aquafox

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by aquafox 1y ago
> most software, as we know it, will be replaced by AI systems that are trained rather than programmed The problem with this are all the edge cases. There are more ways unforseen circumstances can arise as you can train for. That's
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by aquafox 1y ago
I had a look at your trial description ( https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT06424912 ) Are you planning to publish the longitudinal data, esp. of endpoints 2 and 3 (prostate size, urinary flow). It would greatly add to
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by aquafox 2y ago
Why not mix R and Python in interactive analysis workflows: 1) Download positron: https://github.com/posit-dev/positron 2) Set up a quarto (.qmd) notebook 3) Set up R and Python code chunks in tour quarto document 4a)
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by aquafox 2y ago
I boosted my geography knowledge by playing Sporcle, e.g. https://www.sporcle.com/games/g/world
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by aquafox 2y ago
But in my explanation, there is no x axis.
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by aquafox 2y ago
Interesting insight why applying a log transform often makes data normally distributed: Pretty much all laws of nature are multiplications (F=m a, P V=n R T, etc). If you start with i.i.d random variables and multiply them, you get log-norm
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by aquafox 2y ago
FWIW, Null is the German word for zero.
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by aquafox 2y ago
When I read the title, what first came to mind was Clipperton island: A big ring (~3km in diameter), 1000km of the coast of Mexico.
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by aquafox 2y ago
> if they all give me roughly the same answer, then it's probably right. ... or they had a lot of overlapping training data in that area.
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by aquafox 2y ago
You ask them for references and check yourself. They are good exploratory and hypothesis generating tools, but not more. Getting a sensible sounding answer should not be an excuse for you to confirm. Often, the devil is in the details.
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by aquafox 2y ago
But the efficiency factor of an EV is 60% as opposed to 20% for an ICE, which means you can get a similar range with much lower energy density.
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by aquafox 2y ago
Somewhat related: Can someone tell me why all those new electric cars are so poorly designed in terms of size and weight? Most of them weight over 2t and have a large frontal area (VW ID.4 is the prime example). I just want an economical fa
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by aquafox 2y ago
In the original Transport Tycoon (but not OpenTTD), if you would build a tunnel from one end of the map to the other, the amout of money to pay gets so large that it triggers a (signed) integer overflow. So you can start your campaign with
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by aquafox 2y ago
FWIW, there is also a 2007 paper [1] that offers a physical explanation. [1] https://www.stat.berkeley.edu/~aldous/157/Papers/diaconis_co...
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by aquafox 2y ago
You shouldn't publish based on p < 0.05, but on orthogonal data you gathered on the instances that showed p < 0.05.
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by aquafox 2y ago
I think the main issue with "p < 0.05" can be summed up as people use it to "prove" a phenomenon exists rather than a pragmatic cutoff to screen for interesting things to investigate further.
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by aquafox 2y ago
"This year’s laureates used tools from physics to construct methods that helped lay the foundation for today’s powerful machine learning." Does this mean if I'd use a deep understanding of birds to design way more aerodynamic
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by aquafox 2y ago
"This year’s laureates used tools from physics to construct methods that helped lay the foundation for today’s powerful machine learning." Does this mean if I'd use a deep understanding of birds to design way more aerodynamic
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by aquafox 2y ago
In this case, the phrase micro does mean the metric prefix 10^-6, but just "smaller than mRNA". The important unit in biology is nucleotides [1], which are the elements specifying the composition of proteins (loosely speaking, the
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by aquafox 2y ago
mRNA = messenger RNA miRNA = microRNA tRNA = transfer RNA rRNA = ribosomal RNA siRNA = small interfering RNA
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by aquafox 2y ago
Andrew Gelman?
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by aquafox 2y ago
Also BorgBackup user here: I'm running it on a Raspberry Pi to backup important documents to a Hetzner storage box via ssh. The Pi als runs OpenMediaVault to provide a SMB share on my home LAN. So whenever I scan a new document, just p
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by aquafox 2y ago
> With that level of understanding, its easy to fabricate special medicines that target specific biochem pathways The problem is to find the right target or pathway in the first place. Just go to opentargets.org. There are lots of potent
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by aquafox 2y ago
On a related note, Nvidia virtually recreated the Apollo 11 lunar landing site [1]. They wanted to show that the illumination of Buzz Aldrin in a photo of him exiting the moon lander was indeed as expected and not a hoax. The reason Aldrin
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by aquafox 2y ago
Is there actually a open source good alternative of Adobe Acrobat? I mean one where you can easily 1) merge and extract pages 2) edit content, e.g. change a single line in a simple vector graphics, add text ornother elements 3) place a sign
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by aquafox 2y ago
There's also the video of this talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ne0GArfeMs
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by aquafox 2y ago
I never lost a single sock during or after washing. Why? Because I care (they are expensive cycling socks) and I go after each sock immediately when putting them on the drying rack. So where are they? 1) Entangled with one of the other wet
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by aquafox 2y ago
For a really intuitive introduction to linear algebra, I highly recommend Gilbert Strang's "Linear Algebra and Learning from Data": https://math.mit.edu/~gs/learningfromdata/
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by aquafox 2y ago
> I'm guessing, since they don't state it clearly, that the combined rate of all cancers is falling, it's only when you look at subsets that it's rising. Sound's like Simpson's paradox: https://en
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by aquafox 2y ago
> The biggest push-back from the medical profession is diagnosing cancers that are not clinically relevant and treatable [...]. There is also a cost benefit dynamic of increasing preventative screening, for example lowering the prescribe

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