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by breck 3y ago
In GWAS studies there's a nice visualization for dealing with this called Manhattan Plots. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan_plot Basically if you test a lot of hypotheses plot all the p-values and look to s
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by breck 3y ago
Good questions. > How many posts have you had taken down for dubious reasons? Just checking my main account, of my top 5 posts of all time, 3 were taken down for dubious reasons. Sometimes posts get modded fast, but that doesn't bot
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by breck 3y ago
Wow, that is super interesting. It amazes me that it's not a universal American principle that we should, as a country, at least aim for a world where these information asymmetries don't exist. We should strive for zero classified
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by breck 3y ago
I am divided on this. I definitely side with the users and mods who have given their time and effort on making the site what it is. I like the protest and think it's bringing attention to really just the tip of the iceberg of a big iss
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A Proposal to Solve Government Forms Worldwide, Forever(breckyunits.com)
1 points by breck 3y ago|4 comments
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by breck 3y ago
Ugh, this makes me sad. Google Domains was hands down the simplest, most reliable, fastest domain service I ever used. I originally was on GoDaddy, then migrated everything to Namecheap, then migrated everything to Google Domains. I hope th
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Innovation Algebra(github.com)
2 points by breck 3y ago|0 comments
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by breck 3y ago
> Outside of the visual cortex there isn't any evidence that brains work anything like GPT-4 or neural nets. Are you sure? If you had to pick a number what would you pick? I have never built a useful neural network myself so I can&#
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by breck 3y ago
Very interesting! Curious what kind of databases were primary use case for MLDB?
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by breck 3y ago
To be clear I think we need fewer laws. Specifically I think IP laws need to be abolished. Software development, academic research, et cetera should be done in the open and public domain. Less monopoly profits for a few, better informatio
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by breck 3y ago
> Maybe it doesn’t bother you, but I assure you a lot of people care about this I think you are right on both points: 1) It doesn't bother me 2) a lot of people care about this. Everyone I know has part of their brain that rapidly r
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by breck 3y ago
You're being downvoted but I think this is good harsh feedback. Open source, public domain products are better. Lots of engineers understand that and want to make those things. But the laws currently incentivize doing things the wrong
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by breck 3y ago
> monetising any type of software is actually hard and getting harder When you model things from first principles, this is how it ought to be. Unencumbered symbols are strictly better for most people than enchained symbols. The excepti
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by breck 3y ago
It's not unethical to talk about anyone publicly. It IS unethical to keep secrets that could help people, to talk about someone behind their back , or to speak dishonestly about someone, or to criticize someone from an anon account. T
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by breck 3y ago
> The only obvious advantage to a wide dataset to me is not having to join data entities, but I come from 25 years of mainly working with relational databases so I'm used to that. Yes and that might be it and if so I don't thin
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by breck 3y ago
If you define aliens as a long separated branch on the tree of life with significantly more advanced technology, then alien encounters are more common in history (hawai’i in 1790’s being most recent i can think of). So mathematically its ra
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by breck 3y ago
Solid response. Thank you for taking the time and providing the additional information.
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by breck 3y ago
> Are you writing huge amounts of data? No. All this data is reviewed by at least 1 human. It may be added by a crawler and skimmed for QA, but it is higher level data as opposed to event stream data. Small quantities of data currently i
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by breck 3y ago
I could be wrong. Absolutely. I am always open to more information. However, I'm usually not wrong about these things. This pattern is so common in big pharma it's an easy bet right now. Based upon the limited information released
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by breck 3y ago
> After five years, 88% of patients who took the daily pill after the removal of their tumour were still alive, compared with 78% of patients treated with a placebo. My chance of living 5 years goes from 78% to 88% by taking an expensive
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Ask HN: Literature on Ultra-Wide Tables?
5 points by breck 3y ago|7 comments
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Shut Your Mouth – and Save Your Life (1882)(openlibrary.org)
2 points by breck 3y ago|0 comments
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by breck 3y ago
Calling these spikes "epiphanies" might be a better term. I think grok is nice b/c it's only 4 letters.
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by breck 3y ago
So let me get this straight. Molly White is the top source for tracking crypto scams and the sum total comes to...$12 billion. Meanwhile, retail banks effectively steal $30B from poor consumers _every year_: https://breckyunits.c
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by breck 3y ago
If you look at what WordPress gives a non-technical user it is very impressive: nice authoring UI, instant deploy with rollbacks, multiuser editing with access control, pretty urls, previews, drafts, themes, et cetera. I prefer my minimalis
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by breck 3y ago
> A master of what craft? Fast entertainment? Yes. Is that not worthy of respect? I'm not saying he's a John McCarthy or Linus Torvalds. Many people can be masters, not all masters have to pivot the world.
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by breck 3y ago
You can think the industry is a mess (I think it is because of copyright, predictably: https://breckyunits.com/a-mathematical-model-of-copyright.ht... ) but also appreciate the article. Tom Hanks is a master at the craft and
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A Mathematical Model of Copyright(breckyunits.com)
7 points by breck 3y ago|0 comments
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by breck 3y ago
On CorporateNews the version of the article going around talks about how 98% of rogue bees don't find a better flower patch and die starving and alone. ;) Your point is a great one. Most information in our world is of extremely low qua
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by breck 3y ago
I'm with you—I love the product. I used to work at Microsoft and loved the ability to fly to different cities and have a great workspace where everything "just works" and stimulating conversations with new people in the field

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