Gatsky

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   by Gatsky 6y ago

   https://www.coindesk.com/the-last-word-on-bitcoins-energy-co...
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   by Gatsky 6y ago

   This is a new disease, we don’t know what is going to happen in the future. There could be chronic consequences we don’t know about yet, for example. The virus could evolve to have much higher mortality next year. By allowing it to become e
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   by Gatsky 6y ago

   Someone told me ear plugs significantly shortened their time to sleep. I’ve also noticed one can feel relaxed and lie in bed but actually have a lot of residual muscle tension. Consciously trying to relax muscles in upper back/neck, th
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   by Gatsky 6y ago

   Tangentially, are there any good native plotting libraries in Julia? I haven't found one.
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   by Gatsky 6y ago

   If you aren't accustomed to using classes or python in general, the style of ggplot seems more natural I think. The cognitive load is also slightly less looking at ggplot code in my opinion. But if you use python already, it wouldn&#x2
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   by Gatsky 6y ago

   But what if you had an artificial cessation of economic activity which then suddenly resumed in the midst of a massive fiscal stimulus, unprecedented supply chain disruption and geopolitical manipulation of free trade?
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   by Gatsky 6y ago

   Ah yes, good point, it has been 12 years.
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   by Gatsky 6y ago

   I didn’t mind Consider Phlebas, but I found Excession, Player of Games, The Algebraist and Surface Detail to be more interesting. Against a Dark Background was also good although strictly not a Culture book. Other sci-fi I have enjoyed whic
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   by Gatsky 6y ago

   Beyond these methodological questions, I think that the Mendelian Randomisation approach works best for situations where the effect of some exposure is chronic eg LDL and atherosclerosis, particularly where the disease process may begin in
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    by Gatsky 6y ago

    This article was posted before several years ago. The whole premise is bumptious - "I can copy data out of a bunch of papers [which I am in no position to screen for quality or relevance], run a canned 'gold standard' analysi
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    Latest USA Cancer Death Statistics(cancer.org)

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    by Gatsky 6y ago

    I don't think you can lump physics, life sciences, chemistry etc all together. This article mainly pertains to physics, which is notable for being more cathedral like than other fields, where prior work is very foundational. Physics is
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    by Gatsky 6y ago

    This is more complicated than it seems. You are comparing a job (HFT) with a pursuit (science). The actual comparison is HFT with academia (the job part). Academia is a terrible job and getting worse over time. Academics have been talking a
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    by Gatsky 6y ago

    This depends greatly on where you will be studying, where you intend to practice, and your matrix of personal and financial dependencies. Working conditions in medicine are universally poor, frankly. The flexibility during education and tra
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    by Gatsky 6y ago

    I am a medical oncologist in a similar position to you. I agree completely. There is a lot of hype over 'AI' and big data, and plainly ridiculous statements about replacing doctors etc. The technology is fascinating, and there has
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    by Gatsky 6y ago

    I would differentiate prevention from screening. Screening is for early detection of a problem (for example, the Pap smear to detect pre-cancerous lesions on the cervix). Prevention prevents the problem in the first place (eg the vaccine ag
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    by Gatsky 6y ago

    Sorry, I just assumed this was about children due to the nature of the article.
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    by Gatsky 6y ago

    Regarding the protection of one’s children, I am not comprehending why you would have such an extensive list but still allow facebook and instagram.
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    by Gatsky 6y ago

    This isn’t true. Cancer is often the top cause of death in women depending on which country you are in (eg Australia).
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    by Gatsky 6y ago

    I think the “nanny state” concept is poorly calibrated. If you allow entities to profit from causing harm, or conveniently shift the cost of negative externalities onto other people, day to day life will eventually become so adversarial tha
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    by Gatsky 6y ago

    I would avoid Mendeley. Firstly, they are trying to create a researchgate-style social media spam network layer. Secondly they are owned by the maximally vile Elsevier. Thirdly, their software quality is poor eg. they couldn’t get sync work
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    by Gatsky 6y ago

    Yeah I noticed you can buy large doses of vitamin D in the USA. It is quite cost-effective to get the 5000 or 10000 IU capsules and take one a week. In Australia you can't usually get more than 1000 IU in a capsule at the normal pharma
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    by Gatsky 6y ago

    I think code is remarkably persistent in the scheme of things. Try reproducing a wet lab experimental technique from 5 years ago.
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    by Gatsky 6y ago

    I think about this a lot as well. To a scientist, funding more science and scientists seems like a no brainer. It's not like everything's worked out, we are inured against all the reasonable existential threats, and we all live to
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    by Gatsky 6y ago

    Came here to say this. Experimental design is flawed. The laser electronics are probably interfering with the electrodes.
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    by Gatsky 6y ago

    As usual for substack, this is maybe one reasonable point at the start followed by a lot of low value padding. The founder of Canva, although amazing, is hardly an example of an 'Industry Academic'?
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    by Gatsky 6y ago

    For electronic music there is this wondrous creation: https://music.ishkur.com/
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    by Gatsky 6y ago

    I was pretty excited about vitamin D for cancer prevention. I though it might explain higher cancer prevalence further away from the equator. But then Mendelian randomisation studies showed it made no difference. Having said that there was
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    by Gatsky 6y ago

    I had the feeling that there may be reasons not to put a nuclear plant near the equator as you suggest. I had to check but if they were to do this it would be one of the only reactors in the world essentially right on the equator [1]. One o
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    by Gatsky 6y ago

    Not sure how one could make such an ill-considered comment. It is always useful to ask 'cui bono?'. Who benefits the most from e2e? Is it the individual? Or is it Facebook and friends, who can use it to drastically lower content m