains it well: https:/&#x2F
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by 317070 6y ago
As a fellow Belgian: while that statement is true, even if you would substract the overcounting, Belgium would not really budge in the rankings.
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by 317070 6y ago
One needs to be careful with such statistics though. The Netherlands had similar numbers but luckily also reported they could only trace 20% of the outbreaks. And that puts things in a very different perspective. Of the traced outbreaks, mo
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Google Waives $1.5B DeepMind Loan as AI Costs Mount(finance.yahoo.com)
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No, but will that stop him? Or will that allow acquiring companies to start asserting some control? Or will Boston Dynamics yet again use the US military as a counterbalancing force to do what they want? The main point is that profitability
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Word has it Marc Raibert is not the easiest person to work with as an acquiring company, in a sense that he will keep control of the company, and do whatever he wants with it. Good for him, I think.
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by 317070 6y ago
People watch properly narrated marble run olympics. I have always thought of that as the proof that the narrator providing context is the only thing that really matters. The fact that the context is about something extremely inconsequential
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by 317070 6y ago
Well, these days they are actually often connected to the internet. That on its own requires prngs.
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by 317070 6y ago
I don't think nuclear explosions belong in that list. They have tremendous power, but very limited energy on a planetary scale. Do you have a source that says otherwise?
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by 317070 6y ago
Imagine the same project (Lunar base? Moon telescope? Rocket fuel harvester?) but in the Sahara. Now add the constraint that you want it there, but without ever having any humans on site. That is what needs addressing. That level of automat
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In this quarantine period, I have been learning about Jacques Ellul and Durkheim and Max Weber's views on technology (and many others). Kaczynski has already passed my radar, but I am going to actively ignore what Kaczynski wrote, thou
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I had heard of his book "Amusing Ourselves to Death" and know its synopsis. But man, this guy is a visionary. I should maybe actually read the book.
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> so the whole world is studying this virus 24/7 for almost a year and nobody detected anything I think you might overestimate what we can detect, when it comes to how viruses interact with a living human body. Yes, the whole world
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by 317070 6y ago
> but is this safe long term Is getting COVID safe long term? There are plenty of viruses that cause issues in the long term. HIV causes AIDS, HPV and Hepatitis cause cancers years later. We have no clue on the long term effects of SARS-
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Yes, but if you read the source [0], they will wait until after the US election, but not for reasons related to the US election. Just because they expect their results to arrive after the US elections. It's like saying that I will wait
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by 317070 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriarchy Or more specifically: https://www.jstor.org/stable/3562720?seq=1
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Do you have a source for this? I am curious if this is true.
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Vaccine Against Covid-19 Successful in Interim Analysis from Phase 3 Study(investors.pfizer.com)
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> People have the right to expect statistical normality in other people. Except, that there often is a disconnect between statistical normality, and normality. For the longest time, people were expected to be men, despite how glaringly o
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by 317070 6y ago
Does someone know what a "simulated collision" is? How is it relevant? Or are those still collisions in the real world? EDIT: it is in the article, I read it too fast: > The company says it also counts events in which its train
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You could send those particles in parallel though (i.e. make your channel wider in information theory). More particles should not take more time, just more space, which is fine. I was also puzzled by this sentence in the article.
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>Also, the prep of clearing your system will reset your digestive system and you'll feel like a new person. I think the prep cleared out whatever it was that was causing us to investigate my digestive system in the first place. I ha
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by 317070 6y ago
Trucking goods over land will spread a lot more covid than shipping over sea (with seamen no longer allowed to leave ship). That is the big factor I reckon. So islands will ship everything already, whereas most land-countries move a lot of
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I am pretty sure everybody is referencing the 1960 article "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences" by Eugene Wigner [0]. I am not aware of a Karpathy article with the same title, so I kind of doubt
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by 317070 6y ago
You should add (2018) to the title. I knew I had read about it before.
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Because support sucks universally and everywhere. There is no way to know if you will get support, even if you pay. Support is one giant lemon market. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Market_for_Lemons
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Nobel laureates call on UK to back infecting volunteers with Covid for vaccine(theguardian.com)
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When you observe it, you collapse the wave-function of which color the ball has into a particular value (red or blue). Before you observed it, the ball was in a superposition of the two colors. And this collapse instantaneously also collaps
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by 317070 6y ago
I have a bag with two balls, one red, one blue. I randomly send one of the balls to Australia, one of the balls to the USA. The moment you look at your ball in Australia, you also know the color of the ball in the USA. How would you use tha

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