ImaCake

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by ImaCake 3y ago
Does that imply nuclear weapons? It's not obvious to me if a payload of nuclear warheads would be that heavy to justify the delta-V though.
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by ImaCake 3y ago
Echidnas are known to essentially everyone in Australia. I would say most bushwalkers I know have seen them before as they are not difficult to find. It surprises me that they are not so well known outside Australia.
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by ImaCake 3y ago
I would expect that some people are genuinely working really hard on making the UX better. But there are equally powerful forces of people who see how they can enrich themselves by actively making the UX worse. It is difficult to underestim
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by ImaCake 3y ago
The USA does have a publicly funded genetic biobank mostly of US veterans. Its somewhat notorious in the research community for being difficult to gain access to. The UK biobank or the myriad other national biobanks are generally pay to use
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by ImaCake 3y ago
I volunteer with Birdlife Australia. If you are in the USA I think it’s called the Audubon Society. They will have a number of surveying programs running at any given time.
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by ImaCake 3y ago
People might be interested in BirdWeather ( https://app.birdweather.com/ ) which collates data from people's bird listening stations (raspberry pi's with a mic and a modest NN to classify what is heard). Basically,
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by ImaCake 3y ago
Are you in the USA? Apparently the american media is particularly pro-israel. I am in Australia and find the media is very pro-israel but is happy to also say that israel’s actions are unsavory. I understand that Europe is much more balance
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by ImaCake 3y ago
Lots of states are ethnostates to varying degrees. Japan and South Korea are arguably much more restrictive about who is considered a member than Israel. But there are many more; Finland, Iran, and Hungary come to mind. The New World has fe
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by ImaCake 3y ago
I find it depends on what you want. There is no canonical GAM (gen. addative model) library in python but there are a few options - which are not easy to use. The statsmodels GAM implementation appears to be broken. R, of course, has a stup
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by ImaCake 3y ago
I think those short courses would be more effective if they didn't bother with ANOVA and instead taught intro probability and distributions and then jumped straight to regression. ANOVA is just a really specific way of doing a regressi
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by ImaCake 3y ago
> Why is an increase in diagnosis an increase in awareness? Other way around, I would argue increased awareness -> increased diagnoses. Why? Because a lot more people know what the words "autism" and "aspergers" me
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by ImaCake 3y ago
What I was pointing out is that "awareness" is a confounder here. The statistic we have is that diagnosis rates have increased substantially. We cannot say why because there is no way to untangle the factors that may influence t
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by ImaCake 3y ago
People have written plenty of papers, theses, and books on this topic. You could start with the book Neurotribes which explores the history of autism in psychiatry comprehensively.
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by ImaCake 3y ago
> The incidence of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) has greatly increased over the last few decades. The reasons are largely unknown although environmental factors are believed to be impo
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by ImaCake 3y ago
It is also pretty bad calculus. Monkeys have almost the same level of intelligence we have (and probably more in some departments) so killing even one monkey is a debt that cannot be equalised with even one saved human.
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by ImaCake 3y ago
Bingo. The arguments for making unix harder than it has to be by sending help to stderr when the user has asked for it is the kind of stuff that gives linux it’s bad reputation.
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by ImaCake 3y ago
> they expect that your data comes at a very regular interval Does prophet rely on this assumption? For health timeseries data the tool of choice is survival analysis - typically using Cox proportional hazards regression or similar regre
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by ImaCake 3y ago
Not OP. HN is a place for hacker and startup discussions. Both groups are interested in the way systems are organised, whether political or information (i.e programming) so there is insight to be gained from novel political systems such as
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by ImaCake 3y ago
I don't think so. These would be a disaster for birdlife in any city. Not to mention privacy and the fact that many places have extensive no drone fly zones already for essentially these reasons.
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by ImaCake 3y ago
Thanks for trying. I think it would have played to Apple’s advantage to keep easter eggs in these but bureaucracies abhor risk.
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by ImaCake 3y ago
Fat and protein are also much more nutritious. Calories are not equal and making these trades while maintaining joy is good logic. My partner’s mantra for unhealthy food is “is this worth getting fat from?”. Which basically just means you
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by ImaCake 3y ago
Yeah the actual product is great. But the KPIs at microsoft have lead to some extremely distasteful dark patterns ruining the experience.
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by ImaCake 3y ago
Yes, and this is why R has become so dominant in the data and statistics spaces. R is free, and has gained so much momentum that it often has packages that no other language has. Yesterday I found out that there was just no way to easily re
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by ImaCake 3y ago
Great example! Its hard to think of a topic more complex and obtruse than social interactions. There are going to be no straightforward answers here because social media is a conduit. Its like arguing whether home telephones are bad; its no
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by ImaCake 3y ago
My answer is simply to ignore the science. Unless the experimenters have done a robust randomised clinical trial (or equivalent) the conclusions are no better than an editorial. Social media is confounded by human social factors: factors wh
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by ImaCake 3y ago
This is absolutely true. I am essentially a graduate in a company of 5 people. I bring solid knowledge in data analysis and statistics but no expertise in air quality (our specialty). But with the guidance from those who are actual experts
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by ImaCake 3y ago
I use an adblocker, DarkReader, and reader mode, because of my ADHD. Even minor distractions or asinine GUI "features" can make it impossible for me to focus on the content of the page. I don't tend to think of myself as disa
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by ImaCake 3y ago
I sometimes find it helpful to go to the source for these weather visualisations. I really enjoy some of the data visualisation available on the ECMWF website, although the React webapp is rather fragile! https://charts.ecmwf.int
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by ImaCake 3y ago
There is earth nullschool which does use the WGS84 spheroid projection that you are after. But it has a pretty narrow set of parameters to explore.
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by ImaCake 3y ago
In my city, we have the ticket machines and a single app which you can use to pay as well. The instructions for said app are literally on the ticket machines. This system works; tech literate people can use the app, others can use the tic

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