PheonixPharts

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by PheonixPharts 4y ago
The several important things about lisp that you won't find in other languages without learning lisp include (I'm considering all lisps here, including schemes): - it's essentially a working implementation of the untyped lamb
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> So a simple answer is that global warming is responsible for about 1 degree of the 10-degree heat anomaly. That is not remotely how global warming works.
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It's a normal approximation of the expected variance (in terms of standard deviation) in the estimate of the mean of the sum of 200 Bernoulli random variables. Each nurses' response is considered an observation of a Bernoulli dist
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Standard error in this case, assuming the 200 are randomly sampled is: sqrt((p*(1-p)/n) sqrt((0.9*0.1)/200) = 0.021 So 95% confidence interval for this ~ 0.86 - 0.94 Does that radically change the message of this article?
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> Mainly because the latter implies that people who don't know lisp are somehow unenlightened or lacking in some way But if you haven't learned Lisp you are absolutely lacking in some way as far as understanding programming l
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by PheonixPharts 5y ago
If you convert this to percent changes it's not particularly interesting. - @TuckerCarlson +62,083/5.1M = 1.2% - @JoeRogan +63,313/8.6M = 0.7% - @DonaldJTrumpJr +87,296/7.7M = 1.1% - @tedcruz +51,405/4.9M = 1% The l
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This is an awful take, and I hope other readers ignore it, and give the podcast a listen/read. It's a long podcast, and if you skim the transcript you can see that the discussion doesn't start until much later. I'm a pre
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> The future will combine these tool with data about you I'm not sure anyone has let you know yet but this future you're imagining was cancelled a long time ago. We're going to start seeing more global food shortages this
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> Fed's increasing of the interest rate is causing a stock market crash. Citation needed. Rate hikes were announced mid-march and I don't think you can even find that info on this chart https://finance.yahoo.com&#x2F
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> you'd find that the US economy has been on a continual decline for the past few decades. That claim sounds reasonable given what I've observed happening in this country over the last few decades. Without question people seem
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> if you wait long enough, the economy will often grow beyond even stupidly famous disasters. The only essential axiom you need for this to be true is infinite growth on a finite planet. Unfortunately it looks, from multiple perspectives
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You seem to be implying that increased EV usage will dramatically decrease the need for oil refinement. Do you have any evidence of this? In just the US, EV purchases have grown nearly exponentially over the past decade [0]. However total p
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> even though the utility function doesn't make a ton of sense. What if it never makes sense? One thing I didn't realize until embarrassingly too late in life is that savings should only function as a buffer for emergencies. An
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> Could you expand on that? Isn't clinical data also observational Generally in statistics there is a divide between controlled experiments and observational studies. The former is how most medical trials are run and the latter is h
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This comment reminded me of yet another reason to prefer the Bayesian set up for A/B tests: you work with the data you have not some bizarre idea of "sample size". Especially with proper priors (which again, everyone running
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To preface this comment, I generally really like Evan Miller's writing on statistics, but this statement: > anyone who lacks a firm understanding of statistical power should not be designing or interpreting A/B tests. Completel
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It's interesting because for me it's the opposite. I feel DALL-E 2 is the clear evidence that we're headed for the next AI-Winter soon. Don't get me wrong, DALL-E is remarkable. But it's remarkable in almost the exa
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> These people tend not to be the brightest. If they were, they'd generally find legitimate employment, A bit of survivorship bias at work here. Criminal activity is more so a function of risk tolerance than intelligence. However ge
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We can see the full paradox at work here. The parent clearly states: > how often people who know each other randomly run into each other in an airport. > I mean, what are the odds? This is explicitly stating "any two people"
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by PheonixPharts 5y ago
When they get a nose job the region of the body that contains the olfactory bulb is not touched at all since that is in the brain, not in the nose. I posted this image in another comment [0], but it seems there's a misunderstanding of
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The article states: > In the region of *olfactory bulb and olfactory tract*, COVID-19 infection was associated with axon pathology and microvasculopathy, particularly in patients with smell alterations; the olfactory pathology did not re
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Or that the CEO always believes what the majority share holder believes at the time they hold that belief.