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by ageitgey 6y ago
> I'm assuming you also don't know if you got the active substance or a placebo? Yep. In the UK, they used an existing, unrelated vaccine with similar side effects as the control so it wasn't obvious which one you got. In
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by ageitgey 6y ago
A quick summary of were the Oxford vaccine stands since it's hard to follow: - When will the vaccine be ready? After the Phase 3 efficacy data is reported, assuming that the data shows that the vaccine prevents COVID or reduces COVID s
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by ageitgey 6y ago
While long-term side effects are theoretically possible with any treatment, this vaccine is based on a platform that's been safety-tested repeatedly in experiment vaccines for prostate cancer, MERS, malaria, tuberculosis, influenza and
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by ageitgey 6y ago
Not to take away from the post (which is nice), but it's kind of funny that the illusion is to make a black and white image look sort of color only by overlaying it with some color. This reminds me of the old King of the Hill episode w
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by ageitgey 6y ago
Apple complaint posts on here are always so funny because the logic is always so niche and techy and silly. It comes off sounding like a person who loves running their own steam train because it works for them and can't believe that an
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by ageitgey 6y ago
The unspoken elephant in the room is obviously it doesn't even have to be your face that is being animated in the video call. You could swap out the first keyframe image and appear to be any other real person during the video call with
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by ageitgey 6y ago
Email me (info in bio) and I'll see if I can help
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by ageitgey 6y ago
These get a lot of use in limited-run industrial applications where you need something custom and smaller/lower power than a desktop computer but you aren't manufacturing thousands of devices and you don't have millions of do
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by ageitgey 6y ago
This version comes with a USB wifi dongle in the box in North America and Europe now. I guess they had an issue with licensing chipsets in all regions.
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by ageitgey 6y ago
FWIW, I got a review unit and it ships with a much lighter desktop environment (LXDE) this time and is has a swap file enabled by default. I guess that was needed to ship a 2GB version, but overall it seemed a little better thought out. The
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by ageitgey 6y ago
Thanks and fair point. I clarified the text to make it more clear I was talking about a GPU that is supported by deep learning libraries for CUDA-style acceleration as opposed to any GPU at all.
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Build a Face Recognition System for $60 with the New Jetson Nano 2GB and Python(medium.com)
9 points by ageitgey 6y ago|2 comments
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by ageitgey 6y ago
> We selected palm recognition for a few important reasons. I'm sure the main one was that people associate fingerprints with being arrested, but maybe they could trick people into volunteering to be constantly fingerprinted by a pr
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by ageitgey 6y ago
Speaking anecdotally from my friend group of professional adults with kids on London, it really feels like the government has lost the cooperation of even the most law-abiding and willing-to-cooperate people at this point. I mean they spent
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by ageitgey 6y ago
> Right now in the UK, the basic testing infrastructure is more-or-less world class as far as I can tell, with a level of testing that's basically unprecedented outside of the US I get tested every week (for months now) as part of t
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University of Oxford resumes vaccine trial(covid19vaccinetrial.co.uk)
3 points by ageitgey 6y ago|0 comments
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by ageitgey 6y ago
> Cases peaked at 5,451 on April 5, reached a low of 101 on June 10 and very recently have appeared to be rapidly rising again. The most recent rise in cases, to more than 2,600 a day, is particularly unsettling. One thing the article br
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by ageitgey 6y ago
I'm in the trial. We all got little cards with our trial number to keep in our wallet. If we get seriously ill or end up in a hospital, there's a number for the doctor to call to unblind us if necessary. So there is definitely a p
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by ageitgey 6y ago
The Oxford trial isn't paying anyone. I'm in the trial myself. I assume other people are volunteering because they want a COVID vaccine to come out. Volunteers for this trial range in age from 5 to 75+. Not everyone is perfectly h
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by ageitgey 6y ago
You won't find clients in a niche like this by setting up a website and waiting for them to show up. When clients need custom development, they turn to recommendations from friends or they turn to industry leaders. They usually don&#x2
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by ageitgey 6y ago
Most countries have significant rules and regulations around foreign-owned corporations. Countries generally think it's important to their national security to prevent widespread foreign ownership of internal resources. But there is a
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by ageitgey 6y ago
This is a two month old paper. People have generally agreed it was most likely a false positive due to it only detecting a partial match with a very faint signal and there being no other supporting evidence. From https://theconve
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by ageitgey 6y ago
You are probably talking about how previous coronavirus exposure seems to give some people some level of T-cell protection against SARS-CoV-2. T-cells are a different part of the immune system from immunoglobulin proteins, which is what the
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by ageitgey 6y ago
I get that it's fun to conjecture about things, but no serious scholars debate his authorship. You have to do some serious mental gymnastics to get past all the evidence that he wrote his own plays. > he owned no books No, we don&#x
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by ageitgey 6y ago
Talking points? I pointed to specific reasons why their analysis is flawed and doesn't say what they claim it says.
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by ageitgey 6y ago
That's the thing though, HCQ has been trialed and is still being trialed WAY more than any other COVID treatment. There is no conspiracy. If HCQ actually does anything, we will certainly find out because people are testing it from near
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by ageitgey 6y ago
That page is very poor. It uses every trick in the book to try to make poor science look scientific: 1. Cherry picking: It says HCQ-using countries always have lower death rates than non-HCQ countries, but omits countries like Brazil where
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by ageitgey 6y ago
You test vaccines by waiting to see if the vaccinated group gets sick less often than the control group, so you need a place with a high rate of public transmission. It's also helpful if that place has doctors with expertise in vaccine
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by ageitgey 6y ago
If someone I follow re-tweets an annoying hot take by someone I don't care about, I'll just block the random person they retweeted and move on with my life. But what's really surprising to me is how often I see those few rand
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by ageitgey 6y ago
If you are building something new with Django where Rails' generators would have been helpful, check out https://djangobuilder.io/ - it lets you quickly list out the data model and then it generates the whole code skel

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