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by azan_ 3y ago
Drugs for complications of obesity (including type 2 diabetes) also need to be taken forever.
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by azan_ 3y ago
What ethical problem would you have here?
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by azan_ 3y ago
Don't you think there is big difference between moving files to some users' devices vs moving files to literally half a billion users with almost 100% uptime? Not considering problems associated with the scale of Spotify and insta
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by azan_ 3y ago
They did correct for multiple testing - "P-values were multiple-test corrected using the Benjamini-Hochberg False Discovery Rate (FDR) procedure and a cutoff of 0.1 was applied to select the differentially abundant genera". Howeve
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by azan_ 3y ago
Thanks for that great write-up. I wonder if there are microbiome studies with actually large effect sizes in diseases which we do not typically associate with infectious factors (e.g. diabetes).
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by azan_ 3y ago
That doesn't solve the problem of funneling public money to elsevier/springer nature. The model in which volunteers perform 95% of editorial work yet private publishing companies charge abhorrent prices for OA is absolutely disgus
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by azan_ 3y ago
Well, the reason for the hate could be that OR things like oil companies sponsoring climate change deniers and exxon hiding results of their own study which shown that continued burning of fossil fuels will have catastrophic consequences.
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by azan_ 3y ago
What? Why?
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by azan_ 3y ago
>Data scientist here who spent a couple of years working with Unreal (to produce high end data visualizations) That sounds amazing, could you share some of your visualizations?
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by azan_ 3y ago
How to learn it?
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by azan_ 3y ago
> Cryptococcal meningitis is the most common cause of central nervous system infection in people living with HIV worldwide. Isn't HIV encephalitis more common?
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by azan_ 3y ago
So they finally jazzed it up?
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by azan_ 3y ago
What if it REALLY is too expensive? You do realize that there are studies which literally cost millions of dollars? Getting funding for original studies is hard enough, good luck securing additional funds for replication.
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by azan_ 3y ago
Wow, that's really terrible list when on top you've got "Marvel's newest Captain America is an LGBTQ+ activist" as a fulfillment for "Captain America Rebooted As Feminist, Atheist, Transgender Hydra Agent"
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by azan_ 3y ago
> Is a bombastic Wagner opera more or less beautiful than a simple, haunting, short song by The Cranberries? It's amusing that you try to make this point by comparing extremely talented musicans. For every cranberries there are mill
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by azan_ 3y ago
The funding is really not that great, we are on the funding level described as "fusion never" ( https://benjaminreinhardt.com/fusion-never/ )
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by azan_ 4y ago
Climate deniers are not people who discuss whether methane is 28x or 20x as strong as CO2, but rather people that do not believe in global warming (or our responsibility for it) at all; that's not skepticism, that's blind faith.
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by azan_ 4y ago
It's not confounding variable because this "variable" is actually constant in the entire group; the comparison is not fasting muslims vs non-fasting non-religious judges, but muslim judges with longer vs shorter fast or fasti
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by azan_ 4y ago
Comparing the effect of different fasting duration only across judges who fasted during Ramadan most likely removed the influence of religion-inspired forgiving behavior.
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by azan_ 4y ago
"Doctors and Lawyers are glorified databases/search engines at the end of the day" - well, don't be suprised if AI replaces programmers before doctors and lawyers - patients will likely prefer contact with human rather t
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by azan_ 4y ago
Oh yes, weight loss has to have this moral purity where it is achieved through pure willpower, otherwise it does not count.
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by azan_ 4y ago
How would evolution do that?
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by azan_ 4y ago
From my experience, automatically generated flashcards are often disappointing. Recently I've been experimenting with the use of GitHub copilot for accelerating cards creation and I can wholeheartedly recommend this approach, I've
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by azan_ 4y ago
> assertiveness training and having internal rules to keep the conversation flowing Could you elaborate on that? These internal rules sound intriguing and potentially helpful for other people struggling with charisma
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by azan_ 4y ago
What do you mean? Do you think that measurable increase of global temperature is a rhetoric and not a fact?