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by aabaker99 5y ago
I agree requiring XML could have been a disaster. Still, the law seems to need to require more of we are to more meaningfully achieve interoperability. What's stopping companies from coming up with pathological data formats or generall
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by aabaker99 5y ago
Health care software is being forced to be interoperable soon in the US. The 21st Century Cures Act requires it ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/21st_Century_Cures_Act ). One interesting and, to technologists, disappoin
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by aabaker99 5y ago
I work at a large company but I find Azure wants to talk to us too much.
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by aabaker99 5y ago
Thanks for posting this. I did not know about about this darker side to Ioannidis. I think lockdowns are/were a good thing. I won't necessarily fault Ioannidis for comments on lock downs on March 17, 2020 because that's prett
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by aabaker99 5y ago
I am also skeptical of meta-analyses. I will re-post some thoughts I have previously shared from John P.A. Ioannidis who is a professor of medicine and thoughtful critic of medical research. He often raises good points about trends in resea
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by aabaker99 5y ago
I've never understood the fixation some people have on the trade deficit. Why is a large trade deficit a concern to you? Does that influence the Gini coefficient in the US? Apologies if I misunderstood your comment.
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by aabaker99 5y ago
Can you inspect the weights in GPT-3 and tell me what does? The mathematics of neural networks leads to huge numbers of parameters with small contributions on the overal result. There's tons of work in ML to try and go in the opposite
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China restricts young people to playing video games three hours a week(washingtonpost.com)
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by aabaker99 5y ago
Cool! I would love to play around with this. How do I write a schema and indexer for my favorite programming language that isn't currently (and won't be) supported with official releases? For Schemas, [1] says to modify (or base n
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by aabaker99 5y ago
For those who haven't observed this, what are your observations? Does this apply to the article we are discussing, too, or is it more of a general concern about mandates?
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by aabaker99 5y ago
> A risk is not a "loss" in a hypothetical amount of money that maybe could be had in the future given market conditions which are not predictable. This is incorrect. It is very common for investors (yes, including commercial b
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by aabaker99 5y ago
If you have a fixed rate mortgage, the bank bears an interest rate risk. If the interest rate goes up, the bank could be getting more money in interest, but they aren't. If you have an adjustable-rate mortgage, you bear the interest ra
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by aabaker99 5y ago
I also looked for the original article but we claim to have found different original sources! The press release you linked is from 2018, so I don't think that is referring to the same research as the Guardian article is.
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by aabaker99 5y ago
The Guardian article appears to be reporting on this open access article in Nature Communications [0]. The original publication is a meta-analysis of 860 meta-analyses. I thought this sounded a bit extreme, so I checked what John P.A. Ioann
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by aabaker99 5y ago
Unless there are more than 20 million millionaires, you're talking about the top 6 percent of the wealth distribution. I wouldn't call that particular percentile "barely middle class". That term probably should be reserv
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by aabaker99 5y ago
I have some sincere questions. Can you elaborate on what you mean by polarization as a service? Is this unique to NYT or can the same be said of other media? Does that include social media (where people like to say polarizing echo chambers
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by aabaker99 5y ago
I worked on making a more explainable AI in bio for while. Probably a lot of the unexplainable AI that is being discusses is about deep learning. Some of the biggest advances in deep learning can also be said to have made the models more ex
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by aabaker99 5y ago
Another classic of the genre is the ol' dead fish fMRI analysis: http://prefrontal.org/files/posters/Bennett-Salmon-2009.jpg
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by aabaker99 5y ago
I think this is a very important question. This is something that I struggle with. I have read a lot of papers. I generally think science can be a force for good. I understand analytic methods developed by or used in papers from my field of
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by aabaker99 5y ago
Fair enough. A (probably weighted average) prior on his pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor puts the 5 year survival rate at 54% instead of 9%. [1] It appears there are more pancreatic NET cases in the least favorable, "distant" SEER
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by aabaker99 5y ago
"According to the American Cancer Society, for all stages of pancreatic cancer combined, the one-year relative survival rate is 20%, and the five-year rate is 9%." ( https://pancreatic.org/pancreatic-cancer/abo
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by aabaker99 5y ago
You may want to update your idea about what is a medium wage worker: https://www.statista.com/statistics/203183/percentage-distri...
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by aabaker99 5y ago
Link to pdf with prescribing information highlights which includes a small bit of detail about Aduhelm's mechanism of action and other details: https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/drugsatfda_docs/label/2021/76
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by aabaker99 5y ago
It's not too hard to find the article's doi (programatically) for newer articles. Once you have the doi you have all the important article metadata like author, publish date, etc. I imagine this is all that's required to make
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by aabaker99 5y ago
TFA links to http://thecostofknowledge.com/ which is an attempt to organize researchers to boycott Elsevier due to its practices. Elsevier is one of the journal publishers that has (or had) issues with preprints like arvix.
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by aabaker99 5y ago
Some journals rules prohibit submitting to arxiv. Researchers still want to submit their research to these journals because they are prestigious. One of the main goals of researchers is prestige (for their work to be widely read, for gettin
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by aabaker99 5y ago
> Bans other out-of-network charges without advance notice. Health care providers and facilities must provide patients with a plain-language consumer notice explaining that patient consent is required to receive care on an out-of-network
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by aabaker99 5y ago
One troubling re-identification attack for medical data is the trail re-identification method [0]. A lot of privacy analysis will consider the data to be in the shape of a table T with some columns A,B,C and use the notation T<A,B,C>
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by aabaker99 5y ago
I like your idea of a class action lawsuit but wouldn't the $50k per person penalty shift your idea of what an organization would consider an acceptable risk? 1 million * $50,000 is probably not acceptable. I hope for all our sakes you
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by aabaker99 5y ago
It's surprising that many medical providers don't understand this side of HIPAA. I recently spoke to a department head of oncology who seemed to think patient consent was required for sharing data and was not comfortable sharing t

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