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by andrewon 5y ago
While Uber and Lyft are selling their autonomous driving units, Baidu launches driverless service. Have they figured out how to do it right or just regulatory?
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China's Baidu to launch paid driverless ride-hailing services in Beijing(reuters.com)
12 points by andrewon 5y ago|6 comments
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by andrewon 6y ago
Several considerations here: 1. If holding off AstraZeneca vaccine does not affect vaccination rate during the investigation period, it is a prudent thing to do. 2. If vaccine rate is expected to drop, number of expected increase in death p
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by andrewon 6y ago
The downfall of building an entire testing system based on a proprietary technology. Other things can also go wrong, like manufacturer refusing to develop a test on it because it is not profitable, priority in developing a test could cause
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Donors bet on a US firm to fix testing in Africa. Then Covid-19 hit(reuters.com)
1 points by andrewon 6y ago|1 comments
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by andrewon 6y ago
The setup works both way.
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Ask HN: What security is in place for bank-to-bank EFT?
1 points by andrewon 6y ago|4 comments
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by andrewon 6y ago
They already had shares that scheduled to sell but decided not to execute. It seems like the advice I always got from my company's legal department when I asked if it was ok to something: don't do it.
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by andrewon 6y ago
GamsStop seems to be overly cautious. The rally is public information. Everyone knows they were not doing that well with respect to the price.
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GameStop missed out on capitalizing on the Reddit rally(reuters.com)
54 points by andrewon 6y ago|83 comments
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by andrewon 6y ago
Curious what percentage of bitcoin's energy use is from surplus energy that otherwise no use?
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by andrewon 6y ago
Failure of free market mechanism? McKinsey optimized the business strategy to maximize profit. The strategy is locally optimal but a net negative at society scale. I always puzzle why some economists oppose the basic idea of regulating drug
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The Case Against Fauci(thedriftmag.com)
16 points by andrewon 6y ago|15 comments
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by andrewon 6y ago
Survivorship bias is also relevant -- what we can find in the market from hobbists got to be the good ones or happened to find niche markets that the professionals overlooked/passed.
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by andrewon 6y ago
I would say the industrial incentive still works pretty well. Theranos didn't follow and eventually couldn't sell products and busted.
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by andrewon 6y ago
not sure if the world can count on his moral value, but more competition is always good. If the narrative of generic drug pricing fixing is true, it would be a wonderful business opportunity as well.
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GameStop stock surge hits fourth day, hedge funds walk away(reuters.com)
3 points by andrewon 6y ago|1 comments
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by andrewon 6y ago
I imagine the postdoc would have a negative control of not adding the vector? Otherwise its hard to convince people the effect was coming from the vector.
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by andrewon 6y ago
Having worked in both academia and industry in biotech field, I have to say that the bar of reproducibility is a lot higher in industry. In academia, the goal is to publish. The peer-review process won't care to repeat your experiments
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by andrewon 6y ago
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History of Door Chimes – A.E.Rittenhouse Chimes(knockdoorbells.com)
1 points by andrewon 6y ago|0 comments
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by andrewon 6y ago
Currently ML is building model to fit data and trying to avoid over-fitting. I think "engineering field" is a more suitable term.
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by andrewon 6y ago
A company too ahead of its time?
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by andrewon 6y ago
True, common is a loaded word nowadays...
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by andrewon 6y ago
I would add that the pandemic make us skip the part of telling friends. And the invention of twitter... most sane people don't talk. If they ever say anything, it is too common sensual to be retweeted. But if someone say something expl
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by andrewon 6y ago
Existence of historical Jesus has been well established. First century Jewish historian Josephus and Roman historian Tacitus wrote about him... For eyewitness, you can find first person account in the New Testaments.
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by andrewon 6y ago
I would vote for post-transform. User search for what can be seen seems a fair game.
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Ask HN: Why Chrome browser has no case sensitive search?
4 points by andrewon 6y ago|4 comments
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Is Belief in God a Delusion?(neurosciencenews.com)
2 points by andrewon 6y ago|0 comments
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by andrewon 6y ago
Thanks for your reply. Sounds like the proof is an interesting piece to study.

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