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I never would have tried MonetDb (ok monetdblite) if not for this great little tutorial on how to load all of SEER into it: http://www.asdfree.com/2013/07/analyze-surveillance-epidemio... Yeah the presentation and
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postgresql used to have a way to embed R into PostGreSQL too: https://github.com/jconway/plr I guess it still does, though I haven't used it in years. You can, of course, do the same thing with Python.
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Sweet, this is like finding out that the Bible has been revised and updated. Except that I immediately went and read this. Sutton & Barto is the Bible for RL. Having it be freely available updated is wonderful!
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This is prosaically brilliant. Turns out that Lidar can be more culturally useful than just for speeding tickets. Anyone who hasn't visited Cambodia (or SE Asia in general) should go. At least once in your life. It's cheap, the
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this is also why critical thinking is more important than specific technical skills. The former allows you to generalize the latter, making them more powerful. I started out as a chemist (undergrad), became a statistician (grad), and fina
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If you are interacting with the right people, a review of events will reveal that they gently led you to discover this. I'm kind of pissed that I guy I disagreed with seems to have been banned here, for example. I was curious where he
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Sugar industry secretly paid for favorable Harvard research(statnews.com)
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I'd edit the original, but some sort of a time limit has passed and I can't. Maybe it's better for people to see that I can't keep the two straight. This is particularly sad since I used to put Splenda in my coffee (si
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I wouldn't say that HN is flawed the way elections are, because non readers aren't affected by what goes on here (I hope). You logic strikes me as specious -- the proximity of an idea to the mushy middle is orthogonal to whether i
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Oh wow I fucked that one up. Thank you for correcting it.
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> For hundreds of thousands of years people didn't even know what a nutrient was, and yet they ate properly and never got any of these western problems. Part of the reason for this is that there was no surplus of cheap calories and
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Mark has a bit of an agenda. He is not nearly as full of shit as many others (to include many in academia) but he nonetheless has a financial conflict of interest due to the way he makes a living. I'm not saying he is wrong, but I am
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The opposite, actually. http://care.diabetesjournals.org/content/early/2013/04/30/dc... Beware of small sample sizes in these sorts of studies. Until you get up into the hundreds or thousands, I pe
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> Ok, poor example, and I made it up. Why does this not surprise me? Outside of mathematics, there really isn't anything resembling proof. There is the weight of the evidence, and the weight of any substantive critiques of bias in
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> If you think about it, any molecule that isn't sugar but tastes like sugar will have a similar molecular shape to sugar. I'm going to go out on a limb here and propose that you may not be a professional medicinal chemist. Man
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$20M NIH-sponsored competition to detect and distinguish “superbugs”(nih.gov)
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It seems like at least some of the groups you've sat down with had these things nailed down. At some point there are objective hazards in life, and I'm comfortable knowing that we can't possibly control them all. I've
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The VP was a douche and the "line infection" was almost certainly not from a line in the first place. The patient was on IST, so calling any random opportunistic infection a central line infection is (at best) irresponsible. Repor
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that should NOT be a smiley at the end
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Or (perhaps more likely) Medicare/Medicaid and/or private insurers might start penalizing the ones that are screwing it up (by renegotiating contracts and reimbursements). I know of one center where executive laziness led to a $2
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http://vis.stanford.edu/papers/d3 Turns out Bostock explicitly avoided devising Yet Another Grammar of Graphics in favor of selection and transformation operators. Which, as it happens, is a very sparse but expressive
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Fastest growing source of CMS billings over the past 10 years and one of the top 20 causes of death overall. In the US, it seems that nosocomial cases are rising faster than expected (larger proportion of the total) which is especially worr
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Condolences, it's rough when someone close is taken suddenly. Can't brace yourself for something you can't see coming. Part of the problem is the sheer volume of such cases -- where did the infection come from? Why did it ge
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Part of the issue is assigning "cause" (singular) of death. I'm still kind of shocked that there isn't mandatory reporting of bacterial vectors (when identified) the way there is for (eg) tumors. Sepsis is common enough
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Mostly those, but there are some old conference papers and IEEE transactions (if memory serves) that are more explicit. I'll look them up when I have a block of time free.
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Once upon a time I took everything under the sun. I don't judge people for doing the same. But if you're claiming to "guide" people through a trip with potential for physical harm (and in an inustrialized, urban environm
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Right, but if people are getting stabbed it's generally time to put an end to the offending freakouts.
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I've only ever smoked it... No other frame of reference.
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The classical comparison that comes to mind is this: LSD is like walking through the doors of perception. DMT (as in ayahuasca) is like being shot out of a cannon. I wonder if it has dawned on any of these "shamans" that a fistful
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Heh, someone was fussing about the price of a hard copy today on Twitter. No dispute that Wilkinson's ideas deeply influenced all sane graphics frameworks thereafter. In fact SPSS' purchase of SYSTAT was (by far) the best thing th

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