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by apathy 10y ago
Hard to blame non cyclists, they just have no fucking idea. Once you've seen it from the other side of the barrel it's hard to remember how you saw it beforehand.
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by apathy 10y ago
I've biked to work in New York, SF, and LA for years. The only reason I don't still do so daily is that I got lazy (I suck). Most cities have ways to make it safer if you're clever (LA in particular has bikeways along its riv
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by apathy 10y ago
Have you looked at a job site in California or New York lately? I guarantee you this is not universal. Unless cones are made of cement people WILL blow through them.
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by apathy 10y ago
Yes because a 20 pound bike does exactly the same damage as a 6000 pound car. Both to driver and victim. Excellent thought process. Also slapping plates on bikes will totally fix the issue of theft. Cars never ever get stolen, because they
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by apathy 10y ago
Heh. Be sure not to get in an accident (very often another party's fault) and require multiple surgeries or PT. The person to whom you responded sounds young, like someone who has never seen what cancer or a bad car accident will do t
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by apathy 10y ago
Great for childcare if your kid camps out in the NICU, for burns that require 3 weeks to be walkable again... Really, why would anyone want to streamline delivery of care when we can dispense it in the most staggeringly expensive and ineffi
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by apathy 10y ago
Ah yes, the good old "let's hold up the most inefficient and expensive delivery mechanism known to man", and ignore that every hospital in America would shut their ER down if they could, because they lose money faster than th
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by apathy 10y ago
Per state? Try per region. My department serves a tertiary referral facility and there's another one across town. Of course, "town" is 18 million people, but you get the idea. I guess I could see having one tertiary center
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by apathy 10y ago
So do clinicians in our system. When a senior attending who is also a full professor in an academic medical center is still filing reports at 11pm on a Friday (not on service), something is rotten. Especially when that's every Friday
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by apathy 10y ago
This simply shows the power of a union. If physicians operated more effectively there would be no NPs prescribing. It cuts both ways. I do not begrudge nurses their income, they sure as hell earn it for the most part. Put an investment ba
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by apathy 10y ago
Gladwell is (IMHO) a bit of an ass, but anyone in academia knows that the richest research universities also make a habit of ripping off the federal government in the form of research indirects. Notionally, indirects are overhead for admini
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by apathy 10y ago
I'm buried under manuscripts right now but making a mental note to look up Mike West's notes when I get home.
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by apathy 10y ago
That makes sense, at least as long as the vector- or matrix-valued objective behaves somewhat. I guess I've been using this all along (with transformations to enforce proper behavior) for matrix and tensor completion anyways... Hmm.
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by apathy 10y ago
This is genius. Synthetic lethality for lawyers ;-)
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by apathy 10y ago
Civil forfeiture: just in case you thought the government respected the constitution...
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by apathy 10y ago
I guess the novelty here is that constraint based optimization with no guarantees on convexity or biconvexity is a PITA?
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by apathy 10y ago
It's not above your intellect. That's the whole point. Credentials are mostly bullshit unless accompanied by primary evidence. Think for yourself first. If necessary, and only if necessary, feel free to use credentials as pote
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by apathy 10y ago
Also, I had a discussion with a theoretical physicist recently where we spent almost half an hour bemoaning the myriad ways in which experimental design was ignored in our (hard science) undergrad programs, as well as many if not most gradu
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by apathy 10y ago
You make it sound like that's a difficult thing to acquire. But, as my dissertation adviser pointed out, "[apathy], you have to remember that Really Stupid People get PhDs all the time. Don't let me down."
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by apathy 10y ago
Galaxy could use the same.
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by apathy 10y ago
I saw the D&D template earlier. That was hysterical. I had not seen the markdown Beamer proof-of-concept. Very cool. Overleaf is the single best thing that has ever happened to my collaborative authorship skills, partly because Googl
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by apathy 10y ago
the guy is a "Top Neuroscientist", which apparently means he doesn't have to do menial things like work at the bench. That said, Adderall == amphetamine salts == amphetamine. I'm surprised that the world needs a Top Neu
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by apathy 10y ago
Reading the slides now, my goodness a lot of things just became clear to me. What a wonderful collection of pearls. Thank you for "giving back" to the topic in this way.
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by apathy 10y ago
This is fantastic. You should probably set the no procrastination feature on Hacker News or it'll suck away your writing time like it did mine. Thanks! Also go Big Red. ;-)
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by apathy 10y ago
Yes, Overleaf is awesome. I feel bad but I stopped paying for the Premium version with git-to-Dropbox syncing because the "stock" version is already so good. We put up a paper on biorXiv recently with Overleaf and two days later
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by apathy 10y ago
Sure, but a lot of those are tied up in the current single-blind extraordinarily-slow editorial-thumb-on-the-scales system that primarily benefits for-profit publishers. Platforms like Authorea and Overleaf combined with preprint servers ca
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by apathy 10y ago
Well, you can't apply a technical solution to a social problem and expect it to stick, but the former can make the latter easier to fix by removing (some) inertia. The GitHub approach (free for open, pay for private) seems sensible. I
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by apathy 10y ago
Point taken. FogBugz was also, AFAIK, not a perfect solution for everyone (e.g. I don't recall it offering much for a shop where everyone uses screen or tmux as their window manager). But the underlying principles were handy anyways.
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by apathy 10y ago
Great post. Why is the kernel trick so important for Gaussian processes? My understanding is that operating in an RKHS is primarily needed to enable that cute little maneuver. Wait, never mind. If GPR is like an infinite-dimensional line
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by apathy 10y ago
Bingo. I like the Domino guys but this is a transparent pitch for their particular platform. Last time they called, they weren't able to help with my use case. But my use cases are bizarre. Still, there are others like me. And the

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