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by acqq 6y ago
Thank you and please note who submitted this 4 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25081121 However the topic in this thread is that the properties of the random number generators discussed in 2020 were a part of
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by acqq 6y ago
And the author of that book is a mathematician: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Vickers_(computer_scient... https://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~sjv/ "My particular interest is in toposes as genera
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by acqq 6y ago
It tracks all the lags there! Perfect, thanks!
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by acqq 6y ago
In the data from Europe Sweden is an exception, as article explains: "In the data that we present on Our World in Data, which comes directly from the European CDC , deaths in Sweden are shown by date of death, while deaths in other c
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by acqq 6y ago
I remember the Spectrum Basic Programming (the book included when buying ZX Spectrum, famous UK home computer) by Steven Vickers, 1982, 38 years ago: The quote from the Charpter 16: Colours "Run this program: 10 POKE 22527+RND*70
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Why do Covid-19 deaths in Sweden always appear to decrease(ourworldindata.org)
14 points by acqq 6y ago|7 comments
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by acqq 6y ago
EFF responded about that whole subject, and that allowed GitHub to "reinstate" the repo back: https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2020/11/2020-11-1...
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by acqq 6y ago
The other answers here attempt to "reason" it from the currently accepted formulas, but it's not how the humanity learned that there's no "190% of the speed of light." The author of the article we all comment h
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by acqq 6y ago
That's an additional problem, also known from the flu vaccines: some of those vaccinated just can't develop enough immunity to be protected, and unfortunately there are more of such among the older population. We also don't k
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by acqq 6y ago
Your assumption: > The period where high virus loads are found in our bodies will be shorter is precisely what can't be assumed in advance but must be measured, as there are known examples where the assumption doesn't hold at a
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by acqq 6y ago
What we still don't know for both Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna vaccines: "A vaccine that prevents infection entirely provides indirect protection to others. If I can't get infected, I can't infect you. But it is po
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by acqq 6y ago
If you liked the article, note that the author has the whole book: https://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Galaxy-Humanity-Discovered-Uni... “Beyond The Galaxy: How Humanity Looked Beyond Our Milky Way And Discovered The Entire Unive
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by acqq 6y ago
> I know this from talking to him about it, specifically. Perfect! So what's the exact story, then, finally? 1) Was the quote from him completely invented? 2) Was he allowed to check in or not? Did he need the test to check in at t
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by acqq 6y ago
I didn't get that impression, considering the uniqueness of Thompson's engagement: the major point from the start was that he was not an intern who came to add a few lines in existing C++ code. He was there with the bunch of old C
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by acqq 6y ago
But writing this you 1) just confirm that there are mechanisms by which he could have be not allowed to check in the code; 2) show how invested in the claim you are by comparing the date the Thompson statement was published and some date
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by acqq 6y ago
The case of Australia doesn't disprove the fact that there are countries that managed to have even better response, with even less negative effects to their people. It illustrates how every environment has its unique challenges, but do
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by acqq 6y ago
You omit, from the very article there: "Although the Mueller Report does not squarely address these questions of “collusion” that fall outside the scope of potential criminal liability , it can be mined for substantive information tha
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by acqq 6y ago
But it was not about some "certification." He states was not allowed to check in the C code he wrote, lacking a Google required exam. To quote that once again: "Google hired Thompson to create a new language, Go. But Google a
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by acqq 6y ago
> Mueller said explicitly they found evidence Instead of reading what "he said" I'd appreciate reading what the evidence is and what it shows. I'd honestly like to learn. Edit: just checked, the linked Time's &qu
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by acqq 6y ago
As I was a child I really believed that there's a technological solution for everything. I don't agree with that anymore. At least now there's a book that writes about the state of the world as I see it now: https:/&#x2
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by acqq 6y ago
Even more fascinating, the way I understand it, the mobility data shows that Sweden was able (and also had to) to keep less mobility for months after the neighboring countries returned to their pre-epidemics levels. I believe Swedes were do
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Spectrum Next back in stock in our shop(specnext.com)
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by acqq 6y ago
> I believe this is actually about checking in code, not about getting a job. I'd say it's about doing the work for which he came there, from TFA: "Google hired Thompson to create a new language, Go. But Google also requir
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by acqq 6y ago
Let's make it clear: if your relative has some illness and is expected to live with that illness for years, but gets Covid and dies right now, do you consider that a Covid death? If not, why? Also, if you get Covid and you end up with
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by acqq 6y ago
> Is that actually a thing or hyperbole? It's fiction, of course. Art often has to exaggerate to make a point. I exaggerated too, just to remain in the artistic rather than the technical spirit of the comics. But there are some impo
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by acqq 6y ago
Previously: Google bureaucracy expected from Ken Thompson (!) to pass a C language exam (!!). https://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/04/21/ken_thompson_take_o... "So Mr Thompson, you say you have some prog
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by acqq 6y ago
> The XKCD comic on Python package managers/Python environments is not an exaggeration. Thanks, I haven't seen it before. It's really quite close to the state on my home machine: https://xkcd.com/1987/
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by acqq 6y ago
I had to look it up: opsimath == a person who started learning late in life since late 19th century: from Greek opsimathēs, from opse ‘late’ and math- ‘learn’.
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by acqq 6y ago
The analysis misses some aspects of how the phase 3 study is performed. Even if there were much more than 90% of the sick people in the placebo group, it doesn't follow at all that the vaccine is "more effective" than 90%. Th
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by acqq 6y ago
Regarding "not knowing about its secrets" -- There were much earlier reports, as an example, from the Wikipedia article, there was an article in The Baltimore Sun, 1995: "America's National Security Agency hid what may b

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