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by argonaut 6y ago
They don't get any money if you take a gap year. And they know you will reapply anyways.
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by argonaut 6y ago
Colleges are not going to let many people take gap years. So it'll be a choice between attending the school you want or reapplying next year (when it'll probably be even harder to get in). Usually most people who want gap years ar
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by argonaut 6y ago
I'm also not asserting we know for sure that there is a 20-50x (or something along those lines) undercount in cases. Just that there is a huge amount of uncertainty with IFR and hospitalization rates, and none of your points really rul
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by argonaut 6y ago
Every approach to Covid-19 relies on certain assumptions, so this is hardly unique to Giesecke. For example, most lockdown approaches assume we will have a vaccine in 12-18 months, and/or that we will be able to suppress secondary outb
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by argonaut 6y ago
The health system is not currently overwhelmed in Sweden under their approach (obviously this could change etc. etc.)
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by argonaut 6y ago
> This virus has a hospitalisation rate of somewhere between 10% and 20% and an ICU rate of 4-10% Part of the reason there is even a debate is because we don't know this for sure.
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by argonaut 6y ago
What you're describing is consistent with the nextdoor group thinking there is a 4.7% IFR.
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by argonaut 6y ago
There's also one big area where photos have noticeable artifacts even viewed on the phone: portrait mode. Almost all portrait mode photos will have areas that are blurred when they shouldn't be, or in focus when they shouldn'
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by argonaut 6y ago
This isn't quite right. For one, the probability of being infected is not linear (it's capped at 1). If you do the math, the expected number of people you infect (given you are not infected) is roughly linear-ish.
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by argonaut 6y ago
Anthony Fauci has stated multiple times in the past that he thought the "fatality rate" of Covid-19 would end up "around 1%." He didn't make a distinction between CFR and IFR, but the general public's understan
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by argonaut 7y ago
As a native speaker, I found the essay to be long-winded and over-complicated. It uses twice as many words as it needs to convey the same point.
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by argonaut 7y ago
While this does seem like an attack on those who claim Covid-19 is not going to be as bad as the prevailing sentiment and the prevailing media view, let's not forget that the prevailing sentiment 1-2 months ago was that Covid-19 would
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by argonaut 7y ago
If you spend any amount of time perusing new car prices in the United States, it should be pretty clear that typical prices for economy sedan cars are around $22k-$30k, with $30k and more typically being the higher tier trims of economy sed
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by argonaut 7y ago
Nearly every online brokerage has had an outage or outages in the past.
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by argonaut 7y ago
The US military didn't have to buy those hat-in-hand .
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by argonaut 7y ago
Yes, this is just standard bureaucracy and it's Skip's fault, as people are saying. But the bigger point is that the SF government apparently places more weight on minor application mistakes than actual, historical "bad"
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by argonaut 7y ago
This hypocrisy absolutely exists, and society does not seem likely to resolve it. But I think that most people would rather accept animal cruelty as okay, than to give up eating meat (if they were hypothetically forced to make a choice). In
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by argonaut 7y ago
By comparing to the Camry you're kind of supporting their point, though. The Camry is a mid-size gas car (by length), and its top trim is the same price as a bottom trim Model 3, a compact electric car. The accurate comparison
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by argonaut 7y ago
That's commendable but also sounds like a great way to scare off potential software developer candidates.
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by argonaut 7y ago
Those places all require a prescription in the USA. Which means you still have to pay for an eye exam. The fact that it's easy in Japan is the whole point of the article. It's easy in most countries outside the USA! (Costco, at le
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by argonaut 7y ago
Many of the cards you see offering 4-5% cashback on certain categories either have 1) high annual fees, or 2) a foreign transaction fee (the the US credit card holder gets charged a fee whenever they use the card abroad, such as in Europe).
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by argonaut 7y ago
But that's also a consumer benefit! Lower prices! Consumer are absolutely highly sensitive to the prices of cars.
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by argonaut 7y ago
That's a direct benefit for your own safety, though. Thicker pillars means better structural integrity during crashes, particularly the roof during rollovers.
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by argonaut 7y ago
Acquiring a competitor / acquiring market share describes >90% of acquisitions. Acquiring a competitor / buying market share is not in of itself anti-competitive. I can't think of anything anti-competitive that Facebook ha
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by argonaut 7y ago
Reductio ad absurdum is not a fallacy, it's a perfectly valid logical argument (that applies in this case).
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by argonaut 7y ago
That's precision, not true positive rate.
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by argonaut 7y ago
Their validation set consisted of 210 positive images. The test set consisted of 20 positive images. These are very small evaluation sets for deep learning. My point is the work is promising but should be viewed with healthy skepticism (by
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by argonaut 7y ago
> 10,000 images collected from leading clinical centers internationally Lets say the data was collected from 5 different clinical centers. One risk is basically that when you deploy the model, it only works at those clinical centers due
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by argonaut 7y ago
Why can't you use ROC with an imbalanced dataset? My understanding is the PR curve is preferable to ROC since the ROC can make it difficult to discern differences between models on imbalanced data; but the ROC is still a valid way to c
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by argonaut 7y ago
This is being unnecessarily pedantic. "Premium" is synonymous with "entry-level luxury" (one example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luxury_vehicle#Premium_compact... ). Cars in the 35-45k range are r

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