ImaCake

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by ImaCake 6y ago
The problem with any automated method is it is subject to hijacking by people who are interested in money. I think the best thing to do is to return to manual link referals. There are plenty of bloggers who will link to other blogs througho
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by ImaCake 6y ago
>It is just unevenly discoverable. I suspect this makes me selfish, but I like it like this. It is fun finding out of the way blogs and being part of a tiny audience following an interesting but rarely discussed topic.
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by ImaCake 6y ago
By my rekoning then, there are 17 countries that have larger GDP than the combined tech companies.
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by ImaCake 6y ago
I listened to the audio book of it back in January and it has completed changed how I see the Australian landscape and it's aboriginal people. What is interesting is that the topics and ideas in the book are not new among academics (al
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by ImaCake 6y ago
>That doesn't mean throwing up one's hands and just accepting that all academic code is like this, but it does mean coming from a place of knowing what normal academic code looks like (much worse than this). This paints an incr
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by ImaCake 6y ago
Australia's influenza modelling had plans for this style of lockdown prepared long before the 'rona hit. So you are right, this model did not shut down the global economy. If anything did, it was China's demonstration that su
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by ImaCake 6y ago
I am not sure why you are getting so much heat for this. There are several countries, including some with land borders, that have successfully reduced new cases to a trickle. There's ample evidence that severe restrictions can basicall
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by ImaCake 6y ago
Australia, Taiwan, and South Korea pulled off similar stunts. It's a repeatable success.
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by ImaCake 6y ago
I thought Taiwan already did this? Or do you mean if they open borders with NZ, would they still need to quarantine before they can go explore Taiwan?
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by ImaCake 6y ago
The author of this is a cofounder of retraction watch. Which is an invaluable source of information in research. Not just for the press, but for scientists themselves! I once used retraction watch posts to figure out why a prominent pair of
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by ImaCake 6y ago
Australia's gov't owned ABC news company has started spreading articles filled with either optimism or "why a depression wont be so bad". The people who know these kind of things can see the way the wind is blowing.
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by ImaCake 6y ago
Estimates for the most recent common ancestor point to mid January for France [0]. Of course these numbers could be wrong. But I suspect the level of surveillance of genomes allows for bioinformaticians to keep a close eye on what the virus
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by ImaCake 6y ago
I don't think we have any statistical tests that will give us any kind of certainty with a 1/14 result. At best you could assume it fits the expected value (maximum likelihood) of a binomial distribution[0], which gives us a 35%
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by ImaCake 6y ago
This is why normal, sane, people will put up with the Dilbert-esque world of business. They only have a month's savings and they have a mortgage and two kids to feed.
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by ImaCake 6y ago
What if the opportunity cost is borne out of malice? I briefly worked as a quality control microbiologist at a manufacturing facility. We were constantly understaffed and unable to meet requirements. Heaps of missed opportunity to improve t
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by ImaCake 6y ago
I am doing a course on epidemiology this semester and I find it is once of the best courses I have ever taken, offline or online. It is offered, usually, in both online and in-person formats. It is very well designed and has rich content an
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by ImaCake 6y ago
Maybe you could go with something like the Australian model where Uni is relatively expensive but high quality for international students while it is subsidised for domestic students with interest free loans and direct subsidies on course c
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by ImaCake 6y ago
> the author doesn't know they are being manipulated despite being an expert Actually I meant the author was aware of his view and is being both manipulative while fairly forwarding his agenda. Your option would be a fourth possibil
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by ImaCake 6y ago
Not sure why you are being modded. A third option, which I consider most likely, is that this piece is doing both. The author most likely believes in what they are saying and are trying to manipulate things in a certain direction. There is
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by ImaCake 7y ago
China probably lacks the decades of institutional knowledge that the USA has. As much as us young ones complain (in anglo-saxon developed countries), there is something to be said for the old men who chair the committees and head the labs.
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by ImaCake 7y ago
This kind of practice is illegal in most developed countries. Hiring for the same position after giving someone a redundancy is considered intent for unreasonable dismissal. Does the USA not have these kind of protections?
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by ImaCake 7y ago
I agree with your sentiments. The USA still leads the world in research and were the best positioned to respond to this threat. So much of the rest of the world's biology/medical research relies on tools that are supplied by the N
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by ImaCake 7y ago
Correlation is not causation. There is plenty of reason to believe that novel viruses would emerge in a place like Wuhan. I would suspect that the reverse is true: The coronavirus lab is in Wuhan because it a likely hot spot for emerging in
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by ImaCake 7y ago
The engineering is great. People's bias likely stems from the numerous security scandals surrounding intel's CPUs in the last few years.
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by ImaCake 7y ago
I find math courses (as an adult doing a masters in biostatistics) can be very poorly taught sometimes. I think this comes from a desire to "keep things simple" and elegant. But the lack of practical examples and no alternative ex
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by ImaCake 7y ago
Hmm I definitely think using some basic statistical theory could improve your choice of numbers. A bit of stats provides a lot more information from which you can draw more informed decisions. And of course there are lots of results that ar
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by ImaCake 7y ago
Can those who have downvoted me here explain why? This was my genuine experience working in a GMP company and I would like to know if this is not the norm.
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by ImaCake 7y ago
I think this is important nuance that I did not address in my comment above this one. It is very true that the problem space of choosing things to maximise happiness is filled with unknowns and hazards. Thanks, I take no offence and I under
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by ImaCake 7y ago
>To the engineering team, that's 1 error out of hundreds of thousands of requests per day. This is low severity. I think ignoring these edge cases is a mistake. In statistics, we are often most interested in the tails of our curve
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by ImaCake 7y ago
That seems like a nightmare job. I hope the rep gets paid well for their unnecessary misery.

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