ImaCake

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by ImaCake 6y ago
EDIT: turns out I'm wrong about the nuance of this error so adjusting the below text... That's because this error isn't an error due to some analyst doing something wrong. What is happening is that people are being asked ques
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by ImaCake 6y ago
This fits my own experience as an Australian. Nice clear write-up. One thing I would add is that Australia had a plan ready to go before the pandemic even hit [0]. Complete with already passed legislation. 0. https://www1.health.
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by ImaCake 6y ago
I note the continued comments that are unable to believe that this virus can be contained. While I am highly skeptical that India will be able to keep cases down. Other wealthier countries certainly can. Since I live in Australia, and hence
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by ImaCake 6y ago
I fear that we in the west will simply not even know that this catastrophy is occuring all over the third world. Maybe in a few years we will find out just how terrible this pandemic was.
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by ImaCake 6y ago
Yeah, it is often a mystery just what options I have available to use in matplotlib, and it can be tricky to find which one is the one I actually want!
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by ImaCake 6y ago
Some portion of AI companies are likely a bunch of lawyers and bullshit. Whenever someone talks about all the companies jumping on some software hype train, I think about this post written on HN some time back [0], and I imagine that at lea
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by ImaCake 6y ago
If the measure of effect is small, we probably won't know if it works until someone puts together a meta-analysis of all the randomised controlled trials. That could take months. And it seems like some of those trials have been paused
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by ImaCake 6y ago
The freerangestats article is the clearest and easiest to read discussion of this topic I have found so far. Glad to see it in the top comment :)
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by ImaCake 6y ago
Reading the abstract to the Lancet article [0] would probably convince any decently trained science reporter that all is good. They tick all the boxes for what you are supposed to do when you do a case-control study. It reads as very profes
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by ImaCake 6y ago
The blog post linked by the parent post very clearly argues the data is fake. So I think you are misinterpreting what the parent post is saying. But I totally agree with your sentiment that this is truly terrible and everyone involved shoul
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by ImaCake 6y ago
I am congenital for anosmia (that is, I have never had a sense of smell) so I always find discussions about anosmia interesting. As a contribution: the experiences of never having smelt is very different from the experience of loosing it la
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by ImaCake 6y ago
Not sure why you are being downvoted. Negative placebo effect is real and anosmia (smell blindness) has been making headlines with the 'rona. To answer the original question: "Postviral olfactory disorders usually occur after an u
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by ImaCake 6y ago
Flu and common colds are known to cause anosmia. I guess the scale of it is different when its something novel.
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by ImaCake 6y ago
There is finally a decent assay for serology so maybe you can get tested soon. It's not one of the "fast" assay kits (those suck) it is a proper laboratory assay (an "ELISA") that requires trained staff or at least
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by ImaCake 6y ago
I had a really bad case of strep-throat a few years back and got a similar auto-immune problem afterwards. Never got a proper diagnosis because I looked okay and put on a show of good spirits when talking. But for two months I couldn&#x27
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by ImaCake 6y ago
Indeed, mass panic is an under appreciated risk in the discourse in some countries. We may have the misfortune of discovering just what that looks like in the coming months.
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by ImaCake 6y ago
> because the admin is the "management" and it will squeeze everyone else I participate in the research side of universities in various ways and this is exactly how it happens. The bureaucracy is absolutely the enemy when tryin
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by ImaCake 6y ago
People might be interested in why this useful. Much like with Covid today, scientists are interested in understanding when the disease first appeared. Because that gives us clues about where it came from and how quickly it is changing now.
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by ImaCake 6y ago
I wonder what HIV would have done if it hit before mass adoption of protective equipment for sex. I think it could have brought civilization to it's knees.
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by ImaCake 6y ago
But even a tiny mortality rate is catastrophic when talking about city and country sized populations. The lockdowns happened for a reason, because this disease overwhelms public health.
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by ImaCake 6y ago
The line about the experiment made me consider if "no ideas" is a symptom or a cause. Borrowing from epidemiology, I think "no ideas" might be an effect modifier. That is, it is just an intermediate step when going from
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by ImaCake 6y ago
I agree with this. I have a mildly addictive personality and found I had to block my newsfeed to keep myself (mostly) off facebook. I follow a couple of groups which are useful to me and basically nothing else. I deleted all of my old posts
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by ImaCake 6y ago
This is typical in finance. Many of the financial "instruments" are given funny nouns that hide the true character of what they are (usually shitty loans, or stocks being sold at a mark-up).
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by ImaCake 6y ago
Well doesn't give order, but "cake site:news.ycombinator.com" will give search for keyword "cake" only on HN.
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by ImaCake 6y ago
I suppose you could contribute your own via a pull request.
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by ImaCake 6y ago
>reasonable diet, enough sleep, exercise For many victims this is already too difficult to achieve. The use of pills and therapy are the jump start they need to then use these basic steps to improve their lives organically.
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by ImaCake 6y ago
There is only so much you can do to cover up a pandemic and an economic depression. People won't need numbers to understand either event when their grandfather dies and they can't get a job to feed their children.
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by ImaCake 6y ago
For the curious: Michigan's positive test rate on 19May2020 was: 435 new cases/12726 tests = 0.034, or 3.4%. Which is pretty good and means they are finding most cases within the section of the community they are testing. For co
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by ImaCake 6y ago
The trade off is between measurement bias and selection bias. Typically you want to be dealing with measurement bias and not selection bias, since the latter is often impossible to account for. You are correct that it is preferable to repor
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by ImaCake 6y ago
I think that is just enough to make it worthwhile even for a poor American. If you can coordinate and plan ahead a little you would break minimum wage.

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