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by balsam 4y ago
In TFA they mention a insightful case study: “Most clinical trials try to track every single possible data point about patients, thus inflating costs. But Landry and Horby’s trial could carefully strip down the data needed to the essentials
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by balsam 4y ago
As Derek Lowe summarized in the accompanying blogpost[0], the main recommendations of this article are: “better decisions about what data to collect and better ways to collect it.” Yeah, sometimes people dont get their point across very wel
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Better Trials Someday(science.org)
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by balsam 4y ago
Derek Lowe (the Matthew Levine of biotech) blogged about this article and topic recently: https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/better-trials-some...
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by balsam 4y ago
It’s a regular failure mode in human interactions. Just because someone is attractive/charismatic/sincere doesn’t mean they should be taken seriously, and just because someone is ugly/inarticulate/creepy doesn’t mean the
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by balsam 4y ago
I put it down to a lack of focus. Research universities had one job, to ensure the undelayed success of someone (or collective) like Yitang Zhang/Katalin Kariko, and it failed, while managing to award tenure to many a downright incomp
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by balsam 4y ago
Or, as Juergen Schmidhuber likes to point out, in the same field.
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by balsam 4y ago
This is my first experience with Amazon Video; I went in with the expectation that the producers would cut corners somewhere. I am glad they did it with the CGI and sets. The costumes (good guys at least) seem acceptably Gibson. Thought the
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by balsam 4y ago
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FpgawC2FKp4
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by balsam 4y ago
As a scientist on HN, I usually start scrolling from the bottom of threads to find those overlooked comments by domain experts. Then upvote them even if I’m not certain that they speak the truth. Maybe that is unethical but I want to encour
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by balsam 4y ago
I don’t know of any physicist or CScientist who makes use of parallel universes in their thinking or publications. They may invoke the mystique to impress outsiders though.
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by balsam 4y ago
D-wave’s claim to fame is a Quantum Annealer, and that term itself is misleading as quantum annealing is strictly speaking a classical algorithm (albeit quantum- inspired ) https://cs.stackexchange.com/questions/11218
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by balsam 4y ago
Speaking as an quantum computing academic, I would suggest that money should be redirected from quantum computing into all kinds of biotech, except quantum computing based biotech. There’s never too little money invested in biotech research
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by balsam 4y ago
I’m an academic quantum computing guy, and the consensus in my quasilocal community is that D-wave is, appropriately for TFA, borderline fraudulent.
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by balsam 4y ago
Said article here: https://archive.ph/8Wsse
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by balsam 4y ago
Some people in my area point out the resemblance to Jack Ma.. the juxtaposition of cringey intellectual frontmanship and otherworldly wealth/bone structure.
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by balsam 4y ago
Gerard used the subtle term “social position”. People might take that to be “affluence” but it isnt necessary so. For example, a technically promising white child from any californian public school would be in a vastly better social positio
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by balsam 4y ago
Plausible, though 2 ad hominems dont make an argument. I kind of put Scott and Vitalik in the same subbox of thought leadership. psychiatry being more generalist than technical. and. possibly no-one would write an essay likening cryptosyste
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by balsam 4y ago
Pretty sure a transistor-level of accident analysis would be only possible in peace-time? But the 1st LT was parabellum, so maybe it counts. (Forgive my grammar)
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by balsam 4y ago
I wish the author paid some attention to the Virtues, which are central to Stoicism. I would find any rebuttal of the idea “Virtues are All You Need” more engaging (even if unconvincing). He even seems to be advocating for hedonism (as anot
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by balsam 4y ago
“A Lie Can Travel Halfway Around the World While the Truth Is Putting On Its Shoes” — Mark Twain, apocryphally. If only there were a way to encourage these extraverts to focus only on the value..
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by balsam 4y ago
If you are Captain America, you might not be pleased to find out that the project was once called Hydra: https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn11907-superconducting...
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by balsam 4y ago
Probably not skin color, but maybe founder was born in an authoritarian place (like Russia)? Far more likely that he used Windows, Word, or preferred Java, though.
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by balsam 4y ago
Scalzi says here that he intended it to be funny https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/726k57/comment/dnhg4...
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by balsam 4y ago
If you enjoyed that, maybe you might think well of some pithy musings along similar lines: https://www.wisesayings.com/tact-quotes/ I particularly like the ones which relate tact to cleverness or wit.
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by balsam 4y ago
Do you have links to textual literature? I am guessing its blue for reasons similar to why glacial ice (not melts, thats rock flour) is blue. For glacial ice, there are no air bubbles to mess with the selective transmission of blue light.
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by balsam 4y ago
to borrow the parlance of the venture capitalists, Orwell would be against the “lifestyle” socialists. It’s pretty rational if he wanted to see his movement grow into a sort of monopoly and not be stunted by infighting. Indeed, if you add i
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by balsam 4y ago
Its a subtle point but I wanted to point out that all that nonlinearity, yes even in magnets, is due time lag. Apologies for not fleshing out the details but the “path-dependent internal state” is shorthand for saying that the magnet hasnt
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by balsam 4y ago
Try searching with “remodelling”, “cold winters”, etc?
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by balsam 4y ago
Sorry. I thought it was well known since Veblen that that Mid-Western civilization was all about the blatant-not-blatant money pits. Okay, here’s one about the latest in a long tradition of remodelling: https://www.oakpark.com&#x

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