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by avsteele 6y ago
This is a poor article. It mixes up several different issues and lumps them together as if they were one thing. Strongly ideological companies aren't going to behave like the bulk of their customers. I read this as yet another shot f
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by avsteele 6y ago
It's because for lots of people 'perceived maximum' isn't fixed. Imagine you just lost an auction. I come up to you and say "Would you pay $5 more than your max bid if I guaranteed you'd win?" If you beli
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by avsteele 6y ago
Related: An IRS employee reportedly got 90% of their assembler (yes really) code translated to JAVA. IRS strangely abandoned the project. https://federalnewsnetwork.com/tom-temin-commentary/2020/01/...
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by avsteele 6y ago
This probably under counts the true number of infection significantly. If the sensitivity/specificity of the test was similar to the paper below, true prevalence for the ship probably approaches 100%. https://www.biorxiv.org
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by avsteele 6y ago
Title: about teachers. Anecdotes: about teachers. Buried in the article: Susanna Loeb, a professor of education at Brown University, said she believes most of the 469,000 laid off in April were non-teacher personnel, as districts tend to f
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by avsteele 6y ago
If you do any camping or backpacking there is a great little application of this: https://www.bioliteenergy.com/collections#cooking This little stick burner can get a super hot fire going and boil water easily, or grill a b
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by avsteele 6y ago
The problem Twitter is going to face has nothing to do with Trump. By doing 'fact checking' like this they they open themselves up to the charge that anything that doesn't have the little (!) meets some standard. Expect 10x
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by avsteele 6y ago
I would think that a set of particles that are literally indistinguishable from one another could not meet any definition of 'mind'. There is no difference between an electron that's flown around the universe and one that was
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by avsteele 6y ago
This paper * suggested, under some pessimistic assumptions, that it would require "near-universal app usage and near perfect compliance" This is due to the large fraction of spread from asymptomatic/presymptomatic carriers. M
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by avsteele 6y ago
Selectivity is near 100% for tests where I've seen data.* I don't know about the specific one LA used but selectivity isn't the problem usually. The sensitivity is the issue , but that would tend to push the true infected % u
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by avsteele 6y ago
The LA county serology* showed 4.1%, with a confidence interval of 2.8% to 5.6%. That test that has a ~3 week lag so current #'s are even higher. Are you really prepared to say a claim of 6.6% is so misleading it needs to be removed? *
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by avsteele 7y ago
It relies critically on estimating the number of asymptomatic cases. To do this accurately you need either the PCR test to report a positive for a long time after contraction, or you need a serology-based test. They are basing the asymptom
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by avsteele 7y ago
It is a small study out of China, but yes, the #'s here are not good. 19/22 patients (~85%) put on 'invasive mechanical ventilation' died (read:intubation) https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanres&
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by avsteele 7y ago
fro the article: "deCode has published the results of a total of 5 571 tests. Those have yielded 48 positive results (0.86%)" 'deCode' is the new series that will test everyone.
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by avsteele 7y ago
I find Taleb's argument specious. The risk inherent in a reaction can be pretty catastrophic as well; for example we are now seeing some project 20%+ unemployment in the next quarter. In addition, we do have data on the possible harms
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by avsteele 7y ago
Correct. My company (zeroK NanoTech) has developed and is now selling advanced focused ion beam (FIB) systems with enhanced resolution and machining capability that are well suited to these operations. We did circuit-edits on 10 nm node chi
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by avsteele 7y ago
Sounds like Brazil was the one being unreasonable here. It looks like a shakedown of Amazon. Lest you think of Amazon as a big, powerful, org compared with Brazil, remember that the Brazilian government's budget for 2020 is over $900
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by avsteele 7y ago
Examples are great because they give the curious user an idea of how to use the command in new ways.
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by avsteele 7y ago
If your AGI is below ~$27K you have medicaid. As i understand it, CHIP covers kids higher the he income scale this too.
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by avsteele 7y ago
This is some combination of grandstanding by the state prosecutors, abuse of the extremely vague statutes under which such suits can be brought, and a threat to the rule of law. It strikes me as implausible that even if Exxon has published
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by avsteele 7y ago
Seems like a good summary of the state of the law. This below, however, seems like very poor reasoning on ESRB's part. Similarly, the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB), a self-regulatory organization responsible for flagging
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by avsteele 7y ago
This used to be the attitude within government. However, it has changed, and this is for the better. It is quite rare that government R&D is sufficient to demonstrate that a particular technology is commercially viable. Without a pate
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by avsteele 7y ago
I've been out of this field for a while, if there are any experts with up to date knowledge I'm trying to figure out the following: - Why this particular calculation chosen? - With this many qubits I would think they could take so
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by avsteele 7y ago
Atomic physicists use mostly semiconductor diode lasers. You need to narrow their emission wavelength to something ~ the atomic transition (MHz) and then carefully tune it as you say. Typically diffraction grating is used to carefully feedb
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by avsteele 7y ago
Alright! I did research for my PhD working towards this. We trapped and laser cooled Th3+ with the intent to isolate and measure this transition optically that way. https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103&#x2
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by avsteele 7y ago
It doesn't need to be more economical than outdoor growing is right now to be viable. We are already using of a large fraction of the arable land that is well suited to outdoor grain cultivation. It isn't clear that yields can b
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by avsteele 7y ago
I believe there are logical inference errors in the paper. I'll mention one example: "Given that women have been the majority of the undergraduate student body in many countries for the last three decades, one can no longer argue
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by avsteele 7y ago
I see people saying they are 'chat bots'; any evidence of this other than people's general feeling? To me the FCA's came off like normal human beings who actually like their job a bit more than average (these people do e
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by avsteele 7y ago
Perhaps of interest as an aside: In trapped ion quantum systems the shared motional phonons ("sound quanta") are how 2-qubit gates are effected. If I remember the steps correctly: 1) Cool a string of ions to their motional ground
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by avsteele 7y ago
An interesting outcome. Kudos to the authors for publishing a (kind of) null result, especially one that goes against the grain of popular thinking.

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