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by Fomite 5y ago
There's a difference, in my mind, between "Programmers" and "Invokers of Code". R is a terrible programming language. It's not a bad language for invoking code, because for many of those people, they're no
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by Fomite 5y ago
I live in a rural area - 150 miles on a charge is close enough to get to the nearest major city and back on a single charge (and there is a EV charger on that route). Would I use it as my daily ride? Probably not. But I think there's c
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by Fomite 5y ago
I'm an infectious disease epidemiologist, and there absolutely will be decades spend unravelling this. To address the parent question - one thing to keep in mind is that states are extremely heterogeneous, and "Did or did not lo
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by Fomite 5y ago
I will say it was conspicuously absent in this epidemic - if you ask a lot of epidemiologists, myself included, what the thing we most didn't expect about the epidemic, it's how aggressively a number of national governments, inc
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by Fomite 5y ago
It should be noted that Ebola presents in many patients as a febrile illness, not the "Hotzone" image of Ebola - a presentation that is extremely common in that part of Africa.
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by Fomite 5y ago
With the rise of Altmetrics? Arguably yes. IIRC, the last research I saw on this, which was awhile back, argued that clever titles get read more and cited less. https://www.researchtrends.com/issue24-september-2011/head
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by Fomite 5y ago
Vaccine-related immunity is related to several factors. Among them: 1) The rate of "vaccine escape" of the pathogen - that is, how well new variants of the pathogen can escape recognition by a vaccine. This varies from pathogen to
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by Fomite 5y ago
It's also consistent with other vaccines - for example, HPV vaccination confers better immune protection than a natural infection. See https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4813740/ vs. https:&#x
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by Fomite 5y ago
That depends on what field one is a professional in surely?
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by Fomite 5y ago
This is one on the list that genuinely confuses me - Cholera is still very much in use as a medical and epidemiological term. There are several others. "Dengue" is something we're currently developing vaccines for , not some
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by Fomite 5y ago
We often also use "Breakbone Fever" to try to communicate just how painful a case of Dengue can be to those who haven't had it.
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by Fomite 5y ago
The thing is, those aren't "Raids", "Dungeons" or "PvP" - they're specific forms of them. You could run dungeons every day, do a fair amount of raids, and a lot of PvP and be left behind because you a
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by Fomite 5y ago
This is sort of what lost me - and I've been playing WoW for a long time. It was clear if I wasn't running Mythics, Raiding or doing Competitive PvP, I'd be both hopelessly outclassed and not have much to do. I sort of idly t
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by Fomite 5y ago
In contrast, WFH meant my beloved Cheery MX Blue keyboard got banished by my wife for something quieter.
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by Fomite 5y ago
The comment I was replying to was talking about renaming diseases, doing extensive testing, and declaring a pandemic. That's all based on the people who would use the technical definition.
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by Fomite 5y ago
"Epidemic" isn't "Is a disease bad?". It's "Is this disease occurring at a level above expected?" You can have very serious endemic diseases - malaria is one example. But "Occurring to a level ab
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by Fomite 5y ago
Google Flu Trends was remarkably bad at influenza prediction
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by Fomite 5y ago
This isn't true. The definition for a flu epidemic is two standard deviations above the expected cases for influenza that year, as estimated by a Serfling-type regression model using a negative binomial distribution. Influenza just doe
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by Fomite 5y ago
We have extensive sentinel surveillance systems and reporting physicians that, you correctly guess, are used to inform population-level estimates. Flu surveillance is probably the most comprehensive and robust disease reporting system we ha
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by Fomite 5y ago
This. Norovirus considers most hand sanitizer people use a threat in the same tone we commend 6 year old t-ball players for their "Good hustle".
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by Fomite 5y ago
There's a reason a lot of epidemiologists I know, myself included, are fond of the phrase "fecal patina"
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by Fomite 5y ago
It's unlikely. Most of the major "uber infectious" influenza strains don't emerge via ordinary mutation (antigenic drift) but the reassortment of two viral genomes that have infected the same host (antigenic shift). Give
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by Fomite 5y ago
It didn't drop to zero. "Gone" is hyperbole - it was an extremely light flu season, but it wasn't zero or anything like that. And yes, we test for influenza a lot .
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by Fomite 5y ago
Most of the measures the public health community is pushing are: - Paid sick leave. First and foremost. - Increased flexibility for people WFH as possible if sick or vulnerable. That's really about it. Maybe masking, though that well h
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by Fomite 5y ago
I'm perplexed as well. That the perfect mixing models most people think of for infectious diseases are an imperfect approximation of the actual dynamics on a graph is well known in epidemiology.
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by Fomite 5y ago
Some of this is actually a surprise - we don't have a good handle on how influenza seasonality works, and some of the "Just So" stories for it should have promoted influenza transmission, like increased indoor crowding above
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by Fomite 6y ago
In my experience, what an IRB is worried about varies wildly by IRB. My graduate university was very careful, to the point of frustration (I had a four email back-and-forth with them about a project with no human subjects ). The institut
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by Fomite 6y ago
"Yes, they should have sought it in advance, but on the other hand almost nobody in computer science gets human subjects research training." This is a major failing.
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by Fomite 6y ago
I'm an epidemiologist who works with a lot of computer scientists. Step #1 for collaborations is usually getting them human subjects training and familiarizing them with the IRB.
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by Fomite 6y ago
Briefly got interested, then hit "Warning: The third-party that OpenFlights uses for route data ceased providing updates in June 2014. The current data is of historical value only."

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