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by _Nat_ 5y ago
In the absence of good data, the fallback is a position of ignorance -- not acceptance of bad data. The prior studies were neither well-done nor directly relevant. As such, they didn't constitute good evidence on the topic of mask-wea
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by _Nat_ 5y ago
It sounds like you're arguing that the authors' interpretation isn't an authoritative interpretation. Is this what you meant?
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by _Nat_ 5y ago
tl;dr - There wasn't really a conundrum to explain related to mask-effectiveness at different levels. Rather, it's more like a lack of good data, as prior studies being cited were ridiculously weak. --- This seems like a largel
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by _Nat_ 5y ago
The original article's interpretation seemed untenable. While the difference between " Permissible " and " Possible " could be quite significant, in this case, it was qualifying: > [ Permissible / Possible ]
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by _Nat_ 5y ago
> After all, marketing is little more than paid, thoughtful, intentional opinion-sharing. Y’all are just marketing your anti-marketing sentiments for free. Yeah, it'd be evil for a spammer to push posts without legitimate reason to
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by _Nat_ 5y ago
Sure, if a marketer is truly trying to help the consumer make informed decisions -- making an earnest attempt to help interested consumers find the product/service that's right for them -- then they'd be good, not evil. This
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by _Nat_ 5y ago
They're claiming that they can predict sex, not gender. The study does comment on a trans case in their validation-set, which of 1,287 images, had 1 image for someone whose genetic-sex and reported-sex didn't match. For that 1 im
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by _Nat_ 5y ago
I appreciate the distaste for a security-vulnerability being sat on for so long. However, the appropriateness of a long-embargo would seem like a bigger topic. That said, about being sitting ducks.. dunno how much the situation really chan
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by _Nat_ 5y ago
These are weird stories. I was curious what Katherine Jones, Lady Ranelagh, may've been known for, so checked out [their Wikipedia page]( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_Jones,_Viscountess_R... ). The most s
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by _Nat_ 5y ago
The pricing model feels a bit weird. For the basic plan, it's [$20+$10/GB]/user/month for 1 user; [$17+$10/GB]/user/month for 3 users; [$16+$10/GB]/user/month for 6 users. So that's a
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by _Nat_ 5y ago
Great to see Excel adding more features! The argument I've heard against doing this sorta thing was that they wanted to keep Excel simple enough to not alienate many non-technical users, sorta forcing it to be a simple, accessible envi
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by _Nat_ 5y ago
What would " 100 - 1000 engineers " even be doing? The story starts off saying that the work's being done by analysts: > The work involves having analysts trawl through social media sites to look for what the document desc
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by _Nat_ 6y ago
Yeah, there're qualifications behind it. [This PDF]( http://web.mit.edu/sahughes/www/8.022/lec01.pdf ) starts with some potentially helpful context. Usually this claim is discussed in connection to the so-
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by _Nat_ 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosquito_laser
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by _Nat_ 6y ago
tl;dr - The article's a bit confused, so to clarify: Bitcoin's entropy starts maximized, and then miners reduce it. According to the second-law-of-thermodynamics, the net-entropy of the universe tends to increase, so Bitcoin&#
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by _Nat_ 6y ago
You definitely need to learn to read schematics and technical texts to acquire an advanced education. It's basic literacy in academic and professional contexts; being unable to read prevents one from communicating and is a serious imp
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by _Nat_ 6y ago
> I really think that this is a major part of why boys fall behind. Reading in general is the basis of learning, and boys over time have moved away. Have to disagree; the sort of reading discussed in that study isn't conducive to po
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by _Nat_ 6y ago
> I think this is very different from the advising process in graduate school. All of that sounds normal to me. Including filtering out trade-secrets, which is completely normal when working with trade-secrets in grad school too. Addit
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by _Nat_ 6y ago
I'm having trouble getting a clear perspective on what's going on. So many of the descriptions are vague and based on apparently informal descriptions, leaving much to the reader's imagination. > It's not theoretical
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by _Nat_ 6y ago
> What we're discussing, however, is "striking a positive tone" in actual research papers. Yeah.. that's what pretty much every academic does. Most talk up the merits of their work and the general importance of their
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by _Nat_ 6y ago
It's common for researchers to publish a journal article in a more academic tone, then use it as a basis for legitimacy in public venues. This happens at both individual and institutional levels. Examples: 1.) At an individual level,
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by _Nat_ 6y ago
> how can a math publication place the department interests in a negative light? With Math, the sensitive topic is utility. Math departments would tend to be upset by someone pushing papers that, say, call attention to the lack of socia
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by _Nat_ 6y ago
It's important to draw a distinction between positive tonality and censoring negative results. For example, the recent COVID-19 vaccines: they're commonly reported to be 95% effective and have some risk of side-effects. This can
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by _Nat_ 6y ago
Public institutions tend to observe the same policies, even when there's no direct commercial interest. For example, if you join a Math department and start publishing papers that cast the department's research interests in a nega
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by _Nat_ 6y ago
" Papers We Love " has a list of other places to find papers: https://github.com/papers-we-love/papers-we-love#other-good-...
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by _Nat_ 6y ago
Funny stuff! Gotta love Pokemon papers! That said, since people shouldn't just believe whatever they read, even if it's published in Nature or Science or something, it's a tad redundant to point out that papers published
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by _Nat_ 6y ago
The data-storage offering isn't the issue. The issue's a related service, i.e. publication, which hasn't occurred yet. Again, I see how this makes sense IF we assume that the " private " in " private data ho
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by _Nat_ 6y ago
I think a reasonable default would be for the customer's account to continue to reference the private material, but to disallow private access to it. Then a customer could: 1. Convert it to public and access it as such. 2. Remove it. 3
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by _Nat_ 6y ago
Seems more than merely jerkish to me. I mean, say you were in the situation with a plumber who did offer a free service of taking away people's toilets (which seems plausible -- some people might appreciate getting rid of their old toi
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by _Nat_ 6y ago
I also didn't see this in the Terms of Service . Where are people reading this? If someone stops paying for private data hosting, then I'd expect them to lose private data hosting -- in full. I don't see how the " pri

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