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by alimw 4y ago
It's very hard to believe that an actual human wrote the responses I've had from Camden Council over the last couple of months.
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by alimw 4y ago
In France taxes have made gasoline about twice the price it is in the US, which may explain the increased sensitivity. That fact would also seem to contradict this article summary (I haven't read the article itself) and its suggestion
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by alimw 4y ago
"Rogan did not name the school, and his publicist did not respond to a request for comment."
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by alimw 4y ago
1. If I comment to correct a minor detail in someone's question, and they don't bother either to respond or to fix it, then I know it's not going to be worth going to the effort of giving a full answer.
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by alimw 4y ago
Mathematical claims may be formalised in a proof assistant.
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by alimw 4y ago
Definitely not. Either l'Hôpital or l'Hospital
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by alimw 4y ago
Unfortunately I can't find the link but somewhere out there I've seen one you'd like; a radically helpful theorem prover that advertises itself as the quickest and easiest way to prove anything. The joke is that everything is
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by alimw 4y ago
> Correct me if I'm wrong but I think that it is really only useful for helping prove theorems in homotopy theory, rather than being more generally useful for other kinds of math. It seems a little immoral to select a foundation acc
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by alimw 5y ago
I may be misunderstanding, but it seems like gptf can only apply theorems from the set you guys trained it on ... in which case I don't see how it could possibly help with the development of a theory beyond its first few statements. Ha
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by alimw 5y ago
Why not use right-ctrl in combination with keys on the left hand side? If the answer is "because there is no right-ctrl", that can be changed.
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by alimw 5y ago
You are suggesting that leadership decisions in China follow public opinion? Surely it is the other way around. The whole point of this story is that the CCP retains an iron grip on what the public does or doesn't learn.
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by alimw 5y ago
I am not qualified to judge the veracity of points 1 through 5. But I can see they have precisely nothing to do with points 6 and 7.
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by alimw 5y ago
That as may be, the issue here is freedom of speech.
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by alimw 5y ago
Copies plural? Well I guess if you're not going to read one Principia, you might as well not read two :)
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The west has more vaccine doses than it needs–and no excuse not to share them(theguardian.com)
2 points by alimw 5y ago|1 comments
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by alimw 5y ago
Where are the majority of vaccines produced ending up nowadays? Rich countries placed orders greater than they could possibly use, and now rates of take-up are slowing in those countries. Presumably vaccine is being produced as fast as ever
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by alimw 5y ago
Nobody wants to wear a mask! > Reality is messy. I understand that in this era of "alternative facts" the view is not universally shared, but I do believe that reality contains objective truths if only we can get at them. Eit
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by alimw 5y ago
"The design of most trials assessed whether masks protected the wearer."
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by alimw 5y ago
> Actual facts would be something like washing your hands or boiling water preventing diseases. Nobody questions it anymore... People are questioning exactly these things. Germ theory itself is under attack. Masks have been used for many
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by alimw 5y ago
Well a study linking career success to, say, intelligence is unlikely to make the news because it wouldn't be at all surprising.
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by alimw 5y ago
I suspect the cookie thing might be about who's in decision-making mode.
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by alimw 5y ago
Did you post the wrong link? The doctors in that clip don't actually mention the UV light thing, although they are clear in their opposition to injecting disinfectant.
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by alimw 5y ago
Is anyone going to do the sums? Just throwing instructions around and saying "VERY surprised if it turns out over 10%" doesn't really cut it.
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by alimw 5y ago
> Suppose a variant pops up that's deadly to children, but the current vaccines protect against it. How would governments explain... All sorts of mad things could happen. But this fantasy scenario is really quite unlikely.
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by alimw 5y ago
This is a newspaper that decides what the news is going to be and then goes out to find the sources to support that.
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by alimw 5y ago
Thanks! I don't speak German but it looks like there were 341 who took the vaccine, 319 who took the placebo and 1 who got sick in each of those groups. Solve for e in (1 - e) * (1 / 319) = 1 /341 and you get 6.5%. Almost...
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by alimw 5y ago
I never heard of a 6.3% figure for efficacy in any sample, small or otherwise. Are you sure that's what your figure refers to?
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by alimw 5y ago
On such a technical question journalists can only report on what they hear from scientific sources, and when those sources are new to them they'll have to decide on the fly how much trust to put in them.
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by alimw 5y ago
> Bringing up the cultural revolution followed by "obviously I don't intend to compare anything to the cultural revolution". Okay, then what's the point? He does not say that.
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Why was my tweet about football labelled abusive?(bbc.co.uk)
3 points by alimw 5y ago|0 comments

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