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   by ageitgey 6y ago

   I'm in the Phase 2/3 trial for the Oxford vaccine. They really are doing everything possible to have it ready ASAP (as early as October) if they can. They are reviewing trial results in real time and have scaled the trial to many
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   by ageitgey 6y ago

   I'm long-time Dylan fan and I've seen him live quite a few times. I can honestly say he puts on one of the least coherent concerts of any famous musician. Yes, he reworks the songs nightly but he can barely sing anymore and no one
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   by ageitgey 6y ago

   As a consultant, LinkedIn is also helpful if you are trying to turn a niche consulting area into a resellable software product (the dream of every hourly consultant). You can find and reach the end users of whatever weird niche you want to
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   by ageitgey 6y ago

   As a long-time hobbyist photographer, I've had a lot of the same thoughts. Cell phone cameras are getting really good for the 90% use case. My new Samsung S20 Ultra almost feels like a 'real' camera in some situations and it&
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   by ageitgey 6y ago

   Are you a GPT-2 bot or something?
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   by ageitgey 6y ago

   There were big studies in 2016/2017 that demonstrated the connection between Vitamin D and lowering the incidence of colds and other respiratory infections. This led to some governments (like the UK) recommending universal daily supple
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   by ageitgey 6y ago

   I should have been more specific on location and vitamin. The UK government recommends everyone in the UK take daily supplements of Vitamin D during half of the year due to low sun exposure. It was a typo to say "multi-vitamin".
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   by ageitgey 6y ago

   It depends on where you live. Some places in northern latitudes such as the UK recommend everyone take daily Vitamin D supplements due to low UV exposure in the late-fall/winter/early-spring. See https://www.nhs.uk&#x2F
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   by ageitgey 6y ago

   Yes, there's long been a vague suspicion. There's been probably at least 30 studies so far going back months that have shown a possible correlation with low Vitamin D and bad COVID outcomes. The problem is that all of the studie
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    by ageitgey 6y ago

    N=43 (17 given vitamins vs 26 not) Highlights: "Significantly fewer DMB patients than controls required initiation of oxygen therapy subsequently throughout their hospitalization (17.6% vs 61.5%, P=0.006)." "DMB combination i
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    Study of the effect of Vitamin D, Magnesium and Vitamin B12 on Covid-19 patients(medrxiv.org)

    224 points by ageitgey 6y ago|255 comments
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    by ageitgey 6y ago

    Jacob Collier has tricks like using how many cents out of tune certain chords are in equal temperament from just intonation to find a sequence of chords that modulate to a half-sharp key without it ever sounding out of tune: https:/&#
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    by ageitgey 6y ago

    I think you should just be more transparent in the stage of delivery you are in on your site. This is a niche product for enthusiasts and I think an enthusiast customer would be fine supporting you if you were more clear about how your prod
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    by ageitgey 6y ago

    It's cool idea (very similar to the Goal Zero system). But I have to say the sketchy Alibaba-level photoshopped product shots of the main battery unit don't add a lot of confidence.
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    by ageitgey 6y ago

    As Netflix has moved away from carrying lots of other people's movies to largely producing their own in-house TV shows, it feels like they barely have enough content to need an algorithm to curate it. They just show the same new Netfli
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    by ageitgey 6y ago

    YouTube no longer loses money - far from it. It generated 15 billion dollars in revenue in 2019, ~10% of Google's revenue. https://abc.xyz/investor/static/pdf/2019Q4_alphabet_earnings...
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    by ageitgey 6y ago

    I sold a piece of software to the state of California once. Among the 100+ page contract was a page where we had to agree that if, during the installation of this web app, a baby was to be abandoned, that we promise that we would abandon sa
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    by ageitgey 6y ago

    I think the biggest problem with the modern media is that all stories are reported at "equal volume." Any tidbit the media has to fill time is headlined as if it were the most important thing currently happening in the world. Ther
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    London's 1665 Plague vs. 2020 Covid-19 epidemic deaths compared(twitter.com)

    1 points by ageitgey 6y ago|0 comments
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    by ageitgey 6y ago

    You've confused England with the UK (England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland).
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    by ageitgey 6y ago

    I'm all for criticism and investigation. But it seems so early to make these kinds of definite proclamations. There is so much about the virus and how it's transmitted that we still don't understand. The UK government had n
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    by ageitgey 6y ago

    Deep learning is what is cool in CS right now. It lets you do new things that you couldn't do before. Based on that, it's going to be over-represented in projects by undergrads looking to do "cool" projects and show off
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    by ageitgey 6y ago

    Academic code has always been a mess (from the standpoint of professional software developers). Anyone who has ever worked with code from academia knows this. If you think this code is messy, check out any random Matlab simulation strung to
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    by ageitgey 6y ago

    I can add one data point to support this (not that it is worth much). I had the normal story of being sick in January in London with the "worst flu ever" and suspected it might have been COVID. But I recently had a lab-based IgG a
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    Build Your Own ‘Google Translate’-Quality Machine Translation System(medium.com)

    4 points by ageitgey 6y ago|0 comments
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    by ageitgey 6y ago

    This site blocks visitors from the UK.
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    by ageitgey 6y ago

    How did you calculate the "between 1/1000 and 1/25" death rate for young and healthy people? Are you talking about infection fatality rate or death rate of people being treated in hospital? According to the UK ONS [1] fo
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    by ageitgey 6y ago

    PyCharm Community Edition is open source, free and great.
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    Four Basic Data Science Lessons Illustrated by Covid-19 Data(medium.com)

    2 points by ageitgey 7y ago|0 comments
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    by ageitgey 7y ago

    I had pretty bad Corona-like symptoms in late January/Feb in London. There was documented community transmission at that point, but it was very early (single digits) so it's technically possible but not mathematically likely that