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by ImaCake 6y ago
Probably helps that Bangladesh’s population pyramid tends to towards the young. So there just aren’t that many old people to get sick and die. Of course, this disease is just subtle enough that it might fly under the radar without statistic
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by ImaCake 6y ago
Oh these are great :) You can orientate yourself based on the big loop in the middle, which is the citric acid/krebs cycle - an important intermediate in cellular respiration to produce energy. The long pathway leading into the loop fr
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by ImaCake 6y ago
Australian or New Zealand Geographic. I am into hiking, and environmentalism is the topic I care about most when it comes to politics. Aus Geo manages to cover these topics with thoughtful and in-depth stories. I like the focus on my own co
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by ImaCake 6y ago
I think this kind of advice is a symptom of the real issue. Which is that when you think you can’t do something your brain is often lying to you . You want to be lazy and find a way around the problem, but often you can complete the task,
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by ImaCake 6y ago
For work I use Mac. It is where native MS office apps intersect with a unix terminal. I really think your choice of OS is down to usecase. But linux often requires much more patience than windows or mac to get started. Windows update is sti
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by ImaCake 6y ago
Maybe a more general lesson to learn here is that there are winners and losers in the great events of history. Mask manufacturers are certainly doing well from the current pandemic. Most Australians have only experienced about 2 months of l
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by ImaCake 6y ago
Well pings will have a bit of a weird distribution. If you did a histogram of your ping for a bit you would see most values sitting near some "floor" of X ms and then a long right-sided tail of values much larger than X ms. It see
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by ImaCake 6y ago
>History is full of specific lessons that aren’t relevant to most people, and not fully applicable to future events because things rarely repeat exactly as they did in the past. An imperfect rule of thumb is that the more granular the le
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by ImaCake 6y ago
>Congrats to him for finding something fun to do in retirement - dictators usually end up with a different outcome. ;) I guess he is going for a Diocletian cabbage farmer style retirement.
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by ImaCake 6y ago
Thanks, this is actually my favourite MacOS feature and I don't wish to go without it until they fix it!
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by ImaCake 6y ago
I think this nails it. Given both python and R, these people will pick R because the motivation for using R is very clear, it does data analysis and statistics. Whereas python kinda does everything and that makes it a bit more tricky to u
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by ImaCake 6y ago
I‘ve had few problems with R on my 2020 13’ Macbook but several of my coworkers have struggled with R on theirs. Some of them are very new to programming and likely get stumped by what I would consider “simple“ bugs.
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by ImaCake 6y ago
Yep, scientists at this level are far too busy and obsessed with their work to have any interest in celebrity. I‘m sure there are a few exceptions, but I suspect they would rather be left in “peace“. They already have enough undergrads and
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by ImaCake 6y ago
I tried to share this on facebook and it didn't let me beacause it thinks it is spam! I guess the URL is the victim of false positives in a hashing algorithm. Better than the alternative I suppose. See: https://en.wikipedia.
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by ImaCake 6y ago
>I hope that was helpful, sufficiently interesting to read, and easy enough to follow! I am studying biostatistics and currently struggling to wrap my head around the minutae of estimators so I enjoyed your response. It's all stuff
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by ImaCake 6y ago
I am sure some statisticians have good reasons for hating on descriptivist statistics but I wish they would express it with less vitriol. I am not generally sympathetic when someone says a tool sucks when the tool seems to do an okay enough
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by ImaCake 6y ago
We need scientists to deconvolve the "more responsibilities" bit from a physical change inside the brain. It is easy to imagine that both are occuring at the same time. But it is difficult to prove this since they both confound
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by ImaCake 6y ago
I think the multi-armed bandit problem would assume that the probability distribution, for each choice, would remain a constant for the duration of the problem. Diminishing returns would imply that some subset of those choices would have de
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by ImaCake 6y ago
Since this is would presumably be testing for efficacy I guess they would have a number of pre-determined "interim analysis" points in the study when X count of people report becoming positive for the coronavirus. If the proportio
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by ImaCake 6y ago
Pandoc is a tool used daily by those of us who write code notebooks (rmd or jupyter) or are into using markdown for their notes and occasionally need to print said notes. It is hard to overstate how useful Pandoc is for me. I would bet many
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by ImaCake 6y ago
I downloaded a 3gb file today that contains information about the human genome. But it was just an accessory file that lists a bunch of variations within the genome - not even the genome itself! Amazing to think how many books would fit int
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by ImaCake 6y ago
If you have a decent income you should consider getting your news from magazines and history books. I subscribe to Australian Geographic which covers issues I actually care about. Another good source for global news is Delayed Gratification
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by ImaCake 6y ago
Your linked study is much better than Ionnadis' one! This one actually followed the proper protocol for a meta-analysis for one. The results here are better stratified, the data more solid (because they did their meta-analysis proper
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by ImaCake 6y ago
Ah that explains why this is not a properly conducted meta-analysis. This guy seems to think he is somehow better than all the checks and safeguards put in place to ensure people do meta-analysis properly. I personally found this meta-analy
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by ImaCake 6y ago
What is the point of your comment? The author is stating that the mainstream view has been that tabloid papers sensationalise while broadsheets profess to not doing so. This is not their opinion, it is context for their argument that bl
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by ImaCake 6y ago
I don't see how it is big news that both sides of American politics are profoundly corrupt. If I were American (thankfully I am not) I would be thinking about the upcoming election as a choice between a corrupt arsehole whose rhetoric
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by ImaCake 6y ago
Although one shouldn't need to read a book on quitting social media. They can be cathartic if written well. I am fan of this one [0]. A favourite quote of mine from it: >Cats have done the seemingly impossible: They’ve integrated th
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by ImaCake 6y ago
I read somewhere that you lose high pitch hearing first, which is why the young could hear the CRTs when the elderly could not. I tried to google for this (actually DDG) but all I got was SEO spam.
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by ImaCake 6y ago
Part of the problem is that math and statistics are poorly taught most of the time. Textbooks will skip crucial steps in their proofs. Math professors will be too lazy to update their course notes based on frustrated student feedback. Cours
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by ImaCake 6y ago
For those unwilling to count; most categories are the same or differ by 1 person (today vs 1 year ago) except for management which is half the size it was 1 year ago. I am not a software dev or manager so I am unsure if this is just because

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