ImaCake

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by ImaCake 5y ago
It would need to be less serious than the flu to not be a complete disaster - Omicron COVID spreads multiple times more efficiently than any strain of the flu does.
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by ImaCake 5y ago
The parent comment's point about increased infections still stands. Omicron might be less dangerous to the individual but its a disaster at the population level because many more infections mean many more hospitalisations even if mor
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by ImaCake 5y ago
The problem is that there is no requirement for these apps to actually work . They might work, or might not. But that doesn’t really impact whether scientists get grants. They make the funders/government look like they care about ment
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by ImaCake 5y ago
1 in a 100 people hospitalised is not the common cold. Those are still worse numbers than the flu. Sure, it probably won't make you very sick, but at a population level omicron is still a disaster.
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by ImaCake 5y ago
Yeah it is pretty dire news really. Recent experience in Australia demonstrates that vaccines, especially when fresh, work really well to control the spread of Delta. But it looks like Omicron just cuts straight through that protection. A s
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by ImaCake 5y ago
>does not disclose that this is a research survey Yeah this is the big one for me. Coming from the context of medical research it is shocking to me how many commenters think this is okay. If this happened to be a disguised medical resear
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by ImaCake 5y ago
This strategy works well in biology. Have one brightly coloured poisonous frog and then there are three or four mimics who are not poisonous (poison requires lots of resources!). Sure, some frogs still get eaten, but the mere threat of pois
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by ImaCake 5y ago
The study was “self-controlled”. That is, individuals before being exposed to vaccine/covid were their own controls. This is a fairly robust technique if done right. You automatically avoid issues of your controls having different attr
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by ImaCake 5y ago
The study is “self-control” which means patients are compared before and after the exposure (vaccine or covid) for the outcome (myocarditis). So there is a control - the control for each person is their pre-exposure selves. If you want to
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by ImaCake 5y ago
My attempt at googling this produces an abundance of answers. They are not the best answers, but they do give some good indications. Here is an ABS article that appears in second place on DuckDuckGo Aust [0]. If you want really solid number
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by ImaCake 5y ago
How can COVID infections be over reported? They are obviously underreported in the total population due to the limitations of testing. Is the over-reporting risk a matter of how they adjusted their data in this study?
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by ImaCake 5y ago
The much more interesting quote is of the magnitude of events. COVID is much more likely to cause myocarditis: “We estimated an extra two (95% confidence interval (CI) 0, 3), one (95% CI 0, 2) and six (95% CI 2, 8) myocarditis events per 1
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by ImaCake 5y ago
Not sure about irregular heart beats. But when I was burning out from my PhD a very heavy and intense heart beat was the most notable physical symptom. There was no underlying problem, I was just going through a great deal of emotional stre
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by ImaCake 5y ago
Maybe people are just scared? There’s no ulterior motives needed about working in the office here. Omicron is scary. Also with something this spectacularly infectious it pays at the community level to work from home and slow the spread. M
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by ImaCake 5y ago
I tried to do this and found it very easy. I suppose it would be a more stringent test for someone who is ESL and not very tech competent. I am impressed with the careful and clear use of language to explain everything. It is just so easy t
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by ImaCake 5y ago
You can measure how efficient a PCR is by how long it takes to get a positive result. PCR requires a loop of different temperatures to cause different steps in the reaction to occur. This loop is usually repeated 30-40 times. You measure if
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by ImaCake 5y ago
> Note to Americans: the £ is like the $, except bigger This is just perfect. I love this website so much. If I lived in the UK I would seriously consider buying from this website. So I guess this advertising works for me.
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by ImaCake 5y ago
Plenty of archaic homo genus groups were around more recently and we have at least some genetic evidence of them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denisovan
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by ImaCake 5y ago
But we can and do. So this question is moot. It becomes important the further back in time you go, but it’s not like we don’t have Neanderthal DNA sequences.
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by ImaCake 5y ago
This is also the point where the author lost me. But it was because of the dismissal of the molecular evidence. That molecular evidence is very compelling and has vastly improved our knowledge of early homo . Disagreeing with what the mole
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by ImaCake 5y ago
This is exactly simpsons paradox. It is a shame so few people have heard of it! This same breakdown implies that vaccinating half of the currently unvaxxed would do a lot to reduce pressure on hospitals. That is, if you have 80% vaxxed, a m
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by ImaCake 5y ago
It would be nice to see some standard deviations reported here! Nominal p-values would be a start too. Since N = 2000 it wouldn’t be hard to find atleast a few interesting findings. Although the bias from study design would make it hard to
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by ImaCake 5y ago
I wouldn’t be surprised if they do. Australia is desperate for foreign skilled labour and I am sure Japan and New Zealand are similar. You will need to wait till early 2022 for easy entry into any of these places.
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by ImaCake 5y ago
This is maybe true. But I have seen more than a few dubious COVID articles gain traction on HN. There are several times I have tried to clarify basic statistical points as well. So it’s not a given that it would have been flagged/dead.
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by ImaCake 5y ago
I can give pretty much the same anecdotes as you. The bulkier over-ear headphones seem to have no trouble with connectivity, brilliant battery life, and great sound. While every pair of in-ear headphones has had troubles. A lot of people I
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by ImaCake 5y ago
This is a pretty poor quality article. I say this as someone who works in a population genetics research group. If you like some actually thoughtful reading on genetics and eugenics I would point you towards gwern who, as far as I can tell,
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by ImaCake 5y ago
> multiple dice rolls each cycle This is an understatement, just considering SNPs, there is at least several hundred thousand statistically independent coin flips when two parents breed. It is difficult to overstate how powerful an evolu
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by ImaCake 5y ago
But it’s not clear at all that intelligence is a single trait. It is incredibly messy and this means any analysis of it has to be very careful of confounders. In contrast, height is by many definitions a single trait, we know exactly what
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by ImaCake 5y ago
While some points in here might ring a little cynical today, I think the broader argument has proven true. The mega project I have been contributing my spare time and cognition to is inaturalist [0]. Despite it’s many flaws, it is impressiv
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by ImaCake 5y ago
In defence of suburbs - they are not all boring, although many certainly are. I live near the city centre of a small east coast Australian city and find the inner suburbs with their brick houses and well developed gardens and street trees r

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