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by 883771773929 8y ago
I've heard this argument a lot, but I'm not sure it stands up to scrutiny. Since this is HN, I'll put my counterargument in the context of computer code complexity. How much effort is required to build an entirely new 'm
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by 883771773929 8y ago
Adding on to this with an analogy from simulating dynamics in cellular automata, most of the interesting models of physics we see act with high redundancy in both spatial and temporal locality. A simple rule like Conway's Game of Life
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by 883771773929 8y ago
> ... exactly what caused the decrease in cardiovascular disease deaths but would love to hear if others do. Unfortunately I don't have data either, but I do have a hypothesis that may or may not end up surviving scrutiny when the r
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by 883771773929 8y ago
To be honest, I'm probably far younger than most on this thread and it's quite easy to dismiss my naive interpretation of a system that may? have the best of intentions but fails to materialize the outcomes sought due to individua
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by 883771773929 8y ago
I don't have the link right now, but one of my favorite tales is a group of traders who called the bluff of both a pervasive incumbent government spouting all kinds of GDP fudging nonsense around the election cycle and a sprawling comp
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by 883771773929 8y ago
I'm not sure you accurately diagnose the degree of polarization in the population with ideas of resentment and hostility that are largely subconscious and tend not to surface until stress manipulates those repressed emotions into actua
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by 883771773929 8y ago
Don't know where you live, but here in the US and especially in our metro areas, we use nursing homes as a way to seek vengeance against the older generations if they were assholes to younger generations. On the surface, we like to say
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by 883771773929 8y ago
Here's the methods protocol [0] for designing version 6 of the Human Mortality Database being visualized at that link. Notice how I explicity said the word _designing_ and not something like 'calculating' which would misleadi
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by 883771773929 8y ago
Exactly, and the reason why infant mortality has gone down also has a twist to it that's usually spun for profit. It's not due to heroic advances in obstetrics, nutrition, or even medical care in general, but rather fertility demo
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by 883771773929 8y ago
If any of those, (3) is the red herring. Your genetic markers are not write-once-at-gamete-recombination / read-only-at-every-transcription. The genetic code humans have includes many graceful degradation mechanisms that allow for plas
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by 883771773929 8y ago
I'd really like to know if there's a GNU-like project for the human genome. I do understand that the 'value' in DNA testing is largely the ability to follow the social graph of inheritance along with phenotypical metadat