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by aj7 4y ago
“However, not long after, they decided to share the model after finding “no strong evidence of misuse.” What about mal-use?
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by aj7 4y ago
Learn what GoodRx is, what it does, how it works. You may be so young, you don’t take pills. So ask a relative 60+, “What did you pay for Y Rx?” Then, see if you can beat it w GoodRx.
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Because the customers expected interest and the bank’s investment portfolio can’t provide the necessary return to pay the interest rate they used to attract the customers.
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Thank you.
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Bought for retail. GoodRx had nothing to do with the transaction, except to enforce a market mechanism on it. Yes, GoodRx was a bad actor in its misuse of medical data. Absolutely. Unless that practice underlies its business model, which I
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by aj7 4y ago
Then all scientific theories are “models.” And we are just very advanced “computers.” Nope. The first sentence is wrong. And the second sentence is why we play the game.
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If “plagiarism and apathy and obviation” are a feature, not a bug, then …
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Those “simple” equations underlie almost ALL scientific thought. They have implications far beyond the motions of the planets, which stimulated them. It’s hard to make a quantitative argument about how much more powerful they are than a sta
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“As another example, consider the Newtonian model of gravitational attraction, which says that the force between two objects of mass m1 and m2 a distance r apart is given by F = G m1 m2/r^2 where G is the universal gravitational consta
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Hasn’t made a dent yet. In fact, started out just trying to acquire data.
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Forget about UHC. Buy your drugs over the counter with the help of the GoodRx app. Cheaper than Optum.
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Exactly. People are exercising their rage and frustration over the pharma system, when they should be learning to use GoodRx.
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by aj7 4y ago
Utter nonsense. I’ve saved thousands with them. I used to have to keep Excel spreadsheets for prescription prices. And that’s AFTER I realized that pharma benefits (including yours) and Medicare Part D were utter bullshit (I’m NOT kidding.
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by aj7 4y ago
You have no concept as to how much of a GOOD actor GoodRx is. I agree, they f*cked up here, and deserved to be punished.
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Let me tell you, having saved $thousands from GoodRx’s exposure of pharma’s underbelly, and the actual first-time competition that it fosters, I can forgive them for this underhand revenue stream. Just yesterday $60.25, Walgreen’s, returned
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by aj7 4y ago
“What I would use the shit out of, though, is a chatbot that has been trained on all the information in the CodePen knowledge base.” Of course. Whether you’re operating a 777, a refrigerator, or a dildo, narrow but exhaustively trained Chat
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None. Trust me, you need a mouse.
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While certainly a cpu is working, I don’t classify any of that as computing. To me, computing is any app where your output is files for later use. So for instance, Apple Notes is borderline computing, and virtually anything using a browser
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by aj7 4y ago
I too learned a lot from Spice. But I was familiar with linear systems, circuit theory, op amps, and had a decent lab with components, a soldering iron, a scope, a signal generator, and a meter. For me, you have to build stuff to really un
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I don’t think much “computing” is done, in our sense of the word, on tablets and phones. Personally, I’ve found that almost any slightly complex, has-to-be-done-once-and p-right, action is better performed on an actual computer. And that’s
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I have serious doubts that gameification is useful for anything other than vocabulary.
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Google “amateur telescope making.” There are a hundred books.
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An example: https://twitter.com/criticalai/status/1629875568257691649?s=...
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Yes there are many books. It’s the motivation.
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Bell Labs Holmdel, Now a Food Court, to Be Converted to Sound Stages by Netflix(nj1015.com)
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I dropped my trusty Samsung flip phone into the toilet, RAN to 2009 YouTube, learned how to take it apart, took it apart, dried the pieces, and put it into a dessicator over night. (I happened to have one to store infrared transmitting wind
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If you polled educated laypeople, i.e. people who are successfull in non-STEM fields with little programming experience, I believe that many would say that ChatGTP has achieved spontaneous human intelligence using “the giant network has sta
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Of course. Change the spacing.
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I have done this myself, and I have a lot of experience in optics. I have also written a ray tracing program in Excel, which was able to reproduce aberration diagrams. By doing this first, I could use “professional” tools. Solidworks is ex
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Many comments below seem to be from persons “interested” in optics, but who cannot design simple optical systems using first order optics, and who have never set up simple ray tracing with basic components or 2 x 2 matrices. Just as in elec

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