KennethPT

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by KennethPT 5y ago
Alternate view: Almost everything in life is ridiculous when you view it with cold logic. It's utterly ridiculous to put golden balls on a fake tree in your house every year, but due to societal constraints most people in Western socie
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by KennethPT 6y ago
Django is the gold standard for consistently pushing out reliable, well documented open source software without any marketing fluff or other bs. The amount of value the team is adding to the world can't be overstated.
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by KennethPT 6y ago
It's amazing that this kind of simulation can be done so accurately with javascript in a web browser. I have no idea how it was implemented but the computational load must be nontrivial.
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by KennethPT 6y ago
It seems like she had fun writing it too - so also an example of how a boring assignment can be made interesting!
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by KennethPT 6y ago
How about that red powder that is dropped over everything when there's wildfires? I've always suspected it can't be healthy.
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by KennethPT 6y ago
Neither! It's actually a reference to one of my favorite artists [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panayiotis_Vassilakis
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by KennethPT 6y ago
Strangely I think it also helped me become a better doctor. I think it helps you develop a natural insight into probabilities and people's reactions to them, which in a roundabout way helps in diagnosis.
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by KennethPT 6y ago
This is correct. I think these kind of studies are not particularly helpful - what is relevant is transmission probability under realistic conditions.