ImaCake

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by ImaCake 6y ago
Mendelian randomisation is somewhat of a gold standard for analysing this kind of data. It is a technique to try and establish causal relationships between gene variations and phenotype. Definitely not the kind of crap pushed by a "sup
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by ImaCake 6y ago
GWAS papers are particularly difficult for outsiders to make sense of. To make it clear to OP, they did stratify for sex. But you need to check a few different spots in the results and methods sections before you can figure this out.
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by ImaCake 6y ago
Middle management can run distraction on the owners so that they don't see the misery of the operations people who actually keep the buisness going.
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by ImaCake 6y ago
>Without admin access or an operating manual. I think there is some admin access. The problem is it probably isn't a good idea to sudo | grep | awk > overwrite_file.model very often. Brains might just be a jumble of extremely eff
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by ImaCake 6y ago
>I'm specifically referring to https://spatial.chat I am curious to know more about this for personal and professional reasons but am unwilling to give my email just to find out. Do they have an about page hidden somewhe
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by ImaCake 6y ago
4% of patients having heart permanent damage is still 13,128,000 people. Qualitatively, those numbers are equally hard to grasp, so why would it be any less terrifying?
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by ImaCake 6y ago
Agreed. The penalty associated with the risk is important too. Probability theory and statistics can get us the risk fairly easily. But putting a number on the penalty associated with failure is a different problem altogether. If getting si
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by ImaCake 6y ago
I've been using Teams for some work and I also agree that it's pretty good. I really like the integration with OneDrive/Sharepoint so you can build up a project of files. Using remote files on local instances of MS office pro
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by ImaCake 6y ago
I find turning the math into working code sometimes helps me. The for-loop in my code only approximates the mean within +- 0.5 intervals. This is because it relies on the definition for finding the mean provided in OP's article, rather
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by ImaCake 6y ago
Thanks this is a great way to extend and generalise OP's post. Thanks for sharing. I don't think I would have been able to understand the wikipedia argument without the more intuitive explanation in the original post. As an aside,
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by ImaCake 6y ago
On the passport thing, I was curious about how true it was. Turns out there has been fluctuating amounts of freedom of movement over the course of human history. Equivalents to passports have existed for a long time, so Zweigs nostalgic com
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by ImaCake 6y ago
Does he use standard Hochdeutsch in the book? I would have loved to read it in the original language, but I struggle with easy reading novels targeted at teenagers in German.
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by ImaCake 6y ago
Stefan Zweig in his "World of Yesterday" captures the essence of your argument well. Although I think we says more that WW1 combined with the Nazi takeover later was responsible, rather than specifically the racist attacks on Jews
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by ImaCake 6y ago
I suspect this has something to do with the author's intentions. The author here has no reward attached to people believing her conclusions drawn from this data. Instead she may wish to just show people "look at this dumb cool thi
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by ImaCake 6y ago
There is an obscure party in Australia whose platform is to allow people to vote on every issue in parliament. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_Direct_Democracy
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by ImaCake 6y ago
That is excellent. Tools like this get us close to the kind of granular democracy that our ancestors could only dream of.
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by ImaCake 6y ago
> I think even most instagram celebrates of realized that maybe "self work" is a good idea. There is an entire community within instagram that is focused on this. I think they call themselves the "positivity movement"
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by ImaCake 6y ago
People might be interested to know that semantic web ideas have been more successful in some niches than others. Computational biology for example makes extensive use of "ontologies" which are domain specific DAGs that do exactly
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by ImaCake 6y ago
As a follow up on this website's name. What does "web dark age" mean to HN people? I've seen political comments but no consensus yet. For a long time I have thought of it as a period where all our data was stored in deca
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by ImaCake 6y ago
I thought the "Web Dark Ages" refered to people imagining us looking back on it in 20 years and finding it had dissapeared with only a tiny fraction of it archived. Under that definition the web dark ages ended when web archival s
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by ImaCake 6y ago
He has a whole follow-up trilogy from Pandora's Star. They are every bit as massive and pondorous. I personally liked them just enough to finish them, but I won't re-read them. However, I absolutely love the Night's Dawn Tril
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by ImaCake 6y ago
I'm not sure if you are serious but even millions of events recorded in text would not take up too much space. Bioinformatics datasets that run into the millions of lines still only require a few gigabytes, and they are often compresse
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by ImaCake 6y ago
That's interesting because my intuition points in the opposite direction. By blocking emotive content I am less exposed to things that will swing my views towards extremes. I bet there is whole field of research on this topic that I kn
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by ImaCake 6y ago
Sorry that was not my intention. But your answer is useful for how I should be thinking about this anyway, so thankyou :) How would a nation like the USA go about encouraging more healthy forms of moderation to suppress insane memes but not
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by ImaCake 6y ago
Lots of discussion about censorship here. I would like to ask a slightly off-topic question: Does China have the same kind of social discord that America has? Chinese online communities are subject to considerable censorship and moderation.
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by ImaCake 6y ago
The author of the parent explains their view well I think (not directed at statistics students). But I would like to make the more general complaint that this attitude seems pervasive in maths. People often fail to include enough detail in
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by ImaCake 6y ago
I agree with this view, and that Netflix must be quite negatively addictive for some. Following from that, I wonder why we don't see similar articles about Netflix as we do about quitting facebook? It has the same kind of relevance to
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by ImaCake 6y ago
Wow thanks :) I had not come across this idea before! I've thought about this before, but not directly. I feel it is an excellent way to think about what our internet services could be if they were not the product of a hyper-capitalist
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by ImaCake 6y ago
Yeah the problem is partly that both sides do not understand each other. I was hoping my analogy would help people understand the problem that facebook presents to some people. That way we can start to think beyond sweeping statements and
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by ImaCake 6y ago
You can install an extension/add-on in firefox and chrome that will block it. That's how I block my newsfeed.

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